Curriculum / ​Enrichment

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Jesus said, “Let the little children come to me; do not hinder them; for such shall inherit the kingdom of God.”
Mark 10:14. One of the most important values of Messiah Kids is to provide a fundamentals based Christian education. It begins early, but like any building that stands the test of time, the foundation is key. Messiah’s Kids Preschool provides children with the skills necessary to form a foundation that will help them be life-long learners.

Our Curriculum & General Overview

Messiah’s Kids implements the High Scope preschool curriculum for active participatory learning endorsed by the National Association for the Education of Young Children. (NAEYC) Based on research in child development our curriculum includes: Materials, Manipulation, Choice, Child language and Adult Scaffolding (support). Another key component of our curriculum is Learning Without Tears which includes school readiness, writing, language, literacy, and math through the Get Set for School Program. Our chapel curriculum includes “One in Christ” for faith nurture developed for The Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod preschools.

Our Curriculum is Designed to...

Help each child develop a positive view of themselves as children loved unconditionally by God.
Assure children of their eternal life through faith in Jesus as their Savior.
Develop safe and healthy habits in young children with an emphasis on proper hygiene, sound nutrition, exercise and physical care.
Provide opportunities for creative expression.
Encourage the use of multiple intelligences as defined by Howard Gardner.
Support the development of social skills such as sharing, cooperation, generosity and empathy.
Stimulate cognitive problem-solving skills with an emphasis on the concepts of cause and effect, classification, serialization, space, time, numbers, shape, and colors.
Strengthen communication skills necessary for listening, reading, writing, and speaking by providing an environment rich in the practical use of words.
Enhance fine-motor and gross-motor skills.
Reinforce Christian principles of sharing, caring and loving.
Teach manners and respect for adults and peers.
Expose children to different ethnic cultures.

Enrichment

Messiah’s Kids Preschool offers several different opportunities for enrichment classes. All enrichment classes are outside of the school day and are in addition to tuition.

TOT® – Teams of Tomorrow

(Special enrichment program offered weekly at an additional charge.)

TOT® classes engage your child mentally, physically and socially through...

Athletics – Your child will learn a new TOT® ball skill each week! At the end of the program your child will have mastered 25 new skills.
Academics – Each class your child will have a "mini-academic" lesson! TOT® takes great pride in helping to prepare your child for kindergarten.
Agility – Tons of fun working on balance, movement and coordination! TOT® uses super agility equipment.

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Learning Without Tears Curriculum & Program Description

“Get Set for School” is a curriculum that includes three complete programs designed to prepare children for school: Readiness & Writing, Language & Literacy, and Numbers & Math. The developmentally appropriate programs complement and expand our existing High Scope Pre-K program. Each classroom uses Learning Without Tears’ proven strategies:

Multisensory approach that addresses different learning styles
Developmental progression that builds on what children already know
Friendly voice that connects with children
Engaging lessons that invite active participation

High Scope Work Centers

Book/Puppet Center
This center will encourage an interest in “reading” picture books and children’s literature. The atmosphere here will be quiet, comfortable and allow for learning sight words or reading according to each child’s developmental stage. This center will also include the retelling of stories through puppets.

Manipulative/Math Center
Materials in this center will aid in the development of concept formation, fine motor skills, eye-hand coordination, patterning, sequencing, grouping, counting, sorting and independent work.
Block Center-Motor control, visual discrimination, dramatic play, creativity, and language skills are developed by building structures with blocks. Photos will be taken of block structures and placed in children’s’ portfolios.

Science Center
This center will change throughout the year and may include objects in God’s world to be observed, experiments and sand/water table exploration with a variety of media.
Expressive Art Center-This center allows for creative expression in conjunction with the development of fine motor skills, eye-hand coordination and experimentation with color, shape, texture, and more.

Drama/Home living Center
The Drama/Home living center is an area for dramatic play and role-play of family, community and church helpers.

Writing Center
This center will provide the child with opportunities to participate in nonverbal communication, dictation of ideas and feelings, reading readiness, and language development. Children will be encouraged to “write” letters, words and stories according to their developmental stage

Readiness & Writing

This program incorporates child-friendly teaching strategies, such as using music and movement to bring lessons to life, and multisensory manipulatives to build fine and gross motor skills. Our readiness and writing lessons teach body awareness, cooperation, taking turns, listening, crayon grip, drawing, building, letter and number recognition, capital letter and number formation.
Physical development and social/behavioral skills are particularly important in Pre-K. In fact, children need to develop both fine and gross motor skills to be able to write. All these skills are critical to good emotional and social development and future academic performance.
We demystify numbers and make math concepts relevant and fun for children. With playful manipulatives, music, and rhymes, our numbers and math program teaches counting, comparisons, spatial awareness, patterning, sequencing, matching, sorting, problem solving, and even Pre-K geometry skills.
The program helps students build number sense right from the start. They also get time to play with real objects and test their ideas so that math becomes real and meaningful. Children also develop oral language that helps them learn about and express math concepts.
Children begin developing language skills from the moment they are born. Our language and literacy program actively teaches syllables, names and sounds of letters, words linked to content, new words in spoken language, how to respond to simple questions, and how to have discussions and share ideas.
The program focuses on building rich Vocabulary so that children learn a word’s meaning and what a word represents so they begin to understand the network of concepts that goes with it. Children also learn the difference between drawing and writing, associate books with reading, ‘read’ environmental print, and ultimately learn the many benefits of early reading and writing.
Children also learn to identify letter symbols, both capital and lowercase, by letter names. They learn how these “symbols” work together to form printed words and how printed words related to spoken language.