THE SCHOOL PROGRAM
The children will be in classrooms that are age appropriate. There will be music with singing and instruments, arts and crafts, language and math skills reviewed with games, reading, recess, bible stories, and scripture, memory verses used in their daily schedules.

CURRICULUM
The Wee Learn Curriculum, the Creative Curriculum and the Kids in Ministry
Curriculum, with a culmination of other curriculum guides and resources will be used to teach developmentally age appropriate activities such as recognizing their colors, shapes, letters and phonetics. Counting and number recognition is taught as well as the concept of each number. Bible stories and scripture memory verses will be incorporated in to the curriculum as well.

ART
With children, it is the process and not the end product that is important when considering artwork. Our goal is not to send home beautiful, neat artwork but to provide a learning environment that stimulates effort and creativity in each of them. To that end please know that much of what your children bring home as “art” will be unidentifiable. However, this affords you a wonderful opportunity to talk to your child about the colors they used, how they worked with their hands to make their art, and what they were learning about in their classroom on that particular day.

MUSIC
Music is a wonderful tool for teaching young children. Your child will be exposed daily to various songs, instruments, and musical experiences. Children enjoy all aspects of music; therefore a variety of activities will be included daily in each teacher’s lesson plans.

LANGUAGE ARTS
The River Academy teachers have been trained to promote and encourage the development of early literacy skills for children birth to 4 years. Literacy will be incorporated into every aspect of learning. As you already know literacy involves much more then reading and writing.

RECESS
All children will participate in activities geared toward the development of large motor skills. For toddlers through 11 years of age this includes playtime on the playground. Playtime is fun and safe time for the children. Teachers continue to interact and watch children closely while they are in larger areas. Playtime will be outside for the most part, except in extremely cold, hot or rainy weather.

CHAPEL TIME
Chapel time is a special time set aside for our Ministers to share Bible stories with life applications for all ages on a weekly basis.

FIELD TRIPS
We will be going on field trips throughout the school year and summer for ages two through eleven. You will receive information about each field trip as well as a field trip permission slip to be filled our and returned to your child’s teacher. No child will be taken off campus without a written permission slip. Parents are welcome to go on field trips.