Auburn Grace Christian Preschool

Curriculum ...

Our curriculum provides for all areas of a child's development:
spiritual	emotional	social
physical	cognitive	creative


Daily lesson plans include
Bible Time	Biblical virtues using bible stories; puppet stories; life application examples, scripture memory.
Movement Time:	Working on large motor skills
Manipulative and Table Time:	Working on fine motor skills
Fundamental Time:	Developing age appropriate cognitive skills

Our curriculum goals are realistic and attainable for most children in teh designted age range for which they are designed. Below is an overview of our curriculum guide within most areas of learning.

Cognitive skills, we believe, should not be limited to:
Colors	Letters	Shapes	Numbers

And therefore we include age appropriate skills such as:
Auditory Memory Positions Opposites Name Recognition Alphabet Recognition Size Perception Tracing Name (Writing Name) Matching Graphing	Visual Memory Sequencing Rhyming Number Recognition Patterning Tracing Alphabet (Writing Alphabet) Tracing Numbers (Writing Numbers) One to One Correspondence Sorting/Classifying

Older children will also focus daily on phonograms and the above mentioned skills will be expanded in preparation for Kindergarten.

Fine Motor Skills
cutting	scrunching	tracing	kneading	tearing
matching	lacing	stacking	pinching

Large Motor Skills
Ribbon Sticks Hopscotch Bean Bags Tumbling Midline Crossing Parachute Scarves Jump/Hop/Skip/Gallop Arm/Shoulder/Hip/Leg Flexibility	Obstacle Cource Balls Rhythm Instruments Hoola Hoops Balloon Catch Marching Crawling/Running/Walking

Additional Skills
Beginning Sign Language Manners