Give your child the world's best start — from your own home
Little Scholars Academy is a fully accredited K–2 virtual school where rigorous academics, joyful discovery, and whole-child care aren't a trade-off — they're the whole point. Your 5–8 year old gets real teachers, real credentials, and a real love of learning, built into every single day.

I built this school because every young learner deserves a place where being deeply curious and rigorously educated are the exact same thing.— Pauline Smith EdD

What you'll learn
What you'll be able to do
- Read and comprehend grade-level texts independently, applying phonics, fluency, and early literary analysis skills aligned to Common Core ELA standards.
- Solve real-world math problems with confidence using the Standards for Mathematical Practice — from counting and place value through early geometry, measurement, and data.
- Conduct simple science and engineering investigations through MESA-inspired challenges, forming hypotheses, gathering evidence, and presenting findings like a real scientist.
- Communicate in a second language at a novice-mid level, using everyday vocabulary and phrases through songs, stories, games, and structured conversation practice.
- Demonstrate social-emotional self-regulation, empathy, and collaborative problem-solving skills through daily SEL routines and Odyssey of the Mind–style creative team challenges.
- Pursue accelerated, cross-disciplinary inquiry projects through TAG and IB-aligned units of study, connecting big ideas across subjects and producing original, evidence-based work.
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 · 28 lessons

Welcome to Little Scholars Academy: Learning to Learn Together
This foundational orientation module builds the mindsets, routines, and community structures that make all subsequent learning possible. Students establish their virtual classroom identity, launch daily SEL practices, and are introduced to collaborative creative problem-solving through Odyssey of the Mind–style team challenges. UDL principles are embedded from day one, ensuring every learner can access, engage with, and express learning in multiple ways. IB Learner Profile attributes (inquirer, communicator, caring) are explicitly introduced so students carry them across all modules throughout the year.
- 1.1My Virtual Classroom, My Learning CommunityIncluded
- 1.2Feelings Are Data: Launching Daily SEL RoutinesIncluded
- 1.3Odyssey of the Mind Begins: Creative Teams and Challenge-Based ThinkingIncluded
- 1.4Learning How I Learn: UDL, Growth Mindset, and Goal-SettingIncluded
Language Arts: Reading, Writing, and the Power of Story
This comprehensive ELA module delivers the full arc of Common Core English Language Arts standards for K–2: foundational phonics and phonemic awareness, deep comprehension of literary and informational texts, a structured writing workshop progression from oral storytelling to published pieces, and rich vocabulary and oral language development. IB transdisciplinary themes connect reading and writing to global ideas, UDL ensures access for all learners including emergent readers, and TAG extension menus provide literary analysis challenges for advanced readers. Lessons are sequenced from decoding foundations through meaning-making and production.
- 2.1Phonics, Phonemic Awareness, and the Reading CodeIncluded
- 2.2Reading Literature and Informational Text: Thinking Deeply About BooksIncluded
- 2.3Writing Workshop: From Ideas to Published AuthorsIncluded
- 2.4Speaking, Listening, and Vocabulary: Becoming Confident CommunicatorsIncluded
- 2.5Fluency, Reading Stamina, and Independent ReadingIncluded
Mathematics: Thinking, Reasoning, and Problem-Solving
This module delivers rigorous, joyful K–2 mathematics aligned to the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics and all eight Standards for Mathematical Practice. The sequence moves from concrete number sense foundations through operations, geometry, measurement, and data, culminating in a MESA-integrated real-world problem-solving unit. UDL ensures multiple means of representation (manipulatives, visuals, symbolic notation) at every stage, and TAG extension problems engage advanced mathematical thinkers. IB transdisciplinary connections help students see mathematics as a tool for understanding the world.
- 3.1Number Sense, Counting, and Place ValueIncluded
- 3.2Operations: Addition, Subtraction, and Early MultiplicationIncluded
- 3.3Geometry, Measurement, and DataIncluded
- 3.4Mathematical Thinking and Real-World Problem-Solving (MESA Challenge Unit)Included
Science and Engineering: Investigating Our World (MESA-IB Integrated)
This module delivers K–2 science through the lens of the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) three dimensions — disciplinary core ideas, science and engineering practices, and crosscutting concepts — fully integrated with MESA challenge-based learning and IB transdisciplinary inquiry. Students progress from learning the practices of science (asking questions, designing investigations, analyzing data) through life, physical, and earth science domains before applying integrated knowledge in engineering design challenges. SEL collaboration skills and UDL access supports are embedded throughout. A prerequisite lesson on scientific practices is placed first to ensure students have the investigative tools they need before domain content begins.
- 4.1Asking Questions and Designing Investigations: Thinking Like a ScientistIncluded
- 4.2Life Science: Plants, Animals, and Living SystemsIncluded
- 4.3Physical Science: Forces, Motion, and MatterIncluded
- 4.4Earth Science: Weather, Land, and Our EnvironmentIncluded
- 4.5Engineering Design: Building, Testing, and IteratingIncluded
Foreign Language: Communicating Across Cultures
This module develops novice-mid level proficiency in a second language (Spanish, French, Mandarin, or another school-selected language) aligned to ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines and the World-Readiness Standards for Language Learning. Instruction is comprehension-first, with heavy emphasis on input-rich activities (songs, stories, games), structured output practice (conversation, role-play), and cultural immersion. IB international-mindedness and UDL principles ensure all learners — including heritage speakers and true beginners — are challenged and supported. Lessons are sequenced from sound-and-greeting foundations through conversational interaction to cultural understanding, mirroring natural language acquisition order.
- 5.1Hello, World! Greetings, Introductions, and the Sounds of the LanguageIncluded
- 5.2My World in Words: Family, Colors, Numbers, and Everyday ObjectsIncluded
- 5.3Story Time in the Target Language: Comprehensible Input Through NarrativeIncluded
- 5.4Let's Talk! Structured Conversation, Games, and SongsIncluded
- 5.5Culture Explorers: Celebrations, Food, Art, and Global CitizenshipIncluded
Social Studies, Global Citizenship, and Integrated Capstone Projects
This culminating module delivers K–2 social studies across community and civics, geography, and history, while simultaneously synthesizing learning from every prior module in a year-end Capstone that demands real cross-disciplinary application. The IB Programme of Inquiry's transdisciplinary themes serve as the organizing framework, ensuring social studies is not taught in isolation but as the connective tissue between all subjects. Odyssey of the Mind creative problem-solving structures power the Innovation Challenge Capstone. A prerequisite lesson on community and belonging is sequenced first, followed by geographic and historical inquiry, then the integrative capstone.
- 6.1Community, Citizenship, and How We Live TogetherIncluded
- 6.2Geography and Our Changing WorldIncluded
- 6.3History, Change, and the Stories We TellIncluded
- 6.4Interdisciplinary IB Inquiry: Transdisciplinary Theme Deep DivesIncluded
- 6.5Odyssey of the Mind Capstone: The Little Scholars Innovation ChallengeIncluded
Who it's for
Is this you?
The Homeschooling Parent
You want the freedom of home education without sacrificing academic structure — Little Scholars delivers a fully accredited, expertly sequenced curriculum so you don't have to build it from scratch.
Parent of a Gifted Learner
Your child devours books and outpaces their class — TAG extension pathways and IB inquiry deep-dives give them the open-ended intellectual challenge they've been craving.
Parent of a Neurodiverse Child
UDL-designed lessons and daily SEL routines mean your child's different learning style is designed for from day one, not accommodated as an afterthought.
Internationally Mobile Family
Moving countries doesn't have to mean academic disruption — our IB-aligned, accredited K–2 program travels with your family and keeps learning consistent anywhere in the world.
Parent of an English-Language Learner
Comprehensible-input language instruction and a bilingual-friendly structure help your child build confidence in English while celebrating the languages they already bring to school.
Globally Minded Guardian
You believe education should produce empathetic, curious world citizens — our foreign language strand, Culture Explorers units, and IB global citizenship thread make that a daily reality, not an aspiration.
Questions
Frequently asked
Your teacher
A note from your teacher
Pauline Smith EdD
Dear fellow champion of young learners,
I see you. You've been searching — reading reviews at midnight, opening tab after tab, trying to find a school that actually sees your child the way you do. Not as a test score, not as a behaviour to manage, not as a learner who just needs to "catch up" or, on the other end, sit quietly while the class catches up to them. You want a place where your five-, six-, seven-, or eight-year-old wakes up on a Monday morning and genuinely cannot wait to start the day. You want rigour and joy. Structure and flexibility. High expectations and deep warmth. And you want it to work for your family's life, not against it.
That's exactly why Little Scholars Academy exists.
We built this school around a simple but radical belief: the early years of learning are too important to leave to chance — and too precious to spend on anything less than wonder. So we took the frameworks that the world's strongest education systems rely on — the IB's transdisciplinary inquiry model, Common Core's insistence on deep mathematical thinking, MESA's real-world engineering challenges, UDL's commitment to every learner's access, and SEL's foundational work on the whole child — and we wove them together into a single, seamless 10-month experience that feels like an adventure from the inside and looks like a rigorous, accredited education from the outside. Because it is both.
Here's what that looks like in practice: your child will crack the phonics code and publish their first original story. They'll debate whether a shape is a square or a rectangle and use geometry to design something real. They'll form a hypothesis about forces and motion, build a prototype, test it, fail, iterate, and present their findings — just like a scientist does. They'll greet you in a second language by December. And on the very first day, before we open a single textbook, we'll sit in a circle (a virtual one, but a real one) and talk about feelings, because feelings are data too, and because a child who feels safe learns everything faster.
I want to be honest with you about one thing: this is a real school. It asks real things of your child and of you. The Odyssey of the Mind Capstone Innovation Challenge at the end of the year is genuinely hard and genuinely thrilling. The IB inquiry deep-dives ask your child to connect big ideas across subjects and defend their thinking. The writing workshop moves from "I have an idea" all the way to "I am a published author." We don't offer an easy path — we offer a meaningful one. And in my experience, young learners rise to meaningful every single time.
If you're ready to give your child a start that will shape not just this year, but the kind of thinker, communicator, collaborator, and human being they're becoming — I would be so honoured to welcome your family to Little Scholars Academy. Come meet us. The door is open, and the adventure is already waiting.
— Pauline Smith EdD
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