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Get Set for School Curriculum
 
Get Set for School is an award–winning Pre-K curriculum. It is developmentally appropriate and designed so that all children can thrive and build a strong foundation for kindergarten. Get Set for School curriculum includes three complete programs:
 
  • Readiness & Writing
  • Language & Literacy
  • Numbers & Math
 
Readiness & Writing
 
This program incorporates child-friendly teaching strategies, such as using music and movement, to bring lessons to life, and multisensory manipulatives to build fine and gross motor skills. The readiness and writing lessons teach body awareness, cooperation, taking turns, listening, crayon grip, drawing, building, letter and number recognition, and capital letter and number formation.
 
Physical development and social/behavioral skills are particularly important in Pre-K. Children need to develop both fine and gross motor skills to be able to write. All of these skills are critical to age-appropriate emotional and social development and future academic performance.
 
Language & Literacy
 
This program actively teaches syllables, names and sounds of letters, words linked to content, new words, spoken language, how to respond to simple questions, and how to have discussions and share ideas.
 
The program focuses on building rich vocabulary so that children can learn a word’s meaning and begin to understand the network of concepts that goes with it. Children also learn the difference between drawing and writing, associate books with reading, read environmental print, and ultimately, learn the many benefits of early reading and writing. Children also learn to identify letter symbols, both capital and lowercase, by letter names. They learn how these “symbols” work together to form printed words and how printed words relate to spoken language.

 

Mat Man is a character approach to drawing that helps preschoolers develop cognitive and drawing skills.  Mat Man uses multisensory activities and strategies, such as hands-on learning, singing and drawing to teach readiness skills like:

 

  • Body awareness
  • Counting
  • Building
  • Socializing and sharing
  • Drawing and pre-writing
  • Size recognition 
  • Placement
  • Sequence skills

 

Numbers & Math

 

This program uses playful manipulatives, music, and rhymes. It teaches counting, comparisons, spatial awareness, patterning, sequencing, matching, sorting, problem-solving, and even Pre-K geometry skills.

 

The program helps students build number sense right from the start. Students play with real objects and test their ideas so that math becomes meaningful to them. Children also develop oral language that helps them learn about and express math concepts.

 

Overall, these potentially complex subjects will be broken down into simpler tasks that build upon what children already know. In this way, they can master skills one step at a time as they build lifelong learning habits.

 

Scholastic My Big World magazine gives us an interactive look into:

 

  • Language Development
  • Science
  • Social and Emotional Learning
  • Social Studies
  • Math
 

Preschool 4 Religion Curriculum - Stories of God’s Love:

 

  • Teaches children appropriate Scripture stories that tell them of God’s love and connects these stories to the children’s lives.
  • Weaves prayer experiences into every lesson.
  • Creates a home school connection by offering weekly family enrichment.
 

This religion readiness program offers a whole-child approach that helps children grow in relationship with God through lessons, music, fingerplays, drawing, quiet time-time prayer, and reflection activities suited to the developmental needs of early learners. The program will introduce and explore seasons, holy days, and holidays. The children will also learn how to make the Sign of the Cross, Grace Before Meals and be introduced to The Hail Mary, Our Father and other simple prayers.