Our Preschool Curriculum

            Champion Christian Preschool is designed to facilitate children's growth. Unlike other preschool programs, it also seeks to provide a Christian atmosphere in which this growth takes place. Our desire is to help each child to develop a Christian worldview with which he or she will be able to understand the world.

          Preschool is an important time in a child's development as we prepare them for Kindergarten and their more formal education to come. CCS Preschool's academic work focuses on foundational skills in literacy, math, and science.

        In literacy, activities like rhyming, playing with sounds in words/phonics (phonemic awareness), identifying letters and words are used to help develop pre-reading skills. Reading aloud, discussing stories, and encouraging children to make up their own storylines help build vocabulary and comprehension. We provide children the necessary activies and supports to help them develop their writing and drawing skills including names, letters, numbers, and other famarilar words. 

      In math, activities like counting, sorting, patterning, measuring, etc. are used to help students develop their skills including counting to determine amount, adding and taking away, problem solving, compairing & contrasting objects, and so much more. Our math curriculum also includes activites and games focused on number and shape recognition, color identification, and writing numbers/drawing shapes.

      In science, activities like exploring the natural world through activities like gardening, observing plants and animals, and collecting natural materials help build observation skills, vocabulary & descriptive language, and an understanding of scientific principles and topics. Children participate in engaging simple experiments to build problem solving and collaboration skills along with cause and effect, predicting, and gathering and collecting data.

       Overall, CCS Preschool's academi work aims to create a love for learning and building a STRONG FOUNDATION for future ACADEMIC SUCCESS by fostering curiosity, exploration, mastery of skills, and critical thinking through engaging and hands-on activities.

          In our social/emotional work here at Champion, play is seen as children's work or the primary way the child learns. Our preschool's curriculum is therefore built with children's play as an important pillar along with our academic pillar. Our classrooms have several different play areas such as the construction city, pretend kingdom, literacy lagoon, creation station, exploration forest, math mountain, and technology tree house. During each day, the children are free to explore each play to learn center under the guidance and supervision of the teacher. All center activities align with Pennsylvania EE Learning Standards, studend developmental and academic needs, current unit of study, and student interests. Children spend a portion of their preschool day in centers. Play-based and structured are balanced carefully throughout the day to meet the developmental learning needs of all studnets. During our play to learn time, we also spend significant time building appropriate skills such as sharing, taking turns, using our words to express ourselve, expressing our emotions appropriately, self-sooth and regulate, and so much more. Social-emotional development works in conjuction with their academic development.

       Within our preschool classes, we also work to build their spiritual development in understanding God, who they are in Christ, and how He has taught us to live. Bible characters and stories, Bible songs/finger-plays, object lessons, puppet shows, and weekly chapels are all designed to meet and to expand the spiritual development of our students. Champion Christian Preschool is learning that is distinctly Christian.

       The last area of our preschool curriculum is the physical development of the child both in gross motor skills and fine motor skills.  A portion of our preschool day includes outdoor (weather permitting) or indoor physical play where we build skills like jumping, climbing, swinging along with spatial awareness, self-regulation, etc. A portion of our day also includes fine motor play and art activities including puzzles, manipulatives, scissors, paint, etc. to build the necessary hand & finger strength, the correct pincer grip when writing, using craft tools, and building hand-eye coordination in the students. This foundation forms powerful tools and abilities that will aid the students in their growth and learning once they enter kindergarten.

          This type of programming is necessary for our developmental focus.  It allows the staff to see each child as an individual with different likes and dislikes, as well as, different needs and levels of growth.  The curriculum provides ways to maximize each child's experience at preschool. In a typical day at preschool, there are both structured and non structured times which include individual and group activities that prepare the children to maintain focus in the kindergarten classroom, sit for longer periods of time, and build attention spans needed for success academic achievement. Our curriculum covers many different thematic topics while helping your child to grow and to develop in skills, self confidence, and readiness for kindergarten. Through play, we develop many of the important socio-emotional skills.

        At Champion Christian Preshcool, the students are prepared for success in their formal education through our 5-pillar approach to developmental learning in our preschool classrooms.