Max class size: 40
All classes are currently full.
Next Intake: January 2021.
Grade / Standards 1 – 3
Our Grade 1 (Standard 1 Curriculum)
Why these courses?
These courses are designed to develop your child’s critical thinking and mastery of concepts from an early stage. The teaching methods used are heavily hands on and include the use of manipulatives and visual methods. Our lessons are delivered through a combination of animated cartoons and real life pre-recorded videos “The Adventures of Miss Allana & Zoey”. Practice and checkpoint tests are in printable format and in some cases in the form of our android apps accessed through the Google Play Store. These videos and apps promote the excitement and fun in learning and results in a higher retention rate for children.
There are no deadlines and no submissions to make, parents and students work at their own pace at their own schedules. Live sessions with the tutor can be arranged if extra support is needed. There are live online workshops during the year, please follow your social media for upcoming events.
These videos, digital workbooks and apps are exclusive to students of K12 STEM Homeschool Tutoring. and not sold outside of our courses. The material and content of these courses are not to be shared on any public or private forum or social media without our written permission.
Who it’s for:
- Homeschoolers in (US) Grade 1 / (TT) Standard 1 .
- Students who may or may not be preparing for the SEA (Secondary Entrance Assessment) Examinations.
What’s included:
- Instructional, tips and tricks video for parents.
- Fun, animated lesson videos for children.
- Printable workbooks with answer sheets for parents.*
- Printable manipulatives or links to online manipulatives or links to purchase manipulatives.
- Access to our practice apps in Google Play Store (where applicable).
- Progress Charts per subject and virtual reward stickers for students who choose to complete the worksheets virtually.
- Access to the tutor via Whatsapp & Email.
*Printed copies of the workbooks can be requested at an additional cost.
Next Intake: January 2021.
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This curriculum is designed to promote critical thinking and mastery of your child in the following topic areas:
TERM 1 :
- Addition and subtraction facts through 1-10: number lines, word problem solving, adding with money
- Mastery of and mental math strategies in addition and subtraction through 1-10
- Algebraic thinking through 1-10 including bar modelling, solving equations.
- Counting forward in 5s
- Place value to tens.
- Understanding Multiplication by 0
TERM 2:
- Addition and subtraction facts through 11-20: number lines, word problem solving, adding with money
- Measurement: Comparing lengths, heights, Greater than, Less than, Equal to, Pictographs, Time to the hour and half hour, Calendar skills, Collecting Data
- Mastery of and mental math strategies in addition and subtraction through 11-20
- Algebraic thinking through 11-20 including bar modelling, solving equations.
- Counting forward in 10s.
- Understanding Multiplication by 1
TERM 3:
- Addition and subtraction facts and regrouping through 100: number lines, word problem solving,
- Geometry : Identifying and properties of 2D & 3D shapes in real life objects, composing 2D shapes, drawing and composing 3D shapes
- Introduction to fractions using shapes.
- Comparing numbers through 100.
- Mastery of and mental math strategies in addition and subtraction through 100
- Algebraic thinking through 100 including bar modelling, solving equations.
- Understanding Multiplication by 2
COSTS:
$800 TTD per term. These costs are subject to change without notice.
This course is designed to create exceptional readers and writers by laying a solid foundation in the early stages.
It is very important that children READ additional grade level fact and fictional books outside of what is included in this course. Parents should guide the children to examine those books and identify the grammar and mechanics taught in these lessons. All Creative Writing sections will include the steps: Planning, Writing, Revising, Proofreading and Methods of Publishing. All Comprehension Passages will include videos to guide the child to read with accuracy, proper speed and meaningful expression.
The topics in these lessons are:
TERM 1:
- Sentences : Statements, Questions, Exclamations, Abbreviations
- Parts of Speech: Common and Proper Nouns, Verbs, Pronouns, Adjectives, Prepositions
- Capitalisation
- Punctuation: Periods, Question Marks, Exclamation Points, Commas, Apostrophes
- Reading Comprehension: Fact and Fictional Stories, Comparing Texts and Characters, Finding Reasons.
- Spelling, Compound words
- Creative Writing: Combining Sentences, Journal Writing, Writing an Opinion.
TERM 2:
- Subject-Verb agreement, irregular verbs, past tense verbs.
- Plurals with s, irregular plural nouns
- Prefixes and Suffixes
- Pronouns I and me
- Comparative Adjectives
- Reading Comprehension: Graphics and Charts
- Spelling
- Creative Writing: Story Writing using images as prompts, writing friendly letters.
TERM 3:
- Synonyms
- Antonyms
- Homophones
- Contractions with not
- Multiple-meaning Words
- Reading Comprehension: Poetry
- Creative Writing: Writing to inform
COSTS:
$800 TTD per term. These costs are subject to change without notice.
STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) encourages higher order thinking in children. It integrates not only the STEM subjects, but also the Creative Arts and it strengthens their English Language Arts skills as recording notes and written reflections throughout the process is mandatory. Creativity, collaboration, communication and critical thinking are integral to every task. Parents are encouraged to have their child perform these tasks with up to 3 other age-appropriate siblings or cousins.*
*These videos, digital workbooks and apps are exclusive to students of K12 STEM Homeschool Tutoring. and not sold outside of our courses. The material and content of these courses are not to be shared on any public or private forum or social media without our written permission.
Parents are responsible for gathering the materials and supervising these experiments. Materials for these experiments are inexpensive and mainly consist of everyday household items. A short video of the child summarising the steps in each video can be taken and submitted to our dedicated FlipGrid board. To earn a STEM kit and a Certificate of Completion from a certified STEM Educator, the child should submit all 30 short videos to FlipGrid and their completed worksheets to a Google Classroom.
This series contains 31 STEM tasks and includes:
- Instructional videos for parents.
- “What is the Engineering Design Process” Video.
- 30 demonstration videos of the tasks and background information accompanied by a worksheet.
- Access to our FlipGrid discussion board to upload your video content.
- Access to a Google Classroom to submit your worksheets.
COSTS:
$1200. These costs are subject to change without notice.
This program uses ScratchJr as the coding platform. ScratchJr is FREE and can be used as an app on smartphones and android tablets or as an offline program on a computer. Coding with ScratchJr enhances critical and logical thinking young children in a very fun and creative way. ScratchJr is an introductory programming language that encourages creativity and expression, enabling children ages 5 to 8 to create their own interactive projects through coding. Using ScratchJr, children can snap together programming blocks to make characters move, jump, dance, and sing. They can modify how their characters look, design their own backgrounds, add their own voices and sounds and even photos of themselves—and then use the programming blocks to bring their characters to life.
This series contains 50 short activities:
- Instructional videos for parents
- Video tutorials for each activity
- Printable guide notes.
You are encouraged to submit a final video of your child’s own unique, creation using most of the features in the program to earn a STEM Kit.
ScratchJr is a collaboration between the DevTech Research Group at Tufts University, the Lifelong Kindergarten Group at the MIT Media Lab, and the Playful Invention Company.
COSTS:
$1000 TTD. These costs are subject to change without notice.