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Learning Objectives

Mighty Scholars Preschool Academy uses a combination of play-based centers and Montessori inspired teaching methods. Together, the curriculum forms a nurturing, rich and meaningful opportunity for learning with child-led and teacher-led hands-on intentional activities. 

​All students learn differently and enter school at varied stages of development. Each student is assessed and then tutored at their unique level of development with an individualized goal plan. 
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All Classes

Students receive small group and one-on-one tutoring at their individual level of skill development, following each child's specialized goal plan – whether that be fine-motor, name recognition, letters/sounds, or practical life skills. Letters are introduced with a focus on sounds, rather than letter names, using the whole-brain approach with "Zoo-phonics". The pre-reading program skills lead into the science of reading aligned, guided phonics curriculum. 

Pre-Reading Skills:
  • ​upper and lowercase recognition
  • letter/sound recognition-phonological awareness
  • left to right
  • vowels/consonants
  • blending
  • syllabication
  • rhyming
  • name recognition

Handwriting Skills:
  • pincer grasp and fine-motor grip
  • writing strokes
  • name writing practice​
  • practice with tactile/kinesthetic feedback​

Music and Movement:
  • weekly music enrichment program
  • rhythm
  • beat
  • ​instruments and sound
  • ​music staff and notes
  • color words through music and song
  • shape words through music and song
  • nursery rhymes through music and song

Mathematics:
  • shape recognition
  • number recognition
  • ​number sense
  • counting skills
  • sorting
  • patterns
  • sequencing
  • ​measurement
  • less/more/equal concepts

Science:
  • weekly science education program
  • exploring the world around them
  • life processes
  • Earth and space
  • Earths resources
  • scientific investigation
  • force and motion
  • properties of matter
  • engineering
  • stereo microscopes

Art:
  • bi-weekly process art education program
  • open access to open-ended art materials
  • ​color recognition
  • fine-motor skills
  • scissor cutting skills
  • wide variety of art mediums​

Social Skills:
  • sharing
  • collaboration
  • communication
  • conflict resolution
  • cooperating with others
  • relationship strengthening

Companion Languages:
  • American Sign Language (ASL) companion curriculum

STEAM
Sensory
Fine and Gross Motor Skills
Mindfulness
Yoga and Breathing Exercises
Following Directions
Structured Routines
Choice-based Learning with Centers
Transition Skills
Practical Life Skills (care of self/care of the environment)
​Perseverance 
Pre-K Additions

Pre-K scholars receive one-on-one tutoring time to work on reading and handwriting skills. Pre-reading and reading skill development is taught through a science of reading aligned, systematic guided phonics program – at each scholars individual pace and development needs.

Literacy Skills:
  • phonemic awareness
  • beginning and ending sounds
  • ​multi-sensory phonics approach
  • auditory input tools

Handwriting Skills:
  • pincer grasp and fine-motor tripod grip
  • letter formation strokes
  • uppercase and lowercase letter formation pathways​
  • capitalization

Mathematics:
  • grouping
  • addition and subtraction concepts
  • problem solving
  • composing and decomposing numbers
  • estimation

Science:
  • simple microscopes and slides

Art:
  • drawing with basic shapes
  • directed drawing skills
  • variety of additional art mediums

Brain Builders:
  • coding basics
  • chess basics

Parent Involvement with Letter/Sound Home/School Connections
Advanced Guided Phonics

Pre-K scholars who have been individually assessed as ready to begin guided phonics CVC decoding, will continue one-on-one tutoring through the spiraling consecutive units in the guided phonics program. The science of reading aligned, guided phonics curriculum helps scholars develop necessary orthographic mapping skills through: letter-sound associations, phoneme awareness and crucial word study instruction to connect phonemes to the written word. 

Literacy Skills:
  • CVC Decoding
  • multi-sensory phonics approach 
  • practice with tactile/kinesthetic feedback
  • blends
  • irregular high frequency "heart" words
  • decodable high frequency words
  • rimes
  • vowels
  • word mapping
  • ​word chains
  • dictation practice
  • auditory input tools
  • ​open access to classroom library decodable books
  • home/school connection practice with lesson decodables

​Parent Involvement with SOR Guided Phonics Home/School  Connections
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