Curriculum
Our educational program addresses all areas of development – intellectual, social, physical, emotional, and spiritual.
The environment facilitates learning using centers including reading/books, dramatic play/home living, writing/alphabet, math/blocks, science/sensory, and art. The classroom extends outdoors in our cloistered playgrounds which include: sensory gardens, trikes and wheelbarrows, wooden climbing structures, dramatic play structures, sand boxes, and large mature trees for plenty of shade.
GOALS
- Allow children to develop a positive self-image
- Allow children to learn through discovery and play
- Allow children to nurture relationships with peers and teachers
- Allow children to gain readiness in language, pre-math, science, and the social sciences
- Allow children to expand their horizons through music and movement
MUSIC
Our music instructor facilitates weekly visits to each class for singing, dancing, and experimenting with musical instruments. Mrs. Lisa Fjolein teaches Kindermusik®, a systematic curriculum for the young child. This method embraces all children as musical and able to achieve basic music competence (rhythm movement and singing in-tune). Also essential to children’s musical growth is adult participation and modeling (regardless of ability) and a playful, developmentally appropriate, non-performance–oriented environment that is musically rich and immediately accessible to children’s participation.
CHAPEL
All children in our program enjoy weekly worship in our stained glass Chapel. Service is held on Monday mornings and lasts for approximately 15 minutes. During that time, children are welcomed with a singing call to worship, meaningful songs for active little bodies, and a simple Bible story shared by Bethany staff. Parents are welcome to attend. A BUMC Pastor conducts an all school chapel the second Monday of each month.
GROSS MOTOR CLASS
Gross Motor class is offered weekly from September through May. If is offered to the 2's through Pre-K, and weekly to toddlers after the new year. Classes focus on development of gross motor muscles, and allows the children to engage in organized fitness activities.
ON-SITE FIELD TRIPS
To expand the child's classroom experience, on-site field trips are offered for our oldest students and during the summer months for school age children.