This class offers extra phonics practice to help students build confidence as they begin their journey to becoming readers. We’ll review letter sounds, identify beginning, middle, and ending sounds in words, and practice sounding out and blending words. Hands-on activities like sorting, word building, and creating word families will keep learning active and fun. A variety of games will reinforce skills while making phonics enjoyable! This is not a full phonics program. The goal is to provide reinforcement activities that support and strengthen what students are learning at home. Skills Covered: Letter sounds, CVC words, short vowels, beginning and ending blends. We will revisit the same foundational phonics skills each year.

Picture-Perfect Science will be lots of fun with many hands-on experiments while we learn! The curriculum follows the National Science Education Standards for K-4 and uses the basics of the scientific method. Every two weeks, we will read a fiction book and then a nonfiction book related to our weekly lesson topics, such as bubbles, trees, oceans, magnets, rocks, stars, worms and more. This is a 2-year rotation class (we will be using the 1st year curriculum) meaning we will do new experiments and topics in the 2026-267 year if there are repeat students from the 2025-26 class.