Learning abounds in our preschool classrooms, where our teachers design play-based environments to promote learning which focuses on the whole child. Throughout their day, students participate in a variety of activities including centers and small groups where they receive targeted instruction. Teachers continually track progress and modify instruction to nurture learning for each child. Our curriculum integrates 36 learning objectives ranging from academic skills such as early literacy, mathematics, and science, to emotional awareness and social skills. We offer a wide variety of preschool programs, but all options use the researched-based The Creative Curriculum.
In addition, the Teaching for Transformation framework ensures that students engage with real people and do real work within the context of God’s story. Children are invited to be part of God’s redemptive work. Recent examples of this include authors and masons!
During their unit on trees, our preschoolers created a book full of information and pictures and published it on Amazon so others could enjoy trees as part of God’s creation. Proceeds from the book sales will be used to purchase more trees for our West Campus.
In another classroom, preschoolers were learning about buildings. To deepen learning, teachers invited a local mason to demonstrate his work. Students learned all about masonry, helped him mix and lay mortar, and even built a wall with their own bricks!
The development and learning that occurs at the ages of three, four, and five is foundational, and the joy found in our preschool rooms as children count, read, play, and sing is fantastic. Most importantly, we invite our students into God’s story by connecting their learning to His plan as soon as they begin their journey at BCCS.