HuckleBerry
Center for Creative Learning
Miss Kim
Kimberly brings her experience of over 20 years in the classroom to manage our Young Learners program! Her personal philosophy about learning especially at the TK/K level is that every moment is a learning opportunity. She uses open ended questions with her students to get them talking without giving too much of her own input. This helps all students, especially the ones that may be timid about sharing their ideas, to feel confident. She also brings being a good listener to this program too, because everyone wants to be heard and validated. Children are sponges and absorb it all! Miss Kim loves doing art activities and making songs to help reinforce whatever we may be learning at that time.
Emerging Readers & Writers - Beginning
Prerequisites: Students should already know all of the letter sounds and be able to identify the beginning and ending sounds of a CVC word.
This class will target 1st grade standards with a review to help everyone remember their previous reading lessons.
Homework: Yes! Students will need to practice their blending at home! Blending flip books and homework pages will be provided. 10-20 minutes of homework on a DAILY basis will be needed to remember and reinforce our lessons!
In this foundational language arts class, students will continue to build the essential skills needed for reading and writing success. Through engaging, age appropriate instruction, practice and games paired with the lesson of the day students will develop key literacy abilities including print concepts, phonological and phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, handwriting, spelling, word analysis, and vocabulary.Our games will include bingo, matching sounds to pictures, circling sounds, flashcards, building phonemic awareness through sounding out words and so much more!
Using a structured and systematic approach, this class supports students as they grow into confident, capable readers and writers. We will start off using the Zaner-Bloser Superkids curriculum, augmented with games and strategies used to help our young readers!
Each trimester, students will continue their Superkids journey as they grow into confident, independent readers. We’ll focus on building fluency, comprehension, and word analysis skills while strengthening phonics, handwriting, and vocabulary. Each class includes direct instruction, small-group practice, and engaging literacy-based games or crafts that reinforce our weekly lessons.