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Kindergarten Courses (Book-Based Program using the BJU Press Curriculum)

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Kindergarten* Bible (BJU Press)

Overview

Summary
Children learn Bible truths through stories of God’s power, love, salvation, and faithful leaders.
Description

Students learn foundational Bible truths by exploring God’s power, love, salvation, and care throughout Scripture. They study creation, worship, sin and the Fall, God’s promises to Abraham, and the lives of Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, Moses, Joshua, David, and the prophets. Lessons highlight God’s sovereignty, omnipotence, faithfulness, and the importance of obedience, trust, wisdom, and thankfulness. Students learn key stories from Jesus’ life—His miracles, teachings, death, and resurrection—and discover how the disciples served God and spread the gospel. Memory verses reinforce doctrine, while character traits such as love, courage, forgiveness, diligence, and contentment guide students to apply biblical truth in daily life.

Topics Discussed
  • God’s power, creation, and His purpose for people
  • Sin, salvation, and God’s forgiveness
  • Abraham, Joseph, Moses, Joshua, and David as examples of faith
  • God’s protection, guidance, and promises
  • Jesus’ life, miracles, teachings, death, and resurrection
  • Following Jesus with trust, obedience, and love
  • The disciples’ work and the early church
  • Prayer and talking to God anytime
  • Missionary stories of Paul’s travels and trials
  • Applying Bible truths and Christlike character in daily life
Course Type 

Core Course: Bible


Student Availability

Grade Level Availability
Kindergarten/K5 (age 5 by Sept 1)
Extended Grade Level Availability

Not Applicable

Programs
Platforms


Additional Information

Required Course

Yes

Course Length

One Year

Available in HonorsNo
Available to Part-Time StudentsNo
Available as Credit RecoveryNo
PrerequisitesNot Applicable
Alternative Course Available Per Counselor ApprovalNot Applicable
Fee AmountNo fees beyond the standard enrollment, tuition, and book prices


Supplementary Materials

Not Applicable

Project Forecast

Not Applicable





Kindergarten* Language Arts (BJU Press)

Overview

Summary
Students learn letters, sounds, words, reading, writing, spelling, stories, and comprehension.
Description

Students develop early literacy through handwriting, phonics, reading, listening, and storytelling. They learn correct pencil grip, left-to-right tracking, letter formation, uppercase and lowercase letters, and consistent spacing. Phonics instruction includes letter-sound associations, blends, digraphs, silent e patterns, long and short vowels, vowel teams, r-controlled vowels, and common phonograms. Students read high-frequency words, simple sentences, compound words, nursery rhymes, informational texts, and stories. They identify characters, settings, main topics, and story order while making predictions, inferences, and conclusions. Writing activities include dictating, composing phrases and sentences, and creative writing. Students also practice rhyming, sequencing, expressing opinions, interpreting pictures, understanding punctuation, and reading with proper inflection.

Topics Discussed
  • Learn correct pencil grip, letter formation, spacing, and handwriting skills
  • Master uppercase/lowercase letters and letter-sound associations
  • Read short-vowel words, long-vowel words, blends, digraphs, and vowel teams
  • Build phonics skills through phonograms, r-controlled vowels, and silent-e patterns
  • Develop high-frequency word recognition and decode simple sentences
  • Identify characters, settings, main ideas, and sequence story events
  • Practice predicting, inferring, drawing conclusions, and interpreting pictures
  • Write words, phrases, and sentences; participate in creative and opinion writing
  • Demonstrate comprehension through retelling, oral reading, and proper inflection
  • Explore nursery rhymes, fiction vs. nonfiction, and storytelling elements
Course Type 

Core Course: English


Student Availability

Grade Level Availability
Kindergarten/K5 (age 5 by Sept 1)
Extended Grade Level Availability

Not Applicable

Programs
Platforms


Additional Information

Required Course

Yes

Course Length

One Year

Available in HonorsNo
Available to Part-Time StudentsNo
Available as Credit RecoveryNo
PrerequisitesNot Applicable
Alternative Course Available Per Counselor ApprovalNot Applicable
Fee AmountNo fees beyond the standard enrollment, tuition, and book prices


Supplementary Materials

Not Applicable

Project Forecast

Not Applicable





Kindergarten* Social Studies (BJU Press)

Overview

Summary
Kindergarteners learn about community, history, God’s Word, nature, and responsible citizenship.
Description

In Kindergarten Social Studies, students explore how families, communities, and helpers work together and why rules, laws, and authority figures keep us safe. They learn about mail, libraries, computers, farms, zoos, mountains, and national landmarks while discovering how God created and cares for the world. Children study the Bible, its structure, and its big story of Creation, Fall, and Redemption. They compare life today with life in Bible times, among Native Americans, on farms, and during early American exploration, including the voyages of Christopher Columbus. Students learn about folk music, gold mining, and American symbols such as the flag, White House, and the Pledge of Allegiance. They explore maps, landforms, seasons, animals, and habitats, and participate in hands-on activities such as panning for gold, making a tepee model, creating frost, and writing simple sentences. Throughout the year, they grow in responsibility, citizenship, cultural awareness, and appreciation of God’s world.

Topics Discussed
  • Learn rules, responsibilities, and how community helpers keep people safe.
  • Explore the postal system, libraries, computers, and ways people communicate.
  • Study the Bible, its parts, its message, and why reading Scripture matters.
  • Compare life today with Bible times, Native American life, and early American history.
  • Discover animals, farms, zoos, habitats, and God’s creation design.
  • Explore landforms such as mountains, canyons, islands, glaciers, and national parks.
  • Learn about American symbols, the flag, the White House, and responsible citizenship.
  • Practice cultural awareness through music, celebrations, and simple Spanish.
  • Participate in hands-on activities: panning for gold, making models, writing sentences.
  • Build map skills, sequence events, and observe seasonal changes and daily life.
Course Type 

Core Course: History


Student Availability

Grade Level Availability
Kindergarten/K5 (age 5 by Sept 1)
Extended Grade Level Availability

Not Applicable

Programs
Platforms


Additional Information

Required Course

Yes

Course Length

One Year

Available in HonorsNo
Available to Part-Time StudentsNo
Available as Credit RecoveryNo
PrerequisitesNot Applicable
Alternative Course Available Per Counselor ApprovalNot Applicable
Fee AmountNo fees beyond the standard enrollment, tuition, and book prices


Supplementary Materials

Not Applicable

Project Forecast

Not Applicable





Kindergarten* Math (BJU Press)

Overview

Summary
Kindergarteners learn numbers, shapes, measurement, time, money, patterns, addition, subtraction.
Description

Students build early math foundations by exploring shapes, patterns, and numbers. They identify, trace, and compare circles, squares, rectangles, and triangles, and later recognize solid figures such as spheres, cubes, cones, cylinders, and rectangular prisms. Students count, read, and write numbers from 0–100, make and compare sets, use one-to-one correspondence, and understand zero, “one more/one less,” and basic place value with tens, ones, and one hundred. They read tally marks, dot patterns, bar graphs, and pictographs to show information. Students measure length, height, weight, capacity, and temperature using nonstandard units and tools like rulers, scales, cups, thermometers, and liters. They tell and write time to the hour on analog and digital clocks and use calendars to name days, months, seasons, and order events. With real objects and pictures, students join and separate sets to model addition and subtraction, learn plus, minus, and equals, and solve simple word problems. They also explore coins and their values, simple fractions such as halves, thirds, and fourths, patterns, symmetry, and basic probability.

Topics Discussed
  • Recognize, trace, and compare basic 2D shapes and simple 3D solids.
  • Count, read, and write numbers 0–100; make and compare sets of objects.
  • Understand zero, one-to-one matching, and “one more/one less.”
  • Begin place value with tens, ones, and the idea of one hundred.
  • Read and create pictographs and bar graphs; use tallies and dot patterns.
  • Measure length, height, weight, capacity, and temperature with informal and standard tools.
  • Tell and write time to the hour; use calendars for days, months, seasons, and sequencing.
  • Model addition and subtraction by joining and separating sets; use +, −, and = in simple equations.
  • Identify and count pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters to solve basic money problems.
  • Explore halves, thirds, fourths, patterns, symmetry, and simple probability through hands-on activities.
Course Type 

Core Course: Math


Student Availability

Grade Level Availability
Kindergarten/K5 (age 5 by Sept 1)
Extended Grade Level Availability

Not Applicable

Programs
Platforms


Additional Information

Required Course

Yes

Course Length

One Year

Available in HonorsNo
Available to Part-Time StudentsNo
Available as Credit RecoveryNo
PrerequisitesNot Applicable
Alternative Course Available Per Counselor ApprovalNot Applicable
Fee AmountNo fees beyond the standard enrollment, tuition, and book prices


Supplementary Materials

Not Applicable

Project Forecast

Not Applicable





Kindergarten* Science (BJU Press)

Overview

Summary
Students explore senses, animals, habitats, weather, seasons, plants, water, and God’s creation.
Description

Students explore God’s creation through hands-on investigations of senses, animals, plants, weather, and Earth’s features. They predict, classify, compare, and observe while experimenting with color mixing, magnets, textures, sinking and floating, and changes caused by water. Health and safety lessons include teeth, hygiene, nutrition, and staying well. Students study animals—lions, ants, ladybugs, elephants, frogs, ocean creatures—and learn about habitats, camouflage, adaptations, and life cycles of butterflies and frogs. Earth science topics include rivers, lakes, oceans, volcanoes, caverns, day and night, and the water cycle. Students observe seasonal changes, weather patterns, storms, and Benjamin Franklin’s lightning discovery. They learn how animals survive winter, how plants grow from seeds, and how desert plants and animals adapt to extreme conditions.

Topics Discussed
  • Explore senses, textures, fingerprints, sound, color mixing, and magnetic attraction.
  • Learn healthy habits: teeth care, nutrition, hygiene, handwashing, and staying well.
  • Predict, sort, classify, compare, and observe changes in simple experiments.
  • Study animals: lions, ants, elephants, frogs, insects, ocean animals, and their habitats.
  • Learn life cycles of butterflies, frogs, and plants.
  • Understand camouflage, adaptation, hibernation, migration, and animal families.
  • Investigate water: sinking/floating, rivers, lakes, oceans, seashells, and water creatures.
  • Explore Earth science—volcanoes, caverns, day/night, weather, and seasons.
  • Observe weather patterns, storms, lightning, and create weather forecasts.
  • Discover desert plants and animals and how God designed them to survive.
Course Type 

Core Course: Science


Student Availability

Grade Level Availability
Kindergarten/K5 (age 5 by Sept 1)
Extended Grade Level Availability

Not Applicable

Programs
Platforms


Additional Information

Required Course

Yes

Course Length

One Year

Available in HonorsNo
Available to Part-Time StudentsNo
Available as Credit RecoveryNo
PrerequisitesNot Applicable
Alternative Course Available Per Counselor ApprovalNot Applicable
Fee AmountNo fees beyond the standard enrollment, tuition, and book prices


Supplementary Materials

Not Applicable

Project Forecast

Not Applicable





Primary School Electives

Overview

Course Type

Electives: See full list


*Kindergarten/K5: age 5 by Sept 1

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