Our Classes
The preschool uses Frogstreet Press Inc and ABC Jesus Loves Me curriculum. Each curriculum is high quality, and age-appropriate that is aligned to state and national standards.
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
Standards of Excellence:
The preschool has a certification in the Texas Rising Star program through the Texas Workforce Commission. The certification offers different levels of certification, which the preschool has been at the highest Four-star level since 2016.
*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).
FUMC also offers programs to further enrich your child’s learning.
Toddler I
A curriculum of “learning centers” is introduced and implemented. Teachers develop weekly lesson plans that offers a multi-sensory classroom 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.
Toddler II
A curriculum of “learning centers” is introduced and implemented. Teachers develop weekly lesson plans that offers a multi-sensory classroom 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.
Young 2’s
A curriculum of “learning centers” is introduced and implemented. Teachers develop weekly lesson plans that offers a multi-sensory classroom 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.
In our Young 2’s classroom, the development process of potty training begins when a child shows signs of readiness.
Older 2’s
A curriculum of “learning centers” is introduced and implemented. Teachers develop weekly lesson plans that offers a multi-sensory classroom 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.
Young 3’s
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.
Older 3’s
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
In addition to development age appropriate “learning centers” and group (small and large) times used in all classes, our Pre-K classes are further engaged in:
Social and Emotional development
Language and communication which includes listening comprehension, vocabulary and sentence structure, emergent reading and writing literacy
Mathematics- math which includes adding to/taking away skills, spatial sense skills which includes measurement and classification, life and earth science, social studies-economic, geography & citizenship. Children also utilize math boxes to further our hands on concepts.
Fine Arts
Physical Development- Fine and Gross motor skills
Technology and device skills