Preschool Curriculum
Pre-K2
The two-year-old program meets the need of the whole child. Organization, habit training, and socialization are balanced with the introduction to many new spiritual and academic concepts during the year. This year is so foundational to the development of your child. As they come to school each morning we want them to learn in a way that is fun, creative, and developmentally appropriate. Westwood Christian uses the ABeka Curriculum. Our classroom time is teacher directed. Here are a few of the areas emphasized during the year:
- Daily Bible lessons, songs, and storytelling
- Developing social skills
- Practicing good manners and habits
- Identifying colors, shapes, alphabet, and numbers
- Improving motor skills through physical activities and manipulatives
- Many themes are covered during the year to develop social awareness of our community and needs
Pre-K3
The three-year-old pre-kindergarten is an academic program. Westwood Christian uses the ABeka Curriculum in the preschool classes. During the class time the children will be introduced to the following:
- Bible: Themed and Bible Character Lessons, Bible memory, music, and story retelling
- Development: Motor skills, socialization skills, organization, and good character are emphasized daily
- Language Development: Listening skills that include, animals, transportation, countries, community helpers, health, safety, manners, and science
- Language Arts: Letter recognition in upper and lower case, beginning letter sounds
Recognition: Name, sound, and picture for short vowels and consonants. - Numbers: Counting 1-30, number concepts 1-15, concepts of number words - more, less, bigger, smaller, etc.
- Spanish: Music, vocabulary, and language development
In order to enter the three-year-old program, each child must be potty trained.
Pre-K4
Many children who complete their preschool education at Westwood Christian Preschool go above and beyond the basic capabilities that are required for kindergarten entrance. Many kindergarten programs expect students to enter with the ability to recognize letters and numbers, trace and cut with scissors, and have social skills such as the ability to follow classroom rules and obey authority. In fact, many pre-kindergarten students can read simple one- and two-vowel words and even sentences. Most students can clearly write their name as well as many other words and numbers. Classroom rules are based on Biblical principles such as kindness, respect, and obedience.
Bible
- Incorporating Bible truths into daily living
- Prayer, memory verses, and songs
- Lessons from Old and New Testament
- Story retelling
Phonics and Reading
- Recognizing consonants and sounds
- Recognizing vowels and sounds
- Learning to blend two letters together (for example: ta, te, ti, to, tu)
- Learning to sound out one-vowel words
- Learning to sound out two-vowel words
- Reading Circles beginning during the second semester
Writing
- Students learn cursive writing in a program that is correlated with phonics
Numbers
- Counting 1-100
- Distinguishing between more or less and before and after numbers
- Identifying Ordinal Positions (for example: first, second, etc.)
- Identifying simple combinations
- Moving from concrete to abstract
- Recognizing and understanding the concepts of numbers
- Writing numbers 1-20
Elementary Curriculum
Grades K5-2 use Abeka materials, a Christian curriculum which has a strong emphasis on phonics as well as math facts and skills. In the intermediate and upper grades (2-5), a blend of Abeka and Bob Jones curriculums are used which incorporate higher-order thinking with a Biblical worldview.
Middle School Curriculum
Middle School
Sixth Grade Courses
- Bible: Christian Living
- Sixth Grade Mathematics
- Reading
- Language Arts I
- Science
- Social Studies
- Electives: Middle School Physical Education, Band, and Chorus
Middle and High School Clubs
- Board Games
- Brain Bowl
- Chess
- Clash Royale
- Dressing for Success
- Golfing
- Hang Out and Read
- Horseback Riding
- Kickball
- Volleyball
- Wallstreet
- Wordle
- Yearbook
- Yo-Yo
High School Curriculum
High School
High School Bible Courses
- New Testament Survey
- Old Testament Survey
- Bible Doctrines
- Career Research & Decision Making
- Revelation
- Philosophy
Advanced Placement and Honors
Honors Courses
- Algebra I Honors
- Algebra II Honors
- Anatomy & Physiology Honors
- Chemistry Honors
- English I Honors
- English II Honors
- Geometry Honors
- Physical Science Honors
- Physics Honors
- Pre-Calculus Honors
- World History Honors
Student Ambassador Program
Educational Student Support
The mission of the S.T.R.I.V.E. program is to equip students with varying learning differences. The student will acquire innovative strategies and tools which will enable them to obtain individual victories in their educational journey. We are able to obtain this objective through our partnership with 1 Child a Time. As a school, we provide minor classroom accommodations for students in this program.
1 Child At A Time educates children with learning difficulties by applying the academic components of reading, math and writing. We equip the student with tools that establish life-long learning while building competence and confidence.
Educational Therapy improves thinking, learning and meets the individual needs of students who learn differently. Emphasis is placed on auditory, visual processing and thinking using techniques established by the National Institute for Learning Development.
Reading Rx Program provides explicit instruction using the five literacy reading components; vocabulary, decoding, reading comprehension, phonemic awareness and reading fluency.
Search and Teach is an early intervention program used for children 5-6 years of age. Search is the instrument designed to profile the strengths and weaknesses in perception while Teach consists of tasks/activities to be used based on the Search results.
Preparing Our Preschoolers (POP) is a quality program that uses play in a rich learning environment to enhance and strengthen early literacy skills and number sense. Small group instruction is provided once a week during the school day for children 4 years of age.
Additional Services offered are academic testing, classroom observations, parent teacher workshops, mentoring, home school evaluations and resources for parents.
For further information visit 1childatatime.com
Fine Arts
Band, choir, and art are an integral part of our students' creative development. They will develop vocal, instrumental, and artistic skills to use professionally, recreationally, or in any other capacity. These abilities are applied in our chapel worship team, band and choir concerts, and art expos. Fine arts enrich our core classes and provide a complete, well-rounded education.
Accreditations
Our Teachers
