Pre-Kindergarten
Curiosity Cultivation
At SCCS, your child will wonder in the Lord, nurture curiosity, and foster a love for learning.
Our teachers saturate the classroom with joy and personalized attention, so that each child experiences school as a place where they are known and loved. Students look forward to creative classroom experiences filled with fun, purposeful play that encourages them to grow in their love of God and the things of God. Our teachers encourage inquisitive minds by creating extra space for questions and discussion and delighting in their discoveries.
Social and Spiritual Formation
Our Pre-K program is a child’s first step in cultivating wisdom and virtue at SCCS. With the Gospel at the center, our students learn stewardship, honor, wisdom, and self-control. Character and virtue are of paramount importance—they influence every aspect of a person’s life and that formation begins even with our youngest students.
Our thoughtful classroom structure makes much space for social development to encourage positive peer interactions by fostering the development of social skills like sharing, taking turns, and working collaboratively.
Joyful Early Childhood Development
Our holistic curriculum focuses on kinesthetic and sensory learning to provide children with a great start to schooling and prepare them for the challenge of Kindergarten.
At SCCS, your child will:
Experience wonder and engage in worship of God through Bible stories, group prayer, and Scripture memorization.
Develop strong fine motor skills (“pre-writing” skills) to prepare them for future writing. Students hone their skills for their “pencil grip” through play in tracing, lacing, building, and cutting.
Embark on an in-depth exploration of letters (“pre-reading” skills) that ready them for early reading in Kindergarten.
Discover numbers and engage in early math concepts (“pre-addition”) such as pattern recognition, matching, sorting, and classifying.
Whole-Child Engagement
Children experience a beautiful school beginning through the integration of Music, Art, P.E., and Creative Dramatics. Our unique Pre-K approach to “specials” means that our youngest students have the opportunity to:
Embark on a joyful musical journey with our Music Teacher, where students explore the fundamentals of music, laying the groundwork for a lifelong love of music. (Early music education is linked to improved language skills, cognitive development, memory improvement, creativity, and self-confidence.)
Join in purposeful games and movement activities, led by our Athletics Teacher, specifically crafted to boost your child’s gross motor skills, body awareness, social abilities, and positive feelings about staying active.
Participate in an engaging Arts program tailored just for them, where children explore more than just “crafts.” Children grow to appreciate the good, true, and beautiful through age-appropriate art appreciation (gazing at and discussing art) and express their own creativity through art creation.
Explore their imagination and foster creativity with their Creative Dramatics Teacher, laying the groundwork for problem solving, storytelling skills, and public speaking.
PROGRAM DETAILS
Pre-K students must be 4 years old by August 31.
For the 2024-25 school year:
Full Day hours are Monday-Friday from 8:15 AM to 3:00 PM
Half Day hours are Monday-Friday 8:15 AM to 11:30 AM.
Pre-K Curriculum
Bible: God from A to Z (attributes of God)
Handwriting & Phonics: Handwriting Without Tears
Math: Dimensions Math (math concepts: match, sort, and classify)
Science: God Made Me: The Study of Our Bodies
Social Studies: Community Helpers and My Family
Literature: Fables and Poems
Fine Motor Skills: Coloring, tracing, cutting
Virtue Formation Stewardship, Self-Control, Wisdom, and Honor
Specials: Full-day students will have additional opportunities to participate in Music, Art, P.E., and Creative Dramatics. Half-day students will have limited participation.
