Curriculum · K–5 · United States
What your child actually learns, in plain English.
The matrix below is what's in scope today. Lessons are generated daily from this skeleton — your child sees a live curriculum tailored to them, not the grid itself.
The subject matrix
Five subjects, six grade levels, evidence-aware coverage.
What we teach and roughly when. The actual lesson your child sees on Tuesday is built from their current frontier in each subject, not from this grid — but this is the skeleton.
| Grade | Mathematics | Reading & Writing | Science | Social Studies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| K | Number sense to 20, comparing quantities, simple addition and subtraction within 10, geometry of basic shapes. | Phonemic awareness, the alphabetic principle, decoding CVC words, narrative comprehension by listening, dictation of single sentences. | Living vs. non-living, basic weather and seasons, the five senses, simple sorting and classification. | Family and community, calendar and daily routines, basic map orientation, the local seasonal cycle. |
| 1 | Place value to 100, addition and subtraction within 20, length and time, halves and quarters. | Decoding multisyllabic words, fluent oral reading at 50–60 wpm, narrative + simple expository comprehension, complete sentences in writing. | Plant and animal life cycles, sun and moon patterns, materials and their properties, simple investigations. | Past and present, U.S. national symbols, basic geography of the home country, citizenship as helping. |
| 2 | Place value to 1,000, fluent addition and subtraction within 100, introduction to multiplication, money, time to 5 minutes. | Decoding fluency at 90 wpm, expository + narrative comprehension, paragraph writing, basic editing. | States of matter, simple machines, ecosystems and habitats, observation journaling. | Maps and globes, communities and cultures, U.S. regions, primary vs. secondary sources. |
| 3 | Multiplication and division to 100, fractions as numbers, area and perimeter, fluent two-digit operations. | Reading 350+ word texts independently, identifying main idea + supporting details, multi-paragraph narrative + opinion writing. | Forces and motion, weather + climate basics, plant and animal traits across generations, designing simple experiments. | Historical reasoning with primary sources, U.S. geography in depth, intro to economics (needs vs. wants, trade), local government. |
| 4 | Multi-digit operations, fraction equivalence + addition/subtraction, decimals to hundredths, geometry of angles + symmetry. | Reading 600+ word texts critically, comparing two texts on a topic, multi-paragraph informative + opinion essays, paragraph-level editing. | Energy transfer, earth's systems, life cycles + adaptation, structure-function in plants and animals. | U.S. regions and history through the early 1800s, world geography by continent, civic participation, cause-and-effect in history. |
| 5 | Operations with fractions + decimals, volume, the coordinate plane, order of operations, intro to algebraic thinking. | Reading 800+ word texts across genres, theme analysis, multi-source research projects, full essay writing with revision. | Matter at the particle level, ecosystems and energy flow, earth + space systems, designing investigations with controls. | U.S. history through Reconstruction, world geography + early civilizations, intro to civics + comparative government, working with multiple sources. |
Both, on purpose
Books, and devices. Not either-or.
The tutor recommends physical reading every day. Screen time is in service of learning that happens off the screen too.
What we don't cover today
Things parents ask about that aren't in scope (yet).
We will tell you exactly what we do and don't do. We will not invent capabilities.
Foreign language
Spanish, Mandarin, French — arriving in Phase 1 (2027). Today we cover English literacy only.
Arts (visual, music, drama)
Phase 1. The tutor will engage with art your child brings to a session, but we don't generate a structured arts curriculum yet.
PE / movement
Out of scope by design. We won't ask your child to perform exercise on a screen.
Religion or any value-laden topic
We do not teach any religious or political position. The tutor is taught to refer those conversations to you.
Test prep for state exams
Out of scope. We teach the underlying skills; you decide whether to use a test-prep service in addition.
Special education evaluation or therapy
We are not a substitute for an evaluator or therapist. The tutor accommodates known needs but does not diagnose.
How we decide
The principles behind the matrix.
Evidence first. Every scope-and-sequence decision starts from the literature on what children at each age can do — not from what looks good on a tour. When the literature is contested (it often is in reading), we say so.
Mastery over coverage. If your child needs three more weeks on multi-digit subtraction, they get three more weeks. We will not move on to keep up with a calendar.
Depth over breadth. We cover fewer topics than most state standards but cover them more deeply. A child who has actually understood place value does better in fifth grade than one who memorized the table.
No values smuggling. The tutor will not tell your child what to believe about anything contested. It will surface multiple perspectives and refer those questions to you.
See it in action
The curriculum your child sees is built from this skeleton, fresh every day.
Apply for the alpha and we’ll walk you through what your child’s first week would look like — using their real grade, their real interests.