Do you have a learner getting ready to enter first grade in the fall? Do you want them to feel prepared and ready to learn? Then you have found the right class! In this class we will focus on reading, writing, and math skills to help your learner feel prepared for first grade. We will meet three times a week. The first day we meet we will work on reading skills. The second day on writing skills. The third day on math skills. We will work on these skills using a multisensory approach. We will play games, use modeling, and digital manipulatives to help us understand math concepts. It is recommended that your learner have a dry erase board and marker (The dollar store ones work great!). There will also be some handouts to print before class. *Note: Learners should know the sounds of each letter and be prepared to learn new sounds. They should also know how to read cvc, three letter, words like cat. *

Week 1: 
Day 1: 
Phonemic awareness Warm up (blending and segmenting)
Read and build words with Short a,i and o
Review sight words (the, I, a, said, to, do, of, see, he, be, me, from) 
Read The Big Box
Comprehension work
Day 2: 
Writing: Use sounds to spell words unknown words (best guess spelling)
Day 3:
Composing and decomposing 6 and 7

Week 2:
Day 1: 
Phonemic awareness Warm up (blending and segmenting), 
Read and build words with all short vowels,
Review sight words (look,book, are, was, you, what, have), 
Read The Fox and The Red Hen
Comprehension work
Day 2: Writing: labeling pictures using best guess spelling
Day 3: Composing and decomposing 8 and 9

Week 3:
Day 1: 
Phonemic awareness Warm up (blending and segmenting) 
Read and build words with digraph ck
Review sight words (your, want, go, no, so, goes, says)
Read The Mud Track
Comprehension work
Day 2: 
Writing: Writing a sentence using a subject and a predicate
Day 3: 
Composing and decomposing 10

Week 4:
Day 1: 
Phonemic awareness Warm up (blending and segmenting),
Read and build words with digraph sh
Review sight words (your, want, go, no, so, goes, says, she, we), 
Read The Ship 
Comprehension work
Day 2: 
Writing: Write a sentence using a sentence stem 
Day 3: 
Adding using a number line

Week 5:
Day 1: 
Phonemic awareness Warm up (blending and segmenting),
Read and build words with digraph th (voiced)
Review sight words (go, no, so, goes, says, she, we, they, their), 
Read This and That
Comprehension work
Day 2: 
Writing: Write a sentence that tells about a picture (using a period)
Day 3:  
Subtracting using a number line

Week 6:
Day 1: 
Phonemic awareness Warm up (blending and segmenting),
Read and build words with digraph th (unvoiced)
Review sight words (goes, says, she, we, they, their, were), 
Read Thump! Thump! Thud!
Comprehension work
Day 2: 
Writing: Write a sentence that asks a question (using a question mark)
Day 3: 
Fact Families and Story Problems

Week 7:
Day 1: 
Phonemic awareness Warm up (blending and segmenting),
Read and build words with digraph ch
Review sight words (she, we, they, their, were, talk, walk), 
Read Chips and Dip
Comprehension work
Day 2: Writing: Write a sentence that shows strong feeling (using an exclamation mark
Day 3: Make a ten to add


Note: After the week seven the topics will start over.