Join me for this fun First Grade literacy and math class! Get $6 off this class with coupon code MOTLELEARN6

I taught Third Grade, First Grade, Kindergarten and a Transition to Kindergarten class for over 17 years and would love to teach your learners on Outschool.  This class is for students who are in First Grade and is based on the first grade language arts and math standards.  We will have fun, learning first grade standards with interactive language arts and math activities that go along with our weekly theme. These language arts and math activities will progress throughout the school year and prepare your child for Second grade!  I am very energetic and love to teach in a way that makes learning fun!

To start each class, I love to greet each child as they enter the classroom and connect with them by asking a fun question.  We begin by playing a warm-up game and then try to figure out what is in the Mystery Box. The Mystery Box holds a special item related to our weekly theme. We read clues together and then guess what could be in the box! As we read the clues, we practice reading sight words, identifying parts of words and spelling patterns, and building upon our reading and fluency skills. It is so exciting to find out what is in the box each day! I love stuffed animals, so many days there is a special stuffed animal that joins us.
Throughout each class, we have language arts and literacy activities and games that go along with our theme. 

Each day, we have a special Morning Message that we will read together practicing reading skills, decoding, and fluency. The morning message will contain language arts and math skills, as well as a question of the day. 

We will practice editing sentences together by identifying mistakes and correcting them. Skills we will focus on are capitalization, proper nouns and common nouns, ending punctuation marks, commas, contractions, compound words, regular and irregular plural nouns, verb tenses, and various other spelling and phonics rules. 

We will learn about the writing process and write together.  We will explore using adjectives and adverbs to make our writing more exciting. 

We will review and learn new sight words by playing sight word games.

Literacy and phonics skills that we will learn about and explore are:
Making and writing words 
Consonant blends
Digraphs
Vowel teams
R controlled vowels
Diphthongs
Spelling patterns
Suffixes
Prefixes
Compound words
Contractions
Commas
Word Families 
Syllables
Rhyming
Reading and writing sight words
Decoding how to identify unknown words when reading
Reading comprehension 
Writing and editing a sentence
Parts of speech- nouns, verbs, adverbs, adjectives
Verb tenses - past, present and future
Homophones
Synonyms and antonyms
Singular and plural nouns 
Irregular plural nouns
and so much more! 

Some math skills we will learn about and explore are: 
addition
subtraction 
expanded notation form
using a number line
even and odd numbers
fact families
skip counting
using a tens frame
number sense 
writing numbers and equations
finding unknown numbers in equations
patterning
graphing
place value 
telling time
counting by 2's, 5's, and 10's
reading and solving word problems
solve multi-step word problems

Near the end of each class, we will go on a scavenger hunt to find something related to our learning! 

Each week is thematic! Below are the weekly themes and focus skills. If there is an animal or topic that is your learner's favorite please let me know and we can incorporate that! 

Each week will be thematic! Below are the themes we will cover during each month.
Monthly themes:
September- Animals, Our Favorites, Friendship
October - Bats, Spiders, Owls, Pumpkins
November - Turkeys, Silly Vegetables, Fall Fun
December - Gingerbread, Reindeer and Caribou, Cold Weather Fun
January - Snow, Snow people, Polar Bears, Penguins
February - Seals, Friendship, Hearts, Hibernation and Migration, Bears and Teddy Bears
March - Farm, Cows, Dinosaurs, Rainbows and weather
April -  Oviparous Animals, Rabbits, Turtles
May - Frogs, Pond, Gardens, Bugs, Warm weather activities

We will not meet on September 4 for Labor Day, but I will refund that day for you. Whenever we don't meet for class, I always refund you for that class. 

Weekly skills learned:
Monday -Language arts and math skills - spelling, syllabication, editing a sentence, word problem
Tuesday - Language arts and math skills - time, grammar, making words, phonics, and reading comprehension
Wednesday - Literacy and math skills- addition, subtraction, place value, number sense, rhyming, parts of speech
Thursday - Language arts and math skills- phonics, word study, compound words, math
Friday- Language arts and math skills - word families, finding values for unknown numbers, rhyming, comprehension

I love for every child to participate throughout our class, if they would like. By doing this, we learn social skills such as taking turns, waiting our turn, when to listen and when to talk, how to ask questions, and how to interact in a classroom setting. Learners will be unmuted, unless I hear background noise or am teaching a concept. Please make sure your learner knows how to mute and unmute.

Each child will need something to write on such as paper or dry erase board. You will not need to print anything for class. 

I hope you can join me for this fun and engaging first grade class! Please let me know if you have any questions!