Faith Christian School’s elementary program encompasses kindergarten through grade six. We encourage the development of the whole child in mind, body and spirit. In a supportive and nurturing, yet challenging academic setting, students find daily opportunities to explore new ideas, expand their knowledge, and gain a better understanding of themselves and others. Creative talent blossoms through participation in music, art, drama and physical education.
BIBLE – Enjoying God’s Gifts/Bible memory
READING and LANGUAGE – Phonic awareness, phonics decoding, fluency, vocabulary, comprehension, writing and study skills, sequence of events, grammar, punctuation, following oral and written instructions.
MATH – Basic addition and subtraction facts, measuring, adding two digit numbers, patterns, compare/order, identify date an days of the week, word problems, graphing, counting money, even and odd numbers, counting by 1’s, 5’s, 10’s and 100’s, writing numbers, ordinal position, place value, time, fractions and geometric shapes.
SCIENCE – Five senses, sun, moon, stars, forces, matter, animals, teeth, temperature, air, sound, fruits, flowers, seeds and weather.
SOCIAL STUDIES – Families, communities, Native Americans, geography skills, citizenship, famous Americans, symbols of America, holidays, leaders, transportation, tools and technology, needs/wants and goods/services.
SPELLING – Develop a mental bank of high-usage words, know sound-letter relationships, alphabetical order, word and sentence structure, plurals, possessives, rules for adding suffixes, word analysis, proofreading, and story writing.
PENMANSHIP –Proper position of body, paper and pencil, letter formation, legible handwriting.
MUSIC – Basic music theory
ART, Library, Computer skills and PHYSICAL EDUCATION
BIBLE – Finding God’s Promises/Moses/Bible memory.
READING – Phonics, decoding, encoding, suffixes,comprehension, vocabulary, readers club, literary and study skills.
MATH – Add/Subtract facts, sum/diff to 18, regroup in add/sub, then multiples of 0,1,3,4,5, standard and metric measurement, identify basic geometric shapes, time to 5 minute intervals, and money values, telling time by hour, half hour, and quarter hour.
SCIENCE – Living things, animals, human body, earth, space, matter, energy and motion.
SOCIAL STUDIES – Communities (old and new), Famous Americans, careers, starting the colonies, funding freedom, starting a country, and farming.
LANGUAGE – Grammar, punctuation and writing skills.
SPELLING – Sound, structure and meaning of words, dictionary skills, thinking activities, and learning strategies.
PENMANSHIP – Printing transition into cursive.
MUSIC – Basic music theory
ART, Library, Computer skills and PHYSICAL EDUCATION
BIBLE – The life of Abraham, Jacob, Joseph and Daniel. Bible Memory.
READING – Phonics, oral and silent reading comprehension, poetry, fiction, nonfiction, vocabulary and language skills.
MATH – Add 3 numbers, rename place value, subtract-regrouping, multiplication table 1-12, square roots, division 1-12, geometry and measurement.
SCIENCE – Wonderfully made (cells, tissue, skills and organs) animals, plants, minerals, rocks, soil, solar system, work, mass and weight.
SOCIAL STUDIES – The New Nation, map skills, charts and graphs; Community: building, history, work and governments; Many cultures, one country: literature, art and celebrations.
LANGUAGE – Prepositions, verbs, interjections, nouns, adjectives, adverbs, conjunctions, pronouns, punctuation, capitalization, sentence types & letters.
SPELLING – Words coincide with reading and writing vocabularies, expansion of previous grade’s skills.
PENMANSHIP – Cursive.
MUSIC – Basic music theory, learn to play flutophone.
BIBLE – Life of Christ and Paul, Christian character, Bible memory.
READING – Vocabulary and language skills, oral and silent reading, comprehension of fiction and non-fiction selections, study skills, literary skills, and communication skills.
MATH – Rounding, numbers to millions and billions, fractions and decimals, basic facts, carrying and borrowing, place value, money, word problems,
estimating, geometry, metric.
SCIENCE – Food plants, birds, skeletal system, energy, sound, packages, earth’s surface, the ocean, weather and nutrition.
SOCIAL STUDIES – United States, land and people with global connections.
LANGUAGE – Parts of speech, capitalization, punctuation, and sentence types.
SPELLING – Expanding core spelling words and skills, including dictionary and writing activities.
MUSIC – Basic music theory, learn to play recorder
ART, Library, Computer skills and PHYSICAL EDUCATION
BIBLE – Survey of Old Testament/Bible memory.
READING – Vocabulary and language skills, comprehension of fiction and non-fiction selections, study skills, literary skills, and communication skills.
MATH – Place value, four basic operations, fractions, decimals, estimating, solid & liquid measurements, and geometry.
SCIENCE – Cells and heredity, body systems, seed plants, insects, environmental factors, geology, structures, light, matter.
SOCIAL STUDIES – United States history and geography including lessons in citizenship, study skills, and thinking skills.
LANGUAGE – Parts of speech, types of sentences, punctuation, capitalization, and letter writing with a continuous emphasis on grammar and usage.
SPELLING – Expanding basic spelling core list with dictionary, writing, and check-up activities.
MUSIC – Basic music theory
ART, Library, Computer skills and PHYSICAL EDUCATION
BIBLE – Principles from God’s Word for daily living. Bible characters from the Old and New Testament. Overview of the Book of Revelation / Bible memory.
READING– Vocabulary and language skills, comprehension of fiction and non-fiction selections, study skills, literary skills, and communication skills.
MATH – Operations involving fractions, decimals, percents, introductory geometry; ratios and proportions.
SCIENCE – Animal kingdom, including simple living things, forest communities, ecology, sources of energy, motion, force and work; magnetism, forecasting, the universe.
SOCIAL STUDIES – Ancient civilizations: Egypt, Mesopotamia, India, China, Greece, Rome, Arabia, America; Empires and Cultures: Africa, Asia, Americas;
Revolutions: French, Russia, Industrial; World War I and II; Cold War.
LANGUAGE – Parts of speech, punctuation, sentence construction, metaphors, idioms, and personification, descriptive writing, writing invitations, directions, explanations, and reports, expository writing, outlining,
SPELLING – Accountability for spelling in daily work; activities involving vocabulary building, phonetic and structural analysis, and thinking skills.
MUSIC – Basic music theory
ART, Library, Computer skills and PHYSICAL EDUCATION
