Kindergarten Prep Literacy and Math With Ms. Emily

Join me for this fun, interactive way to prepare your child for Kindergarten with a certified teacher! During this ongoing class, your child will learn everything they need to be ready for Kindergarten.  I love stuffed animals, singing, playing games, and making learning fun! I hope your learner will join me for lots of learning fun to get ready for Kindergarten! We will play literacy, phonics, and math games to develop a strong foundation to prepare your child for Kindergarten. Each week will have a fun theme that goes along with our learning.

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* We will not have class on Wednesday, June 27 but you will be refunded for that day.* 
*We will not have class on July 4, but you will be refunded for that class. *

To start each class, I love to greet each child as they enter the classroom and connect with them by asking a fun question.  We begin by playing a warm-up game and then trying to figure out what is in the Mystery Box. The Mystery Box holds a special item related to our weekly theme. We read clues together and then guess what could be in the box! Before we read the clues, we will search for letters, vowels, consonant blends as well as find sight words and identifying word families. It is so exciting to find out what is in the box each day! I love stuffed animals so many days there is a special stuffed animal that joins us.

Throughout each class, we have ELA, language arts, literacy and math activities and games that go along with our weekly theme.  

Calendar Math activities will help us learn about the month, day, and year, do patterning and math activities. We will also have a Mystery Number of the day where we will learn to write numbers, learn about different ways to show the number such as the number, number word, tally marks, the tens frame, and place value. We will explore different ways to count such as counting to 100 and counting to 100 by 10's. We will learn basic addition and subtraction.  We will share about our weather and graph the weather at our different locations and learn about reading and interpreting graphs. 

Math skills that we will explore together throughout this class are:
Graphing - reading and interpreting a graph
Counting and skip counting
Identifying and writing numbers
Learning the number words
Demonstrating different ways to make the number
Reading a number line 
Tally Marks
Tens Frame
Place Value
Addition and subtraction
Identify and draw 2D shapes
Identify 3D shapes
Learning position and number order words

Each day we will have a Mystery Letter which will help us learn about the letters!  We will practice writing the uppercase and lowercase letters using correct letter formation.  We will play letter and sound games and sing songs to learn and reinforce the letter sounds. Even though we will focus on the Mystery Letters of the week, we will also review the other letters and sounds, consonant blends, digraphs, diphthongs, vowel combinations, and more! 

We will explore phonics together making, building and reading CVC words. We will learn how words are formed and learn to read words. We will also have fun rhyming and finding syllables for words. 

Literacy and phonics skills that we will explore are:
Identifying and writing the letters - uppercase and lowercase 
Learning the letter sounds 
Vowels/Consonants 
Syllables
Blending letter sounds
Rhyming 
Identifying the beginning, middle and ending sounds in words 
Making words 
Word families
Reading and writing sight words  
Diphthongs
Digraphs
Consonant blends
Vowel combinations
Tricky vowels

Each day, we will read a special Morning Message together and answer the question of the day. Through our Morning Message, we will learn to read and write new sight words as well as play sight word games to reinforce our recognition of the sight words. I love for all children to have a chance to guess, share and be heard so I encourage all children to raise their hands and wait to be called on. This way we can have a fun, structured class where everyone can participate by taking turns.

Scavenger Hunts are so much fun, so at the end of each class, we go on a scavenger hunt to find something related to our learning!

Each week is thematic! Below are the monthly themes. If your learner has a favorite animal or theme please let me know and we can incorporate that! 

Each week is thematic! Below are the monthly themes.
July - Jungle animals, Zoo animals, Dinosaurs
August - Farm, Bugs, Pond, Ocean

Each day we will practice our writing skills by writing numbers and letters. A dry erase board or paper is needed daily for these activities. 

I love to teach and love for learners to participate throughout our class! Everyone will be unmuted for the entire class, unless I hear background noise. Please make sure your child knows how to mute and unmute. 

I hope you can join me for this fun and engaging class to prepare your child for Kindergarten!