Here's a peek at the building blocks of our PreK program--the Every Child Ready thematic curriculum.  

Construction fun in Hodgesville PreK--our young builders hard at work with foundation blocks.

Upshur County's exclusive builders of early learning in PreK classrooms are Upshur County Schools, MountainCAP, and the Child Development Center.  Together, these partners operate WV Department of Education Universal PreK Classrooms in the following locations: 

Buckhannon Academy Elementary

Child Development Center

French Creek Elementary

Hodgesville Elementary

MountainCAP

Union Elementary

Washington District Elementary

Each four-week unit includes:

Essential questions

High-quality, diverse children's literature

Core vocabulary

Weekly Lesson Grids

Lessons for each component of the day

👫🍽️ Family-style meals 

🗣️ Morning Meeting

🔤 Super Sounds

🧩 🎨 🧱 Centers ✂️ 🧸 🛠️

🧒🏽🧒🏻🧒🏿 Small Groups

📚 Read Aloud

📝 Journaling

🏃 Gross Motor/Outdoor Play

Mrs. McNeish and her BAES 2 crew kicking off the day with Morning Meeting and Super Sound 'Bb'."

🗣️ Morning Meeting and Super Sounds 🔤

Morning Meeting helps build a strong classroom community and supports social-emotional awareness while also constructing early literacy foundations through alphabet knowledge and phonological awareness.  Super Sounds, a daily part of the Every Child Ready Morning Meeting, is engineered using the Science of Reading to ensure children develop strong, research based reading skills.

Center time = play, creativity, and lots of learning for our French Creek PreK students.  

🧩 🎨 🧱 Centers ✂️ 🧸 🛠️

Rich play experiences are essential to children's development.  Studies have shown that high-quality play interactions promote higher prosocial, language, and math skills in children.  Children spend much of their day engaged in intentional play during Free Choice Centers.  Every Child Ready Center activities provide opportunities for children to apply thematic concepts learned in daily components through hands-on learning.  Teachers foster playful learning interactions with children through facilitation and play support prompts.  

PreK students at MountainCap building friendships.  

🧒🏽🧒🏻🧒🏿 Standards-Based Flexible Small Groups

Every Child Ready's Flexible Small Group Program aligns with essential learning standards, providing teachers with targeted lessons in math, language and literacy, and social emotional learning.  By leveraging teacher-collected data, children are strategically grouped based on their unique needs and abilities.  With differentiated lessons and embedded checks for understanding, the program ensures personalized instruction that truly meets the diverse need of every child.  

Mrs. Johnston leading PreK students at French Creek Elementary into story time magic. 

📚 Read Aloud

Read Aloud is the heart of the Every Child Ready thematic curriculum.  Each Read Aloud emphasizes teacher-children interactions to support language development, critical thinking, and problem solving.  Teachers read thematic books multiple times to build children's content knowledge and understanding of different lesson objectives.  

Building early literacy one journal page at a time at the Child Development Center. 

📝 Journaling

Journaling motivates children to express their ideas through writing and drawing.  Teachers encourage children to generate and build upon their unique ideas through back-and-forth exchanges and conversations.  

Strong foundations start here!  CDC students hard at work strengthening their skills during outdoor play.  

🏃Outdoor and Gross Motor Play

The Gross Motor component nurtures children's physical, cognitive, and social development and invites them to explore the outdoor environment with curiosity, growing confidence, and a spirit of discovery.

Your partnership helps your child thrive from day one.  Every Child Ready also provides simple, ready-to-use activities that families can start today--no special training required.  You can also sign up for a free newsletter!

Administrative Supervisor | National Board Certified Teacher (Early Childhood) | M.Ed. | PreK Special Needs Birth-K | Multi-Subject K-8 | Multi-categorical Special Education K-Adult | Autism K-AD  

"The Every Child Ready Curriculum includes all domains of learning for a fully integrated and play-based experience for children.  Approaches to Learning, the Creative Arts, Language and Literacy, Mathematics, Physical Development, Science, Social Emotional Learning and Social Studies are all incorporated into the classrooms, which helps us build brilliant little learners."

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