🎓 Ms. Price is a certified teacher with over a decade of experience teaching elementary-aged learners in a brick & mortar classroom. While Ms. Price has taught all subjects in these grades, she especially loves putting her Bachelor of Arts in English degree to use teaching writing! Ms. Price is passionate about instilling a love of writing in children, so all of her writing classes are taught using highly engaging, fun topics to make the writing process exciting for young learners!   

🍏 CLASS FORMAT 🍏 
This is a SELF-PACED class, which means there are NO LIVE MEETINGS. The benefit of this type of class is that there is more flexibility in when your learner can do the lessons, while still receiving personalized interaction with a real, interactive teacher--me! 

📝 LEARNING OBJECTIVE 📝 
Once your young learner has mastered writing simple sentences, they are ready to start adding some creativity to their writing! In this flexible schedule course, learners will be taught how to take a very basic sentence like "I saw a dog" and transform it to something much more interesting and descriptive like, "I saw a brown, fluffy dog running down the sidewalk." While the main learning objective is to learn to write descriptive sentences, we will also review proper punctuation as it relates to what we are writing, including commas, periods, and exclamation points. 

👦 👧 WHO SHOULD TAKE THIS CLASS? Learners who have mastered the simple sentence and are ready to take their writing to the next level! In general, this is a developing Kindergarten and 1st grade skill in most areas of the United States, or learners approximately ages 5-7. If you have a slightly older learner who could use some help developing this skill, they are welcome to join, as long as you believe the topics will be of interest to them. 

⭐️ PLEASE NOTE: To be successful in this class, learners must be able to independently write detailed, complete sentences. We will *not* be covering the basics of what makes a complete sentence. Rather, the expectation is that each learner is coming to the class able to write a short, simple sentence, and we will expand upon that knowledge. 


🧍🏻‍♀️🧍🏽‍♂️INTERACTION🧍🏻‍♀️🧍🏽‍♂️
Although there is not the face-to-face interaction of a live class, your learner will have the opportunity to interact with and receive feedback from a real, live teacher! Ms. Price will provide written feedback on each learner's weekly writing assignment when turned in by the due date. 

✨TOPICS TO BE COVERED✨
Week 1: Unicorns 🦄 & Dragons  🐉 
Week 2: Puppies 🐶 & Kittens 🐱 
Week 3: Mermaids 🧜‍♀️ & Sea Creatures 🐳 
Week 4: Fairies 🧚‍♂️ & Forest Creatures 🦊 

✨PLEASE NOTE: Each week, I will use both of the above listed topics in my lesson. Then, learners will get to choose one of the two topics to use for their written assignment. This means if your learner is obsessed with unicorns, but doesn't care for dragons, that's okay--they can choose unicorns for their writing! Research shows that learners are more engaged in the writing process when they have some choice as to their topic, and the flex format lends itself beautifully to learners being able to have choice in their writing topic each week!

WHAT ARE THE BENEFITS OF A SELF-PACED CLASS VS. A LIVE CLASS?
 - One obvious benefit of a self-paced class is that you have the *flexibility* to do the class at a time that best works for your family’s schedule! This works well for families in different time zones and also families who have unpredictable schedules and cannot commit to a live class that is at the same time each week.
- Another benefit of self-paced classes is that learners can pause, rewind, and re-watch the lesson as many times as they would like. This can be especially helpful for neurodivergent learners.
-For learners who may be a bit behind their peers in their writing abilities, a self-paced class offers the opportunity to learn skills without feeling the embarrassment that some learners feel being in a (live) class with younger learners.
- Finally, a key benefit of my self-paced classes is that I include personalized, written feedback to each learner, each week.