Kindergarten

At First Christian Academy Kindergarten is a wonderful place for students to gain a solid academic foundation combined with a love for learning and God’s Word.  Our small class sizes encourage strong friendships among students and a chance for individual gifts and talents to grow.

LANGUAGE ARTS

Phonics and Reading

  • Recognition of name, sound, and picture of long and short vowels and consonants
  • Sounding of blends, one- and two-vowel words, and words with special sounds
  • Beginning phonics rules and special sounds
  • Reading of sentences and stories from twelve books containing one- and two-vowel words and special sounds

Language

  • Recognition of sentences by capital letters and periods

Poetry

  • Thirteen poems committed to memory

MATH

  • Number recognition, counting, and writing 1-100
  • Number concepts 1-100
  • Numbers before and after 1-100
  • Numbers largest and smallest 1-100
  • Counting and writing by tens to 100
  • Counting and writing by fives to 100
  • Counting and writing by twos to 100
  • Number sequences by ones
  • Using number words 1-10 and first-tenth
  • Value of coins and dollar bill
  • Telling time
  • Using the calendar
  • Days of the week
  • Addition facts through 10
  • One-step story problems in addition
  • Beginning subtraction

SCIENCE

Plants

  • God’s Plan for Seeds

Animals

  • God’s Plan for Animals
  • God’s Plan for the Seashore

Health and Human Biology

  • God’s Plan for Me

Earth and Space

  • God’s Plan for Weather
  • God’s Plan for Seasons

SOCIAL STUDIES

  • Community Helpers
  • Children of the World
  • America:  Our Great Country (map studies, famous Americans and places)