Reading, phonics & a love of number.
Phonics & reading
We emphasize direct phonics instruction using the SWR program by Wanda Sanseri. Kindergarten covers every letter sound and the most common phonograms and spelling rules by year’s end, readying students for the Reading Challenge in the later grades. They also hear wonderful literature read aloud, encouraged at home and with our reading-partner volunteers.
Mathematics
Our math follows the age-appropriate scope of Math-U-See’s Primer, supplemented with Saxon 1. Children count and build numeracy, understand place value, read and write numerals, add and subtract with concrete models, tell time on an analog clock, measure length, use halves and fourths, and skip-count by 2’s, 5’s, 10’s, and 100’s, wondering at the way God uses number to make His creation beautiful.
