Academics

Preschool/Pre-Kindergarten

At GCCA, our Preschool and Pre-Kindergarten focuses on the introduction of learning through play, memorization, song, books, and many other engaging activities. 
 
GCCA Preschool and Pre-Kindergarten students move on to Kindergarten well equipped with a solid foundation for the future. 
Preschool students must have had their third birthday by September of the year they enter. Preschool classes are on Tuesday and Thursday.
 
AM class times - 8:45 to 11:30
PM class times - 12:15 to 3:00 
Pre-Kindergarten students must have had their fourth birthday by September of the year they enter. Pre-Kindergarten classes are on Monday, Wednesday and Friday.
 
AM class times 7:45 to 11:10
PM class times - 11:45 to 3:00
  • Bible Stories
  • Community Helpers
  • Safety
  • Name, sound, and picture rhyme for Alphabet letters
    • Animal Alphabet songs for that letter
    • Trace the letters - capital and lowercase
  • Counting to 50
  • Recognizing and understanding the concept of 1-15
    • Counting the objects of that number
  • The Colors 
  • Weather
  • Seasons
  • Family Pets
  • Shapes
  • Nutrition
  • Our meals
  • Name, sound, and picture rhyme for
  • Bible Stories
  • Community Helpers
  • Scissor Safety
  • Colors
  • Shapes
  • Opposites
  • The Ocean
  • Holidays
  • Plants
  • Safety
  • Numbers
    • Recognizing and understanding the concept
    • Before and after numbers
    • Writing the numbers
    • Teen number family
  • Counting to 100
  • Introduction of the Vowels
    • One vowel rule
    • Marking short vowels
    • Blending a consonant with a vowel
    • Sounding blends and one vowel words
  • Manners
  • Letters
    • Name, sound, and picture rhyme
    • Print the letter - capital and lowercase
  • Writing name
  • Sight words - I, A, a, The, the, and
  • Simple sentences 
A Christian education in the classical tradition.