Learning
This page is dedicated to give you an inside look at what our bright students are learning on a daily basis.
Our preschool aged children will learn many things while mixing our learning experience with a lot of fun! They learn all 26 letters along with their sounds. To make learning more hands-on, throughout the year, the class is visited by multiple animals to match the letter they are learning. They learn about vowels, consonants, and uppercase and lowercase letters. Each morning they recite the pledges to the Bible, Christian flag, and American flag. During calendar time, they go over the days of the week, months of the year, and the seasons. They will often take nature walks to enjoy and learn about the changes in seasons. Students will learn about their 5 senses and they will be able to distinguish between their left and right hand. They learn to write and recognize their names, rhyming words, colors, shapes, and the four cardinal directions. Our hope is to count to 100 by the end of the school year! Our Junior Kindergarten students will also study the American flag; and while learning about the flag, they will learn the state we live in, what country, and about the planet Earth. On top of all this, they will have 12 different poems memorized by the end of the school year!
Junior Kindergarten
In Kindergarten, students will learn the phonetic sounds of the alphabet, the difference between vowels and consonants, upper and lower case letters. They will also learn how to read! As far as math skills, they will learn to count to 100 by 1's, 2's, 5's, and 10's and some basic addition and subtraction. They will also be able to count money and learn some details about currency. Scripture memorization is important at all of our grade levels, including Kindergarten! We feel that public speaking and presentations are an important skill to possess, and we start with this grade level. For History, they will learn how to read maps, learn about different countries and cultures, and learn about the original 13 Colonies. Their science covers different animals, weather, constellations, planets, basic human anatomy, and healthy eating. On top of all this, we feel it is vital for our Kindergarteners to learn respectable manners.
1st Grade continues to build on the foundations laid in Kindergarten. However, 1st Grade will add Spelling, and Literature to the base curriculum of Arithmetic Copybook, Reading, and Phonics. Spelling begins to teach phonetic rules and builds on the concepts of vowel team, consonant blends/ teams, short and long vowels, and symbols. Students learn the strategy of breaking down words through phonetic awareness to be able to spell and to read. Literature is an exciting introduction as the children begin to explore independent reading while learning new vocabulary and breaking those words down into syllables, learning more about comprehension and the meaning of the story, as well as becoming stronger readers - learning to read both silently and out loud with expression. 1st Grade is a time for growth, maturity, and taking responsibility for the outcome of their work.
Kindergarten / 1st
In addition to enhancing skills taught in Kindergarten/First Grade, new concepts are introduced and built upon in a second and third grades. In Spelling, students are practicing phonetics in their weekly lessons along with learning the spellings and meanings of larger words. In Mathematics we learn triplets, story problems, money counting, fractions, column addition and subtraction, and multiplication and division. Literature and Christian Studies are expanded as we begin reading chapter books while learning new vocabulary and completing tasks in reading comprehension. We are excited to be reading within the Old Testament and classic book titles by authors such as Beatriz Potter, E. B. White, and Laura Ingalls Wilder! In Grammar, students learn the terminology of language arts and American Studies, Geography and Science become part of the 2nd and 3rd Graders week as well as they learn about important figures in our nation's history, their U.S. States and Capitals, and about the nature around us.
2nd / 3rd Grade
Students are introduced to Latin in 4th / 5th grades through Latina Christiana and Into to First Form Latin. They work their way through developing vocabulary, Latin sayings, and prayers as they begin to learn the noun declensions and verb conjugations. The particulars of Latin Grammar are also introduced giving the students knowledge and experience with translating simple sentences.
Fourth Grade takes big step in Arithmetic with longer assignments and more complicated math computations using fractions, measurements, long division, multiplication, and decimals. Fifth Grade begins with a review of concepts previously learned, while adding some additional elements to expand working with fractions measurement, multiplication, division, etc...Students begin to work with factors, multiples, prime numbers, decimals in multiplication and division, geometry, graphs and scale drawings.
4th / 5th grade students spend time developing their language skills through Spelling, Latin Literature, Greek Myths, and Grammar; building composition skills through comprehension questions and shorts answer questions.
In Literature we read such classics as, Heidi, Mr. popper's Penguins, The Bes Christmas Pageant Ever, and the Lion With and The Wardrobe, Lassie Come Home, My Side of the Mountain, Homer Price, The Moffatts, and Cricket in Times Square.
Fourth and Fifth grade students also delve into science through the study of insect, astronomy, geography, and mammals. Science is a favorite subject area for our students.
Students continue building their knowledge of the Bible and the persons of history that lived out their lives for God; teaching, shaping, and molding the culture around them. Students participate in readings, recitations, and scripture memory work to increase their knowledge.
4th / 5th Grade
In Christian Studies, the students are learning the main stories throughout the New Testament along with memorizing important scripture verses. These students are all taking Latin, which means they will gain a better understanding of how to conjugate verbs, decline nouns, and adjectives and ultimately, translate Latin sentences to English and vice versa. This year in Literature they are reading and discussing William P'ene du Bois' 21 Balloons, L. M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables, C. S. Lewis' The Magicians Nephew and Elizabeth George Spear's The Bronze Bow. We are excited to continue working through Grammar curriculum called , Fix It! Grammar. Students learn rules of capitalization, punctuation, clauses, parts of sentences parts of speech and much more as they fix mistakes in popular children's stories. These students will be expanding their writing skills this year, using curriculum from the Institute of Excellence in Writing (IEW). In History, students are learning how and where to locate different places all over the world as well as our country. Students are taking a closer look at the story of our country's beginnings. Starting at the discovery of the "New World" moving forward through our country's story. Finally the 6th & 7th grade math students are at different levels, but what they learn in similar. This year they will learn complex multiplication, long division, how to work with fractions and decimals, the metric system, and graphing.
6th / 7th Grade
This year, in Christian Studies, the 7th and 8th graders are starting out by studying the Gospel according to John and then the Psalms with Mrs. Lee. They are taking 2nd and 3rd Form Latin with Mr. Allen. In Literature, they are reading some incredible books: Elizabeth George Spear's The Bronze Bow, L. M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables, Olivia Coolidge's The Trojan War, and J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit. Their Mathematics class this year is Pre-Algebra. These students will be expanding their writing skills this year, using curriculum from the Institute of Excellence in Writing (IEW). For History, they are studying the Ancient World, which focuses on ancient civilizations such as the Israelites and Egyptians, and then they will focus on the Ancient Greeks.
8th / 9th Grade
We're very excited to have Dr. and Mrs. Gilbert back teaching our high schoolers Physical Science. We're also thrilled to welcome Pastor Snyder to our staff this year to teach Christian Studies, in which they are studying the wars of the Jews. Our 9th-12th graders have finished their Latin classes, so they are taking their first year of Greek this year. In their Literature class, they will be reading and discussing Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights, Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, and Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre. In Mathematics, they are diving into Geometry with Mr. Lee. After learning about the Renaissance and Reformation last year, they are going a little further back in time to study the era right before: Medieval Europe. They are building on their writing skills using materials from the Institute for Excellence in Writing (IEW), which is effective in preparing students for college. Finally, the high school students are starting Traditional Logic I, an introduction to formal logic. In this course, students learn how to adjust their thought process in order to formulate sound arguments.
10th-12th Grade
