Downloads:
3 year old class plan (2015-2016)
Pre-K class plan (2015-2016)
Bible Lesson Plan
Here at First Steps, our curriculum reflects our values of learning through engaging, hands-on lessons, activities, and play! Our learning goals include:
  • Offering children choices
  • Providing time for leisurely exploration and for trying out new activities and ideas.
  • Balancing teacher-initiated and child-initiated activities.
  • Involving content that is interesting and meaningful to children.
  • Involving children regularly in initiating, planning, and implementing activities and then reflecting on what they have learned.
  • Reflecting children’s diverse cultures and communities.
  • Accommodating many learning styles and abilities, and offer many ways to be successful.
  • Providing alternating periods of active and quiet activities.
  • Offering activities in individual, small-group, and large-group formats.
  • Involving staff in regular cycles of planning, implementing, reflecting, and revising.
  • Teaching children to read, spell and write
Academic Goals will stem from the following subjects:
  • Bible
  • Social Development
  • Math
  • Language Arts
  • Science Health
  • Outside Play
  • Music

Our goals include the use of cognitive, physical, social, emotional, and spiritual domains.  Though these realms have individual character we recognize that there is integration among them all.  A few of these goals within each realm are:

Cognitive
  • Inspire awareness and understanding
  • Stimulate creativity and wonder
  • Encourage reflection and evaluation

Physical
  • Encourage the development of fine motor and gross motor skills
  • Encourage proper health habits

Social
  • Social respect for God, others and property
  • Train to participate cooperatively in a group
  • Encourage self-control

 Emotional
  • Gain a sense of self and motivations
  • Recognize personal behavior
  • Encourage a sense of competence and satisfaction in the mastery of new skills

 Spiritual
  • Gain understanding of God’s love and forgiveness
  • Inspire love for God and life lived for Him
  • Love one another as ourselves