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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3 Year-Old Class
​and Pre-K Kinder-Prep Classes

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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 and sounds are introduced using the whole-brain approach with "Zoo-phonics", leading into the guided phonics program. 

Pre-Reading Skills:

• ​upper and lowercase recognition
• letter/sound recognition-phonological awareness
• left to right
• syllabication
• rhyming
• name recognition

Handwriting Skills:

• pincer grasp and fine-motor grip
• writing strokes

Music:

• color words through music and song
• shape words through music and song
• nursery rhymes through music and song
• rhythm
• beat
• ​instruments and sound

Mathematics:

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

Science:

• exploring the world around them
• life processes
• Earth and space
• Earths resources
• scientific investigation
• force and motion
• properties of matter
• engineering
• stereo microscopes

Art:

• open-ended art materials
• process art
• color recognition
• fine-motor skills
• scissor cutting skills
• variety of mediums​
• art history

Social Skills:

• sharing
• collaboration
• communication
• conflict resolution
• cooperating with others
• relationship strengthening

STEAM
Sensory
Fine and Gross Motor Skills
Zones of Regulation (self-regulation/emotional regulation)
Following Directions
Structured Routines
Choice-based Learning with Centers
Transition Skills
Practical Life Skills (care of self/care of the environment)
​Perseverance 

Pre-K
Kinder-Prep Additions

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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.

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
• practice with tactile/kinesthetic feedback
• name writing practice
• 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
• use of a variety of additional mediums

Parent Involvement with Letter/Sound Home-School Connections

Pre-K Kinder-Prep
​Advanced Guided Phonics

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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. Sight words are integrated throughout the spiraling phonics lessons as irregular high frequency "heart" words and decodable high frequency words, rather than rote sight word memorization. Rote memorization relies on shape, along with typically the first and last letter. This in turn leads to quick guessing of words rather than decoding, causing frustration and confusion later on.

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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