1st Grade
A year-long Bible course in Exodus and Joshua, from Moses at the burning bush to Jericho, runs beside the academic subjects, with a memory verse each week. All four 1st grade subjects: phonics that takes a child from letter sounds to reading real sentences, a full math year through addition and subtraction within 20 with spoken questions and tapped answers, and hands-on science and social studies run with a parent and checked in with Clara out loud.
The Bible course
One long journey, told in order, across a school year. Egypt, the sea, the desert, the mountain, forty years of waiting, and into the land. Each week you read the passage aloud from the King James, tell it back in plain words, learn one short verse, ask three questions, and do one small thing. From week 11 you also add a drawing to a paper map of the journey that runs along a wall. Twenty minutes, three times a week, and nothing to mark.
4 units, 36 lessons
A first lesson
God's people in Egypt
Read, retell and talk about “God's people in Egypt” (Exodus 1:1-14), and say Psalm 121:2 by heart.
Open the whole course and try a lesson, no account needed →King James throughout. Where Christian traditions differ, the course names the positions rather than choosing for your family. On origins it teaches six-day creation, and whether evolution is taught alongside it is your choice at signup. How our Christian curriculum approaches Scripture, science and denominational differences →
Five days from the opening week of the academic courses (Bible's own first week is above), taken from the lessons themselves rather than written to sound good.
The week opens with a check, not a lesson: your child counts two groups, six blocks and then nine, touching each one exactly once out loud while you watch every touch, not just the number they land on. It's fast, about thirteen minutes start to finish, and nothing is corrected. It tells the course exactly where to start teaching.
Day two moves to the screen: seven apples appear, the app counts them aloud once, tap by tap, then your child does the same with a handful of small pictured sets, sliding from guided to on their own inside a single short session.
The third day tackles something sneaky: does moving objects around change how many there are? You line up six blocks, count them, then bunch the same six together and count again, six blocks still. Your child does the same with nine blocks, counting them in a line, watching you rearrange them into a circle, then recounting to prove nothing changed. Later that day, science takes its turn outside: you tie a ribbon up on a windy day and watch what it does, the week's way of showing wind is real even though nobody can see it.
Counting stretches to twenty and across two rows of a picture, fourteen stars the app counts straight through without pausing at the row break, then your child takes over on similar sets. Family comes up in social studies today too: you draw the whole family together, pets included, and name one thing each person loves and one way they help.
The week's math closes on comparing: two groups side by side, five dogs against eight, your child counts both and says which has more, then does it again with two equal groups that look different, seven bunched flowers against seven spread out, to learn that how something looks isn't the same as how many there are.
At 1st grade, most subjects run through a parent, not around one. Here is exactly what Clara does, what falls to you, and what your child does alone, course by course.
| Subject | Clara's role | Parent's role | Child's independent work |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bible (Out of Egypt: Exodus and Joshua) | Not part of this course. | Reads the passage aloud from the King James, retells it in plain words, says the verse together, asks the three questions, and does the activity. From week 11, also adds one drawing to a paper journey map. About 20 minutes, three times a week. | Listens, retells, learns the verse, answers the questions, and adds to the map from week 11 on. |
| Phonics (Learning to Read) | Teaches each sound aloud and runs the blending games on screen. Same shared course as kindergarten’s, picked up wherever a child’s mastery has it. | Stays close by so answers get said out loud before they’re tapped. | Says the answer out loud, then taps it. |
| Mathematics (Tens, Ones, and Adventures) | Presents the same-day check and a second, delayed check about a week later. | Reads the script and sets out the objects it calls for (straws, counters, a paper clock) for the hands-on practice. No teaching background is needed. | Works the objects with a parent, then taps to answer; is checked again about a week later on the delayed check. |
| Science (Science Explorations) | Runs a five-minute spoken check-in after the activity. | Gathers the listed materials and leads the week’s scripted exploration. | Does the hands-on exploration with a parent, then answers Clara’s check-in by tapping. |
| Social studies (My World) | Runs a five-minute spoken check-in after the activity. | Leads the week’s family story, walk, map, or other listed activity. | Does the activity with a parent, then answers Clara’s check-in. |
Time-wise: Bible runs about 20 minutes, three days a week; phonics is about 15 minutes most days; math starts around 12 to 15 minutes a day and grows to about 50 minutes by the later units; and science and social studies each run two or three shorter sessions a week.
One long journey, told in order, across a school year. Egypt, the sea, the desert, the mountain, forty years of waiting, and into the land. Each week you read the passage aloud from the King James, tell it back in plain words, learn one short verse, ask three questions, and do one small thing. From week 11 you also add a drawing to a paper map of the journey that runs along a wall. Twenty minutes, three times a week, and nothing to mark.
This teaches reading the way the research says reading works: sounds first, taught explicitly, in a careful order. Schools call it systematic synthetic phonics. Clara teaches each sound out loud and plays the blending games with your child that a good reception teacher would. Your child then shows they can read by tapping the right printed word. The question is spoken aloud; the answer words never are, because reading them is the whole point. Every word your child is asked to read uses only sounds already taught. We check that mechanically when the course is built, so it is a promise rather than a hope.
A full year of first-grade math in short daily sessions, run by you rather than by a textbook. You get a script to read and your child answers by tapping, so no teaching background is needed. Your child starts by counting objects and comparing groups, learns what the equals sign actually means, gets quick at adding and subtracting within 10 and then within 20 using a make-a-ten trick, comes to see two-digit numbers as bundles of tens and ones, compares and adds them, measures things, reads clocks, and finishes by sorting data and cutting shapes into equal pieces. Every new idea begins with objects your child can touch, counters and straws and bundles, before a single number or symbol shows up on paper.
You run one small hands-on exploration a week from a script, and we tell you what to grab, what to say, and what to listen for. Clara then checks in with your child on screen for five minutes, out loud. The learning happens at the sink and on the sidewalk with you next to them. The app's job is to keep the record of it.
You run one small activity a week from a script, and we tell you what to grab, what to say, and what to listen for. Clara checks in with your child on screen for five minutes, out loud. By June you own a shelf of things your child actually made: a story book they authored, a family constitution, working maps, and a sealed time capsule.
Every course above is published in full, every unit, every module, every objective, and each course page opens a complete lesson you can work through without an account. When you are ready, the trial is free for 30 days, then $29 a month for the whole family.
At the very beginning, with single letter sounds, and it moves exactly as fast as your child proves mastery. A 1st grader who already knows some sounds moves quickly through the early weeks; one who needs longer gets longer, without anyone deciding they are "behind."
Grade 1 math is live: a full year through addition and subtraction within 20, place value as tens and ones, time and measuring, every question spoken aloud, every answer tapped. Mastery pacing means a child who flies moves into Grade 2 math the same year at no extra cost.