During each week of this Ongoing class, your learner will enjoy a different story with fun characters and compelling escape predicaments.  After meeting the character/s and finding out their problem, students will travel together through all of the "skills rooms".  Using their advancing math skills (number patterns, addition, subtraction, counting base ten blocks, counting simple coin combinations, telling time, and beginning (picture supported) multiplication under 50, they will unlock the "codes", perform the fitness task, and free the story character/s and resolve the situation. 

Learners will be given time to complete the codes by recording their answers on an erasable white board or using paper and pencil.  SUPPORT WILL BE GIVEN AS NEEDED along the way.  Learners will take turns revealing the codes and leading the count for the fitness exercise.  Once the code has been unlocked, and the fitness skill is completed, the class will move together to the next "clue" (problem).   At several points during the skills practice portion of class, we will check back in with the story characters to celebrate our success in helping them "escape"!

EXAMPLES of the FITNESS SKILLS include activities such as:  
20 one foot hops 
20 jumping jacks 
twisting 20 X 
30 second plank hold
10 toe touches
30 seconds of jogging in place

IMPORTANT NOTE:  
This is a "practice" class, not an initial instruction of skills class.  Support, strategies, and a little basic instruction is given when needed and when students request help.  This class does have some PREREQUISITE SKILLS.   Your learner should be pretty familiar (but not perfect) with the following skills in order to participate without frustration:
* addition & subtraction (single and DOUBLE digit; NO regrouping)
* skip counting and number sequences (including triple digits by 2's, 3's, 5's, 10's, 25's, 100's
* the values for coins and how to count them (pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters) 
* reading an analog clock (the one with a face)
* counting base ten blocks
* the basic concept of multiplication (no memorized facts required)
 
Schedule and examples of the PREREQUISITE ADVANCING SKILLS: 
 
Week of May 8
Story:  EFG and the Dark Dungeon 
COUNTING COINS Skills Escape *basic pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters (guided for those who need it) 

Week of 
Story:  Escape From the Gingerbread House (Christmas Themed - kids love it year round!)
STORY PROBLEMS (mixture of addition, subtraction, early multiplication, problem solving)

Week of 
Story:  Rainy, Bo, and The Captured Colors
EARLY MULTIPLICATION Escape  *products 50 and under (picture supported and guided for those who need it)
5 x 3
9 x 4
6 x 2

Week of 
Story:  Mystery at the Lake
MIXED SKILLS including most of those listed in other classes. 

Week of 
Story:  Lost in the Corn Maze (Halloween Themed - we enjoy it year round!)
ADDITION 
5 + 3 = _____
etc.

Week of 
Story:  The Shipwreck - An Escape Under the Sea
SKIP COUNTING Escape. *skip counting by 2's, 3's, 5's, 10's, 25's, 100's
23, 26, ___, 35, 38, 41
50, 75, 100, 125, ___, 175, 200
34, 134, 234, ___, 434, 534

Week of 
Story:  Uno and Zero - Escape from Alphabet Land!
PLACE VALUE Escape  *counting base ten blocks to 100

Week of 
Story:  The Hole in the Wall Escape
ADDITION Skills Escape   *Addition including 3 addends, missing addends, 1 & 2 digits/no regrouping
12 + 4 = _____

8 + 2 + 10 = _____

     67
  + 22

Week of  
Story:  Buster Cracks the Codes
SUBTRACTION Skills Escape    *Subtraction including missing minuends/subtrahends, 1 & 2 digits/no regrouping
15 - 7 = _____

       45
     - 12

Week of 
Story:  Close Call at the Bouncy CastleWeek of August 8
TELLING TIME Escape *reading analog clocks - to the hour, half hour, and 5 minute increments (guided for those who need it)
 
After all 10 Stories and Skill sets have been completed the first time, they will be cycled through again in this order and new dates will be listed.
Note:  If you don't celebrate Holidays, and DON"T want to participate in the 2 Holiday themed stories, please let me know and I will refund that week of non-attendance for you.  If you have questions about the content, please contact me.