This is a fun weekly spelling class with some serious learning!  

By mastering spelling rules and patterns, students can expect to see:
✨ Improved Reading Comprehension
✨ Confident Writing Skills
✨ Expanded Vocabulary

With consistent repetition and practice, this class ensures that spelling becomes second nature, leading to impressive leaps in reading levels over time—some students have jumped 2-3 levels in just one year!

Every week, we will:
✨ learn 10 new words centered around special sound/spelling rules
✨ practice dividing the words into syllables for easier learning
✨ define words and talk about their respective parts of speech
✨ play interactive learning games to reinforce the learning

As a bonus, I provide weekly lists, definitions, and (optional) activities for extra practice at home, ensuring continuous improvement and mastery.

New students can join any week and long attending students get to know one another and have fun playing the different games every week. Repetition and practice over time makes the rules "stick". 

FALL 2024 
week of Sept 16: (no Monday class) open/closed syllable
week of Sept 23: magic e syllable
week of Sept 30: beginning blends

week of Oct 7: ending blends 
week of Oct 14: schwa with t
week of Oct 21:  schwa with l
week of Oct 28: schwa with n/m

week of Nov 4: Bossy R (BR): er, ir, ur
week of Nov 11: Vowel Team(VT): oi, oy
week of Nov 18: VT: ou/ow
NO CLASS week of Nov 25

week of Dec 2: VT: long i (igh)
week of Dec 9: doubling rule 1
week of Dec 16: doubling rule 2
NO CLASS weeks of Dec 23, or 30th

2025:
week of Jan 6: drop rule 1
week of Jan 13: drop rule 2
week of Jan 20: change rule 1
week of Jan 27: change rule 2

week of Feb 3: Consonant+le syllable
week of Feb 10: kind old words (-ild -old -ind -olt -ost)
week of Feb 17: BR: ar 
week of Feb 24: BR: or

week of March 3: VT: au/aw
week of March 10: other silent e 
NO CLASS week of March 17th (my spring break!)
week of March 24: -y endings
week of March 31: VT: ch (as k and sh)

week of March April 7: VT:  oo/ew 
week of April 14: other BR spellings (/air/)
week of April 21: other BR spellings (/er/ spelled ar and or)
week of April 28: silent letters 1 (n and b)

week of May 5: silent letters 2 (gn and kn) 
week of May 12: VT: long a (eigh, ei)
week of May 19: VT long e (ie, ei)
week of May 26: (No Monday class) v/v syllable division