Curriculum Focus by Class Age
Wesley Station utilizes the ABC Jesus Loves Me Curriculum for all classes. Each grade level offers a step-by-step approach that guides children toward achieving Kindergarten-readiness. The teachers will lead a daily circle time with songs, poems, show-and-tell and an emphasis on the weather. All students will be working toward understanding how the calendar works, reciting the days of the week and learning the months of the year. Each year, students will engage in age-appropriate activities geared toward achieving specific goals, however, our main objective is meeting each child where they are and advancing them to the next level in understanding and knowledge. The basic curriculum goals are outlined below.
Curriculum Focus - Year 3Academics
Bible Fine Motor Development Gross Motor Development Music Pre-reading Pre-writing Self-care Children will learn a letter and number each week. Basic math skills will include shape recognition and sorting. Children will engage in weekly activities to improve fine and gross motor skills which are crucial to pre-writing. Rhymes, songs and poems will help to cement key concepts. Students will move through a chronological order of the Bible engaging in interactive play, learning verses and finger plays to support each Bible story. Children in this class will be working toward the skills necessary for Level 4. |
Curriculum Focus - Year 4Academics
Bible Fine Motor Development Gross Motor Development Music Pre-writing and Handwriting Pre-reading Self-care Visual Perception In year four students will build on the three-year curriculum and continue working toward handwriting of letters, numbers and their names. Students will identify seasons and the five senses, and continue basic math skills such as shapes, colors, spatial concepts, sorting and sequencing. Bible stories will be interactive with children engaging in fingerplays, songs and memory verses to reinforce the lesson themes. Fine and gross motor skills will be developed as students work toward handwriting of letters, numbers, and names.
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Curriculum Focus - Year 5Academics
Bible Fine Motor Development Gross Motor Development Music Handwriting Pre-reading Self-care Visual Perception The five-year curriculum builds on concepts learned in previous levels. Students in this class will work on naming each letter of the alphabet (upper and lower cases), the phonetic sound of letters and begin working on common sight words. Basic math sills include number recognition, counting forward and backward by ones and tens, and will be introduced to coins, time, and simple addition. Science skills will be practiced through the process of classification, using simple tools, and weighing and measuring objects. Students will identify community helpers and the roles they play in the child’s life. They will also be introduced to identifying their own place in the world by looking at maps and globes. Bible stories will be shared, with interactive activities, memory verses and songs. Since the children in year five will be heading to Kindergarten, a strong emphasis is placed on reciting the Pledge of Allegiance and understanding classroom rules.
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