Music class is provided two days a week for kindergarten. Grades one through five have music two days one week and three days the next. Throughout the year we learn music theory, including solfege and note recognition, through playing fun games with giant flashcards. We learn about proper singing techniques, like good posture and vocal warm-ups. We sing a variety of songs: scripture-based, patriotic, traditional, and fun! Students learn about rhythm through reading, speaking, playing, writing rhythmic notation, and from movement. Students in grades three and four learn to play the flutophone and they work through a music theory workbook from A Beka. Music electives available to the sixth through eleventh grades include guitar and choir.

In our computer instructional program, we seek to teach the students how to responsibly use Microsoft WORD, PowerPoint, EXCEL, and Publisher. Basic keyboarding skills begin during the final quarter of first grade. The depth of knowledge and expectations increase as students progress through the grades. Students use Mavis Beacon typing instruction to learn keyboard skills. Students begin learning how to access and use the internet during the third grade. Students in all grades have the opportunity to learn how to use the internet and locate and use available information for reports and slide show projects.

Firm Foundation’s middle and high school science classes offer rigorous courses of study held in the science lab. Each topic studied is presented from a Christian perspective and is reflective of God’s order, provision, and reasonableness as revealed in His physical creation.

Grade 7
Seventh grade uses A Beka’s Order and Reality text that introduces students to the scientific method and gives them the opportunity to apply it as they study soil science, plants, the human body, principles of physical science, atmospheric science, weather, classification, microscopy, creation and insects. It is highlighted with lab experiences that include introductory dissections, microscope work, experiments, and research projects.

Grade 8
A Beka’s Matter and Motion text provides a challenging curriculum enriched further with student-conducted lab experiences and science adventures that use the scientific method to focus on God's planned design. The students learn about astronomy, matter in motion, molecules, birds, science versus Evolution, magnets and magnetism, and electricity.

Physical Science
Using the A Beka text, Grade 9 studies the Science of the Physical Creation. This includes meteorology, oceanography, plus introductions to chemistry, geology, and physics. Held in the Firm Foundation science laboratory, students employ the scientific method to carry out experiments that make the text alive. Engaging investigations apply the text in a hands-on format to reach many learning styles. Science in ninth grade continues striving to reach young people for the Lord and support the students as they learn and train in the Christian way of life.

Biology
This class delves deeply into the field of biology. Numerous lab experiences such as fetal pig and frog dissections, microscope work, and research papers reinforce the text and provide the opportunity for students to study, explore, and know the intricacy of God’s design down to the cellular level.

Chemistry
Chemistry uses A Beka's Chemistry, Precision and Design text. This course builds a strong base for the study of chemistry. It discusses applications, and applies them using lab experiences. Some of the topics studied include stoichiometry, chemical thermodynamics, chemical kinetics, the periodic table, chemical bonds, and intermolecular force, among others. Students will carry with them an appreciation of the many benefits chemistry has brought us, plus a clearer understanding of the physical world God has created.