Attention!  Attention!  📣📣 Calling all first graders!

🎉Come and join this lively, early-elementary class taught by a homeschool mom veteran with over 25 years of teaching experience!

⭐️This class will meet three times per week.  Each week we will focus on a different theme as we cover reading  (Tuesdays), math (Wednesdays), and Language Arts  (Thursdays).  Each day at the beginning of class we will go over the date, time on an analog clock, two weekly sight words, and counting/place value as we learn about our theme for the week.

⭐️⭐️Since this is an ongoing class, your learner can join any week.  The lessons will not build on each other, and we will review frequently throughout the year


👉WEEKLY CLASS THEMES👈

  
Aug. 27:  Bees  🐝🍯🐝  (topics:  th sound, contractions, addition/subtraction/greater than/less than)

Sept. 3:  Spring  🌺🦋🌳  (topics:  ph sound, prepositions, bar graphs)

Sept. 10:  Chores  (topics:  wh sound, regular past tense/adding -ed to verbs, grids/coordinate grids)

Sept. 17:  Tropical Rainforests 🌿🌴💦  (topics:  digraph review: sh, ch, wh, th, ph, reading comprehension, bar graphs/tally marks)

Sept. 24:  Europe  🏰🗼🎡 (topics:  beginning blends review, common/proper nouns/ capital letters, hundreds' place)

Oct. 1:  Arctic Animals 🐇🦌 (topics: long a sound with ai, forming complete sentences, place value/adding to the hundred's place)

Oct. 8:  Southern Border States (topics: igh: long i sound, punctuation marks, ordinal numbers)

Oct. 15:  Northern Border States (topics: long o sound as in "slow"; syllables; fact families)

Oct. 22:  Eastern Border States (topics: blends review: fl, sl, bl, sn; alphabetical order; counting by 25s/quarters)

Oct. 29:  Western Middle States (topics: blends review: tr, gr, str, sm; solving with unknown addend; spelling skills w/short vowels)

Nov. 5:  Eastern Middle States (topics:  ow sound as in "cow", short story elements, word problems)

Nov. 12:   Fruits  🥭🥝🍉  (topics:  short i sound, pronouns, shapes and addition)

Nov. 19:  Birds 🦜🦚🦩  (topics:  short U sound, compound words, adding by 1/number line)

Nov. 26: Thanksgiving Break

Dec. 3:  Ocean Animals  🦑🐠🐳  (topics:  short A sound, capital letters/punctuation marks, one's place

Dec. 10:  Summer  🌴☀️🌻  (topics:  short O sound, nouns, measuring in inches)

Dec. 17 :  Reptiles  🐍🦎🐢  (topics:  short E sound, singular/plural nouns, shapes) 

Dec. 24 - Jan. 6:  Winter Break

Jan. 7:  Phases of the Moon  🌕🌗🌙  (topics:  oo sound, adjectives, fractions)  

Jan. 14:  Autumn  🍁🍂🌨  (topics:  all, ell, l, ll sounds, making nouns plural, greater than/less than)

Jan. 21: Phases of the Moon  🌕🌗🌙  (topics:  oo sound, adjectives, fractions) 

Jan. 28:   Autumn  🍁🍂🌨  (topics:  all, ell, l, ll sounds, making nouns plural, greater than/less than)

Feb. 4:  Solar System  🪐🌏✨  (topics:  short vowels, beginning/ending sounds, possessive nouns, count by 10s)

Feb. 11:  Textiles  🧶🪡🧵  (topics:  words that end with -and/-end, possessive pronouns, counting coins) 

Feb. 18:  Water Cycle  🌨🌊☀️  (topics:  long A sound, sentences/verbs, subtraction)

Feb. 25:  Digestive Tract/System  🥬🍎🍗  (topics:  c, k, ck, short vowel sounds, antonyms, count by 5s)

Mar. 4:  Dinosaurs  🦕🦖🦕  (topics:  S blends, synonyms, paper money, count by 5s and 10s)

Mar. 11:  Skeletal System  💀🦴🤸🏿‍♀️  (topics:  -ing ending and blends, rhyming words, ten's place)

Mar. 18  Earth’s Surface  🏜🏝🏔  (topics:  long I w/ bossy E, capital letter/proper nouns, 3D shapes)

Mar. 25:  Asia  🏯⛩🏙  (topics:  long O w/ bossy E, phrases/sayings, count by 2s, even numbers)

Apr. 1:  Trees  🌴🌲🌳  (topics:  long U w/ bossy E, alphabetical order, addition, 10 family)

Apr. 8:  States of Matter  💦☄️🧊  (topics:  final sound -st, words in context, one/ten more than/less than)

Apr. 15:  Winter  🛷⛷⛸  (topics:  initial R blends, short story elements, measuring in centimeters)

Apr. 22: South America  🏝🦎🐆  (topics:  long E sound: ee/ea, adjectives and nouns, adding 2 digits) 

Apr. 29:  Insects  🐞🐝🐜  (topics:  beginning/ending SH sound, reading comprehension, equivalent fractions)

May 6:  Horses  🐴🐎🐴  (topics:  amp/ump sounds, fables, subtracting 2 digits)

May 13:  Life Cycle of Plants 🌱🌿 (topics:  ax, ix, ox, adverbs, 2D &3D shapes)

May 20:  Australia  🦘  (topics:  inch, unch, uch, ch, sentences and paragraphs, word problems)

May 27:  Nutrition  🍎🥬🍗  (topics:  long/short vowel review, action/being verbs, patterns)

June 3:  Weather  ☀️🌦⛈  (topics:  initial R blends, homophones, recognizing/adding coins)


📆This class will continue year round, so feel free to have your learner join at any time. 

💁🏻‍♀️I teach my classes using colorful slides that I create on Canva.  I consider myself to be a patient, enthusiastic teacher, and I love interacting with this age group and helping them to feel successful in every class.  This class is perfect for the advanced kindergarten student and on-level first grade student. 

📂I will send worksheets and coloring pages at the beginning of each week so learners will have something to practice after class to reinforce what we've learned.  This class will be interactive as a group, so I will often ask questions of the class as a whole and of individuals.  Students are given the chance to share throughout class.  

⭐️⭐️⭐️Some learners like to write or draw during class.  Feel free to have them make use of their worksheets, especially the handwriting practice, as we go over it in class.  Students may prefer to use a small whiteboard to practice writing and numbers, then they can hold it up so I can see it.  Feel free to provide your student with what will work best for them or maybe even nothing at all.  Many students prefer to just listen during class.

👂During class, I will sometimes mute students to cut down on noise levels.  I prefer not to mute students, but if class size is large, sometimes it is necessary to keep the class orderly.  I try to let students know if I am muting them due to noise in their background and that it doesn't mean they will have to stay muted during the whole class.  PLEASE make sure your student knows how to use the unmute button so they will be ready if I call on them.  It can cause a lot of frustration for students if they have trouble unmuting, so please practice with them and make sure they can use it well.  I can only request that your student unmute himself; I am not able to unmute him.  

✋🏾I encourage students to raise their hands or their emoji hands if they have a question or comment during class.  I ask that if students have something to share, they wait and save it for the end of class.  I always save time at the end for students to share anything they would like during our Show and Tell time, and they are eager to do so.  We have a lot of fun seeing all kinds of toys, drawings, craft projects, and even hearing jokes!

🥳🤩We have such a great time in this class, and I can't wait to meet your student!  Please let me know if you have any questions.