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Hickory Ridge Academy Early Learning Center offers a full-time learning environment for children 6 weeks through Pre K-4.
Full day preschool operates Monday-Friday from 6:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Kindergarten is available for children who have reached five years of age by September 3oth and operates Monday through Friday from 8:15 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. |
Ages 2-4
Bible
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Fine Motor Skills
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Language Arts, Math, Science, and Social Studies
Many books are read to the Preschoolers and Kindergartners each day. They learn that “reading time is thinking time”. Our stories relate to the subjects we’re studying that week: Bible, language, math, science, and art.
Pre-K math involves counting calendar days, counting on, ordinal numbers, more than/less than, and composing numbers. They will also learn to sort objects by color, shape, and size.
Weather, seasons, hibernation, animal habitats, water, light, magnets, nutrition and many more subjects are studied in science.
Families, emotions, friendship, cities, farms, and maps and globes are all part of our social studies curriculum.
Pre-K math involves counting calendar days, counting on, ordinal numbers, more than/less than, and composing numbers. They will also learn to sort objects by color, shape, and size.
Weather, seasons, hibernation, animal habitats, water, light, magnets, nutrition and many more subjects are studied in science.
Families, emotions, friendship, cities, farms, and maps and globes are all part of our social studies curriculum.
KINDERGARTEN
Math
K5 delves deeper and children begin to learn the meaning of addition, addition by counting on, meaning of subtraction, subtraction by counting backwards, fractional part of a whole, concrete & pictorial patterns, sorting & counting, as well as keeping data by using graphs. Kindergarten students are introduced to money and time.
Language and Literacy
Students are taught 5 key reading skills which will continue to help them as they advance.
1. Phonemic Awareness – identifying and working with individual sounds in spoken words.
2. Phonics – understanding the relationships between written letters and spoken sounds.
3. Sight Words – recognizing high frequency words to increase reading fluency.
4. Vocabulary - expansion of vocabulary and construction of meaning from a word's context.
5. Reading Comprehension – developing a variety of reading strategies with the larger goal of strong comprehension
K5 delves deeper and children begin to learn the meaning of addition, addition by counting on, meaning of subtraction, subtraction by counting backwards, fractional part of a whole, concrete & pictorial patterns, sorting & counting, as well as keeping data by using graphs. Kindergarten students are introduced to money and time.
Language and Literacy
Students are taught 5 key reading skills which will continue to help them as they advance.
1. Phonemic Awareness – identifying and working with individual sounds in spoken words.
2. Phonics – understanding the relationships between written letters and spoken sounds.
3. Sight Words – recognizing high frequency words to increase reading fluency.
4. Vocabulary - expansion of vocabulary and construction of meaning from a word's context.
5. Reading Comprehension – developing a variety of reading strategies with the larger goal of strong comprehension
Social Studies
Kindergarteners are ready to expand their world beyond their homes and classrooms to the larger neighborhood or community. They learn more about the rules that help people get along with each other. They may begin to form opinions on issues and understand that others may have different points of view.
Kindergarteners are ready to expand their world beyond their homes and classrooms to the larger neighborhood or community. They learn more about the rules that help people get along with each other. They may begin to form opinions on issues and understand that others may have different points of view.
Science
Children learn about plants and animals and explore the weather and seasons. Teachers use simple science experiments to introduce children to the process of scientific inquiry. Kindergarteners are now capable of remembering more information and using it to make connections between things. They can separate toy animals into groups, such as those that are found on the land, sea, or sky; or animals that hatch from eggs and animals that do not.
Children learn about plants and animals and explore the weather and seasons. Teachers use simple science experiments to introduce children to the process of scientific inquiry. Kindergarteners are now capable of remembering more information and using it to make connections between things. They can separate toy animals into groups, such as those that are found on the land, sea, or sky; or animals that hatch from eggs and animals that do not.
