Curriculum

Our Christian Preschool and Childcare Center strive to provide environments and experiences that enhance and promote all stages and areas of development. Each teacher writes a detailed lesson plan that includes age appropriate activities and materials, goals and objectives and evaluation tools that is aligned to the Ohio Department of Education's Pre-K standards. Parents receive a copy of the weekly lesson plans. Each classroom is set up to encourage a sense of learning, discovery and community. This is accomplished by planning and providing a variety of learning centers as well as experiences and activities that support children's learning. Listed below are the centers that are set up in each classroom.

Art Center:

This center is an outlet for children to express their creative ideas about life through various media. Whether they are painting, drawing, cutting, molding or sculpting children are able to express creativity, develop motor and problem solving skills.

Dramatic Play Center :

This center allows children to develop social skills as they role-play and communicate with one another. As children pretend together, great opportunities for identification of adult-child roles and interpretations of various experiences take place.

Block Center :

This center offers great opportunities for children to work in a group or individually to create structures. Problem solving skills, fine and gross motor skills, visual memory skills, negotiating skills and social skills are developed during block play.

Manipulative Center:

This center encourages the development of fine motor skills and eye-hand coordination. Children are given opportunities to identify, classify and sequence various materials.

Science and Math Center :

This center encourages exploration and experimentation with a variety of materials, objects and tools. As children observe, predict and make their own conclusions they develop skills in predicting and problem solving. The science center encourages discovery as children plant, mix, weigh, stir, pour, scoop, measure and arrange.

Library Center :

This center helps develop an appreciation and a love for books. As children enjoy quality literature, they develop pre-literacy skills that enable them to see and hear words, develop comprehension, interpret signs, symbols and pictures and become familiar with letter form.

Computer Center :

This center helps develop a critical foundation to build on and add to all through school. Software is the key to using the computer as an effective learning tool. Through appropriate software, children can solve meaningful, real-life problems, express themselves in writing and drawing, experience math problems, and discover solutions. Each classroom is equipped with two computers.

Language Arts Center :

This center helps develop written and oral language development through hands-on activities. Tracing letters or words help to transition children from letter forms to invented spelling. Children begin to understand that letters relate to sounds. Journaling is also a tool that is used in language development. As students dictate sentences and stories, they begin to hear and articulate. They are acquiring the rules of grammar for sophisticated words heard in adult conversation.