The abeka® curriculum offers many benefits:

• It’s structured on a Christian foundation.
• It’s broad and will help your child build skills in a variety of subjects, from art to engineering.
• It’s exciting and keeps children engaged and entertained using a variety of activities including coloring, singing, poetry, puppetry, and more!
• It’s proven through research to be effective for children with all different learning styles and abilities.

Within the abeka® curriculum, there are three main focuses of learning:

• Intellectual: The abeka® curriculum approaches learning from a practical, traditional approach and helps students develop on an intellectual level.
• Moral: This curriculum will instill good character, teach students to display integrity and discern right from wrong, and provide them with a strong moral foundation.
• Spiritual: St. John Lutheran School believes that spiritual growth comes by loving God with all one’s heart, soul, and mind and loving one’s neighbor as oneself. The abeka® curriculum reflects this core teaching of Christianity by incorporating scripture with modern examples of application.

Learn more about the abeka® curriculum HERE.

We supplement our classroom curriculum with:

How often do people divide by age group in the real world? Not too often! Mixed-age classrooms better prepare children for the “real world,” in which they’ll interact with other people of a range of ages, experiences, and abilities.

Benefits of mixed grade classrooms include:

• Increased social and emotional understanding
• Collaborative and independent learning with greater ease
• Positive peer interactions
• Development of social, emotional, and verbal skills and self-esteem
• Learning at their own pace
• Improved student attitudes toward school and school work
• Improved academic outcomes