Elementary School

Grades K – 4

Your child is offered an outstanding educational experience that is both academically challenging, and developmentally appropriate. Student learning begins with a talented team of passionate educators, who create engaging and nurturing classrooms.

Elementary School

Welcome to the Elementary program at the Beulah Baptist Christian Schools. Our mission is to serve the Lord, collaborate with parents, and encourage students to develop their God-given gifts through academics, arts, and athletics. As a school, it is an honor to serve you in our learning community of children, parents, and educators.

Your child is offered an outstanding educational experience that is both academically challenging, and developmentally appropriate. Student learning begins with a talented team of passionate educators, who create engaging and nurturing classrooms. God’s word is infused into all subjects, as teachers help students to be discerning and grow in their faith. We encourage your child to be inquisitive, to think critically, and to become a self-motivated learner. Specialized instruction in ICT (Information & Communications Technology), art, music, library, computer-applications, and PE give depth and diversity to their educational experience.

Beyond the classroom, students participate in many enriching activities and programs including field trips, elected student leadership group, weekly and special Chapel events, ACSI academic competitions such as Spelling Bee, Speech Meet and Math Olympics.

 

Elementary Academics

Beulah Baptist Christian School provides a challenging academic program by utilizing excellent curriculum and strong instruction to guide student achievement at the Elementary level. Biblical principles are integrated into the instruction of all subjects ensuring a Christian perspective of education and learning. Students also attend weekly classes in art, music, computer, PE, and library to give depth and diversity to their educational experience.

Kindergarten: Students in the full-day Kindergarten program learn and develop socially, academically, emotionally and spiritually in a thematic, age-appropriate environment. In language arts, students are taught the foundation of PHONICS as they begin to read, spell, and write. Students will be taught the mechanics of sentence structure and will apply those skills to journaling. For MATH CONCEPTS, students learn all state standards including sorting, patterning, counting, addition and subtraction, time, money and measurement. SOCIAL STUDIES includes reading a map and graph, Christmas around the world, and community helpers. SCIENCE includes the life cycle of the chicken and butterfly, states of matter, Lego engineering, habitats, weather, seasons and parts of the animal. In Bible, students learn about topics and characters including creation, the life of Christ, prayer, missions, Noah, Abraham, Joseph, Moses, Joshua and Jonah.

Curriculum: Sadlier- Oxford

  •    Technology: Google Suite
  •    Course supplements: IXL and Generation Genius

 

First Grade: First grade continues to build a strong academic foundation for successful development of the students. The LANGUAGE ARTS curriculum builds on phonological awareness, phonics, oral reading and comprehension, spelling, vocabulary, and writing. For BIBLE, students continue to learn God’s word with Bible stories about Moses, Peter, Paul, God’s promises and care, also including Bible verse memorization and daily prayer. In MATH, students build knowledge in the areas of number sense, algebra, measurement and geometry, probability and problem solving with plenty of hands-on manipulatives to shape understanding. Important themes in SOCIAL STUDIES include God’s World, maps, oceans and continents, family, community, states and our country, Native Americans and Pilgrims, and cultures today and long ago. In science, students see God’s world through observation and hands-on learning of topics including motion and forces, weather, seasons, solids, liquids, gases, plants and animals.

Second Grade: Second grade students grow and develop skills that are necessary for academic and spiritual maturity. During BIBLE lessons, students study themes including God is King, obedience, humility, serving, forgiveness, giving and thankfulness. The enriching LANGUAGE ARTS program continues to emphasize phonics and comprehension skills through enjoyable children’s literature, and building strong skills in grammar and spelling to strengthen writing skills. CURSIVE HANDWRITING is introduced and practiced, while students master good printing skills. MATH lessons continue to build on key skills in number sense, and students are introduced to multiplication and division. In SOCIAL STUDIES the students learn about their community and their involvement in the world around them. They study the makeup of their country, its government and leaders, citizenship, and laws. They study the economy
from the perspective of Producing and Consuming Goods and Service Workers. They learn to read Maps, Study Various Cultures, and use of technology. They also study America’s First Settlers and Prominent American Heroes. In SCIENCE, students are exposed to many hands-on experiments and activities where they learn about plant life and the God’s living world, along with health and physical science. In Science, the students study Matter with an exciting Hot Air Balloon experiment to apply the physical science they learn!

Third Grade: Third graders come ready to build on their solid academic skills and begin to apply the added responsibility of managing student agendas and homework. In LANGUAGE ARTS, students continue to build on grammar and SPELLING skills, along with critical thinking skills in reading and writing. In Bible, students will study many important themes including sin and salvation, purity, why Jesus came, and choosing friends, along with growing spiritually through prayer and BIBLE verse memorization. The MATH program builds on regrouping, multiplication and division facts to 12, fractions geometry and problem-solving. In SCIENCE, students will learn about the classification of animals and study weather and climate. They will practice the scientific method with experiments and hands-on activities that focus on engineering, physical laws of motion, and matter. In SOCIAL STUDIES, students will learn about the settlement of our great country, the formation of communities and our governments, conduct an in-depth state research project, and discuss the value of citizenship.

Fourth Grade: This transitional year encourages students to have a greater independence and responsibility for their academic success. BIBLE truths are integrated into the instruction of all subjects, and students continue to build Bible knowledge with themes including attributes of God, faithfulness, and contentment. Students expand their LANGUAGE ARTS skills in grammar, SPELLING, and WRITING. In READING, students develop higher level reading skills with high-interest stories both fiction and non-fiction. The scientific process is practiced throughout the SCIENCE program covering Eco-systems, electricity, forces, light, rock & minerals and erosion. In Grade 4 MATH, the focus is on three critical areas: (1) developing understanding and fluency with multi-digit multiplication, and developing understanding of dividing to find quotients involving multi-digit dividends; (2) developing an understanding of fraction equivalence, addition, and subtraction of fractions with like denominators, and multiplication of fractions by whole numbers; (3) understanding that geometric figures can be analyzed and classified based on their properties, such as having parallel sides, perpendicular sides, particular angle measures, and symmetry.

Curriculum: Scotts Foresman, Houghton Mifflin, McMillian/McGraw-Hill, A-Beka, Pearson, Purposeful Design

  •     Typing Agent Course: Keyboarding
  •     Mobymax: Course supplement
  •     A Reason for Handwriting: Penmanship

 

 

Elementary Activities

  •             ACSI MATH OLYMPICS
  •             ACSI SPEECH MEET
  •             ACSI SPELLING BEE
  •             BIBLE BOWL
  •             BOOK FAIRS
  •             FINANCIAL WORKSHOPS
  •             FIRE-SAFETY WORKSHOPS
  •             HEALTH AND FITNESS WORKSHOPS

Beulah Baptist Christian Elementary School participates in Book Fairs and fundraisers. Information will be posted for dates

ELEMENTARY PERFORMANCES

Beulah Baptist Christian Elementary and Middle School presents special Chapel Services for special times like Christmas and Black History Month. More information will follow at a later date.