Preschool Kinder Prep: Fun Learning to Read, Write, Do Math, & More ESL Welcome!

Hello, and welcome to my class page for this 2025 Preschool-Kindergarten Preparation class! I am a master's level certified and licensed teacher with 27 years in public education and 5 years of online teaching. As a former preschool, kindergarten, and elementary classroom teacher,  I am passionate about teaching! I strive to share and impart my excitement about learning! I take pleasure in teaching and am patient when working with children. I provide a safe and caring classroom environment for each child to learn and grow to their fullest potential. 
I have taught many ESL students in person and online. Before finding Outschool, I taught English as a Second Language to Asian students. 

Each child is unique, and no two learners are alike. One student may learn more quickly than a classmate, but all children have the potential to learn.
After I received my Master's Degree in Library Science, for the last 18 years in public education, I was the librarian/media coordinator of the entire elementary school. I taught all students from preschool to 5th grade in several classes weekly.  I taught many subjects: reading, language arts, Internet safety, social studies, geography, science, math, information skills, and how to find books in a library. I checked out hundreds of books weekly in every class and shared my love of learning to read with the students.

A letter, number, color, and shape will be introduced each week.  The students will be actively engaged in their learning through activity sheets, and by participating in the exercises, we will do in class.  The students will learn the phonemic sound associated with each letter, how to write each letter and the words that begin with each letter. The students will hear a weekly story for each letter of the alphabet. Each week, the students will learn 3-4 high-frequency sight words and will read sentences with these words. We will have Sharing Day on the last day of the class for the week. The students will be encouraged to bring an item to share that begins with the letter we are learning that week.

In the second and third classes of the week, the students will be working on more activities related to the letter of the week, numbers, shapes, colors, patterns, sorting, simple addition, or another math activity, and reviewing our sight words. Students will have weekly activity sheets that will be shared for each class's activities. 
All the activities are lessons pertaining to the Common Core and State Aligned Standards taught in public schools in the United States. 

In these classes, I will use screen sharing of interactive slides I have created. Some slides will be downloadable activity sheets that the teacher and students will do together in class. It would be best if the family had access to a printer for these activity sheets. They can be printed in grayscale-black ink to save on color ink. These sheets can be kept in a 3-ring binder under the alphabet letter of the week. During this class, you will receive many activity sheets that can be used to review what they are learning outside of the class.  Research shows that children learn by repetition and review, so I encourage my parents to keep the completed activity sheets in an organized binder divided into the weekly alphabet letters we will know. You can even run a second copy as a master sheet. 


All the students will begin to learn as soon as they enroll. If your child missed the beginning of the first lessons on the beginning letters of the alphabet, this class will repeat and start over when we get to the end of the alphabet. Your child can join this class at ANY TIME. ESL Learners are welcome!

Below are the topics we will cover weekly in our classes. 
The class is 35 minutes per class, but we may go over a few minutes as we cover a lot of materials. 
Topics we will cover:
* Days of the week 
* Month/Date (current date)
* Seasons
* Letter of the week (practice identifying, writing, and saying letter sounds) 
* Learning to read words using picture clues for each letter of the week
* High-frequency- sight words:  These are taken from a commonly used list in kindergarten classes in the United States. There are 
   100 words on the list; we start with 3 per week and increase to 5 depending on when you start the class. 
* Students will be reading sentences every class using these high-frequency sight words.
* Color of the week (practice identifying)
* The shape of the week (practice identifying)
* Math Skills (numbers 0 to 100.  Counting by 1's, 2's, 5's, and 10's to a hundred.
* Simple addition and subtraction
* Before and after numbers
* Patterns- seeing a pattern and finishing the pattern
* Sorting objects into a given group
* Fractions-simple fractions 1/2, 1/3, and 1/4 
* During our last class of the week, students will each share an item that begins with the letter we are learning for the week.

****I have written and/or created and own the copyrights for all the lessons' materials. This includes the student activity sheets, written stories, and slides used in my classes. 


We will have classes three times a week.  Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday.
I hope to see your precious learner in my class! I look forward to working with them to learn and grow in their educational journey! The students will receive a certificate of completion when they finish the 26-week class.  
The schedule below is a dated schedule that was required when I listed this class. I do not update this.

Week 1: January 5-11                         Letter A  We will start with zero. One number each week.
Week 2:  January 12-18                       Letter B
Week 3: January 19-25                       Letter C
Week 4: January 26-February 1         Letter D
Week 5: February 2-8                         Letter E
Week 6: February 9-15                       Letter F
Week 7: February 16-22                     Letter G
Week 8: February 23-March 1           Letter H
Week 9:  March 2-8                            Letter I
Week 10: March 9-15                          Letter J
Week 11: March 16-22                         Letter K
Week 12: March 23-29                        Letter L
Week 13: March 30-April 5                Letter M
Week 14: April 6-12                             Letter N                                                                     
 (Possibly, I will take a week off this month, which will alter the schedule)
Week 15: April 13-19                           Letter O
Week 16: April 20-26                          Letter P
Week 17: April 27-May 3                    Letter Q
Week 18: May 4-10                             Letter R
Week 19: May 11-17                            Letter S
Week 20: May 18-24                          Letter T
Week 21: May 25-31                           Letter U
Week 22: June 1-7                              Letter V
Week 23: June 8-14                           Letter W
Week 24:  June 15-21                         Letter X
Week 25: June 22-28                         Letter Y
Week 26: June 29-July 5                   Letter Z