**Please note: Students must already know letter names and sounds in order to be successful in this class. 

This class will teach your student to use phonics to learn how to blend sounds together to read words. We will also spend some time working on phonemic awareness. 

To start each class we will begin with saying hello to all of our classmates by singing a short welcome song.

Then, we will spend about 5 minutes doing a phonemic awareness warm up (the ability to hear the sounds in spoken words).These will be oral activities that go back and forth between the students and teacher. In this warm up we will use verbal and kinesthetic games/routines to review and learn new spelling patterns.

Next, we will learn new phonics skill. Most classes will include a video by Jack Hartman to introduce the new skill. Each day we will practice blending a list of words that go along with the spelling pattern we are learning that week. This exercise will teach your student how to go from reading words sound by sound to reading whole words. To do this I will incorporate games to help make it engaging and memorable for the students. 
To close our class we will sing a short goodbye song together.

(9/22-9/23 & 9/29-9/30)
Short O

(10/6-10-7 & 10/15--10/16 & 10/27-10/28)
Short A
* Fall Break 10/20-21 No classes

(11/3-11/4 & 11/10-11/11) 
Short I

(11/17 - 11/18 & 12/1-12/2) 
Short U
*Thanksgiving Break 11/24-25 No Classes 

(12/8-12/9 & 12/15-12/16) 
Short E

Feel free to join anytime! Since this is ongoing these classes do not build upon each other.