Let’s Bridge the Gap between Kindergarten & First Grade! 

In this ongoing course, your child will practice skills that will help them feel confident and be successful in transitioning from Kindergarten to First grade. This course is also suitable for an advanced learner going into kindergarten. 
**Before signing up, please refer to the skills & topics being covered in order to determine if your learner is ready, and if the class will be a good fit for them (*skills are listed in detail below). Each week is listed in order by date to help you see what will be taught :) . 

**Prerequisite: Your child should have working knowledge of letter names & sounds prior to beginning this course. We will review focus-letters weekly before practicing phonics skills with them. However, this course does *not serve as an introduction to the alphabet & letter sounds. We will be building and blending words, so working knowledge of letters and sounds is needed. 

Since this is an ongoing course, you can join at any time! Each week is individual of the others, so you can join this class at any point there is a vacancy. 

Skills will not ‘build’ on one another, but they do progress & are described in full so you are aware of what prior knowledge is needed before joining.  If your child already has prior knowledge of the skills being taught, this will be a good review and fun time of togetherness with peers of the same age. 

Please see the scope and sequence below. 

Each day we will have a time for:
-Calendar Math (Month of the Year/Number of the Day)
-Math skill
-Phonics skills that are applied to reading
-*Day 3 Each week: we will have a time for show & tell.


------A LOOK AHEAD: SUMMER (2022) SCHEDULE----
JUNE *2022:: (Beginning of class)
*6/7-9:: 
-Math: identify and extend patterns (i.e. ab, abc)
-Phonics: practice letter sounds [g, t, r, (consonant) y, k], vowel /a/], build & blend simple CVC words , Practice Sight Words: of, had, the, a
-Reading: use these phonics skills to respond to a guided reading text (with assistance as needed)

*6/14-16
-Math: introduction to bar graphs and graphing data
-Phonics: practice letter sounds [t, f, z, p, g, d], vowel /i/], build & blend simple CVC words, Practice Sight Words: in, it, can, the
-Reading: use these phonics skills to respond to a guided reading text (with assistance as needed)
       

*6/21-23:: 
-Math: simple addition, with pictures—plus sign (+), equals sign (=) [equals/is equal to]
-Phonics: letters [l, g, j, p, h, p,b, vowel short /o/]  blend words, Practice Sight Words: is, has, was, his 
-Reading: use these phonics skills to respond to a guided reading text (with assistance as needed)


*6/28-30::  
-Math: introduction to 3D shapes
-Phonics: [qu (combined), x, t, s, f, m, z, short vowel: /i/], Practice Sight Words: we, you 
-Reading: use these phonics skills to respond to a guided reading text (with assistance as needed)

JULY::
*7/5-7::
-Math: subtraction using the cross out method 
-Phonics: [digraph: /th/,  b, s, w, t, short vowels: /a/, /i/, /e/], Practice Sight Words: is, a, the
-Reading: use these phonics skills to respond to a guided reading text (with assistance as needed)


*7/12-14: 
-Math: represent numbers using tally marks 
-Phonics: a in combination with -n, and -m: /an/, /am/ (the /a/ sounds slightly different in these blends)., Practice Sight Words: can, to, a, the
-Reading: use these phonics skills to respond to a guided reading text (with assistance as needed)




*7/19-21: 
-Math: review common shapes and their properties: circle, oval, square, rectangle, triangle, diamond/rhombus, pentagon
-Phonics: [digraph: /sh/], blend/sh/  words , Practice Sight Words: my, look, on, the
-Reading: use these phonics skills to respond to a guided reading text (with assistance as needed)

 
*7/26-28: 
-Math: skip counting by 10s, associate dimes with counting by 10
-Phonics: [digraph: /ch/], blend /ch/ words, Practice Sight Words: see, and, on, the
-Reading: use these phonics skills to respond to a guided reading text (with assistance as needed)

*8/2-4:
-Math: analog clocks: hour hand, minute hand—time to the hour (o'clock)
-Phonics: Final blends: [/-nd/, /-st/] , Practice Sight Words: see, go, the, this 
-Reading: use these phonics skills to respond to a guided reading text (with assistance as needed)

*Sometimes class may go a little over time-- I understand many families have other obligations to attend at the end of class, and I completely understand if you need to leave at that time.

Disclaimers: 
**I follow the refund policy listed on Outschool for 'ongoing classes'. Remember, Ongoing classes are 'subscriptions' and need to be stopped/withdrawn from if you no longer wish to attend, or wish to take a week off without tuition for the week. You can then re-enroll (pending class space) when you are ready :) . You can refer to Outschool's ongoing class policies for more information. 

**Per Outschool Safety & Policy, *only the enrolled learner may attend class/be on camera for class.

**Please help your student learn to mute and unmute themselves. I will mute learners during class in order to keep the class environment free of distractions and loud background noise. A sibling playing, TV, family pets, phone call, white noise from a learner's device, or other conversation in the background can seem very loud across the Zoom meeting. I will prompt your student to unmute themselves if they have been muted. You can help them learn how before class, or during their first meeting. I appreciate your understanding and support in helping to keep the classroom environment conducive to learning for all, and for helping us to make the most of our time together :) . **