Offerings for 2008-2009

Kindergarten	Meets Tuesday through Thursday 8:30am to 12:00pm
1st Grade	Meets Tuesday through Friday 8:30am to 1:30pm

Curriculum

Inheritance Christian Academy measures academic progress against New York City standards for each child with periodic testing and evaluation.

Kindergarten - Numbers and letters are the focus in kindergarten as we study beginning Math and Reading. The phonics program includes songs and chants that will aid the children in memorizing the rules they need to learn to read. These little ones will learn to form and write those numbers and letters well with daily practice. A beginning Science program will include nature and animal studies along with hand-picked read-aloud books by the teacher to engage their curiosity about the world that God has made.

1st Grade - First grade will build upon and continue with a phonics program to advance their reading and comprehension. They will learn the basics of Math with addition and subtraction, time, money etc. Proper penmanship is encouraged within Math, Reading and Spelling along with daily copy work of scripture and poetry. Space and earth is studied in Science.

For both Kindergarten and 1st grade, each day will begin with a combined morning chapel meeting, singing, Bible study and then a Memory period which will include scripture, poetry, planets & continents, along with various material connected to their other subjects.

Faculty

Mrs. Julie Murphy Administrator/Kindergarten

Miss Jennifer Ciago 1st Grade

Mr. Matthew Gonnella Liason/Administrator

Reverend Paul Murphy Pastor Rev. Paul T. Murphy was born in Rome, Italy (1953) and came to this country when he was three. He was raised in an Irish-Catholic neighborhood in the Bronx, N.Y.C.. Although he was an altar boy in the church and attended regularly until age 14 he did not know Jesus Christ personally. From an early age he searched for Truth and the meaning of life. A college degree in philosophy brought him no closer to the Truth. He pursued a career in deep-sea diving and underwater construction that took him all around the world as he continued the search for Truth. This searching also was vain. At the age of 29 he was confronted with the claims of Jesus Christ. Thinking them foolishness he sought to refute Christianity with the teaching of secular philosophy. The Lord broke down the barriers of his heart and captivated his life. The Truth had found him! Now like the apostle Paul this Paul can say " to live is Christ.  Prior to coming to Messiah's Reformed Fellowship, Rev. Murphy pastored Dutton Independent Reformed Church, Dutton, Michigan.