Second Grade Summer Prep Literacy and Math With Ms. Emily

Join me in this fun, interactive class to review First grade and prepare your child for Second Grade with a certified teacher! I love teaching and it is important to me to create an environment where children are excited to come to class, participate, and have fun while learning! I taught Third Grade, First Grade, Kindergarten and a Transition to Kindergarten class for over 17 years and am excited to teach your learners on Outschool! 

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This ongoing class will continue throughout the summer and each week will have a different theme. We will have fun, reviewing firsts grade skills with interactive language arts and math games that go along with our weekly theme. These grammar, spelling, literacy, phonics, reading and math activities will help reinforce the skills learned in First grade and will prepare your child for Second grade! 

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 try 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! As we read the clues, we practice reading sight words, identifying parts of words and spelling patterns, and building upon our reading and fluency skills. 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 language arts and literacy activities and games that go along with our theme. 

We will practice editing sentences together by identifying mistakes and correcting them. Skills we will focus on are capitalization, proper nouns and common nouns, ending punctuation marks, commas, contractions, regular and irregular plural nouns, verb tenses, and various other spelling and phonics rules. 

We review and reinforce sight words by playing sight word games.

Each day, we have a special Morning Message that we will read together practicing reading skills, decoding, and fluency. The morning message will contain spelling, language arts, literacy and math skills, as well as a question of the day. 

Throughout this class we will learn to identify and write larger numbers, learn about place value, tally marks, the tens frame, graphing, addition and subtraction and much more! We will count to 100 by 5's and 10's, learn about skip counting with even and odd numbers, compare numbers using greater than and less than, graphing, and patterning. 

Near the end of each class, we will go on a scavenger hunt to find something related to our learning! 

Some math skills we will learn about and explore are: 
addition
subtraction- different methods
using a tens frame
number sense 
equations
ten more and ten less
even and odd numbers
ordering numbers
patterning
graphing
place value 
skip counting by 2's, 5's, and 10's
word problems – addition and subtraction
finding unknown numbers in equations
time
fractions

Language arts, grammar, literacy, spelling and phonics skills that we will learn about and explore are:
Singular and Plural common nouns
Verb tenses – past, present and future
Pronouns
Homophones
Synonyms/Antonyms
Adjectives and adverbs
Long and short vowel teams
Spelling rules
Commas in a series
Contractions
Prepositions
Sequencing
Compound words
Consonant blends
Digraphs
Word Families 
Syllables and spelling
Rhyming
Decoding words
Reading comprehension 
Editing sentences
Compare and contrast
Cause and effect
Fact and opinion

Each week is thematic! Below are the monthly themes. If there is an animal or theme that is your learner's favorite please let me know and we can incorporate that! 
June - Summer fun
July - Pets, Jungle, Dinosaurs
August - Lake and Pond animals, Bugs, Ocean animals

Weekly and Daily focus skills:
Week of June 20 Ocean animals!
Tuesday - Language arts and math skills - grammar, editing a sentence, making words, phonics, and reading
Wednesday - Literacy and math skills- addition, subtraction, place value, number sense, rhyming, parts of speech
Thursday - Language arts and math skills- word families, reading, and writing a descriptive sentence using adjectives, verbs, and adverbs

Week of June 27- Jungle!
Tuesday - Language arts skills - grammar, making words, phonics, and reading
Wednesday - Literacy and Math skills- addition, subtraction, finding values for unknown numbers, number sense, rhyming
Thursday - Language arts skills - word families, grammar, reading, and writing a sentence

Week of July 2 - Pets and Favorite Animals!
Tuesday - No class for 4th of July. Class will be refunded because we won't have class.
Wednesday - Literacy and Math skills- addition, subtraction, finding values for unknown numbers, number sense, rhyming
Thursday - Language arts skills - word families, grammar, reading, and writing a sentence

Week of July 11 - Zoo
Tuesday - Language arts skills - grammar, making words, phonics, and reading
Wednesday - Literacy and Math skills- addition, subtraction, finding values for unknown numbers, number sense, rhyming
Thursday - Language arts skills - word families, grammar, reading, and writing a sentence

Week of July 18 - Forest Animals  
Tuesday - Language arts skills - grammar, making words, phonics, and reading
Wednesday - Literacy and Math skills- addition, subtraction, finding values for unknown numbers, number sense, rhyming
Thursday - Language arts skills - word families, grammar, reading, and writing a sentence

Week of July 25 -Dinosaurs!
Tuesday - Language arts skills - grammar, making words, phonics, and reading
Wednesday - Literacy and Math skills- addition, subtraction, finding values for unknown numbers, number sense, rhyming
Thursday - Language arts skills - word families, grammar, reading, and writing a sentence

Week of August 1 - Lake and Pond animals
Tuesday - Language arts skills - editing a sentence, irregular plural nouns, and reading and solving a math word problem
Wednesday - Literacy and Math skills- addition, subtraction, finding values for unknown numbers, number sense, rhyming
Thursday - Language arts skills - word families, grammar, reading, and writing a sentence using adjectives and adverbs

Week of August 7 -Bugs
Tuesday -  Language arts skills - grammar, making words, phonics, editing a sentence, and reading
Wednesday - Literacy and Math skills- addition, subtraction, finding values for unknown numbers, number sense, rhyming
Thursday - Language arts skills - word families, grammar, reading, and writing a sentence

Week of August 14 - Bugs
Tuesday - Language arts skills - grammar, making words, phonics, and reading
Wednesday - Literacy and Math skills- addition, subtraction, finding values for unknown numbers, number sense, rhyming
Thursday - Language arts skills - word families, grammar, adjectives, nouns and verbs

Week of August 22 - Ocean animals
Tuesday - Language arts skills - grammar, making words, phonics, and reading, singular and plural, homophones and editing a sentence
Wednesday - Literacy and Math skills- addition, subtraction, finding values for unknown numbers, number sense, rhyming
Thursday - Language arts skills - word families, grammar, adjectives, nouns and verbs, alphabetical order, contractions

I love for every child to participate throughout our class if they would like. By doing this, we learn social skills such as taking turns, waiting our turn, when to listen and when to talk, how to ask questions, and how to interact in a classroom setting.  

Each child will need something to write on such as paper or dry erase board. 

I hope you can join me for this fun and engaging class to prepare your child for second grade! Please let me know if you have any questions!