Course Details:

The teacher will provide all materials. Students will need to use Google Docs.

A Taste of Things to Come: 5th Grade Core Writing for Middle School Success

$19.00 / week

Engaging, creative curriculum! Explicit instruction! Authentic feedback! Happy learners! Students work to build a solid foundation of writing, so they are ready and raring to go for middle school English.

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🏁 🏎️ Ready? Set! Go! As elementary school concludes, it’s time to gear up for the writing challenges awaiting students in middle school English language arts. As a secondary teacher, Mrs. Lemons crafted a purposeful curriculum tailored for upper elementary learners, ensuring a seamless transition into the intricacies of middle school writing. This class aims to equip students with an understanding of diverse writing genres, guiding them in adapting their writing style according to purpose and audience. Explicit grammar instruction, with a focus on sentence combining and punctuation, fosters sophistication in written expression.

🌺 𝙒𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙈𝙖𝙠𝙚𝙨 𝙏𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝘾𝙡𝙖𝙨𝙨 𝙎𝙥𝙚𝙘𝙞𝙖𝙡?
Your learner benefits from explicit instruction, modeling, and the addition of authentic, thoughtful, and constructive feedback from the instructor. Each week, learners engage with various writing genres—creative, expository, argumentative, research-driven, poetic, technical, scientific, historical, and more. Utilizing Google Docs enhances their digital writing skills, promoting proficiency in typing and formatting, mirroring practices in upper-grade levels.

🤝 𝙋𝙖𝙧𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙨, 𝙒𝙚 𝙂𝙤𝙩 𝙔𝙤𝙪!
Although parents are equipped and have wise feedback for their children, students often take constructive criticism from a teacher with less resistance. Recognizing this familiar dynamic, our teachers integrate feedback and evaluation into live class interactions and homework submissions. This alleviates the burden on parents who may find it challenging to provide constructive criticism. By optimizing teachers’ time on this crucial task, we ensure that students receive valuable input from a supportive and skilled perspective so students benefit from the feedback/revision process.

🚨 GOOD NEWS–We had parent requests to extend the number of classes, and we listened to you! So, we developed more curricula, and this course covers a year’s worth of writing! We have a comprehensive curriculum for 49 weeks! Note: classes that begin in September are easier than the classes at the end of the summer. There is a comprehensive scope and sequence. Additionally, the classes stand-alone each week, so you can pop in and out as you like!

⛳️ 𝐌𝐢𝐝𝐝𝐥𝐞 𝐒𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐥 𝐄𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐡 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐋𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐬-𝐀𝐢𝐝 𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠
We have a number of offerings that are good for learners with different needs! To see a comparison chart of our middle school English language arts offerings, click the link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1C4kPDI-gpxZD1Lap7vwqW9QwWsqQSwZ0/view?usp=sharing

📆 WEEKLY SCHEDULE: Pop in and out as you like!

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🏁 THE 2023-2024 SCHOOL YEAR 🏎️
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✅ The week starting Mar 17: Just the Facts! The Straight News Article. Students will learn the elements of a straight news article, read examples, and sort details according to how important they are. Then they grab their reporter’s notebook and watch a surprise event unfold. Their job will be to write their own straight news article with organized and sorted facts and without any bias.

✅ The week starting Mar 24: The Op-Ed. After reading examples, they jump right in as editorial journalists. They learn how to see both sides of an issue, introduce facts and evidence, and refute the opposing argument in their own opinion article. The topic is high-interest and many students have passionate opinions!

✅ The week starting Mar 31: Email Etiquette. Is email a dying form of communication? Certainly not, especially in education and business. Students learn email etiquette, such as having the right attitude, using professional words, choosing the correct style, and including the proper parts of a professional email. Keeping their audience and purpose in mind, students learn how to deal with a problem by addressing it head-on in a polite email.

✅ The week starting Apr 7: The Better Book Review. Book reviews are everywhere, and students read them a lot! They read them on amazon.com, on other websites, they hear from friends, and they have to decide if they want to read the book. We will look at various book reviews from different places to see which book reviews are good and which ones are not; students will come up with a list and outline for writing their own book reviews.

✅ The week starting Apr 14: It’s Greek to Me! The Drama. It’s time to break out the Greek mythology! Students will read a short drama, learning how dramas are written. They will rewrite the ending to one drama, practicing with the unique structure.

✅ The week starting Apr 21: Technical Writing, Simplified. Have you ever heard of Wikipedia Simple? While focusing on technical writing, integrating precise instructions, content-specific vocabulary, and a clear process, students will write a Wikipedia Simple page explaining how to do something they’re good at: mounting a horse? Tap dancing? Shooting a hockey puck? Playing a video game? It’s a hard genre of writing but they will learn to break down a sequenced process and communicate in writing.

✅ The week starting Apr 28: The Personal Narrative. What is the meaning of life? We probably won’t discover the answer to that question, but students will think of a significant memory in their own lives and pull out the deeper meaning, reflecting, thinking, remembering, and then will write a memoir, a personal narrative. While doing this, they learn to blend important narrative elements such as dialogue, thoughts, feelings, action, and descriptive writing.

✅ The week starting May 5: The Response to Literature. Writing a response to a piece of literature is more than just saying whether it was good or not. Students will read a piece of literature and learn to use textual evidence to answer a question. This is forming a foundation of argument writing and literary analysis, and the practice of this genre of writing prepares students for the most difficult writing they will do in secondary English classes. I break this down for students so they understand the difference between an argument, evidence, and analysis, but in age-appropriate terms.

✅ The week starting May 12: The Blog. Based on a real-life travel experience or on a virtual field trip, students become travel bloggers, detailed, casual, and with great personalities. We explore the genre of the blog and how different it is from formal pieces of writing. Students learn to write to a specific audience and how to modify their writing stylistically so that their blog is informal and interesting to read. This opinion writing teaches students to use specific details in their writing as well. I always travel to Bermuda, my favorite place on the planet, in my mind and in my model blog, and students can go anywhere they want virtually!

✅ The week starting May 19: Elaboration Techniques in an Expository Paragraph. Have your kiddos ever said, “I don’t know what to write?” They stare at a blank page or a blinking cursor on the computer as their mind draws a blank. They need to be taught how to elaborate, to write more, much more. Students will use information and data to write a well-developed, fully elaborated main idea paragraph. They will learn how to ask themselves elaboration questions to guide their thinking and writing so that they have rich, specific details, descriptions, and reasoning in their paragraphs.

✅ The week starting May 26: Create it, Write it, & Sell it! Learners become inventors and advertising executives as they develop their own products and then write ad copy to sell them. While doing so, students will learn elements of persuasive writing and create an advertisement with convincing techniques. Will they create a magical mini-dinosaur that does their homework? Or will they create flying shoes that will take them through the air to a friend’s house? Their imaginations can run wild!

✅ The week starting Jun 2: Roadrunner Story-a Setting, Characters & Conflict. Inspired by Wile E Coyote and the Roadrunner, students will learn to establish a setting, develop characters, and design a conflict in narrative writing. We use video clips for inspiration and practice painting pictures with words. Beep! Beep!

✅ The week starting Jun 9: A Roadrunner Story–Narrative Writing. Inspired by Wile E Coyote and the Roadrunner, students will write a very short main event of a story, blending narrative elements. They practice writing action, dialogue, descriptive writing, and other narrative elements. You do not need to have attended last week’s class.

✅ The week starting Jun 16: A Roadrunner Story–Students write the climax and resolution of a roadrunner story. They will “Blend, Baby, Blend!” Students learn to blend all elements of narrative writing into a story of their own. They do not need to have attended last week’s class.

✅ The week starting Jun 23: Writing about a Historical People–The Who. We are preparing them for historical research and writing, but we’re breaking it down! This week, students learn how to look at a historical figure, take notes, then paraphrase the notes in a biographical piece we call the VIP Sketch.

✅ The week starting Jun 30: Writing about a Historical Event–The What & the How. We are preparing them for historical research and writing, but we’re breaking it down! This week, students learn how to look at a historical event, take notes, then paraphrase the notes in an expository piece informing the reader of a historical event.

✅ The week starting Jul 7: Writing about Historical Context–The Where. We are preparing them for historical research and writing, but we’re breaking it down! This week, students learn how to look at a map and its key and make sense of the importance of geography in historical research. Then they write an informational piece describing the place and why it was important to an event.

✅ The week starting Jul 14: Writing about Historical Context–The When. We are preparing them for historical research and writing, but we’re breaking it down! This week, students learn how to look at a timeline, take notes, then describe what led up to the main historical event, the timing of the main event, and what happened after the main event.

✅ The week starting Jul 21: Writing about Historical Significance–The Why or “So What?” We are preparing them for historical research and writing, but we’re breaking it down! This week, students think about the significance of the historical event by doing a little more reading, taking notes, and then paraphrasing their notes in an argumentative piece about the significance of a historical event.

✅ The week starting July 28: The How-to Piece. This is a technical piece of writing that forces writers to break down a simple process into its component parts. It takes some thinking and then organizing before they put their pens to paper. Just a heads-up to parents–this class will make your learners hungry! 🙂

✅ The week starting Aug 4: The Informational Essay. A building block of upper elementary and middle school writing is the informational essay! Scholars will write about their favorite person while learning to use elaboration techniques, descriptive writing, and more.

✅ The week starting Aug 11: The Simple Summary. Is this a literature lesson or a writing lesson? It’s both! Students will learn two different types of narratives and observe important characters, places, and objects, all in preparation for writing a simple summary. This requires analysis and concise writing skills.

✅ The week starting Aug 18: Descriptive Writing: an Object. Students will learn all sorts of things and it will be so super great. They’ll do awesome work. Ack! What did I just write? General, no-good words! Learners will understand why specific, clear, and strong language is important as they practice writing descriptively so that their readers develop a sharp, detailed picture in their minds.

✅ The week starting Aug 25: Descriptive Writing: Developing a Setting. These are not your average, everyday, boring places. The settings our writers will describe are unusual and other-worldly. They will have to use their descriptive writing tools to paint these word pictures!

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💯 YOU’RE DONE! YOU DID IT! It’s time for Middle School!

🍪 If you have finished these classes, 𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝘅𝘁 𝗳𝘂𝗹𝗹 𝘆𝗲𝗮𝗿 𝗼𝗳 𝘄𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗰𝘂𝗿𝗿𝗶𝗰𝘂𝗹𝘂𝗺 similar to this one but more advanced:  Smart Cookie

👀 To see a 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝗳 𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗺𝗶𝗱𝗱𝗹𝗲 𝘀𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗼𝗹 𝗘𝗻𝗴𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗵 𝗼𝗳𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀, both semester & ongoing, click here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1C4kPDI-gpxZD1Lap7vwqW9QwWsqQSwZ0/view?usp=sharing
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✅ The week starting Sept 1 Descriptive Writing: Developing a Character. It’s alive! Students will turn inanimate objects into walking, talking, and maybe even flying characters with detailed external and internal traits. They are authors creating their own unique characters.

✅ The week starting Sept 8: Descriptive Writing: Feelings. It’s hard to describe a feeling! But students will do it! They will write short passages using descriptive writing to SHOW a character with a feeling rather than just TELL us what a character is feeling.

✅ The week starting Sept 15: The Problem Story: a Focus on Conflict. We do not live in a perfect world, with perfect people, with perfect lives! The human story is one of conflict. In this lesson, learners will analyze the conflict in a Pixar Short, which takes some critical thinking. The conflict is not so easy to discern without looking a little deeper. They will use this lesson to create a conflict between two characters. They can be characters they have developed on their own, or they can use well-known characters but in a different conflict.

✅ The week starting Sept 22: The Problem Story: Blend, Baby, Blend. The grammar and punctuation of using dialogue is tricky! But using dialogue in a narrative is a lot more than just what people say! Students learn to give their characters voices by writing dialogue while blending other important narrative elements. They learn to BLEND, BABY, BLEND!

✅ The week starting Sept 29: The Memory Story: a Personal Narrative. Learners should come to class with a very special object for show-and-tell. The object should be meaningful and be associated with a memory. If they forget to bring one, they will be able to run off from class and grab something. It usually just takes a few seconds. This will be the inspiration for writing a memoir, or the “memory-story” we’re calling it at this age. In class, we will read an example memoir for even more inspiration.

✅ The week starting Oct 6: The Biographical Sketch. This mini-biography will bring our little writers closer to someone they know. They will learn about a favorite adult through an interview, then they will write the true story about that life. Of course, this will come after they read a sample biographical sketch!

✅ The week starting Oct 13: The Fable. We all know those memorable characters we meet in fables. Fables are different from other stories, and that’s not just because they teach a moral. They are written with certain characteristics. Our scholars will read fables to understand the genre, then they will write their own!

✅ The week starting Oct 20: The “If I Were…” Poem. Just like artists use tracing paper to learn different strokes and artistic techniques, authors can mimic beloved poetry to learn poetic elements and stretch their creative muscles. Writers will write the “If I Were…” poem this week. I will warn you though. This lesson, along with the next one, has been known to develop passionate poets! You have been warned.

✅ The week starting Oct 27: The “New Animal” Poem. Again, poetry does not have to be scary! It’s fun to bend language, learn to rhyme, and develop and maintain a rhythm. Again, lifelong poets are born in this lesson.

✅ The week starting Nov 3: The Pet Essay. Do you have ferrets? Parakeets? A pet stuffy? Students will learn the aspects of expository writing as they write a three-paragraph essay on what it’s like to own a pet. They will especially learn to organize and how to elaborate. No easy tasks! But, they will do it and do it well!

✅ The week starting Nov 10: Writing about a Literary Character. This class is a combo of literary analysis, critical thinking, and writing. Students watch Pixar Shorts, analyzing a character for his external and internal traits. This teaches them to look closely at a narrative, evaluate a character, and analyze the author’s craft of character development.

✅ The week starting Nov 17: Writing about a Literary Character. This class is a combo of literary analysis, critical thinking, and writing. Students watch Pixar Shorts, analyzing a character for his external and internal traits. This teaches them to look closely at a narrative, evaluate a character, and analyze the author’s craft of character development.

NOV 24 – 30: NO CLASS

✅ The week starting Dec 1: The TEE-it UP Opinion Essay. Using fairy tales and fables, students learn to discern an issue, what side of the issue is presented in the literature, and then respond to that literature with their own opinion. Opinion writing is a type of argument writing and this lesson starts to build a foundation of writing and supporting arguments.

✅ The week starting Dec 8: Another TEE-it UP Opinion Essay. Using fairy tales and fables, students learn to discern an issue, what side of the issue is presented in the literature, and then respond to that literature with their own opinion. Opinion writing is a type of argument writing and this lesson starts to build a foundation of writing and supporting arguments.

Dec 22 – Jan 4: NO CLASS

✅ The week starting Jan 5: The Literary Analysis Argument Essay. Easy as A-B-C. Here we go! We are working on argument writing and how to support arguments with details from narratives.

✅ The week starting Jan 12: Another Literary Analysis Argument Essay. Easy as A-B-C. Here we go! We are working on argument writing and how to support arguments with details from narratives.

✅ The week starting Jan 19: The Gift of Poetry. It’s all about the verbs in this poetry lesson. We won’t rhyme, but we’ll segment poetic parts and create a couple of poems that can be given as gifts. Parents might want to wait to watch this recording for a couple of weeks. 😉

✅ The week starting Jan 26: The Imitation Poem. Have you ever placed a piece of tracing paper over a picture to learn how to draw something? This is sort of what we’re doing in these two classes. Students will study classic poems while learning about poetic devices (metaphor, personification, & rhyme). Then we place that tracing paper, or rather, we imitate the poems but use new ideas. This helps students look deeply and analytically at a poem while trying their pen at using the same poetic devices and techniques.

✅ The week starting Feb 2: The Imitation Poem, Again. Have you ever placed a piece of tracing paper over a picture to learn how to draw something? This is sort of what we’re doing in these two classes. Students will study classic poems while learning about poetic devices (metaphor, personification, & rhyme). Then we place that tracing paper, or rather, we imitate the poems but use new ideas. This helps students look deeply and analytically at a poem while trying their pen at using the same poetic devices and techniques.

✅ The week starting Feb 9: The Argumentative Piece. It’s time to stake your claim! This is the beginning of argument writing. After brainstorming two sides to an issue, students stake their own claim and then support it. Elaborating by asking three important questions help learners generate ideas. Additionally, they learn how to consider the alternate side of an issue and then how to refute that argument.

✅ The week starting Feb 16: The Literary Analysis Piece. We will use short sketches, which students love, to learn literary terms, then we will write an analytical paragraph as a class. They will practice doing it themselves for homework.

✅ The week starting Feb 23: The Literary Analysis Piece. Is it a reading class or a writing class? It’s both! Learners will read a piece of literature, learn a couple of literary terms, then write an analytical paragraph as a class. They will practice doing it themselves for homework.

✅ The week starting Mar 2: The Elevator Summary. After learning the important plot points in a narrative such as exposition, inciting incident, rising action, etc., students will learn how to succinctly write a summary of a narrative without rambling, giving away too many details, and missing the main idea. I call this the elevator summary because it has to be short enough that you could say it in the time it takes to ride the elevator up one floor! This is a literature and writing combo class.

✅ The week starting Mar 9: The Elevator Summary, Again. It’s tough, so we need to practice some more! It’s okay if students missed last week because we teach it again. If students attended last week, they need the repetition! After learning the important plot points in a narrative such as exposition, inciting incident, rising action, etc., students will learn how to succinctly write a summary of a narrative without rambling, giving away too many details, and missing the main idea. I call this the elevator summary because it has to be short enough that you could say it in the time it takes to ride the elevator up one floor! This is a literature and writing combo class.

 

 

 

 

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Class Introduction Video

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Taught From a Christian Perspective

Our mission is to equip learners’ minds and shepherd their hearts. We want them to have saving faith in our Lord Jesus Christ and then develop a biblical worldview. This means they view their world, themselves, and God in a way that aligns with what the Bible teaches. This brings great peace and understanding to the believer because we serve a good, sovereign God. This course is taught with these goals in mind. In class, we may pray, read scripture, and discuss how to view the content from a Christian perspective.

We have adopted The Master’s Seminary Doctrinal Statement.

Learners Need Explicit Instruction!

Explicit teaching is a method of instruction students desperately need! It is the opposite of a constructivist philosophy whereby students try to construct meaning themselves.

Well…

Instead of leaving students to magically figure out how to write an essay or read or do a geometry proof, we teach explicitly, which is backed by a large body of evidence, and it’s how Mrs. Lemons teaches her undergraduate and graduate teacher candidates in college to teach! We do it this way because it’s how kids learn.

Explicit instruction is “a structured, systematic, and effective methodology for teaching academic skills. It is called explicit because it is an unambiguous and direct approach to teaching that includes both instructional design and delivery procedures. Explicit instruction is characterized by a series of supports or scaffolds, whereby students are guided through the learning process with clear statements about the purpose and rationale for learning the new skill, clear explanations and demonstrations of the instructional target, and supported practice with feedback until independent mastery has been achieved.”
-Explicit Instruction: Effective and Efficient Teaching by Anita L. Archer and Charles A. Hughes.

Anita Archer trained Mrs. Lemons in workshops, and it changed her teaching. Read a little more about the research behind explicit teaching here and here.


To read more about your teaching and learning methods, read Mrs. Lemons’ blog.

 

The Lemons-Aid Team

Lemons-Aid teachers have a few things in common.
❤️ They love their students and value each of their unique strengths and personalities that make our classes special. Our classes can be described as fun, personal, academic, challenging, and supportive.
🤩 We work to keep learners engaged, so there is always a degree of student accountability for their attention and focus, whether that be through asking them direct questions or by using the chatbox.
💭 We know all kids can learn, but sometimes things are hard! To support students, we teach them how to develop effective thinking and learning habits that will bring them success in class and in life.
🌟 Building relationships with students so they know we care about them helps us balance the high expectations we have for them regarding their effort, work quality, and behavior. Our students are encouraged, cared for, and they achieve!

𝙆𝘼𝙍𝙀𝙉 𝙇𝙀𝙈𝙊𝙉𝙎: English Language Arts
#High-Energy #Skilled #Experienced #Relational #Fun
Karen is the Founder of Lemons-Aid. She has a bachelor’s degree in English, a minor in Education, and a master’s degree in Education Administration from Liberty University. With a teaching certificate and a principal’s license in both Washington and Colorado, she has many years of experience teaching English Language Arts and History / Social Studies at the middle school and high school levels. Additionally, she is TESOL and TEFL certified and enjoys teaching English Language Learners from all over the world. She has worked in private and public schools at every level and is currently an affiliate faculty member at Colorado Christian University, supervising teacher candidates in their undergraduate and graduate teacher education programs. She is a teacher of teachers. A homeschool mom herself, she admits that teaching other people’s kids is easier than teaching her own teenage boys! She lives in the Denver, Colorado area where she cheers on the Broncos, Avs, and the Rockies, but her favorite athletes are her own kids who play hockey and baseball!
🎥 Karen’s Intro Video

 

𝑱𝑬𝑵𝑵 𝑹𝑰𝑨𝑳𝑬: English Language Arts
#Experienced #Knowledgeable #Empowering #Patient #Rises Above the Ordinary.
As a certified English teacher, Jenn has taught in some capacity over the course of the past twenty-five years. She has taught middle school and high school English classes in both private and public school settings, tutored international ESL students online, developed and taught literature and public speaking classes for a local homeschool co-op, and homeschooled her own two children. Jenn has a bachelor’s degree in English Education. A strong believer in lifelong learning, Jenn has also taken several graduate-level courses related to teaching. Jenn enjoys spending time with her husband, Mark, and their two teenagers. She enjoys taking day trips close to where they live in upstate New York. In her spare time, Jenn enjoys singing and performing in plays. Additionally, she enjoys curling up on the sofa to read a good book. More than likely, one of her four cats will be curled up at her feet.
🎥 Jenn’s Intro Video

𝙆𝙍𝙄𝙎𝙏𝙀𝙉 𝙁𝙍𝙀𝙀𝙈𝘼𝙉: Elementary
#Fun #Inspiring #LoveForLearning
Kristen has a Bachelor’s Degree in Education with a minor in child psychology from Liberty University. For nearly a decade, she has worked in elementary school classrooms, as a private tutor, and as an online ELL teacher. While passionate about education in general, her favorite subjects to both study and teach are reading, grammar, and writing. She and her husband are actively involved in a church where she works as a Sunday School teacher and Children’s Ministry teacher to ages 4-6. No matter where she is teaching, Kristen tries to find ways to connect with her students and to create an exciting classroom that builds a passion for education. It is her desire to not only teach a subject but also to foster a love of learning which inspires students to want to learn more even once the class is completed. Kristen lives in Virginia with her husband, daughter, and their new baby boy! In her spare time, Kristen loves to create teaching content such as interactive lesson plans, worksheets, and more! She also enjoys doing family outings and crafting.
🎥 Kristen’s Intro Video

𝙈𝙍𝙎. 𝘼𝙇𝙄:
Elementary
#Engaging #Fun #Patient #Kind #Encouraging
Ali has a Bachelor’s Degree in Early Childhood Education and has worked with children over the last 11 years. She taught for 6 years in public school, 2 years in Kindergarten and 4 years in First Grade. She has worked as a reading tutor and ESL teacher online for the last 4 years; she has also tutored children in-person in reading, writing, and STEM. Ali believes that every child is a natural learner; she believes that an educator’s goal is to engage each child in the way that they learn best! She is passionate about creating a safe and FUN environment that teaches the whole child. Each time she enters a classroom, whether it is in-person or online, you can find her singing, playing games, and making learning fun. Ali lives in Missouri, near St. Louis with her husband and fur-child (an 80 lb. German Shepherd who doesn’t know how big he is). In her free time she loves reading, writing, crafts, hiking, working out, and spending time with my family.
🎥 Ali’s Intro Video

𝙆𝙄𝙈𝘽𝙀𝙍𝙇𝙔 𝙋𝘼𝙍𝙄𝙉𝙄𝙎𝙄: English
#Energetic #Kind #Encouraging #Authentic #Enthusiastic #Guide
Kim loves life, loves people, and loves learning! She views each student as a team member with his or her own unique talents, skills and life experience to bring to the group. She loves helping students expand their knowledge and sharpen their skills to reach their greatest potential. Kim has a Bachelor’s degree from Cairn University in secondary Education with certification in English (NY and PA) and endorsement in music. Her classroom experience has focused on English, PE and Bible education, but she has tutored in a variety of areas including ESL, special ed, math, history, science and music (piano and voice). She lives in northeast PA with her wonderful family. She has homeschooled all of her seven children. The youngest five are still in school and ensure that every day is an adventure. Kim also coaches intramural and competitive sports throughout the year. She loves music, sports, reading and taking long walks up her dirt road admiring wildflowers, listening to birds and reflecting on what she is learning in life!
🎥 Kim’s Intro Video

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