curriculum

Our curriculum at Calvary Christian Childcare aligns with Indiana’s 2023 Early Learning Standards, providing a clear developmental path for children from birth to age five. These standards, updated with the latest research, ensure that children gain the core skills needed for future success. Alongside these foundational goals, we integrate Apostolic Biblical principles and doctrine, supporting not only academic but spiritual growth in a nurturing environment.

social and interpersonal objectives

Includes learning listening skills, sharing, playing fairly, compromise, respect, and more

logical and mathematical objectives

Includes counting from 1-30, comparisons, basic number concepts, pattern recognition, and understanding spatial concepts: first, middle, last, front, back, up, down, over, under, through, in and out, and more

language and emerging literacy objectives

Includes learning to follow directions, write a first name, tell a story in a sequence, rhyming skills, building vocabulary, recognizing the names and sounds of consonants and short vowels, forming consonants and vowels in upper and lower case and building vocabulary skills including color, words, shapes, weather, seasons, holidays, manners, friendships, community helpers, family traditions, health and safety, animals, farming, science, and mathematical, and more.

gross motor skills

Includes learning to catch small objects, throw an object in the intended direction, running with control, climbing without falling, reproducing rhythmic patterns, and more.

fine motor skills

Includes learning to use scissors on lines and shapes, using a crayon in a defined area, creativity with art media, using writing and drawing tools with control and holding a pencil correctly, and more.