Our Classes
Our Curriculum: Each curriculum is high quality, age-appropriate and aligned to state and national standards. Pre-K adheres to the State Guidelines (TEKS)
Frog Street as an early childhood education company, focuses on helping to guide our generation of children to success through research-based curriculum, digital resources, and offers professional development for early childhood educators. It also integrates our instruction with all the key developmental domains of early childhood education.
ABC Jesus Loves Me uses five comprehensive, research-based curricula that focuses on academics, development, and Bible learning through play. Their core bible verse is:
"Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.
"Deuteronomy 6:5-7
FUMC Preschool also offers programs to further enrich your child’s learning: Spanish, Science, Yoga and Gross Motor
Toddlers (Pandas and Zebras)
A curriculum of “learning centers” is introduced and implemented. Teachers develop weekly lesson plans that offer a multi-sensory and hands-on classroom. The teachers also use the curriculum and assessments for guidance as they offer the following centers: dramatic play, discovery, music, library, gross motor, art, and blocks. Group time which includes short stories, flannelgraph bible stories, and music movement are incorporated into the lesson plan to promote cognitive, physical, and social-emotional needs of this age group. Basic sign language is taught during the school year.
2’s (Giraffes and Bears)
A curriculum of “learning centers” is introduced and implemented. Teachers develop weekly lesson plans that offer a multi-sensory and hands-on classroom activities. The teachers also use the curriculum and assessments for guidance as they offer the following centers: dramatic play, discovery, music, library, gross motor, art, and blocks. Group time which includes short stories, flannelgraph bible stories, and music movement are incorporated into the lesson plan to promote cognitive, physical, and social-emotional needs of this age group. Basic sign language is also taught during the school year.
In our Giraffes and Bears classrooms, the development process of potty training begins when a child shows signs of readiness.
3’s (Owls & Foxes)
In addition to developmental age appropriate “learning centers” and group times used in all classes, our three year olds are further engaged in social and emotional development, vocabulary development, phonological awareness, fine motor skills, logical reasoning, and problem solving. Thus, they are building the foundations to learn to read and write, as well as developing math and reasoning skills.
Pre-K (Lions and Elephants)
In addition to developmentally age appropriate “learning centers” and group times (small and large) used in all classes, our Pre-K classes are further engaged in:
Social and Emotional Development
Language and Communication includes listening comprehension, vocabulary and sentence structure, emergent reading and writing literacy.
Mathematics includes number sense, geometry and spatial sense, measurement, classification and patterns. Children also utilize math boxes to further our hands-on concepts.
Science includes life science, Earth and Space science.
Social Studies includes historical figures, economics, geography and citizenship.
Fine Arts includes art, music and dramatic expression.
Physical Development includes fine motor and gross motor development, personal safety and health.
Technology and Device Skills
*To further our standards, the preschool board requires that each lead or co-lead teacher has a degree or is credentialed with a Child Development Associate (CDA).