CURRICULUM

Busy Bees has a complete academic program for nursery through grade K5. We offer school lesson plans, charts and games to add structure and interest to the learning process. Curriculum/lesson plans help us make the best use of our valuable teaching time by giving complete day-by-day lessons for the entire year. These plans are correlated with textbooks (purchased separately thru A Beka) and are designed to help us in organizing our teaching program. A Beka Book materials work together to give a thorough, enjoyable, and highly teachable phonics approach to reading. Instruction is presented in six easy steps: short vowels, consonants, blends, one-vowel words, long vowels and the two-vowel rule, and special phonics sounds.

 

 

 

 

 

Nursery

Language

Arts

Two-Year-Olds

Language development and listening skills that include color words, shapes, animals,

transportation, countries, community helpers, health, safety, manners, science

Three-Year-Olds

Recognition of name, sound, and picture for short vowels and consonants

Formation of vowels and consonants in upper and lower case

Language development and listening skills that include color words, shapes, animals,

transportation, countries, community helpers,health, safety, manners, science

Numbers Simple counting 1–30

Number concepts 1–15

 

K4 Four-Year-Old Kindergarten

Language

Arts

Phonics and Reading

 

Recognition of name, sound, and picture of long and short vowels and consonants

Sounding of blends and one- and two-vowel words

Reading of sentences and stories with one- and two-vowel words

 

Cursive Writing

Formation of letters, blends, and words

Writing of first name

Poetry

Twenty-eight poems and finger plays committed to memory

Language

Language development and listening skills that include color words, shapes, animals,

transportation, countries, community helpers, health, safety, manners, science

 

Numbers Number recognition and counting 1–100

Numbers largest and smallest 1–20

 

 

 

K5 Five-Year-Old Kindergarten

Language Arts

Phonics and Reading

Recognition of name, sound, and picture of long and short vowels and consonants

Sounding of blends, one- and two-vowel words, and words with special sounds

Beginning phonics rules and special sounds

Reading of sentences and stories from twelve books containing one- and two-vowel words and special sounds

Cursive Writing

Letters, blends, words, and sentences

Science

Plants

Animals

Health and Human Biology

Earth and Space

Arithmetic

Number recognition, counting, and writing 1–100

Numbers largest and smallest 1–100

Counting and writing by twos, fives and tens to 100

Value of coins and dollar bill

Telling time

Using the calendar

Days of the week

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Social Studies

Community Helpers

Children of the World