Lit for Littles (Grades 1-2)
Teacher : Janiene Bishop
Wednesdays 9:00 - 10:00 or 10:15 - 11:15
$365 per semester (2 semester course)*
*There is an annual student fee for all students taking classes at Pacific Coast Learning Center. Some charter schools allow for this fee to be added to the cost of classes rather than being paid out-of-pocket by parents. If your charters agrees, you may add the cost of the student fee to your first PO.
This dynamic class is designed to encourage beginning readers and writers to love great books and enjoy the writing process. Throughout the course, students will learn how to write complete sentences, whole paragraphs, and their own creative stories. Games, art projects, and group work will help lay a foundation for a lifelong love of literature!
Students will average reading one book per week and complete simple homework assignments. The work load is entirely flexible, based on each student’s ability, and the teacher will work closely with parents to provide a personalized program that is challenging, but never overwhelming.
Some of the books and activities we will enjoy together are:
Classic Children’s Literature
**Students will need to obtain copies of the books listed above. All other books, fairy tales, and poetry that are not listed here will be provided by the teacher or read aloud in class.
Teacher : Janiene Bishop
Wednesdays 9:00 - 10:00 or 10:15 - 11:15
$365 per semester (2 semester course)*
*There is an annual student fee for all students taking classes at Pacific Coast Learning Center. Some charter schools allow for this fee to be added to the cost of classes rather than being paid out-of-pocket by parents. If your charters agrees, you may add the cost of the student fee to your first PO.
This dynamic class is designed to encourage beginning readers and writers to love great books and enjoy the writing process. Throughout the course, students will learn how to write complete sentences, whole paragraphs, and their own creative stories. Games, art projects, and group work will help lay a foundation for a lifelong love of literature!
Students will average reading one book per week and complete simple homework assignments. The work load is entirely flexible, based on each student’s ability, and the teacher will work closely with parents to provide a personalized program that is challenging, but never overwhelming.
Some of the books and activities we will enjoy together are:
Classic Children’s Literature
- Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs by Judi Barrett
- The Apple Doll by Margery Williams
- Bink & Gollie by Kate DiCamillo
- Harold and the Purple Crayon by Crockett Johnson
- Saint George and the Dragon illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman; text: retold by Margaret Hodges
- Mercy Watson: Princess in Disguise by Kate DiCamillo
- The Junkyard Wonders by Patricia Polacco
- Each Kindness by Jacqueline Woodson
- Last Stop on Market Street by Matt de la Peña
- Thunder Cake by Patricia Polacco
- The Cricket in Times Square (Chester Cricket and His Friends) by George Selden
- McBroom’s Wonderful One-Acre Farm: Three Tall Tales
- The Thanksgiving Story by Alice Dalgliesh
- The Pilgrims’ First Thanksgiving by Ann McGovern
- Night of the Ninjas, Magic Tree House #5 (“mixed-genre” of fantasy and historical fiction)
- Happy Birthday Martin Luther King by Jean Marzollo
- Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein
- Robert Frost: Poetry for Young People
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Poetry for Young People
- A Child’s Garden of Verses: Robert Lewis Stevenson
- American Tall Tales by Mary Pope Osborne
**Students will need to obtain copies of the books listed above. All other books, fairy tales, and poetry that are not listed here will be provided by the teacher or read aloud in class.