Teaching our Children to Love What is Good, True and Beautiful
At Fortis Academy, your children will be entering a safe environment where they will learn to love God, His creations, and develop the academic skills that will prepare them for the future.
Kindergarten meets at school Monday and Wednesday or Tuesday and Thursday from 9:00 am – 3:00 pm. Students work from home with a parent co-teacher two days a week.
Kindergarten students have the option to enroll in Friday Electives, which include Art, Theater, Spanish, Music, and P.E.
CLASSICAL CHRISTIAN
- Seeks to nurture a Christ-like character and enriching development of the whole child – heart, soul, and mind
- Focuses on developing a sense of wonder about God’s world and for learning
- Teaches children to love what is good, true, and beautiful
- Inspires children to love God
LANGUAGE RICH
- Read-alouds and interaction with lots of books
- Exposure to great classical literature
- Develop Reading skills through the teaching on phonics
- Explore God’s Creation and develop an appreciation of nature
- Develop Number Sense through experiences with math manipulatives
- Memorizing scripture and beautiful poetry
- Safe Environment (students and parents should feel safe and loved)
ENGAGING
- Children should love learning!
- Hands on activities
- “Is it cute or does it count?” Projects should have developmental purpose.
- Develop fine motor and gross motor skills
- Encourage students to express their feelings and how how art and music make them feel
CHARACTER TRAINING
- Regard others as equals (Treat classmates with kindness)
- Respect God’s authorities (Follow school rules/procedures))
- Reverence for God and His Word (Participate in prayer; Listen attentively to Bible stories)
GOALS OF OUR KINDER PROGRAM
- Building self-control and attention spans
- Developing fine motor and gross motor skills
- Encouraging a love of learning and reading
- Building respect for God’s Word and His authorities
- Developing book/text sense
- Phonetic awareness through the introduction of phonograms
- Develop proper letter formation for uppercase and lowercase letters and numbers
- Begin reading short vowel and long vowel words using beginning and ending blends
- Recognizing and writing numbers 1-100
- Develop a great understanding of what numbers are and how they work together
- Be able to perform simple addition and subtraction problems and be able to explain their answers
- Aiding parents in recognizing the important role they have as co-teachers
CURRICULUM
The backbone of our Kindergarten curriculum includes, The Ordinary Parents Guide to Reading, All About Spelling, Singapore Math, and Handwriting Without Tears. We supplement with additional literature, art appreciation, music appreciation, Bible stories from The Jesus Storybook Bible by Sally Lloyd-Jones (language and theologically rich!), and the love of Jesus.
