Summit Four Year-Old Program
The Summit Four-Year-Old Program focuses on building a strong foundation for future academic success. Certified teachers introduce students to academic skills and provide them with opportunities to practice listening, learning, working, playing, and cooperating in small groups.
Due to a wide range of abilities at four years of age, the Summit Four-Year-Old Program is flexible. Students participate in age appropriate, hands-on
Program Overview
activities that utilize multiple senses. Our small class sizes enable us to expose children to both basic and academically challenging concepts, depending on learner needs. Students go to music everyday. Singing and movement are an important part of instruction in the classroom too. Every Tuesday students attend Chapel where they hear Bible stories and learn about the character of God. Chapel instruction is reinforced in the classroom throughout the week.
The Summit Four-Year-Old Curriculum includes the following concepts:
Language and Literacy Concepts:
Listening to stories for information and for fun
Responding to questions and expressing ideas in a group setting
Concepts about print (e.g. left to right and top to bottom progression)
Naming letters of the alphabet
Understanding that letters are used to represent spoken sounds
Knowledge of the sounds represented by letters
Use of letters to represent words
Use of small writing tools to print name and to copy letters and numbers
Math Concepts:
Sorting and matching
Comparing attributes
Spatial relationships
Counting objects
Shape recognition
Graphing
Numeral recognition
Patterning and predicting
Measurement
Addition and subtraction with real objects
Science, Social Studies, and Other Concepts Introduced:
Recognizing and describing seasonal and weather changes
Categorizing and describing animals, plants and machines
Recognizing patterns and cycles in nature
Common practices for good health and safety
Awareness of traditions associated with holidays and celebrations
Cooperation in joint activities and in following rules
Participation in class activities and jobs
Respecting others and building relationships
Creative expression
Body awareness and movement
Enjoyment of music
Bible stories and knowledge of God’s love for us
