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Welcome! It is our calling and privilege to provide a joy-filled, positive and exciting children's ministry to the Bay Area community sharing the good news of Jesus Christ through quality care and education.

Our school provides opportunities in educational excellence in an atmosphere of Christian love. In partnership with parents, we strive to provide a developmentally appropriate, activity-based, and Christ centered curriculum to meet children's spiritual, intellectual, social, emotional, and physical needs. We teach children about God's love; we encourage children, families and faculty to grow in their personal relationship with Jesus Christ and in their ministry to one another.

Infant Rooms

"Little Blessings" is a curriculum designed to guide our youngest children as they take their first steps in His kingdom. Age appropriate activities, physical and emotional care, a safe and nurturing environment and interaction between teacher and parent are important in quality ministry to infants .

Toddler Rooms

"Hands-On" allows toddlers to meet and interact with the God who made the world they're so interested in exploring through developmentally appropriate activities. Toddlers learn by experiencing their surroundings through their senses, social interaction and physical movement.

Two-Year-Old Classrooms

The Two-Year-Old Preschool Classes offer children a well-balanced curriculum covering all areas of your child's growth and development: spiritual, cognitive, social, emotional and physical. The curriculum meets the standards of the Texas and National Lutheran School Accreditation, Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS), and is recognized by the Texas Education Agency (TEA). Children enjoy monthly thematic units that teach, reinforce and challenge children in an activity-centered environment. Children also enjoy a monthly Bible focus to help them learn their God-given capacity demonstrated through scripture and Bible stories. All lessons contain developmentally appropriate learning activities that correspond to the interest, challenges and needs of children at their level. The children learn daily about the world around them through curriculum, cooperative play, music, Chapel and Spanish.

Three-Year-Old Classrooms

The Three-Year-Old Preschool Classes offer children a well-balanced curriculum covering all areas of your child's growth and development: spiritual, cognitive, social, emotional and physical. The curriculum meets the standards of the Texas and National Lutheran School Accreditation, Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS), and is recognized by the Texas Eduction Agency (TEA). Children enjoy monthly thematic units that teach, reinforce and challenge them in an activity-centered environment. Children also enjoy a monthly Bible focus to help them learn their God-given capacity demonstrated through scripture and Bible stories. All lessons contain developmentally appropriate learning activities that correspond to the interest, challenges and needs of children at their level. The children learn daily about the world around them through curriculum, cooperative play, music, library, Chapel and Spanish.

Four-Year-Old Classrooms

The Four-Year-Old Prekindergarten Classes offer children a well-balanced curriculum covering all areas of your child's growth and development: spiritual, cognitive, social, emotional and physical. The curriculum meets the standards of the Texas and National Lutheran School Accreditation, Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS), and is recognized by the Texas Education Agency (TEA). Children enjoy monthly thematic units that teach, reinforce and challenge them in an activity-centered environment. Children enjoy a monthly Bible focus to help them learn their God-given capacity demonstrated through scripture and Bible stories. Children who are developmentally ready are introduced to age appropriate math concepts through an interactive and manipulative learning center environment and beginning blended literacy program through leveled stages of text, and support materials. The progressive stages ensure that children will successfully progress through the 1) early emergent, 2) emergent, 3) early, and 4) fluent stages of reading as they engage in fresh, imaginative stories presented in little and big book format. All lessons contain developmentally appropriate learning activities that correspond to the interest, challenges and needs of children at their level. The children learn daily about the world around them through curriculum, cooperative play, music, library, field trips, Chapel and Spanish.

Pre-K Five Classrooms

The Five-Year-Old Prekindergarten Classes offer children a well balanced curriculum covering all areas of your child's growth and development: spiritual, cognitive, social, emotional and physical. The curriculum meets the standards of the Texas and National Lutheran School Accreditation, Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS), and is recognized by the Texas Education Agency (TEA). Children enjoy monthly thematic units that teach, reinforce and challenge them in an activity centered environment. Children enjoy a monthly Bible focus to help them learn their God given capacity demonstrated through scripture, Bible stories and memorization. Children explore various math concepts through an interactive and manipulative learning center environment and blended literacy program through leveled stages of text and support materials. The progressive stages ensure that children will successfully progress through the 1) early emergent, 2) emergent, 3) early, and 4) fluent stages of reading as they engage in fresh, imaginative stories presented in little and big book format. All lessons contain developmentally appropriate learning activities that correspond to the interest, challenges and needs of children at their level. The children learn daily about the world around them through curriculum, cooperative play, music, library, field trips, Chapel and Spanish

Library

Library time is offered to children in the Three-Year-Old Preschool classes through Kindergarten. Young children are exposed to the Library with their classroom teacher as they explore language through text. As children enter into the prekindergarten and kindergarten levels of our program their Library experience includes new stories, book buddies, a discussion of the story presented, and then a reinforcement or recreation of the story through activities that develop their imagination. After the story time, children are free to browse the books in the library. Children enrolled in the Kindergarten Class are able to check out the library books to take home and share with their families. Many developing language skills, written, aural and oral, are reinforced through literature.

Music

Gloria Dei Early Childhood Ministries uses the Musikgarten curriculum to enrich your child's musical experience. Children six weeks through six years of age enjoy singing favorite songs as well as learning about rhythm and composition, various instruments and the sounds they make. Movement adds to the learning and enjoyment of the music curriculum. Children develop listening skills as they explore lyrics, pitch, tone, dynamics, and tempo.

Spanish

Spanish is taught at an introductory level using developmentally appropriate concepts with music and themes.

Playgrounds

We have three different age level appropriate playgrounds.