BEACON DAY ACADEMY

Every child has the capacity to learn and grow.

For Ages 5-14

The Beacon’s Academy Program is focused exclusively on elementary and middle school aged students. The teachers, therapists and behaviorists at the Academy are committed to meeting each child where they are and building a program aligned to their IEP as well as the California Department of Education Common Core Standards for each respective grade level. We rely on an integrated system of academic, behavioral and social emotional teaching practices to ensure every child has the quality care they need.

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ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

For elementary school, we focus on teaching students the knowledge, skills, and behaviors necessary to make learning fun and life more meaningful. Helping students to recognize and apply their knowledge and skills in becoming better learners and contributing members of their families and community outside of school.

Arts Integration

Utilizing all types of art forms e.g. music, painting, sculpting, cooking etc., to teach and learn academic, behavioral and social skills.

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Letter Identification

Letter Sound Identification

Blending Sounds

Spelling

Answering Comprehension Questions

English Language Arts

Number Value

1:1 Correspondence

Telling Time

Money Identification & Counting

Math

Town

County

State

Country

Flags

Social Studies

How Plants & Animals Grow

Healthy Choices

Identifying & Functions of Body Parts

Science

SOCIAL SKILLS

Our Academy program helps students develop critical social skills that guide their interactions with others.

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Learning to
play with peers

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Initiating and maintaining social interactions

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Listening and responding to others

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Enjoying structured and unstructured playtime

BEHAVIORAL SKILLS

Managing interfering behaviors

Self-regulating

Respecting boundaries

Teaching socially-adaptive skills

LEARNING-TO-LEARN SKILLS

Monitoring and self-regulate emotions

Managing distractions that impede learning

Engaging students in ways that teach them how to acquire knowledge and apply it

Engaging and strengthening executive functioning; attention control, memory, cognitive flexibility, inhibitory control, etc.

Helping students to identify strategies and tools for learning

middle school

As students progress to middle school, Beacon emphasizes life skills and independence.

MIDDLE SCHOOL

For middle school age students, the method of teaching evolves to incorporate the style, sensibilities and fun that’s appropriate for pre-and early teens. We continue to focus on solidifying each student’s knowledge base by teaching the skills necessary to analyze, synthesize and evaluate information. We also emphasize learning the life-skills necessary to start the path to more independent living that will be a core part of the curriculum in Beacon Day School’s High School and Transition programs.

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