4 Years
Panthers
Welcome to Panthers! As your child becomes ready to transition into a school setting, our teachers make sure that your child is comfortable going to school and is prepared for whatever lies ahead of them.
Children transition into our Panthers classroom at age 4, when they have demonstrated strong interactions with teachers and the ability to build meaningful relationships with their peers. At this stage, Panthers are ready for more exciting and challenging learning experiences, engaging in a preschool curriculum that fosters early literacy, critical thinking, creativity, and social-emotional skills through hands-on activities and group projects.
our curriculum
Panthers are included in our pre-k curriculum. This includes a weekly theme, with many activities throughout the week that help prepare them for kindergarten. Our curriculum includes math, handwriting, phonics, art, literacy, and more!
LITERACY
We schedule at least one interactive read-aloud each day. During this time, students actively engage in conversations about the story, discussing elements such as characters, setting, sequence of events, and the story’s problem and solution. We also explore important features of text, including the difference between words and sentences and the parts of a book.
WRITING
Fine motor skills are essential to success in elementary school, so we practice writing each day. Students work on different types of lines to prepare for writing letters and participate in a variety of fine motor activities that help build muscle strength and finger dexterity.
PHONICS
Daily phonics instruction includes hearing rhymes, identifying syllables, alliteration, blending, and segmenting. This phonics instruction leads right into basic reading instruction, as we begin to read and write CVC words.
MATH
Our math curriculum is designed to prepare students for elementary math. Units include topics such as patterns, 2D and 3D shapes, numbers 0–20, measurement, sorting, and graphing.
SOCIAL EMOTIONAL SKILLS
Preschoolers are still learning about their world, and developing social-emotional skills is an important building block for success. Our monthly themes are divided into weekly lessons, which are introduced during whole-group instruction and practiced during playtime with teacher support.
BIBLE
We know that a strong Biblical foundation is important for every child, so we include weekly Bible lessons. Each month introduces a new Bible theme and verse, which are practiced regularly throughout the week. Daily prayer is also an important part of our routine. We want all our students to know that they are deeply loved by their Creator and made for an eternity in heaven.