Early Education

The Early Education program provides a loving, nurturing, Christ-centered environment for children ages 1 year through 4 years of age. At MCA, we celebrate that children are created by God as unique and gifted with a natural curiosity and creativity. During the formative years, the Scripture lessons are integrated with the wonder of exploring God’s world while we guide your child in building a foundation for lifelong learning and faith.

As a school community, we partner together nurturing your little one to flourish developmentally, socially, and spiritually as they realize his or her God -given potential. Self-directed and teacher-led learning activities fill the youngest students’ day, while both their minds and their faith are being strengthened for the next step in their learning journey.

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Program Highlights

Program

Our full day program begins at 7:00am and ends at 6:00pm. Our breakfast time is from 8:00am-8:30am, lunch is served between 10:45-11:45am, and snack time is from 2:00-2:30pm daily. We offer gross and fine motor play times, along with center directed play and organized games that include learning opportunities to develop higher thinking skills while focusing and applying a Biblical worldview into our teaching and topics of study.

Curriculum

Immersive theme-based curriculum boosts understanding of science and social studies taught within the classroom. Children make meaningful connections and can link information to their experiences, thus creating prior knowledge needed to apply higher-order cognitive problem-solving skills.

Daily circle time helps to promote healthy relationships between children, giving them a safe and controlled space for socializing. Circle time incorporates the weekly theme through song, activities, and play. Vocabulary building, language to tell stories, how to treat books, playing with sounds, rhymes, and tongue twisters are some of the tools used to enhance early literacy.

The use of manipulatives within our math curriculum builds strong skills and a core foundation for our program. Through guided play and daily activities, children explore mathematical ideas and processes. Basic math concepts such as sort and classify, compare quantities, and notice shapes and patterns are some of the skills learned.

Early Education Curriculum Overview

Bible & Chapel

We begin each day with a Bible lesson and prayer. Other subjects incorporate Biblical lessons throughout the material, as well as incorporate lessons into daily interactions with our friends and teachers.

All ages attend Chapel each Wednesday. Chapel is a time where our little ones learn to worship God through songs, prayer, and movement. Our chapel programs are age appropriate and instruct our children from the Bible, giving simple truths through stories and object lessons.

Enrichments

We provide Art classes every two weeks for ages 2 and above concentrating on cutting, coloring, painting, drawing, and gluing. The art project incorporates a story to promote early literacy.
We provide Music classes once a week that teach our little one’s pitch, beat, time, dancing, and expression.
We offer STEM once a week for our JK3 and JK4 classes. This class is structured around the components of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics with a hands-on approach.

Gross Motor Development

Our children have the opportunity to participate in learning activities outside daily, including enjoying the playgrounds in the morning and afternoon. We also provide a playroom where classes may go to practice skills indoors. Both areas are equipped with toys and infrastructures to provide skills in running, throwing, climbing, building, riding, balancing, and imaginary play.

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