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Childcare & A.E.L. > Four Year Olds

General Information

Lunch Menu [PDF]
Four-Year-Old Packet [PDF]

The 4-year-old department in the Academy for Early Learning is booming with excitement as our students prepare for kindergarten. The ABeka curriculum is used to teach number skills, readiness skills, phonics, and writing. Our students progress to reading words, sentences, and then stories in their own reading books.

All classrooms are stocked with developmental and educational toys and manipulatives which serve to stimulate your child both physically and mentally during these important early years. The playgrounds at Northside are famous among the children for offering a lot of fun and activity.

Bible

Lessons such as Creation, Noah, Boy Samuel, Daniel, Boyhood of Jesus, Zacchaeus, Good Samaritan.

Includes memory verses and hymns/choruses

Phonics and Reading

Recognition of name, sound, and picture of long and short vowels and consonants

Sounding of blends and one- and two-vowel words

Reading of sentences and stories with one- and two-vowel words

Manuscript Writing

Formation of letters, blends, and words

Writing of first name

Poetry

Twenty-eight poems and finger plays committed to memory

Language

Colors

Words

Shapes

Animals

Transportation

Countries

Community helpers

Health and safety

Manners

Science

Numbers

Number recognition and counting 10-100

Number concepts 1-20

Numbers before and after 1-20

Numbers largest and smallest 1-20

Addition facts: 1+1, 2+1, 3+1, 4+1, 5+1, 6+1, 7+1, 8+1, 9+1

K4 Sample Daily Schedule

• 6:30 – 7:00 Gym

• 7:00 – 7:45 Quiet Play

• 7:45 – 8:00 Manipulatives

• 8:00 – 8:10 Morning Procedures – Attendance/Restroom

• 8:10 School Begins

• 8:10 – 8:30 Skills Development

• 8:30 – 9:00 Bible

• 9:00 – 9:10 Restroom

• 9:10 – 9:30 Snack Time

• 9:30 – 9:50 Phonics

• 9:50 – 10:10 Writing

• 10:10 – 10:45 Recess

• 10:45 – 10:55 Wash Hands

• 10:55 – 11:15 Numbers

• 11:15 – 11:30 Language Development

• 11:30 – 11:45 Phonics/Numbers Review Game Activity

• 11:45 – 12:00 Activity Time (Art, Drama, Poetry, Music)

• 12:00 – 12:10 Restroom

• 12:10 – 12:35 Lunch

• 12:35 – 12:50 Restroom

• 12:50 – 1:00 Story Time

• 1:00 – 2:35 Nap Time

• 2:35 – 2:45 Restroom

• 2:45 – 3:00 Snack Time

• 3:00 – 3:30 Learning Centers

• 3:30 – 4:00 Organized Games

• 4:00 – 5:00 Free Play Outside

• 5:00 – 5:10 Restroom/Water

• 5:00 – 5:30 Story Time/Music/Movement

• 5:30 – 6:00 Supervised Television

**Transition times between each subject will include action songs, fingerplays, poems, and/or exercise.