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Our Academics Programs

Cross T- FLEX ( Toddler – 2- year old program )

It’s never too early to let your child discover the wonders of numbers, letters, shapes and colors! Our Purple Cross Schoolers engage in wonderful activities in ranging from art, to music and movement, to dancing and singing as they start to explore their world.

Our Purple Cross Schoolers’ world will open through a multitude of experiences incorporating all of their five senses. This curriculum provides children with fun activities to help them learn more about themselves, their families and homes, and their bodies as they relate to seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, and touching.

Our Purple Cross Schoolers may be the babies of the center, but they’re toddlers who have a fun learning experience everyday.

Our T-Flex students will:

Learn through their senses which is their link from the world of unknown to the world of known.
Start learning phonics with the sounds of the alphabets.
Use specially designed manipulative tools of Montessori in Language Development and Mathematics.
Be able to learn reading the written language just as easily as learning the verbal language by using the program “ Your Baby Can Read “ by Dr. Robert Titzer, Ph.D

Cross PS- FLEX ( Pre- school 3-years old program )

Our Yellow Cross Schoolers are emerging into the world! They are starting to develop their skills and intellect, and their confidence is building as their bodies grow stronger and stronger!

The Yellow Cross Schoolers use the Beka Books Program which develops the early learning skills and experiences critical for children’s future success in school.

Through purposeful play as well as explicit instruction, we provide our most eager Yellow Cross Schoolers with a strong foundation in early literacy, language, math, and science skills while encouraging personal and social development.

Our PS-Flex students will:

Learn the higher level of Phonics with vowels and consonants, blending of sounds and eventually read simple words, phrases and sentences.
Write simple words which is integrated as they learn Phonics.
Count up to 100, do skip counting and learn simple addition and subtraction.
Have the confidence to perform on stage.
Develop a higher level of leadership.

Cross PK- FLEX ( Pre-Kinder 4-years old program )

Our Blue Cross Schoolers are able to master reading and writing simple words, simple math equations, and basic concepts in science and technology. The are also beginning to read books by themselves and to have more autonomy to do (and learn) what they want!

The Blue Cross Schoolers use the Houghton Mifflin PRE-K Program which is based on sound research and is aligned with key critical Pre-K learning goals, including those defined by the California Board of Education, Early Reading First, Head Start, the National Association for the Education of Young Children, the International Reading Association, the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, and several state frameworks. The program focuses on the following key areas:

LITERACY AND LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT ( Phonological Awareness, Comprehension, Oral Language and Vocabulary, Letter and Word Knowledge, Writing, Written Expression, Reading and Fluency )
MATH (Geometry and Spatial Sense, Patterns, Time Concepts, Measurement, Classification and Data Collection, Numbers and Operations and Problem Solving)
SCIENCE (Science Processes and Science Concepts )
SOCIAL STUDIES (Individual, Culture, Community and History )
SOCIAL/EMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT (Personal and Social Development )
FINE ARTS ( Art and Music )
PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT (Physical Movement/Gross Motor Skills and Fine Motor Skills )
HEALTH AND SAFETY
MEDIA AND TECHNOLOGY

The Houghton Mifflin PRE-K Program also utilizes The Early Growth Indicators Benchmark Assessment (EGIBA)which is a series of brief assessment activities designed to measure a selected set of preschool skills that are critical for later school success. The foundational skills the EGIBA evaluates—phonological awareness, letter knowledge, vocabulary, oral language skills, and number sense—have been shown to be strong predictors of academic success.

Our PK-Flex students will:

Become familiar with nursery rhymes and rhyming songs
Blend, segment, clap syllables
Produce oral rhymes
Make and confirm predictions
Recognize story structure: Plot
Recognize main idea
Use newly learned vocabulary on multiple occasions and in new contexts
Name and describe actual or pictured objects
Identify a wide variety of objects through receptive language
Make connections between oral language and print
Recognize own written name in a variety of contexts, capital and lowercase letters
Experiment daily with a variety of writing surface and materials
Recognize names, describes, compares, combines shapes and solids
Understand and describe position, direction, distance
Demonstrate an awareness of symmetry
Reproduce patterns of sound and physical movement
Use one-to-one correspondence to arrange and compare sets
Explore and solve a simple, orally presented problem
Recognize that everyone can do science and invent things
Describe how offspring are like their parents
Describe sequences and patterns found in nature
Recognize qualities, interests, skills, traditions, experiences that make people unique
Identify similarities and differences among people
Begin to understand family history and relationships
Identify ways people’s communities and everyday lives have changed
Identify self by categories (e.g., gender, age, family relationships)
Know own first and last name
Name family members and relationships
Help establish rules, routines
Use materials appropriately and puts them away
Connect actions and consequences
Share and cooperate with others
Initiate play situations
Learn how to make and keep friends
Create original work
Create more detailed, creative, or realistic artwork
Participate in classroom music activities
Build an understanding of directionality and position in space
Enjoy using electronic forms of storybooks and information texts

Cross K-Flex ( Kinder 5-6 years old program)

The Green Cross Schoolers have progressed to reading and writing sentences, doing advanced mathematical equations (and some word problems too!) and have a deeper grasp and appreciation of science. Green Cross Schoolers are ready for Grade School!

The Green Cross Schoolers use the Houghton Mifflin K Program, a comprehensive program that provides systematic instruction that helps our Green Cross Schoolers develop the habits and skills needed to become lifelong readers and writers.

The program focuses on the following key areas:

LITERACY AND LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT ( Phonological Awareness, Comprehension, Oral Language and Vocabulary, Letter and Word Knowledge, Writing, Written Expression, Reading and Fluency )
MATH (Geometry and Spatial Sense, Patterns, Time Concepts, Measurement, Classification and Data Collection, Numbers and Operations and Problem Solving)
SCIENCE (Science Processes and Science Concepts )
SOCIAL STUDIES (Individual, Culture, Community and History )
SOCIAL/EMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT (Personal and Social Development )
FINE ARTS ( Art and Music )
PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT (Physical Movement/Gross Motor Skills and Fine Motor Skills )
HEALTH AND SAFETY
MEDIA AND TECHNOLOGY

Our K-Flex students will:

Receive systematic, explicit instruction in concepts of print, phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary and comprehension;

Explore and read a wide variety of books and songs such as Big Books and Read Aloud, leveled fiction and nonfiction, rhymes and chants, and alphabet books;