K-2 Curriculum
Primary Grades students required coursework includes Mathematics, English Language Arts, Science, and Social Studies, PE/Health, and Art.
Optional coursework includes Spanish, Writing Fun, and Computer Science.
- Math
- English/Language Arts
- Science
- Social Studies
- Character Education
- World Languages
- Art
- Health & Physical Education
- Computer Science
Math
Leading Curriculum
Ready Georgia
Ready Georgia provides students with a challenging but highly accessible program developed for our Georgia Standards of Excellence. This curriculum builds the same skills that are assessed on the Georgia Milestones Assessment, accelerating your students' path to proficiency. It even aligns with our i-Ready lab!
Supplemental Curriculum
Zearn
Zearn multiplies the impact of core math instruction through grade-level lessons with built-in differentiation.
My Math Academy
My Math Academy offers a game-based learning approach that provides interactivity, adaptive challenges, and ongoing feedback to sustain engagement and motivation.
Moby Max
MobyMax helps learners quickly catch up to grade level and closes learning gaps for all your students by providing targeted lessons, practice, and review.
English/Language Arts
Leading Curriculum
Ready Georgia
Ready Georgia provides students with a challenging but highly accessible program developed for our Georgia Standards of Excellence. This curriculum builds the same skills that are assessed on the Georgia Milestones Assessment, accelerating your students' path to proficiency. It even aligns with our i-Ready lab!
Supplemental Curriculum
Moby Max
MobyMax helps learners quickly catch up to grade level and closes learning gaps for all your students by providing targeted lessons, practice, and review.
Learning A-Z
Learning A to Z provides an extensive collection of resources and tools that make teaching easier. Provide high-quality resources needed to reach curriculum goals, and help students develop the 21st century skills needed to excel in the classroom and beyond.
Headsprout
Headsprout is an online kids reading program for K-5 students that provides teachers and parents with one adaptive, individualized reading solution. The program is designed to tailor its instruction to the needs and learning pace of every student. Its patented research-based teaching methods have been tested and verified in real classroom environments to improve kids' reading skills at various reading levels, from non-readers and early readers to established readers already reading above their grade level.
Vocabulary A-Z
Writable supports schools in organizing their writing programs around research-based instruction and feedback. Many students struggle with writing in elementary school, and Writable is a program to support students in becoming better writers.
Writing A-Z
Writing A-Z delivers online writing lessons, resources, and tools to meet the needs of every student, at every learning level.
Raz-Plus
Raz-Plus provides leveled Books and Resources to Support Reading Development at School and at Home. It is a comprehensive blended learning platform that includes the curricular support teachers need and the personalized resources necessary to improve students' reading skills.
IXL
XL combines comprehensive K-12 curriculum, and real time diagnostics to build a personalized instruction for each student. IXL has 9,000 + skills that are scaffolded to target a student's specific area of need, and is aligned with Georgia Standards of Excellence.
Science
Leading Curriculum
FLVS
FLVS provides students with opportunities for them to dive in and discover science through fun and exploration. The courses use research, problem solving, experimentation and more to help students connect to science skills they will use throughout their lives, as well as gives them a deeper understanding of science.
Discovery Education
Discovery Education Science provides engaging high-quality content, ready-to-use digital lessons, creative collaboration tools, and practical professional learning resources to give educators everything they need to facilitate instruction and create a lasting educational impact in any learning environment. This resource is accessible through Canvas.
Supplemental Curriculum
Science A to Z
Science A to Z provides teachers and students with access to thousands of resources to teach science ideas and practices to help students apply science concepts whils also supporting key literacy skills.
Progress Learning
Offers rigorous, standards-aligned practice tools that help students to quickly master and reinforce science concepts through video instruction and games with specifically targeted questioning that is unique and tailored specifically to each student’s needs.
Legends of Learning
Legends of Learning uses a comprehensive library of standards-aligned games and assessments that support student learning objectives and promote subject mastery. These games are designed to make learning fun and engaging, to assist with faster lesson comprehension, and to help students make connections to the topics they are learning.
Social Studies
Leading Curriculum
Kindergarten
FLVS
FLVS courses take a personal approach to introducing students to community and citizenship. Its digital platform provides daily scaffolded instruction in order for students to gain a firm understanding of the concepts in each standard. FLVS uses recurring characters to keep students engaged, and integrates grade level reading passages to reinforce reading comprehension throughout the curriculum.
1st Grade
Gallopade
Gallopade Curriculum for Georgia is 100% aligned and successfully meets Georgia’s Standards of Excellence. It is an interactive social studies curriculum designed to engage students in a hands-on learning experience. Gallopade uses both interactive print and digital tools with emphasis on building literacy skills.
2nd Grade
Georgia Studies Weekly
Studies Weekly is a student-friendly curriculum that uses hands-on and interactive activities to engage students in standards based learning. Students can dive deep into Social Studies with a standards-aligned, colorful periodical, as well as access to the online learning platform. Studies Weekly also integrates ELA within its curriculum to help even our earliest readers gain useful literacy skills as they navigate the curriculum.
Supplemental Curriculum
Brain Pop Jr.
BrainPOP Jr. is an essential engagement tool for students in grades kindergarten through third grade that allows both students and teachers to be involved in the learning process. BrainPOP Jr. offers curriculum based animated movies, learning games, interactive quizzes, primary source activities, and a breadth of additional resources for students.
Education Galaxy
Education Galaxy provides award-winning online assessment for students to help prepare them for state testing. Education Galaxy is built 100% to your state standards and provides a highly-engaging and amazingly effective way for students to master all their state standards. Education Galaxy is a great tier 1 solution for practice, instruction, and assessment.
Moby Max
Moby Max provides personalized learning experiences through an adaptive curriculum. The site creates an individualized education plan for each student, allowing gifted students to progress as quickly as they like while simultaneously ensuring that remedial students get the extra instruction they need.
Character Education
Core Essentials character education program involves the entire school community including students, teachers, and families. Each month the counselor teaches about the character education word of the month via class session. Each month, videos, activities and lessons will center on a value word and its accompanying definition (or application). Values reinforce three big ideas: treating others right, making smart decisions, and maximizing potential.
World Languages
Art
Course Descriptions
Grades K-2
The Visual Arts modules provide students with the foundational skills to be successful in a studio environment. Using the Elements of Art and Principles of Design as a framework, students will feel confident in creating their own style of art. Students will explore and use a variety of materials safely during the creative process. This course teaches art techniques through modeling, application of art vocabulary, procedures, and collaboration while connecting them to master artists. They will develop their observational skills, using prior knowledge, and art critique skills to reflect on and interpret works of art. Students will make connections to art, cultures, and art movements from around the world. Core subjects are integrated throughout each module. Students will develop fine motor skills, critical thinking skills, creativity, and appreciation for global communities.
Supplemental Resources
Health & Physical Education
Course Descriptions
FLVS Grades K-2
Kindergarten: On your mark, get set, move! Follow Frank, Miriam, and Ziggy the dog, as they guide students in ways to live a healthy lifestyle. Learn how to throw, catch, kick, strike, dance, swim, and do basic gymnastics while playing fun games, exciting drills, and completing a variety of moderate and vigorous activities. As students’ progress through the course, they will get to do Banana Stretches, hydrate at Hydration Station, read storybooks, and challenge themselves to fitness fun.
1st Grade: Jump to your feet and pump up your heartbeat! Gain locomotive tips by playing games like Walk, Run, Shuffle with Salvador, kick up those heels while learning cultural dances with Aiko, and design a lunch menu for the whole family. Whether you are learning athletic skills, gaining fitness resources, or working on strength and conditioning, this course gives students the tools they need to live a healthy lifestyle and hit 60 minutes of daily fitness. Ready, set, go!
2nd Grade: It's time to commit to be fit. In this course, students learn how to throw, catch, kick, strike, dance, swim, and do basic gymnastics while hitting their 60 minutes of daily fitness. Tag along with Riley and Ralph as they hustle for the muscle, play games, dance the Itsy-Bitsy Spider, and stretch the Cooked Spaghetti. Packed full of physical activities, this course empowers students as they design an exercise circuit, create fitness goals, plan a healthy meal, and imagine the perfect team mate.
Health Resources
The following are suggested sites. Certain links may contain subject matter not every parent chooses for their students to study. We strongly recommend that the Learning Coach make certain the material is appropriate for their student.
Learn To Be Healthy: health related games and information on topics such as nutrition, adolescence and the five senses. You will also have access to many other health related resources such as recipes and health tips directly from this site. Students will need to register and have an email account in order to login.
Kids Health for Kids: explore ways to keep bodies, minds, and insect bites clean and healthy! Students can research recipes, ways to deal with feelings and even how to prevent mosquito bites. There are games as well as a kid friendly medical terminology glossary. Also available in Espanol!
Children, Youth, and Women’s Health Services: health and practical information, recipes, kid friendly solutions to common problems and concerns, and interactive games.
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia children’s website: take a tour of a ‘children’s hospital’ and meet the staff. Explore the many floors of the hospital as well as learn the terminology used.
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences: The NIEHS has developed this site to help kids make the connection between the environment and their health. The Read all about it! page covers information on environmental health, and the rest of the site brings together jokes and riddles, games and activities, art and word puzzles, and even a section on rewarding careers in the environmental health sciences. This page is more for fun and reinforcement than introduction of new material.
Colgate Kid’s World: learn about healthy teeth, play teeth related puzzle games, and print a teeth- brushing chart.
Children’s First For Health: read real stories written by children about their medical journeys.
The National Center for Environmental Health: understand what important jobs are done to keep the world safe and healthy! Learn what steps are taken in a natural disaster, how cruise ships and airplanes are made safe for vacations as well as learning about babies and children born with birth defects.
Medtropolis: articles about health, body, and medicine. Information about college, jobs, peer pressure, exercise, and recipes.
Dole 5 a Day: create and print personalized recipes, learn the history of fruits and vegetables using the online fruit and veggie encyclopedia, and play nutrition games.
K-5 All Systems Are Go: Students are presented with a body system and a variety of organs. Students drag and drop all the organs that belong in that particular body system.
BrainPOP Health: a multitude of health topics complete with animated videos and follow-up activities.
Drug Abuse Resistance Education (D.A.R.E.): material that reinforces the D.A.R.E. message. Areas that promote a positive self-concept, sections that encourage kids to say "No" to drug use.
Explore Your Dream World: an exploration of sleep and how it can affect health.
The Food Timeline: how foods have evolved throughout the ages.
Health Smart: education about germs, hygiene, and safety practices.
Abduction Prevention Program: Topics include “Abduction, Kids and Guns, General Safety, and Internet safety”
National Crime Prevention Council: topics on Crime Prevention, links on bullying, child abuse and neglect, child development, and child safety. Access to on-line publications, books, articles, agencies and organizations.
Safe Kids: explore online safety.
PE Resources
The following are suggested sites. Certain links may contain subject matter not every parent chooses for their students to study. We strongly recommend that the Learning Coach make certain the material is appropriate for their student.
KID-FIT: an exercise program for young children. Warm-up, stretch, do aerobic exercise to strengthen hearts and lungs, strengthen muscles then cooldown and stretch for improved flexibility. Learn how to develop healthy lifestyles from early on and why it's important.
KIDS GAMES: list of kids’ games that can be played indoors and outdoors.
CAN TEACH: a lesson that shows children how to control the ball with their feet.
AEROBICS DICTIONARY: defines aerobics terms and gives illustrations to help better understand the term.
KIDNETIC.COM: quizzes, food analysis, and more to help your child become more interested in physical activity.
PE WARMUP AND COOLING DOWN: specific tasks for warming up and cooling down during physical activity.
Computer Science
In Georgia, computer science is understood as the study of computers and algorithmic processes, including their principles, their hardware and software designs, their implementation, and their impact on society. The standards blend the core concepts of computer science (i.e., what students should know) and computer science practices (i.e., what students should do).