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Each grade starts with the current Month 1 focus and four ready-to-print weekly packs. Choose a grade to see the actual pack titles, previews, and the year ahead.
A practical weekly routine built around the right grade—not a giant library you have to organize yourself.
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The detailed Golden Core Curriculum below shows how skills progress across subjects and grades.
Academic Arcade Golden Core Curriculum is our balanced PreK–5 learning progression. PreK is designed around recognized early-learning frameworks and developmentally appropriate Kindergarten readiness, while K–5 skills overlap widely used educational standards, including Common Core. Across all levels, the curriculum emphasizes strong foundations, reasoning, real-world application, inquiry, evidence, reflection, and cross-subject learning.
Every weekly pack in every Learning Hub is designed around the same four commitments.
Skills build in a clear, grade-to-grade progression so nothing is skipped and nothing is repeated too early.
Pages ask kids to explain their thinking and apply skills to real situations, not just complete rote drills.
PreK is guided by recognized early-learning frameworks, while K–5 skills overlap widely used academic standards, including Common Core.
Math, reading & writing, science and social studies are blended together every week, not taught in isolation.
A quick look at how core subjects progress from PreK through 5th grade. Every grade's full 12-month roadmap goes into far more depth — this is just the shape of it.
| Subject | PreK | Kindergarten | 1st Grade | 2nd Grade | 3rd Grade | 4th Grade | 5th Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Math | Sorting & matching, numbers 0–10, counting toward 20, shapes, patterns, comparing, measurement, simple data, and informal joining/separating within 5 |
Numbers to 100, addition & subtraction within 10, place value, shapes & patterns, measurement, time, money & data |
Number sense & place value to 120, addition & subtraction to 100, geometry, measurement, time, money & data |
Place value to 1,000, addition & subtraction to 1,000, multiplication & division foundations, geometry, measurement, time, money & data |
Place value, addition & subtraction, multiplication & division fluency, fractions, measurement & time, geometry & data |
Place value to 1,000,000, multi-digit operations, factors & multiples, fractions, mixed numbers, decimals, measurement & conversion, geometry & data |
Place value & decimals, powers of ten & exponents, fractions, volume, coordinate plane |
| Reading / Early Literacy | Listening and book skills, rhyme, syllables, alphabet knowledge, beginning sounds, vocabulary, story retell, and oral sound play |
Letter recognition & sounds, phonological awareness, CVC decoding, stories, informational text & fluency |
Short & long vowels, blends & digraphs, fluency, fiction & informational comprehension, vocabulary |
Phonics & word analysis, fluency, fiction & informational comprehension, text comparison & reading across genres |
Multisyllabic decoding, literature & informational comprehension, text evidence, vocabulary, research & fluency |
Word analysis, close reading, literary & informational analysis, multiple sources, research & evidence |
Informational & literary analysis, claims & evidence, academic vocabulary, research & multi-source synthesis |
| Writing / Pre-Writing | Fine-motor control, pre-writing strokes, drawing, name writing, familiar letter formation, labels, dictation, and emergent writing |
Pencil control, letter formation, labels, sound spelling, sentences, narrative, opinion & informative writing |
Complete sentences, phonics in writing, narratives, opinion, informative & how-to writing, source-based writing |
Sentence & paragraph development, narrative, informative & opinion writing, two-source writing & conventions |
Paragraphs, narrative, informative & opinion writing, evidence, research, revision & presentation |
Evidence-based responses, informative, opinion & narrative writing, research, source integration & revision |
Informative, literary response, argument, scientific & historical writing, research & multi-source synthesis |
| Science | Senses and observation, properties, weather, living things, habitats, Earth materials, motion, sky patterns, growth, and simple engineering |
Observation, five senses, weather, living things, motion, Earth & sky, materials & engineering |
Light, sound, weather & sky, plants & animals, habitats, Earth materials & engineering |
Matter & material changes, habitats & biodiversity, plants & life cycles, Earth’s surface, weather, water & engineering |
Forces & motion, life cycles & traits, ecosystems, weather & climate, matter, energy & engineering |
Energy & resources, living structures & animal senses, Earth processes & hazards, waves, light, systems & engineering |
Matter & conservation, ecosystems, Earth systems & resources, space patterns, the solar system, scientific data & engineering |
| Social Studies / SEL | Self and feelings, families, friendship, routines, community helpers, rules and safety, needs/wants, maps, traditions, shared places, and independence |
Classroom community, families & helpers, rules & fairness, needs & wants, maps, past & present, environment |
School & neighborhood community, families & traditions, needs & wants, maps, civics, culture, past & present |
Communities, maps, roles, economic choices, landforms & settlement, civics, regions, responsibility, past & present |
Geography, civics & government, economics, communities, history, culture, environment & inquiry |
Geography & regions, communities & change, government & civics, Earth resources, economics, innovation, historical sources & civic inquiry |
Geographic analysis, regions & movement, environment & economies, civics, public policy, U.S. history & sources, finance & civic action |
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