This 32-week class will cover all kindergarten curriculum to fully prepare learners to enter 1st grade! 🎓🎓

We will be learning through fun, energetic activities that appeal to all styles of learning. Throughout this course, learners will:
- learn/review all letters and their sounds (phonemes & graphemes), letter formation, spelling & phonics rules, and heart/high-frequency words with a strong "Science of Reading" (SOR) approach.
- learn/review numbers, number formation, and beginning math skills
- learn/review colors & shapes
- learn all kindergarten language arts skills
- learn all kindergarten social studies content
- learn all kindergarten science content

All learning will take place in a warm, silly, laid-back, inclusive, and fun environment.

🐶 Our class mascot, Pip the Pup, will join us every day to share some awesome stories with us that align with the class content. 🐶

I will be using a few different resources to ensure that all of my students' learning styles are addressed. These resources include:
→ Short video clips
→ Songs with Movements
→ Full-screen, Super Engaging Presentations
→ Graphics, Learning Activities, & Games
→ Super Fun Decodable Books
→ HUGE Weekly Printable Packets (These are optional, but an incredibly great supplement)

⭐️ This class meets 4x per week. [Monday-Thursday]. We will not have class on Fridays to allow students to rest and recharge over the weekend. ⭐️
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📑 General Class Structure 📑

🟡 Welcome Friends!
🟡 Letter Sound Card Review
🟡 Phonics Skills of the Week
🟡 Word Work
🟡 Decodable Reader
🟡 Read-Aloud
🟡 Language Arts Skills of the Week [Wednesdays]
🟡 Math Skills of the Week [Mondays & Wednesdays]
🟡 Social Studies Lesson of the Week [Thursdays]
🟡 Science Lesson of the Week [Tuesdays]
🟡 Game of the Day
🟡 Daily Exit Ticket
🟡 Share Time/Show & Tell [Thursdays]
*Students are never required to share anything with the class unless they feel comfortable doing so.

Though we will review all content daily, each day will have (at least) 1 "focus" skill. The daily focus skills are as follows:
❥ Monday - Phonics Skills, Numbers/Math Skills
❥ Tuesday - Phonics Skills, Science Lesson
❥ Wednesday - Phonics Skills, Language Arts Skills, Numbers/Math Skills
❥ Thursday - Phonics Skills, Social Studies Lesson

📅 Please see class syllabus for a full breakdown of each week's material.

✏️ Class Materials ✏️
→ Laminated Printed Materials - Upon enrollment, students will be provided with a few printable materials that they will need to either laminate or put in sheet protectors/dry erase sleeves so they can use them during our live sessions. This will include a word-mapping mat, a handwriting mat, a consonants sound wall and vowel sound wall, an alphabet reference guide, and letter writing formations charts. They will also have a few pages to print weekly which will come in the weekly packet.
→ Dry Erase Markers
→ Pencil
→ Highlighter
→ Small Dry Erase Board & Markers- Students will use their dry erase boards daily in class.
→ Small BINGO chips, coins, or any small items to use when mapping words.
→ 1-Subject Notebook or Binder with Loose-Leaf Paper- Students will be keeping an interactive notebook with lots of materials from our lessons. We will add to our notebooks each week.
→ A "Tens Frame" Pop-It. (They do not need to have the numbers on them) We will use these for math time and also for mapping words. Here is a link to the ones I have → https://a.co/d/9mZdfHI
→ OPTIONAL BONUS: Printable Packets - Each lesson will include HUGE printable packets for all material covered in that lesson. You are welcome to print these pages for your learner to do at home, but it is not required. If you do not have access to a printer, it's no problem at all. We will cover the same materials on the screen during class and most things can be done on their dry erase boards. [Side-note: If your learner has taken any of my preschool classes, you may have printed some of these materials before. Do not feel obligated to print the entire packet!] These packets will be posted in the classroom on Sundays for the coming week.
→ If students are completing the optional printable packets, they will need glue sticks, crayons and child scissors for some of the activities.

🎯 Classroom Rules & Expectations 🎯
- Please be kind & respectful to Miss Mary, classmates, & yourself.
- Please use appropriate language.
- Please listen politely when Miss Mary or other classmates are speaking.
- Please do not share any personal information with classmates. [last name, city, gamer tags, etc.]

⭐ Important Notes for Parents ⭐
► We love to celebrate birthdays in our class, so please let me know if your kiddo has a birthday coming up!
► Please do not stress about getting your child to sit still for this class. We will be singing, dancing, and moving around plenty! And if they need to be moving around the entire class, it won’t bother me a bit!
► If your kiddo is having an especially bad day, please send me a message to let me know they need a little extra love that day. You don't have to give me any details, just a quick note. I'll keep an eye on them during class and try to turn their day around.
► All learners in the listed age-range are welcome in my classroom. Please let me know if any special accommodations are required for your child.
► We will not have class on the following weeks:
→ Week of 10/21 - Fall Break
→ Week of 11/25 - Thanksgiving Break
→ Week of 12/23 - Christmas Break
→ Week of 2/10 - Winter Break
→ Week of 4/21 - Spring Break
► Use COUPON CODE: BAILEYKINDER20 to get $20 OFF the course!

I look forward to meeting you and having so much fun together!
Feel free to send me a message at any time if you have any questions!

❤️️ Miss Mary