Christian Preschool

 Monthly themes include:

September:From Home to School

October:Harvest Time

November:Terrific Tools

December:Sensational Senses

January:Trucks and Big Machines

February:Town and Country

March:In the Grass

April:Digging in the Dirt

May:Let’s Pretend 

Research continues to show the importance of family involvement in a child’s success in school.  HighReach Learning values the role of the family in making a difference in the lives of young children. Children learn from the people and places all around them. You are truly your child’s first teacher and play an integral part in his or her development. Our early childhood education curriculum encourages families and teachers to work together, guiding children’s  learning in powerful and fun ways.

 Quality early childhood development for toddlers begins with a hands-on approach and plenty of opportunities for free-choice and independent learning. At Mt. Airy Christian Day School, our teachers will lovingly guide your toddler through their earliest developmental milestones while singing, dancing, and playing.  Your toddler’s busy day will include plenty of free play and quiet time.  Time will be devoted to enrichment programs, special activities, and learning simple Spanish words. We keep families informed with Daily Reports and weekly lesson plans on the classroom’s Parent Board. Your child’s developmental progress will be assessed on an on-going basis using progress reports.

Our toddlers and two’s utilize the nationally-recognized HighReach® curriculum that focuses on the following areas of development:

• Listening and speaking skills
• Self-confidence
• Social interactions
• Coordination
• Creativity
• Problem solving

Toddler HighReach Curriculum (ages 12 – 24 months)
Designed with the curious child in mind, our toddler curriculum includes monthly themes which are reinforced with books, puppets, songs, free-form art projects and other creative learning activities for toddlers.

• Teachers and children engaged in supportive and encouraging learning interactions.
• Hands-on explorations that create new learning connections in language, math, science, social/emotional, and physical development.
• Children investigating “Big Ideas” and actively seeking answers to their questions.
• Rich conversations between teachers and children.
• Intentional daily plans covering a wide range of standards-based objectives (Ask to see them!) that take your child’s interests and needs into account.
• Opportunities to explore basic skills and concepts that are appropriate for your child’s specific developmental level and which will ensure school readiness.

 Mt. Airy Christian Day School utilizes the  Macmillan/McGraw-Hill'sTreasures curriculum which is now aligned to the Common Core State Standards. This leading program offers the correct balance of fiction/nonfiction literature, explicit instruction and ample practice to ensure that students learn and grow as lifelong readers and writers. Treasures is a research based, comprehensive Reading Language Arts program for grades K-6 that gives educators the resources they need to help all students succeed. High quality literature coupled with explicit instruction and ample practice ensures that students grow as life-long readers and writers. 

for more information click on the following link.

 Treasures Kindergarten Program Overview

https://www.mhschool.com/reading/ktour/

Mt. Airy Christian Day School is licensed by the Department of Human Services and Pennsylvania Department of Education and follows the state’s early learning standards. We use the Pennsylvania Early Learning Standards for infant and Toddlers, Pennsylvania Early Learning Standards for Pre-Kindergarten, and Pennsylvania Early Learning Standards for Kindergarten to guide curriculum and lesson planning decisions. We also participate in the Keystone STARS Certification Program, designed to evaluate and improve the quality of child care. The program offers Standards, Training, Assistance, Resources and Support (STARS) to child care providers and recognizes the continuous quality improvement efforts of early learning programs in Pennsylvania.

We are redefining how far childcare providers can go. Our educational philosophy is age-appropriate, developmentally appropriate and child-directed. Your child will learn through play and will be given the freedom to make choices that help to foster independence. 

Our  Kindergarten program are aligned with the curriculum of public school Kindergarten programs and are designed to prepare your child to transition easily to a public or private school environment.

 HighReach Learning® curriculum grows with your child. As your child matures and moves to the next age group, he/she develops more advanced skills. The main skills your child will cover during the year are listed below. 

• Social/Emotional Development
• Language Development
• Small and Large Muscle Development
• Phonological Awareness: Songs, Rhymes, & Fingerplays
• Color & Shape Recognition
• Problem Solving
• Self-Concept

• Social/Emotional Development
• Language Development
• Phonological Awareness: Songs, Rhymes & Alliteration
• Small and Large Muscle Development
• Color, Shape, & Number Recognition (1-10)
• Counting & One-to-One Correspondence
• Sequencing, Predicting, & Graphing
• Problem Solving
• Character Education

• Social/Emotional Development
• Language Development
• Small and Large Muscle Development
• Phonological Awareness: Rhyming, Clapping Syllables, & Alliteration
• Letter Recognition and Beginning Sounds
• Vowel Sounds (long and short; emphasis on short)
• Color, Shape, & Number Recognition (0-12)
• Counting & One-to-One Correspondence
• Sequencing, Graphing, & Predicting
• Character Education