Our Curriculum

The official curriculum used at FBCM Preschool is the highly acclaimed Christian based educational tool, Abeka.  Abeka is a comprehensively designed curriculum created to achieve academic excellence and moral character using professionally illustrated textbooks and teaching aids, hands-on activities, challenging exercises, purposeful repetition, and the reinforcement of concepts. Abeka provides outstanding tools based on a traditional educational philosophy for both success in education and character development helping to equip each child for life.

Abeka emphasizes phonics as the foundational means to forming the building blocks necessary for early and successful reading.  Writing and early emerging math skills are also taught to the fours in this outstanding curriculum. Teachers are given creative license to enhance the curriculum according to their gifts and talents. The curriculum provides activities that meet the needs of your preschooler at their level and pace.  Each part of the curriculum is age appropriate and offers many exciting activities utilizing learning centers, open-ended and teacher directed arts and crafts, music, circle time, and outside time at recess. The activities weave scripture and Bible lessons throughout the learning experience. Each week of school a theme is assigned determined by the Director.  Letters with phonics, numbers, colors, and shapes are taught as well as writing which is practiced each day in the fours age group both semesters and in the second semester of the three’s classes.  The fours also learn sight words and blends connecting the dots to early reading.

Our academic learning model includes, but is not limited to, the following, as deemed age-appropriate: Bible stories and verses, prayer, writing, name recognition, using scissors, letters and sounds, numbers, shapes, colors, calendar and weather, arts & crafts, music & movement, show & tell, manipulatives and puzzles, learning centers (Blocks/Cars, Home living, Reading, Science, Free Art), and gardening.

FBCM values a balance between classroom time and exploration time. During class time, children engage in more focused and teacher-led activities with their peers. These activities emphasize the development of language and cognition skills. When children work in small groups, they develop confidence through cooperating and negotiating with others to achieve accomplishments.

Exploration time happens inside where children explore different learning centers set up and planned for by the teachers. This time allows children to discover the environment and independently choose their own learning experiences while simultaneously developing responsibility. Teachers work together to build on the children's discoveries and interests to plan relevant classroom lessons and hands-on activities. FBCM Kids have opportunity to visit the following learning centers: math, literacy, writing, construction in blocks and cars, cutting and sticking, science, role-play in Home Living, open-ended and teacher directed art, play dough and sensory. Teachers are always observing and engaging children in their play to further build and develop their early academic skills.  Fine motor skills are developed during Exploration time.

Circle time focuses on a specific area of learning each day, such as math, literacy, and Bible teaching.

In outdoor play, children are exposed to a variety of activities such as water/sensory play, sandbox, role-play, and other outdoor games. They also develop their gross motor skills by, climbing, sliding, balancing, hopping, running, and jumping. Children are encouraged to make their own choices. Teachers act as guides to extend their learning experiences. 

In Science, children explore all different areas of the world such as organic and non-organic material, energy, weather, health, magnets, machines, bugs and insects, birds, metamorphosis of caterpillars to butterflies, nature, forest, and farm animals, hot and cold, senses, floating and sinking, the human body, space, dinosaurs, and so much more. 

Ultimately, the curriculum at FBCM encourages children to form deep and meaningful relationships with their teachers and peers and gain an appreciation for the diversity of individuals in the community. When children have built this strong social intelligence, they are then able to develop the academic skills necessary to soar in their academic journey.