A parent-led, 36-week plan for each grade from kindergarten to grade 5: reading and phonics, math, science, history and geography, and a daily read-aloud. It is built on free, openly licensed curricula, so there is nothing else to buy. You get what to do each week, how long it takes, and a tip for you.
This plan gives your kindergartener a gentle, steady year of letter sounds, early reading, counting and shapes, plus short science and history lessons built on free Core Knowledge and Illustrative Mathematics materials. Each week lists what to do in plain steps, so you can follow it in order and slow down whenever your child needs more time.
This plan helps your first grader become an independent reader through step-by-step phonics, while building number sense to 100, early measurement and shapes. Short science and history lessons from free Core Knowledge materials build the background knowledge that makes later reading easier.
This grade 2 plan builds strong phonics and decoding, growing fluency, and early writing, with math from place value to adding and subtracting within 1,000. Science and history follow Core Knowledge topics in order, with short hands-on activities. Each week lists what to do; adjust the pace to fit your child.
This grade 3 plan builds fluency, comprehension and paragraph writing, with math centered on multiplication and division, area, and fractions as numbers. Science and history follow Core Knowledge topics in order, with hands-on activities each week. Adjust the pace to fit your child.
Grade 4 moves from learning to read toward reading to learn: longer books, stronger comprehension and multi-paragraph writing. Math centers on fraction equivalence and operations, multi-digit multiplication and division, and angles, while history and science follow the Core Knowledge grade 4 topics. Use the free linked materials in order, adjust the pace to your child, and keep reading aloud every day.
Grade 5 builds independent reading, longer writing with evidence, and steady work with fractions and decimals. Math covers volume, all four fraction operations, decimal operations and the coordinate plane, while history and science follow the Core Knowledge grade 5 topics. Use the free linked materials in order, give your child more ownership of the schedule, and keep reading aloud together.
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