Your child receives the whole-person support they need from both you and us.
We value cooperation and teamwork with our families. We at the Rock Academy view ourselves as an extension of your home, desiring to come alongside you and help grow your child into who they are called to be. With a strong partnership and connectedness, we hope to build security, trust, and value between our staff and families.
A community that celebrates, affirms, and loves your child.
At the Rock Academy, we create a supportive environment that values each child and recognizes their unique gifts. By personalizing education for every student, we affirm their strengths and encourage them to explore as they discover all that God has created them to be.
Preschool Curriculum
Our curriculum has been intentionally developed and implements sequential expected student outcomes that are developmentally appropriate and enhance a child’s growth. It is researched based and aligns with the California Infant, Toddler & Preschool Learning Foundations, California’s Desired Results Developmental Profile, ACSI Accreditation standards, and California’s Kindergarten Standards. It incorporates nine domains of learning which include: spiritual, social, emotional, language & literacy, math, creative arts, science, physical (fine motor & gross motor), and health. It is based on sound biblical principles and provides opportunities for children to achieve their optimum development
We believe children learn best in a play-based environment where readiness skills are taught through a balance of hands-on, self-directed and teacher directed activities.
Our environment promotes age-appropriate exploration, discovery, self-awareness, social interactions, problem solving, critical thinking, and meaningful experiences. We cultivate skills and attitudes that contribute and lead to success in everyday situations in life.
Preschool Curriculum Domains
- Spiritual Domain
- Social Domain
- Emotional Domain
- Language & Literacy Domain
- Math Domain
- Health Domain
- Science Domain
- Physical Domain
- Creative Arts Domain
Includes the child’s development of the spiritual dimensions. Introducing children to understand the basis for our purpose and building up to a relationship with Jesus Christ. Introduce children to biblical concepts and applications that can be applied to their everyday life. It provides opportunities for each child to develop godly character traits such as those found in Galatians 5:22 – 23 where it states, …“the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control.” Christian holidays are also celebrated in ways appropriate for young children. Our day is not divided into Bible time or secular — Biblical foundations, Christian values and principles are taught and discussed every minute of every day.
- Bible Stories
- Bible Verses
- Fruit of Spirit
- Life Application Stories
- Worship Songs
- Chapel
Includes the child’s development and ability to identify and understand one’s own feelings, to accurately read and comprehend emotional states in others, to manage strong emotions and their expression in a constructive manner, to regulate one’s own behavior and to develop empathy for others.
Includes the child’s development and ability to express oneself verbally, book awareness, vocabulary development, word recognition, phonemic awareness, listening comprehension, conventions of print, to recall and verbalize experiences, to understand words, and to make associations with written words. It includes emergent literacy skills related to awareness of letter sounds, syllables and rhymes, alphabet knowledge, interest in and knowledge of books and print, pre-writing skills, decoding, and word recognition. It includes skills in hearing and understanding sounds, listening comprehension, recognizing, and discriminating environmental sounds, completing sound patterns, shifting auditory attention and auditory sequencing tasks. It includes skills in talking and conversation including vocabulary, syntax, using language for different purposes, and adjusting for different listeners and to convey different types of information, articulation, verbal memory, word retrieval, and spoken communication.
Includes the child’s development to make predictions, learning one to one correspondence, patterning, number recognition, counting, less or greater, sorting, graphing, quantity comparison, adding and subtracting, sets and classification, recognition of simple patterns and sequences, spatial orientation, concept of time, concept of number, number recognition, and number naming.
Includes the child’s development in understanding the aspects of nutrition and how to keep a healthy body along with the skills needed for maintaining safety for themselves.
- Nutrition
- Safety
- Cooking
Includes the child’s development of exploration, discovery, asking questions of what, how, and why, cause and effect of our world and items in it. It encourages thinking, problem solving, measurements, observing, predictions, balance, and experimenting. It engages children in exploring the world God created, observing and describing characteristics of physical science, life science, and earth science, living, non-living, and mechanical. It includes developing awareness of relationship between humans and the environment.
Includes the child’s development in maturing and mastering the movements of their body both in gross motor and fine motor which results in greater control and the ability to refine motions which are necessary for recreation and writing. It includes balance and fine and gross motor skills, eye hand coordination, mastering motor skills, control muscles in the hands that result in successful writing, drawing and cutting.
- Gross Motor
- Fine Motor
- Handwriting
- Scissor Skills
Includes the child’s development in creativity and self-expression through painting, cutting, gluing, collages, coloring, Play dough, and small muscle development. It includes the appreciation of music, singing, rhythm, experimenting with musical instruments, dance, and one’s self in relation to space and body parts. It encourages and provides opportunities for symbolic play, imagination, self-identity, family relationships, and a child’s view of the world, fantasy play, and reality play.
We are committed to all aspects of your child’s growth.
In early education, we provide a warm, caring, and stimulating environment with opportunities and experiences for your child to grow in all areas of development. We ensure they learn the tools, skills, and confidence to thrive in all aspects of their future.
