In our ongoing preschool class, each day we will begin with calendar time. Singing our days of the weeks, months of the year, and counting to add dates on to our calendar for the month. Skills in our calendar time will be guided by the Saxon Math curriculum for Kindergarten. We will build our skills to prepare us for Kindergarten. Throughout our ongoing class, students will learn ALL of the standards taught in preschool (Pre-K).

Our calendar skills will include:  
counting, shapes, colors, patterns, numbers recognition, number order, months of the year, days of the week, seasons, and weather. 
Our Kindergarten preparation skills will come after our calendar time. We will work on mini lessons to support our Kindergarten readiness and work on one task at a time. 

Phonic Skills will include:
Letter recognition, letter sounds, print concepts (top to bottom/ left to right, spaces between words, letters of the alphabet, and animal letter crafts for each letter), phonological awareness (rhyming, beginning/medial/ final sounds, sound manipulation, and syllables) , phonics (letter sounds, sight words, decode and write one syllable words), and  fluency (reading emergent reader text with fluency and tracking).   
⭐️This class is not an ESL class. It will support beginning language development, vocabulary acquisition, and general welcome conversation. Skills are focused on academic developmental skills and standards needing to be proficient for Kindergarten. ⭐️

Each class will follow a general pattern for welcome, calendar time, and literacy preparation skill mini lesson, and goodbye. We will be able to work on skills throughout the week, but each class will have a stand alone focus.   I love to utilize open conversation and responses during class and students are welcome to stay off of mute (as long as there isn't an excess amount of noise disturbance). I strive to use mute only to help with background noise. Classroom management techniques are used to keep class engaging, respectful, and a kind -uplifting place. 

Students are able to come and go within the semester as long as their is an opening for enrollment. Resources for the week will be sent out in advanced if there is a printing need for resources.

Refund Policy:
I am happy to give a $8 partial credit back for enrolling after a class meeting in the week for each day your learner did not attend class, upon request. A $3 credit will be kept for classroom materials and the recordings. You will receive all classroom materials for the week and recordings once we meet to verify learners. If you have any questions about this, please send me a personal message through Outschool.


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Class begins August 12- Week 1
  -1 week off at Thanksgiving (November 25-29), 
  -2 weeks off at Winter Break (December 20- January 5)
  -1 week of at Spring Break (March 2025)


August 12- Week 1-Introduction to class, learn colors and feelings, communication skills, handwriting strokes for straight and curved lines, cutting with scissors.

August 19- Week 2: Letter M- Color- red and blue, making comparisons, letter M, diagonal handwriting strokes, letter M letter craft, and nursery rhyme.

August 26- Week 3: Letter A- Color- yellow, making comparisons, letter A and animal craft, circular handwriting strokes, circle and square- shape attributes and fine motor activity, and nursery rhyme.

September 2- Week 4:Letter  T (class will meet on Labor Day)-
Color-green, cutting straight lines and circles, letter T and animal craft,  handwriting strokes for the letter Tt, square and circle-shape attributes and fine motor activity, and nursery rhyme.

September 9- Week 5: Letter F- Color- orange, color patterns, letter F and animal craft,  handwriting strokes for the letter Ff, triangle-shape attributes and fine motor activity, and nursery rhyme.

September 16- Week 6: Color-purple, color patterns, letter D and animal craft,  handwriting strokes for the letter Dd, circle and triangle- shape attributes and fine motor activity, and nursery rhyme.

September 23- Week 7: Color-review, position words, letter S and animal craft,  handwriting strokes for the letter Ss, diamond- shape attributes and fine motor activity, and nursery rhyme.

September 30- Week 8: Color-review, rhyming word introduction and application, numbers 0- 10 introduction, CVC word building with the -at family,  handwriting stroke review, rectangle and square- shape attributes and fine motor activity, and nursery rhyme with number 1-10.

October 7- Week 9: Color-review, position words, letter G and animal craft,  handwriting strokes for the letter Gg,  shape attributes and fine motor activity, and nursery rhyme.

October 14- Week 10: Color-review, position words, letter O and animal craft,  handwriting strokes for the letter Oo,  shape attributes and fine motor activity, and nursery rhyme.

October 21- Week 11- Color review, letter review and handwriting strokes, CVC word building, numbers 0-10 review, fine motor and theme craft application for fun fall projects (tree, pumpkin, bat), and nursery rhyme with numbers 1-10 , 

October 28- Week 12: Letter C, Color review, letter review, animal, and C handwriting strokes, CVC word building with at and ot word families, numbers 0-10 review, and nursery rhyme with numbers 1-10 
 
❤️ Week of November 3- the end of daylight savings time. Please check our class to schedule to see how the time changes impacts your timezone. ❤️



⭐️Important information about class⭐️

Weekly printouts are sent out the Friday before the week. We complete these pages during class. Additional materials are also noted for the week, for you to prepare or bring to class. However, you can always use a whiteboard or white paper at home if you are unable to print the pages. Crayons, markers, scissors, and pencils are great to have on hand during class time. 

During calendar, we also highlight holidays. We have holidays pointed out during calendar time. I strive to be inclusive to all types of holidays and celebrations. We create thematic projects during review weeks close to major holidays. We also will sing to students on their birthdays.

Classroom volume is monitored during class by encouraging our friends to raise their hands. I also strive to keep all our friends off of mute during class, but I will mute students when needed to minimize background noise during class.