Each classroom at Bethany Christian School has planned activities to enhance your child’s opportunity to play and learn. This will be done through the use of curricula such as Learning Without Tears, Heggerty, Zoo-phonics, and Purposeful Design Bible lessons. Our preschool provides a nurturing atmosphere in which we build their relationship with God and others each day.
Language, Literacy, Math, Handwriting
Get Set For School by Learning Without Tears:
Students will be led to success through a pathway to early literacy that embraces the whole child. Students strengthen essential fine and gross motor skills through hands-on materials, learn through purposeful play, and explore language through connected text. Get Set for School is a complete, research-proven, and expert-backed Pre-K program. With multimodality instruction and a unique approach to early learning, Get Set for School follows a developmental progression with scaffolded lessons, uses a friendly voice, and excites learners with skill-building lessons and activities.
Heggerty: The Heggerty Phonemic Awareness Curriculum provides daily systematic phonological and phonemic awareness lessons. The lessons are short and engaging, designed to be the perfect supplement to an existing literacy curriculum.
Bible
Purposeful Design Curriculum: The goal of the Purposeful Design Elementary Bible series is for every student to have a personal relationship with God through Jesus Christ, developed and nurtured by engagement with the Bible in this series.
Alongside this curriculum, students will participate in weekly chapels with their peers and will participate in the all-school chapel with the Kindergarten-8th Grade program. Our focus is to help children develop a love for God and others and to teach them that Jesus is God’s son and how much He loves them.
Full Classroom Experience
Circle Time This is a time to encourage the development of language skills, socialization between groups of children, appreciation for literature, increase attention span and vocabulary, expressive language, introducing concepts, acquiring facts and knowledge, group singing, movement, group games, and sharing.
Free Choice Centers These include manipulatives, blocks, problem-solving, matching, dramatic play, musical instruments, sorting, shape and color discrimination, encouraging self-motivation, independence, making choices, eye/hand coordination, visual discrimination, readiness skills, counting materials of varying degrees of difficulty, offer opportunities for decision making, free choice of working alone or interrelating with other children.
Creative Art Students will experience finger painting, play dough, gluing, crayons, markers, chalk, paper, scissors, collages, and constructions to stimulate the child's imagination and help him express his feelings and ideas through artistic activities and small muscle development.
