Foundations Pre-School Program & Prices

At Indiana Christian Academy’s Foundations Pre-School, our program and facilities are “top notch” which makes our prices a tremendous bargain. Check out what we have to offer below.

Program

The Foundations program provides students with the necessary tools for success at the elementary level. Below are just some of the things that are taught:

3-yr-olds:

• Our reading program is a phonics-based program.
• The students are taught all of the letters of the alphabet and the phonetic sounds that those letters represent.

4-yr-olds:

• Besides learning all of the letters and their phonetic sounds, we also teach the students how to read short words and sentences.
• We begin reading groups in the spring.

Kindergarten:

• Our goal in kindergarten is to finish the job concerning laying a solid foundation for successful life-long reading-our students learn how to read.
• We want all of our kindergarten students to be able to read at least one year ahead of grade level by the end of the school year.
• Our students progress through a series of age-appropriate reading books that become more and more challenging throughout the year.
• We generally begin reading groups by November 1.

Arithmetic

3-yr-olds:

• We teach number recognition and counting for at least the numbers 1-15.
• Some students learn to count to 50 and beyond.
• We also teach basic shapes, sorting, colors, and the calendar.

4-yr-olds:

• We teach number recognition and counting for at least the numbers 1-50.
• Some students learn how to count to 100 and beyond.
• We also continue teaching basic shapes, sorting, colors, and the calendar.

Kindergarten:

• We use a first grade math curriculum in our kindergarten.
• We review and teach counting by 1’s, 2’s, 5’s, 10’s, and 100’s.
• Our students master addition and subtraction facts to 18; they also learn how to solve problems using addition and subtraction.
• Our students begin learning about fractions and geometric shapes.
• We also teach time, calendar, temperature, measurement, weight, and capacity.

Bible

• We teach a 20-minute Bible lesson each day.
• Our lessons focus on the major Bible characters and stories throughout the Old and New Testaments, such as Adam and Eve, Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, Esther, Daniel, the life of Christ, the apostle Paul, etc.
• We use these characters and stories to teach Christian principles to live by.