This course targets the kindergarten age group (5-6 year-olds). This is an ongoing circle time, students will get to know one another and learn social-emotional skills, language, science, and math in a fun, engaging Montessori way. Each month we will focus on different themes in all areas of learning (math, language, science, art, and social-emotional). The students will learn new songs, dance, read stories, and integrate art. This will be a four-day-a-week class (M-TH). This circle time will be hands-on and very engaging. I am an educator who loves to get to know my student's interests and go off of their needs/wants. This will also be an opportunity for students to socially interact with their peers and get to know one another through group discussions and games. It will be fun, inclusive, and engaging. The students in this class should have prior knowledge in letter recognition and concrete knowledge in numbers 1-20.

We will be learning Montessori themes in language, math, geography, and science. For language, we will be practicing enrichment of vocabulary, development of writing skills, and the introduction of reading theory (phonetic elements, phonograms, digraphs, sight words, etc.). In math, students will learn about place value and, over time, will go into more abstract concepts like addition, multiplication, subtraction, and division. For geography, we will be learning about the world around us, where we are in the world, different continents, land, air, water, and learn about different countries. For science subjects, we will be learning many different themes and these themes include science experiments, the life cycle of things, identifying parts of animals/plants, and digging deeper into the subject matter.  

Daily Circle Time Setup:
-Introductions 
-Go around the circle and discuss how everyone is doing 
-Calendar
-Weather Report 
-Count the Number of Days we have been in class (Learn skip counting)
-Daily Affirmations 
-Go into the theme/activity of the day

Weekly Setup:
Monday: Language 
Tuesday: Math
Wednesday: Science (learning about the theme)
Thursday: Art project/Science Experiment or dance party depending on the theme

***Each day, children will want to have paper, pencil, and coloring materials with them*** This is a hands-on class that each day students will need to be prepared with materials***

Each week I will prepare an itinerary and will have printables that will be needed for learning that week! 

September:
Back to School & Getting to know each other
Social-Emotional Learning 
Fall Themes 
-Apple Unit 
-Learn the 7 Continents 
-Land, Air, & Water 
-Grace & Courtesy Lessons
-Introduction to numbers
-Letter Recognition & Practice handwriting 

Week 1: August 29th-September 1st
Getting to know one another 
Learning names and practicing writing names & numbers 

Week: Sept. 6th - 8th
Observation of Labor Day Monday-No Class
Theme: 
Language: Digraphs: th & wh, writing & reading 
Math: Place Values  (Review, units, tens, and hundreds place values)
Seven continents
Parts of an Apple

Week: Sept. 12th-15th
Theme: 
Digraphs: sh & ck, writing, & reading
Math: Tens Board (Practice counting by 10s) 
Continue seven continents (Start making our world map)
Apple Life Cycle

Week: Sept. 19th - 22nd
Theme: 
Language: Digraphs: ch & ee, writing & reading
Math: Tens Board (creating our own tens board)
Land, Air, & Water

Week: Sept. 26 - 29th
Theme:
Language: Review digraphs & play digraph games 
Math: Tens & Units (distinguishing & counting tens plus units), practice writing numbers
Putting our world map together!
 
October: 
Fall Themes Continued 
-Pumpkin Unit 
-Learn Seasons
-Signs of Fall
-Where are we in the world? (Me on a Map unit)
-Community Helper Unit

November:
Fall & Thanksgiving Themes 
-North America Unit 
-Thankful Activities 
-Nocturnal Animals Unit
-Hibernation Unit

December: 
Holiday & Winter Themes
-Learn about holidays around the world 
-Europe Unit 
-Signs of winter