Kindergarten (K5)
Overview
Kindergarten at Oasis Christian Academy provides an engaging, Christ-centered learning environment where students build the academic, spiritual, physical, and social foundations needed for a successful transition into elementary school.
Our K5 classrooms combine direct instruction, hands-on learning, small-group activities, independent practice, and meaningful interaction with teachers and classmates. Students are encouraged to become curious learners, develop increasing independence, build positive relationships, and discover the joy of learning.
Biblical truth is intentionally woven throughout the K5 experience as we seek to help students understand God's Word, explore His creation, and begin developing a Biblical worldview.
Bible
OCA utilizes Bob Jones University (BJU) Bible curriculum in Kindergarten. Through age-appropriate Bible instruction, students learn about God's creation, His love for them, the life of Jesus Christ, and significant people and events throughout the Old and New Testaments.
Students are encouraged to understand and apply Biblical principles such as obedience, kindness, honesty, forgiveness, responsibility, and love for God and others. Scripture memory, prayer, and Biblical integration throughout the school day reinforce these truths.
Phonics & Reading
K5 students develop foundational literacy skills through instruction aligned with the Science of Reading. Students build phonemic awareness, phonological awareness, phonics, decoding, vocabulary, fluency, and comprehension through explicit, systematic instruction.
Songs, poems, read-alouds, guided practice, small-group instruction, literacy centers, and independent practice give students multiple opportunities to build confidence and proficiency as beginning readers.
Mathematics
Kindergarten mathematics combines direct instruction with hands-on activities, manipulatives, guided practice, math centers, and individual support.
Students develop number sense and foundational mathematical thinking while learning concepts such as counting, number recognition, addition and subtraction, patterns, measurement, shapes, comparisons, and early place value.
Language Arts & Writing
Language arts instruction helps Kindergarten students develop the foundational skills necessary to communicate effectively through speaking and writing.
Students work on handwriting, letter formation, sentence development, capitalization, punctuation, listening skills, oral communication, and exposure to a variety of age-appropriate literary genres. As their phonics knowledge develops, students are encouraged to apply those skills to their own writing.
Science
Science encourages students to explore God's creation through observation, questioning, investigation, and hands-on learning.
Students explore age-appropriate concepts related to plants and animals, life cycles, matter, weather and seasons, Earth and space, the five senses, and other areas of the natural world.
Social Studies
Social studies helps students begin understanding their place within their families, school, community, country, and world.
Students explore families and communities, community helpers and leaders, holidays and traditions, geography, maps, citizenship, and different cultures while developing an understanding of how people live and work together.
By the End of K5, Students Will:
Bible
- Recognize God as the Creator of the universe and understand the Biblical sequence of Creation.
- Develop an age-appropriate understanding of sin, personal choices, and their consequences.
- Demonstrate an understanding of the life and ministry of Jesus Christ.
- Recognize and recount significant people and events from the Old and New Testaments.
- Memorize and recite selected Scripture passages, including Psalm 23, Psalm 100, and John 3:16–17.
- Memorize selected Scripture verses corresponding with the letters of the alphabet.
- Begin applying Biblical principles to their choices, relationships, and interactions with others.
Phonics & Reading
- Demonstrate an understanding of basic print concepts, including reading from left to right and top to bottom.
- Develop strong phonemic and phonological awareness skills.
- Recognize and apply consonant sounds, short and long vowel sounds, digraphs, blends, and common vowel combinations.
- Blend and segment sounds to read and spell age-appropriate words.
- Apply learned phonics patterns when decoding unfamiliar words.
- Recognize age-appropriate high-frequency words.
- Read increasingly complex Kindergarten-level text with developing accuracy and fluency.
- Retell important details and sequence events from stories.
- Identify rhyming words and other age-appropriate relationships between words.
- Demonstrate comprehension through discussion, questioning, and retelling.
Mathematics
- Recognize, represent, and write numbers from 0–100.
- Count to 100 by ones, fives, and tens.
- Count by twos to 20.
- Demonstrate an understanding of foundational place value concepts through 100.
- Understand and apply basic addition and subtraction concepts within 10.
- Use manipulatives, drawings, and other strategies to solve age-appropriate mathematical problems.
- Compare quantities and understand concepts such as more, less, greater than, and fewer.
- Explore and apply concepts involving length, weight, and measurement.
- Recognize, describe, and compare basic two- and three-dimensional shapes.
- Identify, create, and extend age-appropriate patterns.
- Explain mathematical thinking using appropriate vocabulary and strategies.
Language Arts & Writing
- Demonstrate appropriate handwriting habits, including posture and pencil grip.
- Correctly form uppercase and lowercase manuscript letters.
- Apply developing phonics skills when writing words and sentences.
- Write increasingly complete sentences to communicate ideas.
- Begin using capitalization and ending punctuation correctly.
- Recognize and begin using different sentence types.
- Organize and communicate ideas through age-appropriate writing activities.
- Speak clearly and appropriately when communicating with a group or audience.
- Participate appropriately in classroom conversations and discussions.
- Listen attentively to a designated speaker.
- Follow multi-step directions.
Science
- Observe, ask questions, and collect information about the natural world.
- Use age-appropriate scientific practices to explore and investigate God's creation.
- Recognize and describe life cycles and developmental stages of selected plants and animals.
- Identify basic needs and characteristics of living things.
- Observe and describe the properties of matter.
- Recognize weather patterns and understand basic relationships between weather and the environment.
- Identify and describe the seasons of the year.
- Develop an age-appropriate understanding of the relationship between Earth, the sun, day, and night.
- Identify and explain the purpose of the five senses.
- Communicate observations using words, pictures, and other age-appropriate methods.
Social Studies
- Identify their roles and responsibilities as members of a family, classroom, school, and community.
- Identify leaders and community helpers and describe their roles.
- Recognize important holidays, traditions, and historical events appropriate to the Kindergarten level.
- Read and interpret simple maps and identify basic geographic features.
- Develop an awareness of different cultures, traditions, and communities.
- Demonstrate an age-appropriate understanding of citizenship and responsibility.
- Recognize the importance of rules and explain why communities have them.
- Demonstrate respect for others and recognize that people may come from different backgrounds and experiences.