At Precious Life Daycare, we proudly teach from the Abeka Curriculum! We believe it’s the best curriculum for teaching and nurturing young minds.

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  • Color and variety.

    • Children will encounter characters like Alexander Alligator and Tim the Traveler. 

    • They’ll explore subjects in full color and discover information with the help of professional illustrations. Vibrant pictures. Professionally crafted charts, maps, and timelines.

  • Confidence from the start and achievable goals.

    • Each lesson will encourage and push our students to try their best in all they do leaving them ahead in education. 

    • Too little challenge brings complacency. Too much challenge brings frustration. Abeka will aim for just the right amount.

  • Proven track record

    • Millions of students have used Abeka since it started in 1972, and over 250,000 used Abeka in 2017 alone.

  • Biblical foundations and context.

    • Daily Bible reading and memory verses. 

    • Proverbs 22:6a Train up a child in the way he should go.


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Precious Life Daycare Syllabus

    • From making a Creation mobile to a turkey headband, your child, ages 18–24 months, will love these fun-filled art projects.

    • Each week, your child will have one or two pages to color or paint, introducing them to a new color each month.

    • Every other week, they will be given a simple craft project with themes of Bible stories, colors, seasons, or holidays for a total of 20 crafts.

    • Learning numbers with Button Bear

      • Counting to 20, hand-eye coordination, coloring, and listening, along with thinking and reasoning.

    • Art for 2s

      • ​Understanding shapes, animals and colors.

    • Alphabit 

      • Learning sounds of the alphabet through song. Singing along will help your child to increase his speech, memory, and vocabulary skills.

    • Numbers and skills with Button Bear

      • Enhanced knowledge of shapes, pairs, opposites, numbers, sequence of events, senses, seasons, weather, animals, countries, transportation, dot-to-dot, coloring, thinking and more!

    • Arts and crafts with Amber Lamb

      • ​​40 coloring projects to improve your child's motor skills while they paint, glue and color. 

      • Seasonal projects, animal and other fun themes.

    • Alphabit 

      • Learning sounds of the alphabet through song. Singing along will help your child to increase his speech, memory, and vocabulary skills.

    • Writing with Phonics

      • ​Develop key foundational blocks for writing while referencing phonics concepts. 

      • ​Alphabet, blends, 1-word vowels.

    • Little Books 1-12 (Reading)

      • Phonics-based, short readers with vowels, consonant sounds and graduate into complete words and sentences.​

    • Bible

      • Weekly and daily lessons with verses, memorization goals, visuals and interactive stories. 

    • Readiness Skills K4

      • Age-appropriate exercises that will aid your child in developing hand-eye coordination, listening and thinking skills, visual perception, and writing readiness. 

      • Coloring, directed drawing, tracing and matching.

    • Arts and crafts 

      • Seasonal projects, animal and other fun themes.

    • Phonics​

      • ​​Carefully sequenced activities that will teach vowels, consonants, blends, one/two-vowel words, and special sounds.

    • Reading 

      • Building on foundations in phonics, students begin reading age appropriate books and little readers. 

    • Cursive writing

      • The continuous flow of cursive writing is much more natural for little ones than the start and stop of manuscript writing.  

      • Improving hand-eye coordination, motor skills and other brain and memory functions, including increased focus and prolonged attention. 

    • Numbers 

      • Memorize addition facts up through the number 10 and identify numbers that come before and after any number from 1-100.

      • Subtraction, story problems and recognize the smallest and largest numbers in any set. 

    • Development skills

      • Coloring pages, mazes, directed art projects, and other activities developing writing readiness, hand-eye coordination, visual perception, listening and thinking skills and good character. 

    • Bible

      • Weekly and daily lessons with verses, memorization goals, visuals and interactive stories. 

    • Arts and crafts 

      • Seasonal projects, animal and other fun themes.

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Four children's educational books titled 'Arts & Crafts,' 'Numbers & Skills,' 'Little Ones Sing to the Lord,' and a teddy bear with the number 2 and 3.