What's included
4 live meetings
3 in-class hours per weekClass Experience
In each on-going class, students will be given a topic to write about. We will use a different graphic organizer for each class. For example: If the topic is Elephants, we will organize by listing in the graphic organizer the elephant's appearance, what it eats, and where it lives. Appearance: gray, heavy, long trunk, big ears, short tail Food: short shoots, shrubs, leaves, fruit Location: Africa and India, zoo Once the graphic organizing is finished, the class will then use the information to write a short story about the elephant. Week 1, August 23: Animals Week 2, August 30: My Favorites Week 3, September 6: Friends Week 4, September 13 Fantasy Fun This class is a great tool for beginning writers.
Learning Goals
Students will learn writing organization.
Other Details
External Resources
Learners will not need to use any apps or websites beyond the standard Outschool tools.
Teacher expertise and credentials
Hello everyone. I am Teacher Mary G. and I am so happy to be teaching with Outschool. I am the mother of four and grandmother of three. As a middle school teacher, I have taught all subjects, but language arts is my specialty.
Classes will include grammar lessons (punctuation, capitalization, parts of speech) and sentence and paragraph writing. Novel reading and discussion would also be an offering to students. As an elementary/middle school teacher, I taught math and science. I would love to
instruct students in these subjects as well. In addition to academic lessons, I will be teaching value lessons (i.e. honesty, cooperation, kindness), and life skill lessons (i.e. stress and anger management, problem-solving, and confidence building).
My education includes a bachelor of science in education, an elementary endorsement, and a master of science in education, (school counseling Prek-12th grades). For 14 years, I taught fifth and sixth grades. The last four years before retiring, I served as the fifth and sixth grades' school counselor.
Every student is unique. Every student can succeed. Every student can learn given the time and the necessary tools. Fostering a positive environment of encouragement and expression of thought, allows students to learn from their mistakes and grow in their achievements.
As a teacher, I cherished the time with my students and I often told them at the end of the school year, "I'm going to miss you." And I did. But I think they missed me too because so many of my "kids" came back to visit and tell me how "hard" school was and they wanted to return to my class. That feeling was fleeting. Each student adjusted to their new grade, new classmates, new teacher(s). They grew up, but they never stopped coming back (facebook, email, texts, etc.). And I still miss them.
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Live Group Class
$24
weekly ($6 per class)4x per week
45 min
Completed by 5 learners
Live video meetings
Ages: 9-12
3-6 learners per class