| Academically, Covenant’s Early Childhood Program meets or exceeds national and state standards. Students are challenged in areas such as numbers, pre-creative writing, handwriting, and reading. Cursive handwriting is introduced in pre-kindergarten and is continued through elementary school. Most pre-kindergarten students are beginning to read, and by the completion of kindergarten, most students are reading fluently. |
| Because preschool is more than just academics, Covenant’s Early Childhood Curriculum accounts for every aspect of a young learner. School readiness activities help students to learn how to be at school and use developmentally appropriate expectations to ease the transition into elementary school. Social skills are built through group play and center time. Language development is encouraged through every activity of the day. Students participate in physical education classes twice weekly to promote the development of gross motor skills. Music classes promote not only an appreciation for music, but also help encourage rhyme and finger plays that are essential for building early literacy skills and spatial concepts. Library time also engages students in early literacy skills through the children being introduced to books that support classroom concepts, as well as free choice books where the students learn that you can’t always “choose a book by its cover.” |
| Upon completion of the Early Childhood Program, it is the goal of Covenant’s administration and faculty to develop young learners into students that love learning, strive for excellence, and yearn to seek God’s will for their lives. Once this is accomplished, students will continue to develop these skills throughout their school experience preparing them for their life’s work. |
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