Note: Summer 2024 Sections are now enrolling. 

This on-going course is designed as a complete kindergarten core curriculum class taught by a Master's level certified teacher with 25+ years experience teaching kindergarten. Learning targets follow the Common Core Curriculum standards for kindergarten. The course offers rigor, balanced with fun, and includes authentic/hands-on activities. Skills and concepts taught will prepare learners for first grade. Worksheets and printable materials are seldom used in class. Materials such as teacher written stories, whiteboards, writing tools/crayons/markers, playdough, trays of salt/flour, and manipulatives such as snap cubes or interlocking bricks are used frequently.

The learning targets will include new skills and repetition.  Opportunities will be provided regularly for students to apply skills. Learners will be encouraged to demonstrate understanding of the objectives by explaining their thinking and showing their work in authentic hands-on ways. The teacher will spiral up or down for each student as the week progresses and student individual needs are identified. 

Students will meet 4 days a week with the teacher and each other and a routine will be established inclusive of a welcome song, daily circle time to practice calendar skills, alphabet recognition and phonics sounds, sight words, tracking weather and place value. Students will then be involved in a daily interactive read aloud with stories and poems which are created by the teacher. This will develop literacy skills and comprehension strategies. Math skills are included in calendar time and build upon each other each day. Math skills are also integrated into the content areas to allow for practical application.

The class will be structured as teacher facilitated and interactive. Learners will be engaged in games, discussions, songs and hands-on activities. My teaching style is relaxed and inclusive. I encourage learner participation and questions. The classroom is 'ours' not 'mine'. Learners will have many opportunities to interact with me and their classmates each day.

After the daily routine meeting will be skill time. Each day the skill will focus on a different content area:
Math is taught and practiced each day of class.
Monday-literacy with teacher created stories and poems.
Tuesday-writing
Wednesday-science
Thursday-social studies/social skills/fine motor/large motor skills

Weekly Learning Targets for Summer 2024 Sections: 

Week of June 10
I can identify the parts of a book. 
I can tell the 7 days of the week.
I can write my first name correctly with a capital letter at the beginning.
I can name my 5 senses.

Week of June 17
I can tell the job an author and illustrator have in creating a book. 
I can tell the position of the 7 days of the week.
I can create a seed notebook for collecting my writing ideas.
I can participate in a show and tell.

Week of June 24
I can use my finger to track text when I read a book. Students bring their own book to class. 
I can draw a picture to tell a story.
I can name the four seasons.
I can identify things that are alive.

Week of July 8
I can find sight words in a book. (the, a, and, he, she)
I can label a picture to help me learn to write a story.
I can tell the months of the summer season.
I can identify things that are not alive.

Week of July 15
I can use pictures in books to help me understand words. 
I can label a picture to help me learn to write a story.
I can draw a summer picture with details.
I can listen to my classmates by participating in a show and tell. 

Additional learning targets will be added as time progresses. 

There may be times when a parent or guardian are needed to help the learner in class. The teacher will provide notice the week before when this is a need. When scissors are used in class a parent or guardian should be present to ensure learner safety and correct use of scissors.