Preschool and Pre-K

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GELDS Standards and 3 Star Quality Rated Program

Our Preschool and Pre-K are part of the Quality Rated program, which serves as a public commitment to work continuously to improve the quality of care we provide to children and families. Independent, credentialed experts in early education assessed us and determined that our program follows best practices.

Follow the link to view the Georgia Early Learning and Developmental Standards that our teachers follow when creating their lesson plans!

GELDS Standards

Math

Pre-K Eureka Math

Thoughtfully constructed and designed like a story, Eureka Math is a coherent program, with an intense focus on key concepts that layer over time, creating enduring knowledge. Students gain a complete understanding of math concepts focusing on both the why and how using hands-on learning. They use the same models and problem-solving methods from grade to grade, so math concepts stay with them, year after year.

K-4 Eureka Math

Eureka Math is a rigorous and comprehensive program that is fully aligned with the Common Core State Standards. It was written by teachers to close learning gaps, promote critical thinking, and prepare students for advanced mathematics. Eureka also focuses on the "why" and not just the process for solving a problem. Students engage in a story of units that build upon each other and prepare our students to be thinkers and problem solvers.

Reading

K-4 Fountas & Pinnell Guided Reading

Guiding reading is a small-group instructional context in which a teacher supports each reader's development of systems of strategic actions for processing new texts at increasingly challenging levels of difficulty. During guided reading, students in a small-group setting individually read a text that the teacher has selected at their instructional reading level. Teachers provide teaching across the lesson to support students in building the internal networks of strategic actions for processing increasingly challenging texts. Through guided reading, students learn how to engage in every facet of the reading process and apply that literacy power to all instructional contexts.

Preschool and Pre-K Heggerty Phonemic Awareness

PreSchool Heggerty curriculum builds foundational listening and sound-isolation skills through systematic language play. It is designed for 3 and 4-year-olds. The curriculum features nursery rhymes and rhythmic routines to introduce the youngest learners to the sounds of language.

Pre-K Heggerty curriculum helps prepare students for kindergarten focusing on phoneme-level awareness and alphabet knowledge. This curriculum provides a structured, research-based pathway to help 4 and 5-year-olds strengthen the connection between hearing sounds and recognizing letters.

K-3 Heggerty

Heggerty Bridge to Reading combines phonemic awareness lessons with explicit phonics instruction, decodable texts, hands-on, multisensory learning aids, and an online learning library to provide teachers with the resources and knowledge they need to support students' word recognition abilities and letter formation.

Grammar/ELA

3-5 Rainbow Resource Grammar & Writing

Rainbow Resource provides a comprehensive introduction to grammar, usage, and mechanics. It includes incremental lessons, spiral teaching, and continual review Instruction involves daily teacher-student interaction coupled with independent student work. Lessons thoroughly cover types of sentences, parts of sentences, parts of speech and

include diagramming. Periodic lessons review spelling rules and provide comprehensive instruction in capitalization and punctuation. A "Grammar Meeting" is conducted as part of each lesson that is designed to strengthen listening skills, practice correct word usage, develop effective speaking habits, and introduce root-based vocabulary studies.