We are delighted that you have chosen Bay Area Christian School for your child’s educational training. We look forward to partnering with your home to provide a quality, Christ-centered classroom environment, in which your child will be nurtured for academic and spiritual growth. Our elementary faculty has provided the following readiness areas, which we hope will be beneficial for children preparing to enter our school for the first time. Bob Jones University Press materials are used in grades K-6. It is an excellent academic curriculum having Christian principles and values taught throughout all subjects.
Kinder
BJU Press Curriculum: rigorous academic materials that stimulate/encourage critical thinking, paired with technology, with a biblical worldview lens incorporated into each subject.
The kindergarten curriculum develops foundational knowledge and skills in Bible, math, history, science, handwriting, and language arts for future grades. This program, develops the joy of learning through both teacher-guided and independent discovery-based activities.
Specials: Art, Music, P.E., and Library
Field Trips: Christmas Tree Farm, Nutcracker performance, and movie theater
Numerous events and celebrations for families to build community and friendships with one another
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1st Grade
Bible: Biblical worldview and prayer integrated throughout subjects, classes, and weekly chapel worship. Students memorize monthly scriptures as part of their required Bible class.
English Language Arts: Pumpkin storybook project. Reading buddies with older students.
Science: Butterfly hatching and hands-on science activities
Math: 100th day of school activities
Special Events: Star of the week, 100th day activities, and games to reinforce academic concepts
Specials: Art, Music, P.E., and Library
Field Trips: NASA Space Center and Joy the Dog
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2nd Grade
Bible: Biblical worldview and prayer integrated throughout subjects, classes, and weekly chapel worship. Students memorize monthly scriptures as part of Bible class.
Science: Animal diorama with report
Math: Multiplication and division facts to 5. Subtraction with regrouping to the thousands place
Language Arts: Reading and comprehension, cursive handwriting, letter, and creative journal writing
History: State research project and written report
Specials: Art, Music, P.E., Library, Spanish
Field Trips: Children’s Museum and Main Street Theater
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3rd Grade
Bible: Biblical worldview and prayer integrated throughout subjects, classes, and weekly chapel worship. Students memorize monthly scriptures as part of Bible class.
English Language Arts: Cursive handwriting, chapter books, and applying the writing process for multiple genres of writing
Science: Animal research project
Math: Multiplication, division tables (0- 12) and long division
History: Early American history emphasis
Specials: Art, Music, P.E., Library, Spanish
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4th Grade
Fourth grade begins a rotational class schedule for specialized content instruction.
Bible: Biblical worldview and prayer integrated throughout subjects, classes, and weekly chapel worship. Students memorize monthly scriptures as part of Bible class.
Science: Collaborative animal research project, marine mobiles, dry ice experiment, and stem rotations
Math: Polygon art and STEAM activities
Language Arts: Lap books, novel unit studies, and various writing styles developed
History: Texas history, interactive notebooks, family heritage study, and Frontier Day
Specials: Art, Music, P.E., Library and Spanish
Field Trips: George Ranch, movie theater
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5th Grade
Rotational class schedule for specialized content instruction. Hands-on, simulations, and project-based learning
Bible: Biblical worldview and prayer integrated throughout subjects, classes, and weekly chapel worship. Students memorize monthly scriptures as part of Bible class.
Cross-curricular events: Living History Museum and “glow days”
Science: Classroom pets, science fair project, dissecting owl pellets
Math: Geometry blueprints and gingerbread house, fractions with ice cream and budgeting
Specials: Band, orchestra or art/music/Spanish, and P.E. every day
Service: Create and donate blankets for foster kids at Christmas
Field trips: NASA Longhorn Project and dinosaur wash
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6th Grade
Hallway lockers. Rotational class schedule for specialized content instruction. Hands-on, simulations and cross-curricular project based learning.
Bible: Biblical worldview and prayer and worship integrated throughout subjects, classes, and weekly chapel. Students memorize monthly scriptures with application lessons as part of Bible class
Science: Cell, volcano, brain, DNA extraction, animal classification and space objects projects
Math: Proportional reasoning, percent, finance, Christmas village and tessellation geometry projects
Language Arts: Turkey story, historical, missionary research, and Wonder yearbook projects
History: Mosaics and create own country projects
Specials: Band, orchestra or art/music/Spanish, P.E. every day
Sports offered: Football, baseball, basketball, cross country, softball, swimming, and volleyball
Field Trips: Zoo, Go Texan Day, and signature overnight trip to Camp Olympia
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