Montessori Preschool Full Curriculum (2x/Week)-Letters, Math, Science, Storytime
Give your little-learner a boost in our fun, interactive classes! We empower your child to become a super-star with social skills, gain confidence in core subjects, and develop their fine motor skills!
Shooting Star Academy by Daniela Pray
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What's included
2 live meetings
50 mins in-class hours per weekClass Experience
US Grade Preschool - Pre-Kindergarten
WELCOME SHOOTING STARS! 💫 Shooting Star Academy’s full curriculum Preschool class gives learners a complete classroom experience with handwriting, science, story time, beginning linguistics in Spanish, English Language Arts, and little-learner beginning math. Our teachers work hard to ensure each student’s needs are met, and these courses are designed so that a learner can come and go each week as needed. We do not build upon previous content, so it isn’t necessary to attend every week consecutively. Each lesson begins with calendar time, charting the weather, and warm-up songs. English days consist of Montessori handwriting with a sand tray (or appropriate substitute), Animal Alphabet, beginning Spanish concepts (like, what day of the week is it, or what is the most common weather type in class), and/or story time. Science days incorporate fine-motor skill development with activities that will be based on our monthly themes. This could include picking up items with our fingers, sensory play/exploration, or pouring liquids. Math days use a variety of techniques between Montessori and Reggio Emilia. This age group focuses mainly on number sense up to 10, and subtizing (identifying the quantities related to numbers.) Subtraction and addition will be covered. We will use several manipulatives over the course of the year. All manipulatives will be provided weekly to the student and parents in the classroom tab by the assigned teacher the Sunday before scheduled classes to give families time to prepare. The monthly themes are: January - Birthdays/Human Body February - Friendship/States of Matter March - Farm/All About Plants April - Weather/Types of Weather May - Rainforest Exploration/Insects June - Beach Vacation/In the Ocean July - Travel the World/Climate Types August - Dinosaurs/Geology September - Camping/Forest October - Professions/The Five Senses November - Space/Outer Space December - Winter!/Arctic and Polar Animals One scheduled week is taught as follows: Monday: Science and Fine Motor Skill Exploration Tuesday: math techniques Wednesday: Storytime, handwriting, and Alphabet review Thursday: math techniques Friday: Handwriting practice and story retelling Here are samples of the curriculum for the first four weeks: Week of July 25: Travel To Brazil! Day 1: Science and Fine Motor Skill Exploration Day 2: Storytime “A Ticket Around The World”,* handwriting S and O, and Alphabet review Week of August 1st: The Earth’s Crust! Day 1: Science and Fine Motor Skill Exploration - sensory sand Day 2: Storytime “My First Book of Earth”, handwriting R and P, and Alphabet review Week of August 8th: What’s beneath my feet? Day 1: Science and Fine Motor Skill Exploration - rock collecting Day 2: Storytime “My First Book of Earth”, handwriting A and X, and Alphabet review Week of August 15th: The Story of The Dinosaurs Day 1: Science and Fine Motor Skill Exploration - Dino egg Day 2: Storytime “Little Kid’s first Big Book of Dinosaurs”, handwriting G and J, and Alphabet review *A full book schedule is included in the Supply list section. **TEACHERS WILL BE READING THESE BOOKS IN CLASS, YOU DO NOT NEED TO PURCHASE THEM.
Other Details
Parental Guidance
Since these classes do include crafts and science projects, there are potential hazards for young learners. For example, using scissors. It may be necessary for a parent to supervise cutting, pasting, or other hands-on activities.
External Resources
Learners will not need to use any apps or websites beyond the standard Outschool tools.
Sources
Every Sunday parent’s are given a weekly resource packet in the classroom tab. There are materials that will need to be printed out, so a printer is required to participate in these classes.
Students should also general school supplies like glue sticks, colored pencils/crayons/markers, scissors, and a wipe board with dry erase markers.
Books Used During the Year:
**TEACHERS WILL BE READING THESE BOOKS IN CLASS, YOU DO NOT NEED TO PURCHASE THEM.
We don't have class during major US Holidays, so the book schedule is planned accordingly. We use these books in tandem with the letters we work on in class. It's great fun!
The Adventures of Abby the Alligator,
Bubble Bear, Copycats,
Detective Dog and the Disappearing Donuts,
The Enormous Elephant Show,
Fifi Ferret's Flute,
Gorilla, Be Good!,
Hide-and-Seek Hippo,
Iguana on Ice,
Jaguar's Jamboree,
Kangaroo Kazoo,
The Lamb Who Loved to Laugh,
Monkey's Miserable Monday,
The Nicest Newt,
Olive the Octopus's Day of Juggling,
The Pigs' Picnic,
The Quiet Quail,
Rosey Rabbit's Radish,
Seal's Silly Sandwich,
When Tilly Turtle Came to Tea,
Umbrellabird's Umbrella,
Vera Viper's Valentine,
Worm's Wagon,
A Xylophone for X-Ray Fish,
The Yak Who Yelled Yuk,
Zack the Lazy Zebra
Joined March, 2020
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Teacher expertise and credentials
1 teacher has a Graduate degree
Master's Degree in Education from Marywood University
Welcome to Shooting Star Academy! 💫
✨MISSION STATEMENT✨
Our mission is to empower young through Montessori-inspired Curriculum, to build lasting bonds, establish a firm foundation in all core subjects, and build confidence.
We are dedicated to supporting parents and families with their Homeschooler's learning journeys while creating lasting bonds.
We all value our students and make sure to communicate closely with parents about their learner needs!
✨OUR TEACHERS✨
We are a group of seven teachers: Ms. Daniela, Ms. Theresa, Ms. Victoria, Ms. Teri, Ms. Natalie, and Ms. Jennifer.
We all have experience and training in Montessori and Reggio Emilia teaching techniques. All of us have had formal teaching positions in various capacities such as children programs or local school districts. We all have vast experience teaching online, have professional home office online classrooms, and are dedicated and hard working. Shooting Star Academy Teachers are required to have 5+ years of teaching experience.
We all have experience and certification teaching Montessori Math and Grammar, English Language Arts, STEM Science, and basic Spanish learning.
✨COURSES WE OFFER✨
We specialize in interactive, exciting online learning for primary school-aged children. We focus on ages 3-8, and we teach a full year curriculum with educational techniques and resources inspired by Montessori and Reggio Emilia from preschool to second grade. The ones that we have had the privilege to work with so far are all homeschoolers, and they primarily live in the USA.
Our star classes include American Sign-Language, English Language Arts, Spanish Language Arts, Science, and Math. These classes are modeled with Montessori techniques that have been developed and tested over hundreds of students over the past year.
We offer a few fun and interactive specialized Spanish courses, like Minecraft Spanish and weekly build and talk with legos. Everything we work on incorporates hands-on learning and student-driven discussions while maintaining small class sizes.
Ms. Natalie is a certified American Sign Language teacher, and she has over 16 years experience in learning and teaching ASL with both children and adults.
Grant Pray is a mechanical engineer for BAE Systems (British Aerospace Engineering), and he works on ICBM projects. In his undergraduate degree, he spent 5 years private tutoring ages 16-40 to help put himself through college. He has extensive knowledge in Biology, Physics, Chemistry, Engineering, Algebra, Geometry, Trigonometry, Pre-Calculus, and Calculus.
Kendal Smith graduated from BYU-Idaho where he help pay for his BS in Mechanical Engineering by tutoring all the core math classes for engineering. HIs first job after collage was a mechanical designer for a MEP consulting firm where he optimized the HVAC system in all types of buildings in Southern California. Kendal is currently a sales engineer and has become a fluid hydronic specialist for the HVAC engineers designing with his equipment.
It is our goal to have long term, ongoing classes that give students freedom to come and go as necessary, while still covering topics that will set them up with a firm foundation in all core subjects.
We hope to see you in class soon!Reviews
Live Group Class
$25
weekly ($13 per class)2x per week
25 min
Completed by 27 learners
Live video meetings
Ages: 3-5
2-5 learners per class
