Calvary Chapel Preschool is a Christ-centered early childhood school on the Calvary Chapel Schools campus in Santa Ana that serves children from age two through transitional kindergarten. It operates year-round (August–July, with summer optional) and integrates daily Bible instruction and weekly chapel with early academic and social-emotional learning.
Calvary Chapel Preschool is a Christ-centered early childhood program that is part of the Calvary Chapel Schools community. The program runs on an annual school calendar beginning in August and ending in July, with summer months offered as optional.
The program combines faith-based instruction with early academic skill-building and social-emotional learning. Each day includes Bible lessons and prayer time, weekly chapel, physical education, music, library, gardening, and age-appropriate instruction in phonics, writing, and foundational math. The curriculum emphasizes hands-on, sensory learning and structured routines to support early literacy, writing, and number sense.
The school is located on a multi-acre campus that includes a certified outdoor classroom called "Abba's Garden." Abba's Garden features an organic garden tended by children, sensory and nature-based activities, water play, opportunities for physical play such as trikes and wagons, and themed crafts and nature lessons taught outdoors.
Classes use defined student-to-teacher ratios (stated as 12:1 generally and 6:1 for two-year-old classes). The school reports meeting state standards and lists a state license number for the program.
A certified outdoor classroom where children plant and harvest an organic garden, do scientific experiments and crafts, engage in water and sensory play, ride trikes, and participate in nature-based lessons and imaginative play.
This program introduces letter sounds and number values along with the writing skills needed to prepare for transitional kindergarten through hands-on, engaging activities and fine-motor skill development.
These classrooms are warm, spacious, and developmentally appropriate for two and three year-olds. Teachers instruct using a developmental curriculum that focuses on social and developmental skills, self-regulation, and gently introduces letters, numbers, and printing through hands-on, engaging activities.
The transitional-kindergarten program is designed as an additional developmental year with an accelerated curriculum to enhance pre-reading skills, number value, writing skills, and classroom independence in preparation for kindergarten.
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