Cornerstone Academy

• Daily Devotional - The Children's Bible 
• Pledges to the Christian flag, Bible and American flag
• Scripture memory with each unit of study 
• Simple prayers like a blessing for food and prayer requests
• Character First! monthly memory verse
• Growing Up Where Jesus Lived

• Various classical children's books to build learning-readiness skills 
• Recognize and write upper and lower case letters 
• Beginning Sounds
• Rhyming words
• Student dictated booklets
• Hands on activities to promote phonemic awareness
• Recognize and write first and last name in upper nad lower case
• Possitional words (i.e., over, under, in, out, etc.)
• Distinguish right and left hand
• Book Buddies with 3rd Grade 

• Unit on Creation
• Awareness Unit on firefighters and other community helpers including doctors and nurses
• Unit on Going to School and Friends
• Unit on All About Me including feelings, senses, homes and families 
• Unit on Farms
• Units on transportation in the air and on the water and land
• Unit on the Nativity
• Unit on Manners
• Unit on Safety
• Unit on Pilgrims and Indians
• Unit on Space
• Unit on Sea Life
• Field trips to grocery store, fire station, gymnastics gym for physical fitness day, natural history museum, ballet, zoo, farm
• Classroom visitors for career week and community helpers
• Ongoing lessons on the days of the week, seasons, calendar and holidays
• Name parts of the body 

Recognize and write numbers 1-20, count 1-20, hands on activities to introduce to adding and subtracting, patterns, sorting, one to one correspondence, identifying, recognizing and counting money, graphing, colors, shapes, telling time; cutting with scissors.

• Experiments
• Fire Safety
• Sink and Float
• Nature studies - plants and animals
• Parts of the body
• Good Health - food groups, healthy eating habits
• Dental Care
• Unit on Pond Life
• Unit on Seasons
• Unit on Weather
• Unit on Insects and Spiders

Fundamentals of music; scales; rhythm; general songs, Bible songs and patriotic songs; orchestra instruments and music appreciation; songs and fingerplays to teach basic skills; movement songs and games.

Various holiday crafts and parties will be developed by the teacher with a variety of materials

Daily art projects

The students in K4 through 4th grade learn about the lives and art of individual artists. This is accomplished by reading children’s biographies of the artists, reviewing representative art and lively discussion. The information is then reinforced by use of fun jingles and games. The study an artist is followed by an art project in which the student creates an artwork in the style of the artist. Other information on elements of art are taught as applicable to the art project.

The student's artwork is displayed at the end of the year at the Living History Festival. The students also each receive a portfolio at the completion of the year which includes their artwork, photos of “artists in action,” and a biography page for each artist studied.

Additional art projects include:Greeting card fundraiser – individual student’s art is reproduced on greeting cards and sold to raise funds for the fine arts program. Christmas cards are designed by the students and printed. Artwork is created to be auctioned at the Cornerstone Academy Benefit Auction. Some of the artists study include: Michelangelo, Leonardo di Vinci, Raphael, Vincent Van Gogh, Seuvat, Georgia O’Keefe, Jackson Pollock, Henri Rousseau, and Kandinsky.

• Fall Festival - Thanksgiving Celebration
• Living History Festival
• Christmas Program
• Quarterly Assemblies - character awards given
• End of the Year Awards and Graduation Program
• Community Service - create baskets for Women's Resource Center
• Show and Tell - two share bags sent home daily 
• Cooking - monthly projects related to units
• Senior Cougar Pal