Our Curriculum

The research is clear: a high-quality, systematic preschool curriculum is critical to preparing all children for future success in school.

We are using a research-based and comprehensive curriculum: Frog Street, a Texas Education Agency (TEA) approved year-long curriculum. It allows Rising Star Academy's teachers to:

• Provide explicit instruction in early language, reading, and math skills.
• Combine child-centered explorations with teacher-directed instruction.
• Utilize a flexible and easy-to-use format.
• Provide in-depth formal and informal assessment.
• Include rich English and Spanish resources.
• Benefit from Professional Development into each lesson plan.
• Feature activities for families to extend the learning day.

The Frog Street Curriculum immerses children in real-world themes that begin with what is familiar to children and connects to the world around them. The wealth of instructional materials in the program ensures a comprehensive and engaging year-long curriculum appropriate for preschool children of all learning abilities. The curriculum will stretch their imagination, inspire creativity, draw on what they already know, and offer new ideas for teachers. At Rising Star Academy, our teachers are equipped to offer a comprehensive, research-based curriculum that features exploration and discovery as a way of learning, enabling children to develop confidence, creativity, and lifelong critical-thinking skills.

A few things to know:

• Our curriculum is foundational, as your child grows our curriculum grows with them
• We start off new every year as the school year does in KISD, your child is placed in a classroom with learners who are all in a  6-month age range so they grow together. They will stay in this class until the next school year and they move up to the next room – this depends on age, maturity, self-help skills and assessment.
• Early Preschool A, is our potty-training classroom – a child will not move up into Preschool A, Preschool B, Preschool C, or Pre-K/K until they are completely potty trained. (Tuition does not reflect they are potty trained until we are three full weeks without accidents, not including nap time)
• We challenge our Pre-K, Advanced Pre-K classes to be academically ready when the kindergarten year rolls around; we will always place a child where they belong according to age or prior assessment.