John Curtis Christian School

Tiny 2s (ages 15 months and up)

  • Promote social-emotional skills
  • Promote the development of language skills, math problem solving, and science skills
  • Promote fine and gross motor skills
  • Rhythm and music development


Pre-K 2 &3

  • Development of socio-emotional skills required for interacting positively with peers and adults
  • Development of language skills by providing the various activities and daily routines that facilitate 
  • Development of verbal skills
  • Development of fine and gross motor skills by providing opportunities through a variety of activities


Pre- K 4

  • Learn socialization skills by playing together and sharing
  • Learn to follow 1 and 2 step directions
  • Training in primary mental abilities, verbal meaning, spatial thinking, word fluency, memory motor coordination, and perception
  • Learn responsibility for themselves
  • Gain a positive self image through positive reinforcement
  • Gain problem solving skills, work with math manipulatives, learn positional terms, colors, and shapes
  • Gain phonics skills, left to right orientation, letter names, and letter sounds


Kindergarten

  • Learn to recognize letter-sound relationships, identify and generate rhyming words, recognize grade-appropriate sight words, use phonetic decoding strategies, express ideas in writing using emergent spelling and known sight words, and identify story elements
  • Learn to listen effectively and respond appropriately to questions
  • Establish purposes for reading, make predictions, connect important ideas, and link text to previous experiences and knowledge
  • Complete and extend patterns, recognize numbers 0-100, Count by 2’s, 5’s, and 10’s to 100, solve addition and subtraction problems, recognize money, tell time on the hour, and simple place value
  • Learn about living and nonliving things, 5 senses, clouds, life cycles, phases of the moon, sun, internal and external body parts, and how things move
  • Learn about our country, symbols for our country, presidents, maps, leaders, facts about our state and rules

Grades 1st - 6th

Language Arts includes Literature, Writing, Grammar (usage and mechanics), Phonics, Spelling and Vocabulary.  Students will learn to read critically, interpretively, and literally. Students are also required to read novels in addition to the textbook curriculum.

Students will move from concrete to abstract thinking.  Instruction is focused on developing higher order thinking, problem solving, real world applications and technology.

Both the physical and natural sciences are offered. Students will learn by the examination of materials and experiments in the lab.  Hands on activities, problem solving activities, and math skills activities are used to increase student scientific knowledge.   

Students are provided with a comprehensive look into history, geography, and government. Students are exposed to timelines, maps, graphs, and charts which allow for analytical thinking.  


Student computers are used to supplement the curriculum and are equipped with internet filters. Students are taught how to use technology safely and effectively. Each student in grades 1-6 is issued their own Chromebook. Students in grades 1-4 use their Chromebooks at school only. Students in grades 5-6 use their Chromebooks at both home and school on a daily basis. Students in grades pre-K through 2nd grade have weekly library/computer skills classes.

Students are exposed to art, music, and drama as we recognize the importance of the arts in young students.  The fine arts department provides a variety of programs that will enhance the student’s formal education. Students have daily physical education classes. Students in grades pre-K through 2nd grade have weekly library/computer skills classes.

JCCS uses textbooks from major national publishers including McGraw Hill, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, and Pearson/Savvas with both print textbooks and digital resources available to students. All teachers post assignments and grades on our web based portal. Teachers also use Google Classroom and Seesaw to communicate with parents and students. It is the responsibility of the parent and student to check these online platforms on a regular basis.

1st-6th Grade Required Reading List

Students will read these books during the school year under the supervision of their Reading teacher. The school provides 1st-4th grade students with a copy of each book. 5th-6th grade students must purchase their own books or borrow a copy of the book from the school or public library.

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