Kindergarten
A year-long Bible course in Genesis, read aloud and told back in a five-year-old's own words with one short verse a week, sits beside the four academic subjects. All four kindergarten subjects, each built for how five-year-olds actually learn: systematic phonics where every question is spoken aloud and answers are tapped, a full math year from counting to shapes, and science and social studies done hands-on with a parent, ice cubes and treasure maps, not screens, with a five-minute spoken check-in after each week.
The Bible course
Genesis, once through, in a year. You read the passage aloud, tell it back in ordinary words, learn a short verse together, ask three questions, and do one small thing. Twenty minutes, three times a week, and no marking.
4 units, 36 lessons
A first lesson
God made everything
Hear, retell and talk about “God made everything” (Genesis 1:1-25), and say Genesis 1:1 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.
On the first day, math is a checkup, not a lesson. You line up five blocks and count them slowly while your child watches, then hand them the same five blocks and just notice what happens: words with no touching, touches and words out of step, or a clean match every time. Nothing gets corrected yet. That quiet observation is how the course finds out where your child's counting actually breaks down before it decides what to teach next.
Day two moves fast and stays playful: you clap once per number, counting one through five slowly, three times through, with your child joining in each round until it's automatic. Later that day you're at a window together for the first of the week's sky watching sessions, drawing what the sky is doing, sun, clouds, rain, wind, in one box of a folded paper you'll line up and compare at the end of the week.
Counting gets exact: you line up three blocks and show one touch for every number word, one, two, three, then guide your child's hand through the same three blocks and a fresh set of three buttons until the touches and the words land together. Social studies takes its turn too: you tell your child the story of their name, who chose it and why, then let them turn around and ask you the same question, finishing with a name card decorated with whatever the story turned up.
The line grows to five counters, and your child touch counts them, then a new set of five toys, with you stepping back a little on the guiding hand as they get steadier. It looks like nothing happened. It's actually the whole point: five objects, counted correctly, twice, with less help than the day before.
By the fifth day your child touch counts a line of eight, you saying the last number louder, 'eight!', so the end of counting has a sound of its own, then does the same with ten objects mostly on their own. Whatever science or social studies session hasn't happened yet this week (there are usually two or three, not five) gets its turn now, since both courses are built to bend around a real week instead of demanding one.
At kindergarten, 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 (In the Beginning: Genesis) | Not part of this course. | Reads the passage aloud from the King James, retells it in plain words, says the week’s verse together, asks the three provided questions, and leads one small activity. About 20 minutes, three times a week. | Listens, retells the story back, learns the verse by heart, and answers the questions out loud. |
| Phonics (Learning to Read) | Teaches each sound aloud and runs the blending games on screen. | Stays close by: answers are meant to be said out loud before they’re tapped, and that only happens with someone there to hear it. | Says the answer out loud, then taps it. |
| Mathematics (Numbers, Shapes, and Stories) | Presents the tap-to-answer check at the end of each lesson. | Reads the provided script, sets out the objects it calls for (blocks, buttons, fingers), and runs the hands-on practice. No planning or teaching background is needed. | Works through the objects with a parent, then taps to answer. |
| 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 is planned at about 50 minutes a day, most of it hands-on rather than instruction; and science and social studies each run two or three shorter sessions a week. None of it needs previous teaching experience, but almost none of it runs without you in the room.
Genesis, once through, in a year. You read the passage aloud, tell it back in ordinary words, learn a short verse together, ask three questions, and do one small thing. Twenty minutes, three times a week, and no marking.
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.
You run this one, and we hand you the words. Every lesson opens with a short story you tell out loud and ends with your child tapping a picture to answer, so nothing has to be read or typed at any point. It is kindergarten math done with things a child can pick up: blocks, buttons, fingers, pictures on a screen. By June they can count to 100, count out and compare groups of things, add and subtract by acting out little stories with real objects, say why 14 means one ten and four ones, and name the basic flat and solid shapes wherever they turn up. First grade assumes a child arrives already counting and comparing, and already sure that numbers stand for real amounts of real things. That is the year this builds.
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.
Mostly, yes, and by design. Questions are read aloud by the app, answers are tapped, and nothing requires typing or reading instructions. A grown-up should stay close for the "say it out loud" moments, which is exactly the part of phonics a parent is best at.
It is the spine, and now it has company. Kindergarten math, science and social studies are all live alongside it: math with spoken questions and tapped answers, science and social studies as weekly hands-on activities a parent leads with a short Clara check-in after.