1st Grade
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.
Start 30 days freeFive days from the opening week of 1st grade, 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.
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 you can try a real lesson without an account.
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.