Angels Academy was established in 2006 with the goal of providing high quality preschool instruction and a caring environment. Montessori trained teachers. Our children learn math, practical concepts, and enhance their senses through our Montessori style shelf work. We have the following common elements across all or our teaching programs.
- Preschool fitness: We practice music in motion. Our children progress to balancing and body movement in their physical activity.
- Arts and Crafts: Our teachers make a variety of fun arts and crafts projects with the children.
- Language: Many of our students are learning English as a second language. We teach them to speak and pronounce according to American English. Our students keep a weekend update book that they can present to their classmates.
- Music: We practice music in motion, and we sing during circle time.
- Discpline: We teach the children to share with other children, to follow the teacher instructions, and be responsible for the task given to them.
Twos Program
- Reading: We teach the twos how to recognize letters and basic shapes and colors.
- Math: We teach our students number recognition, and connecting dots to form numbers. Shelf work is used to teach sorting.
- Potty training: We potty train children who need it. There are set times for potty breaks during the day.
Threes Program
- Reading: We teach letter sounds and how to read three letter words.
- Writing: We teach the students how to trace letters. When they are ready we teach them how to write letters without tracing.
- Language: The children learn to speak and pronounce English correctly. The three year olds participate in the weekend update program, to sharpen their speaking skills to their classmates.
- Math: We teach our students to trace numbers 1 through 10. Later we teach them to write numbers, with a goal of writing 1 through 50. We teach them simple addition and subtraction.
Fours and Fives Program
- Reading: Our four year old students begin with three letter words, and then progress to short sentences. Our goal is that by age five they can read simple childrens books.
- Writing: We teach our four and five year olds how to write words and numbers properly on the lines of the paper.
- Language and speaking skills: Our children make a weekend update notebook and present their weekend activities to the other children.
- Math: The students learn to recognize numbers from 1 through 100. They also learn more addition and subtraction. They also learn relations such as more , less , and successor . They learn how to count by skipping. They also learn about shapes and basic geometry.
- Discpline: The four and five year olds work on manners and being respectful.
