PROGRAM OFFERING:

• Five day a week program
• For children 4 years old before 9/1/13
• Offered: 8:50 – 11:40 a.m. Monday thru Friday-NEW!
• Registration fee is $100
• Tuition with snack fee is $5500
• JK has been increased by 20 minutes per day-NEW!
• Opportunity for up to TWO extended days (or 'Joyful Days') by combining JK with Lunch & Learn, and our afternoon enrichment classes. Possible extended days are: Tuesday or Thursday &/or Wednesday.-NEW!

OUR JUNIOR KINDERGARTEN CURRICULUM ADDRESSES:

Cognitive

Literacy – Acquire a LOVE for Reading

• Two circle times each day

• Reading time on their own

• Develop oral language skills in groups

• Presentation Skills

• Learn letters and sounds (phonics)

Mathematics – Think Logically and Solve Problems

• Patterns and Graphs – seating chart, calendar, weather

• Introduction to math concepts – addition and subtraction

Science – Observe and Make Discoveries Using All Senses

• Predict events based on observations

• Classify by similarities and differences

Social Studies - Acquire Awareness of a Community - Who and How it Works

• Recall and recreate experiences with dramatic play

• Identify roles that people play in society

• Develop an awareness and appreciation for cultural diversity

• Use beginning mapping skills and chart common characteristics of events

Creative Art – Explore and Create with a Large Variety of Art Materials

• Emphasis on the Process rather than the Product

• Create from his/her feelings and ideas rather than models

• 3D Art Creation

Social/Emotional

• Present thoughts/ideas in front of class

• Sense of Identity in a group

• Understand appropriate behavior in different situations

• Self Control/Self Regulation

• Jobs – responsibility for their class and classroom

• Sense of Initiative

• Problem Solving Skills

Physical-Gross and Fine Motor Skills

• Enhanced Large Motor Play indoors and out

• Centers designed to develop fine motor skills – writing, coloring, cutting, etc

• Writing Practice Daily

• Introduction to cooperative games

• Game Play Indoors and Out

Christian Values

• Weekly Chapel/Mother’s Day Chapel

• Stories

• Songs

• The Nativity Play

• Prayer at Snack time

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