Give your child a real, joyful, accredited school — anywhere in the world
A fully accredited, virtual Pre-K–2 school where young learners build real academic foundations across every core subject and a foreign language — through IB-aligned, UDL-inclusive, SEL-rich, 10-month credit-bearing courses that are as joyful as they are rigorous.
"Every child who walks into this school — virtually or not — deserves to be challenged, celebrated, and seen as the scholar they already are."— Pauline Smith EdD
What you'll learn
What you'll be able to do
- Master grade-level literacy and numeracy benchmarks aligned to U.S. Common Core State Standards and the Standards for Mathematical Practice across a full 10-month credit-bearing school year.
- Develop a working foundation in a foreign language through immersive, play-based daily instruction woven into every subject area.
- Apply IB inquiry and challenge-based learning to real-world problems in science, social studies, and MESA engineering projects — building habits of a genuine young researcher.
- Strengthen social-emotional skills (self-regulation, empathy, collaborative problem-solving) through structured SEL routines embedded in every lesson and Odyssey of the Mind creative challenges.
- Receive a fully individualized learning experience through UDL-designed instruction and TAG extensions, ensuring every child — from emerging learners to highly gifted students — is appropriately stretched.
- Earn accredited, transcript-ready grade-level credit that is recognized for school records, gifted program portfolios, and future academic placement decisions.
How it works
A school that adapts to you
This isn't a set of static videos. Every lesson is generated live and tuned to where you actually are.
We learn your level
A quick placement check tailors your starting point so you're never bored or lost.
Lessons adapt as you go
Each lesson is written for your pace and your goal, adjusting as your skills grow.
Your AI coach keeps you moving
Checkpoints, feedback, and gentle nudges turn progress into a real result.
The curriculum
What's inside your school
6 modules · 27 lessons
Foundations of Literacy & Language Arts
A comprehensive, UDL-designed 10-month literacy strand that builds every child's reading and writing identity from the ground up. Lessons move in deliberate sequence — from the smallest sound units through published, inquiry-driven writing — while IB transdisciplinary themes frame each text set, SEL read-alouds anchor emotional vocabulary, and TAG extensions invite advanced readers and writers to go deeper. Foreign-language phonemic parallels are woven throughout so students hear how sounds work across languages from day one. Fully aligned to Common Core ELA Standards for Pre-K–2.
- 1.1Phonemic Awareness & the Sounds of LanguageIncluded
- 1.2Decoding, Sight Words & FluencyIncluded
- 1.3Reading Comprehension & IB Inquiry into StoriesIncluded
- 1.4Writing Workshop: From Ideas to Published PiecesIncluded
- 1.5Speaking, Listening & Collaborative DiscussionIncluded
Mathematics: Number Sense, Operations & Mathematical Thinking
A rigorous, joyful Pre-K–2 mathematics course fully aligned to the Common Core State Standards and all eight Standards for Mathematical Practice (SMP). Lessons build conceptual understanding before procedural fluency, use concrete–pictorial–abstract (CPA) progressions, and embed real-world MESA engineering contexts so mathematics feels purposeful. UDL ensures multiple means of representation (manipulatives, number lines, ten-frames, digital tools) and expression (oral, written, drawn). SEL norms for productive struggle are established early and revisited constantly. TAG extensions introduce above-grade algebraic reasoning and data investigations.
- 2.1Counting, Cardinality & Number SenseIncluded
- 2.2Addition & Subtraction: Strategies, Fluency & ReasoningIncluded
- 2.3Place Value, Measurement & DataIncluded
- 2.4Geometry, Patterns & Spatial ReasoningIncluded
- 2.5Word Problems, Mathematical Discourse & SMP Habits of MindIncluded
Science: Inquiry, Engineering & the Natural World
A MESA-integrated, IB inquiry-driven science course aligned to Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) crosswalked to Common Core literacy and mathematics standards. Students experience science as something they do — questioning, investigating, analyzing, and designing — not something they receive. Each unit follows the IB inquiry cycle (tuning in → finding out → sorting out → going further → making connections → taking action) and incorporates MESA engineering design challenges that require students to apply scientific understanding to solve real problems. SEL norms for collaborative investigation (respectful disagreement, shared credit, growth mindset) are explicitly taught and assessed. UDL scaffolds ensure access for all learners; TAG extensions push students into genuine open-ended research. NOTE: A prerequisite Technology & Digital Tools orientation is embedded in the opening weeks of this module to ensure all students can navigate virtual lab tools, digital microscopes, and collaborative science notebooks before investigations begin.
- 3.1Scientists Ask Questions: The IB Inquiry & Scientific MethodIncluded
- 3.2Life Science: Living Things, Plants & Animal AdaptationsIncluded
- 3.3Earth Science: Weather, Seasons & Our EnvironmentIncluded
- 3.4Physical Science: Forces, Motion & Simple MachinesIncluded
Social Studies: Community, Culture & Our Interconnected World
A rich, IB-framed Pre-K–2 social studies course that builds students' identities as local and global citizens. Organized around the four classic social studies strands — identity/culture, geography, history, and economics — and elevated through IB transdisciplinary themes, Odyssey of the Mind creative challenges, and SEL frameworks for empathy and responsible action. Foreign-language and multicultural texts are integrated throughout to honor student diversity and build genuine intercultural understanding. Students produce portfolio-worthy projects at the end of each thematic inquiry. Common Core literacy standards (informational reading and research-based writing) are embedded in every lesson.
- 4.1Identity, Family & Community: Who We AreIncluded
- 4.2Geography: Maps, Places & Our Physical WorldIncluded
- 4.3History & Time: Past, Present & FutureIncluded
- 4.4Economics, Innovation & Global CitizenshipIncluded
Foreign Language: Immersive, Play-Based Language Acquisition
A daily, 10-month immersive foreign-language course grounded in Comprehensible Input theory, communicative language teaching, and UDL-designed multimodal instruction. Language is never taught in isolation: every lesson connects to the vocabulary, themes, and content of the parallel ELA, Mathematics, Science, and Social Studies modules, creating a genuinely integrated bilingual learning experience. SEL norms for risk-taking and celebrating approximation ('brave mistakes') are established on day one and revisited constantly. Play, song, movement, and storytelling are the primary instructional vehicles. This course provides the foreign-language immersion strand referenced in every other module. A prerequisite digital tools orientation (microphone use, breakout rooms, digital flashcard tools) is completed in Week 1.
- 5.1Greetings, Identity & Classroom LanguageIncluded
- 5.2Colors, Shapes, Numbers, Animals & Everyday VocabularyIncluded
- 5.3Sentence Structures, Questions & Simple ConversationsIncluded
- 5.4Literacy in the Foreign Language: Reading & Writing FoundationsIncluded
SEL, Creative Problem-Solving & Gifted Learning: The Whole Child
This module is both a stand-alone course and the connective tissue that makes the entire curriculum coherent. Structured SEL routines (morning meetings, emotion check-ins, conflict-resolution protocols) are embedded in every school day, not isolated to this module alone. Odyssey of the Mind creative problem-solving challenges are introduced here and then woven into every other module throughout the year. TAG differentiation principles are explicitly taught to students (growth mindset, self-advocacy, depth and complexity frameworks) so gifted learners understand and can navigate their own extensions. The module culminates in portfolio compilation, credit certification, and transition planning — ensuring every student leaves with a documented, accredited record of their year's achievement.
- 6.1SEL Foundations: Self-Awareness & Self-RegulationIncluded
- 6.2Social Competence: Empathy, Collaboration & Responsible Decision-MakingIncluded
- 6.3Odyssey of the Mind: Creative Problem-Solving & Divergent ThinkingIncluded
- 6.4TAG Extensions: Deepening, Accelerating & Mentoring Gifted LearnersIncluded
- 6.5Assessment, Portfolios & Credit CertificationIncluded
Who it's for
Is this you?
Homeschooling Parents
You want a complete, accredited, expertly sequenced curriculum — not a patchwork of apps — that handles every subject and hands you clear daily guidance.
Parents of Gifted Learners
Your child blew past grade-level content months ago, and you need a program with real TAG Extensions, deeper inquiry, and acceleration built right into every lesson.
Multilingual & Expat Families
Living abroad or raising children in multiple languages, you need a school that's internationally aligned, foreign-language immersive, and globally minded from day one.
Parents of Neurodiverse Children
Your child learns differently, and you need a UDL-designed program that builds in flexible scaffolding and support so they can fully access — and genuinely love — every lesson.
College- & Innovation-Minded Families
You're thinking long-term: accredited credits, rigorous IB inquiry habits, mathematical discourse, and engineering projects that start building a real academic portfolio from Pre-K.
Working Parents Seeking Structure
You need a full, structured school year with a clear daily rhythm — not ad-hoc lessons — so your child is genuinely learning while you keep the rest of life running.
Questions
Frequently asked
Your teacher
A note from your teacher
Pauline Smith EdD
I know exactly where you are right now.
You're watching your child line up blocks, ask seventeen questions before breakfast, or sound out words on a cereal box — and you know there's a mind in there that is ready. Really ready. And yet the options in front of you feel like a compromise: a traditional school that wasn't designed with your child's pace, needs, or ZIP code in mind; a pile of apps that teach letters and numbers but nothing that holds together; or a homeschool curriculum that drops a binder on your kitchen table and wishes you luck.
You want something that takes your child seriously. That treats them like the real, curious, capable young scholar they already are — and builds from there.
That's exactly why Little Scholars Academy exists. We built a full Pre-K through Grade 2 school from the ground up — not a shortcut, not a supplement, but a genuine, accredited, 10-month school year — because young children deserve the same coherence, rigor, and joy that the best brick-and-mortar schools promise, without the constraints of geography, rigid pacing, or one-size-fits-all delivery. Every subject is here: phonics and writing workshop, number sense and mathematical discourse, IB science inquiry, global social studies, daily foreign language immersion, and structured SEL that teaches children how to understand themselves and work with others. And every lesson is designed to flex — with UDL scaffolding for children who need more support and TAG Extensions for those who need to fly faster and deeper.
Here's what I want you to hear most: this program was built for the whole child. Not just the part that will one day take a standardized test. Your child will leave this year knowing how to decode words and write a published piece — and also knowing how to regulate their emotions when something is hard, collaborate with a partner on an Odyssey of the Mind challenge, ask a scientist's question about why leaves change color, and say hello, ask for directions, and count to twenty in a second language. That's not a wish list. That's the curriculum.
The transcript and credit certification are real, accredited, and recognized. The learning is joyful, structured, and deep. And you — the grown-up guide at your child's side — will have clear scaffolding notes for every single lesson so you always know what to do next and why it matters.
Your child is ready. We built this for them. Come learn with us.
— Pauline Smith EdD
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- 6 modules, 27 lessons
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