⭐ Welcome to your new favorite Kindergarten class. This class is designed to prepare your child for kindergarten with a fun, interactive, and structured learning environment! This class meets four times a week, Monday through Thursday, for 35 minutes each session, ensuring a comprehensive and engaging experience. ⭐

🎓 This 34-week class will cover a full kindergarten curriculum to fully prepare learners to enter the 1st grade! 🎓

Your child will learn the essential skills needed for their future learning, including such as ABCs, phonics rules, spelling, beginning language arts skills, sight words, numbers and number formation, beginning math skills (including beginning geometry), colors, following simple instructions, and social skills, just to name a few skills! 

🔴 Mondays: Monday's are focused on introducing new English concepts, including phonics and high-frequency words. 

🔴 Tuesdays: Tuesday's are focused on introducing new Math concepts, like numbers, addition, subtraction, shapes, terms, etc. 

🔴 Wednesdays: We will continue to focus on our review of the phonics sounds and words introduced on Monday. This will include reading stories and focusing on deeper understanding and connections. We will also focus on writing and spelling. 

🔴 Thursdays: We will continue to build on the counting and number recognition activities from Tuesday, and solve more complex problems and learn different strategies.

💡 Each class begins with welcomes and greetings, discussing the day, our class calendar, meeting social/emotional needs, and then that is followed by the main lesson. While we will not have class on Fridays, a homework packet will be provided to reinforce the week's learning at home at your convenience. Please keep in mind that science and social studies will be included, but will be interwoven into the English/Math lessons.💡

⏰ Students will have multiple opportunities to interact with the teacher and classmates through discussions, show-and-tell, and interactive brain breaks. I encourage participation and personal expression, fostering a supportive and inclusive classroom environment. We will also practice with multiple types of resources, including; videos, movement, songs and rhymes, presentations, activities and games, ebooks, and homework packets for extra fun and practice. 

📅 More formal assessments will be conducted monthly to monitor progress and ensure retention of information. These will be completed in class and parents can also ask for homework to access as well. 

📚Class Items Needed📚

🌟 Printed Materials - I will provide the students with printable workbooks twice per week so they can use them during class as well as for homework. If you can not print off these materials, please have some paper, pencils/crayons, or a dry erase board and marker for your student to use. 
🌟 1-Subject Notebook or loose-leaf paper - We will complete many interactive activities and students will need a way to add to their notebooks or papers week to week. This will include sight words and spelling words, journal entries, etc. 
🌟 Other items needed from time to time will include glue sticks, glue, crayons, child scissors, etc. You will always be informed the Friday before class starts the next week on what will be needed! 

⭐️⭐️ You can join this class any week, but this course does build on content and I highly recommend going through the full curriculum for 1st grade readiness. ⭐️⭐️

Want to view the first few months of lessons? Here is our schedule for August - October! 

🌻August🌻

Week of 8/19-8/23: Getting to Know Each Other and Classroom Rules, Introduction to virtual classroom rules, "All About Me" activities, basic counting, letter recognition, shape recognition, etc. 
Week of 8/26-8/30: Colors and Numbers, color recognition, color sorting activity, number line activity, phonics games, combining shapes to form pictures, drawing activities, etc. 


🍎September🍎

Week of 9/2-9/6: Family and Home, discussing family members, creating a family tree, introduction to addition, story times with books about family, exploring our five senses, etc. 
Week of 9/9-9/13: Our Community, community helpers, matching jobs to tools, simple subtraction, creating a community helper book, etc. 
Week of 9/16-9/20: Animals and Habitats, introduction to animals, animal sorting activity, counting animals in different habitats, animal-themed phonics games, creating animal habitats using craft materials, etc. 
Week of 9/23-9/27: Plants and Growth, plant life cycle, planting seeds activity, comparing heights, reading stories about plants, etc. 

🎃October🎃

Week of 9/30-10/4: Fall, fall season characteristics, leaf sorting activity, counting leaves, simple addition, letters review, fall-themed phonics games, etc. 
Week of 10/7-10/11: Earth and Environment, introduction to recycling, addition and subtraction practice, environmental-themed stories, creating a recycling poster, etc. 
Week of 10/14-10/18: Dinosaurs, read books about dinosaurs, discuss new vocabulary words, create a dinosaur habitat using craft materials, discuss herbivores vs. carnivores, introduction to fossils, write a short story or draw a picture about a day in the life of a dinosaur, etc. 
Week of 10/28-11/1: Halloween, simple graphing activity, Halloween traditions and safety tips, Halloween feelings pumpkin, reading "kooky and spooky" stories, etc.


 🎯Classroom Expectations/To-Know's 🎯

🌟 We will be kind & respectful to our classmates, our teacher, and ourselves. 
🌟 We will use appropriate language when talking to others. 
🌟 We will listen politely when someone else is speaking.
🌟 We will not share any personal information with classmates. 
🌟 Class expectations are outlined at the start of each class to maintain a respectful learning environment.
🌟 This class operates on a weekly subscription that automatically renews every Sunday. 
🌟 You can secure your spot by subscribing on Thursday's to start the following week.
🌟 Each week, comprehensive homework packets are provided to enhance learning beyond class time.
🌟 For safety and verification, all students are required to show their faces upon entering the classroom, as per Outschool's policy.
🌟 Students will be muted when they first enter the class. This is to minimize distractions, ensuring all students can engage fully in our daily agenda. Please make sure your students know how to mute and unmute themselves when they have questions or need to say something. 
🌟 Opportunities for students to share, practice public speaking, and develop social skills like turn-taking and listening are integral parts of each class.
🌟 We encourage teamwork to build confidence and independence. This includes parents too! You are encouraged to support your child during class as needed. 
🌟 We love to celebrate birthdays in class. If you'd like, you can let me know if your child has a birthday coming up and we will celebrate!
🌟 This Kindergarten class meets the following core standards: RL.K.1, RL.K.2, RL.K.3, RL.K.4, RL.K.5, RL.K.6, RL.K.7, RL.K.8, RL.K.9, RL.K.10, RI.K.1, RI.K.2, RI.K.3, RI.K.4, RI.K.5, RI.K.6, RI.K.7, RI.K.8, RI.K.9, RI.K.10, RF.K.1, RF.K.2, RF.K.3, RF.K.4, RF.K.5, W.K.1, W.K.2, W.K.3, W.K.4, W.K.5, W.K.6, SL.K.1, SL.K.2, SL.K.3, SL.K.4, SL.K.5, L.K.1, L.K.2, L.K.3, L.K.4, L.K.5, L.K.6

 📅 Holiday's/Time Off 📅 

To give all of us some much needed breaks during the school year, we will not have class on the following weeks:
🖍️ Week of 10/21: Fall Break
🖍️ Week of 11/25: Thanksgiving Break
🖍️ Weeks of 12/23 - 12/30: Winter Break (we will resume lessons starting the week of 1/6/25)
🖍️ Week of 3/24: Spring Break
🖍️ We also observe the following holidays: 9/2 (Labor Day), 11/11 (Veterans Day), 1/20 (Martin Luther King Jr. Day), 2/17 (President's Day), 5/26 (Memorial Day) 

Keep in mind that when the holidays fall M-Th, you will not have to pay for those days. Students will still receive their workbooks! 

❇️ This is an Inclusive and Progressive Learning Environment ❇️

Inclusivity is at the heart of everything we do. We celebrate diversity and honor all family structures, ensuring that our lessons and stories reflect the rich tapestry of our communities. The curriculum emphasizes universal values and social-emotional learning, fostering empathy and understanding among young learners.

We will prioritize a secular approach in all lessons, focusing on academic and developmental milestones. For example, we do celebrate student birthdays! Books and lessons are thoughtfully curated to be inclusive of various backgrounds and beliefs, with a commitment to respecting every child's unique identity. Religious themes are only explored in historical contexts, ensuring a balanced and respectful learning experience for all.

This class is made to be a welcoming space where every child feels valued, supported, and empowered to learn and grow together. Together, we will build a foundation of respect, curiosity, and kindness that prepares children for a diverse and interconnected world.

I love incorporating songs, show-and-tell, and physical activities into our lessons to help each learner get their wiggles out! Social interaction is key in my classes. 

With my background in Special Education and early education, I'm dedicated to meeting each student's unique needs as well. Please don't hesitate to reach out with any questions or concerns you may have!

I'm incredibly excited to have your learner in class! 😊

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