Circle Time and Kindergarten Reading Skills- Semester

****Welcome! I am sorry, but at this time I am unable to add any additional sections outside of the scheduled classes. Please check for open enrollment positions in the current classes. I hope to be able to meet your learner soon! Thank you! ****

    ---Learners are able to join any week in this class,  previous weeks' lessons are not needed to participate and learn each week.--- 

In our ongoing class, each day we will begin with calendar circle time. Singing our days of the weeks, months of the year, and counting to add dates on to our calendar for the month. Skills will be built into our calendar time following the Saxon Math curriculum for Kindergarten. Skills include: counting, patterns, shapes, colors, tens and ones place value, problem solving, addition and subtraction, and weather. 
Our Kindergarten readiness phonics' skills will come after our calendar time. We will work on one task at a time. Skills will include: print concepts (top to bottom/ left to right, spaces between words, letters of the alphabet), phonological awareness (rhyming, segment sounds in words, beginning/medial/ final sounds, sound manipulation, and syllables) , phonics (letter sounds, long and short vowel sounds, silent E application, sight words, decode one syllable words), and  fluency (reading emergent reader text with fluency and understanding).   

Each class will follow a general pattern for welcome, calendar time, and literacy preparation mini lessons, and goodbye. We will be able to build and reinforce skills throughout the week, but each class will have a stand alone focus. I love to utilize open conversation and responses during class and students are welcome to stay off of mute (as long as there isn't an excess amount of noise disturbance). I strive to use mute only to help with background noise. Classroom management techniques are used to keep class engaging, respectful, and a kind -uplifting place. 

Students are able to come and go within the semester as long as there is an opening for enrollment. Resources for the week will be sent out  in advanced if there is a printing need for resources. 

Refund Policy:
I am happy to give a $9 partial credit back for enrolling after a class meeting in the week for each day your learner did not attend class, upon request. A $3 credit will be kept for classroom materials and the recordings. You will receive all classroom materials for the week and recordings once we meet to verify learners. If you have any questions about this, please send me a personal message through Outschool. 

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🍎New Fall semester to begin January 6, 2025.🍎

Class Framework 2024-2025: 
1st Semester to begin (week of) August 12, 2024. 
1 week off at Thanksgiving (November 25- 29)
1st Semester to End- December 20. 
2nd Semester to begin- January 6

Winter break and the end of semester one will be December 23. This class will continue in January. You will not need to do anything to continue this class into the new year. All days and times for class will remain the same. Our class week for the new semester will begin January 6, 2025.


February 24-28: Week 8 
Phonics- Review letters sounds; consonant digraphs- qu, ng; sight word sentence reading with the word "out", using consonant blends and digraphs (ch, sh, th).

March 3-7: Week 9 - long vowels introduction!
Phonics- Review letters sounds; single syllable words with short vowels; sight word sentence reading with prepositions, using consonant blends and digraphs (ch, sh, th, ng, qu).

⏰Time change for daylight savings on March 9, all class times will shift forward by one hour. ⏰

March 10-14: Week 10 
Phonics- Review letters sounds; single syllable words with short vowels; sight word sentence reading with the word "had",  using consonant blends and digraphs (ch, sh, th, ng, qu).

March 17-21: 🌷SPRING BREAK🌷-  We will not have class this week. You will not be charged for this week. 

March 24-28- Week 11 -
Phonics- Review all 26 lowercase letter stroke formations and sounds, segment spoken sounds in words and counting sounds in words, introduce sight words "all, funny", reading and  tracking with sight words sentences "all, funny", vowel sounds identification and categorization, and categorizing/ producing rhyming words. 


March 31- April 4- Week 12 
Phonics: finish reviewing all 26 lower case letter stroke formations and sounds, segment spoken sounds in words and counting sounds in words, introduce sight words "was, from", reading and  tracking with sight words sentences, vowel sounds identification and categorization, and read and recognize phrases containing sight words.

April 7-11 - Week 13 
Phonics: segment spoken sounds in words and counting sounds in words, isolate final sound of spoken words and categorize words that rhyme, create words that rhyme. Introduce double letter spelling with the floss rule and closed syllables- (gg, dd, ff, ll, mm, ss, ck). Sight word review sentences and tracking with fluency sentences

April 14- 18- Week 14
Phonics: Review the vowel sound and categorizing words by vowels, blend sound of words and spell them by their initial, medial, and final sounds even with double consonants. Review spelling alternatives with double consonants in syllable, digraphs, and closed syllables. Rhyming word practice and application with final sounds. Sight word review sentences and tracking with fluency sentences.

Week of May 5-

Week of May 12-

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                                 🍎NEW FALL semester to begin August 11, 2025.🍎


🍎Class Framework for 2025- 2026
 
⭐️Semester 1 to begin August 11, 2025 ⭐️.
Thanksgiving Break (No class)- November 24- 28
Semester 1 ends- December 19
Winter Break (No class) December 22 - January 2
Semester 2 begins January 5, 2026

(Week of August 11) Week 1 
Phonics: 1-1 discrimination, how many sounds did you hear?, left/ right  sequence, vertical and horizontal strokes handwriting, tri-pod pencil grip 

(Week of August 18) Week 2 
Phonics: 1-1 discrimination, how many sounds did you hear?, left/ right and top/bottom sequence, drawing circles to the left and right and diagonal strokes for handwriting, tri-pod pencil grip 

(Week of August 25) Week 3
Phonics: 1-1 discrimination, syllable blending, practice blending sounds,  track from left/ right and top/bottom, drawing humps and zig zags strokes for handwriting, tri-pod pencil grip 

(Week of September 1) Week 4
Phonics: differentiating beginning sounds, sound manipulation with additions, syllable blending, practice blending sounds,  track from left/ right and top/bottom, applying handwriting strokes, tri-pod pencil grip 

(Week of September 9) Week 5
Phonics: oral blending of sounds into words, the letters M- A- T- D, chaining sounds by using addition and deletion to spell and read, practice handwriting strokes to write words, tracking and building fluency with sight word sentences. 


🍎Additional Weeks and Content will be added during the semester