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Grades

What every 1st–4th grader learns

Every grade gets the same five islands, but every question is written for that grade. Your child learns what their class is learning right now, at the right level.

1st Grade

Ages 6–7

Big first steps: counting, sounding out words, and noticing the world around them.

🏝️ Math

Counting to 120, tens and ones, adding and subtracting within 20, skip counting by 2s, 5s, and 10s, halves and fourths, telling time to the half hour, and shapes.

📖 Reading

Letter sounds, rhyming, syllables, short stories, key details, facts versus opinions, and punctuation.

🌎 Social Studies

Maps and directions, community helpers, U.S. symbols, family traditions, needs and wants, and being fair.

🔬 Science

Living things and what they need, animal homes, plant parts, pushes and pulls, weather, and day and night.

🎨 Arts & Humanities

Primary colors, shapes and patterns, beat and rhythm, famous paintings, fables, rhymes, and acting and dancing.

🎮 Plus

19 illustrated storybooks for this grade, 9 games, Fact World, stars, and treasure chests.

2nd Grade

Ages 7–8

Growing independence: bigger numbers, stronger reading, and understanding communities.

🏝️ Math

Place value to 1,000, adding and subtracting within 100 and 1,000, even and odd, arrays, halves, thirds, and fourths, time to 5 minutes, money, and shapes.

📖 Reading

Long vowels and vowel teams, prefixes and suffixes, character feelings and lessons, text features, context clues, and author's purpose.

🌎 Social Studies

Map keys and globes, urban and rural communities, U.S. landmarks, goods and services, citizenship, and then and now.

🔬 Science

Habitats, pollination and seeds, life cycles, solids, liquids, and gases, magnets and gravity, and the water cycle.

🎨 Arts & Humanities

Warm and cool colors, tempo and instrument families, famous artists, tall tales, haiku, props and directors, and mosaics.

🎮 Plus

19 illustrated storybooks for this grade, 9 games, Fact World, stars, and treasure chests.

3rd Grade

Ages 8–9

Deeper thinking: multiplication, chapter-level reading, and the wider world.

🏝️ Math

Rounding, multiplication and division facts, unit fractions, area and perimeter, elapsed time, and two-step word problems.

📖 Reading

Word roots, character traits, theme, cause and effect, figurative language, and fact versus opinion.

🌎 Social Studies

Hemispheres and landforms, world landmarks and cultures, trade, scarcity, the three branches of government, and explorers.

🔬 Science

Inherited traits, food chains, photosynthesis, balanced forces, weather and climate, and energy sources.

🎨 Arts & Humanities

Tints and shades, music terms, art styles, myths and legends, metaphors, choreography, and murals.

🎮 Plus

19 illustrated storybooks for this grade, 9 games, Fact World, stars, and treasure chests.

4th Grade

Ages 9–10

Big ideas: multi-digit math, evidence-based reading, and how our country works.

🏝️ Math

Numbers to 1,000,000, multi-digit multiplication, division with remainders, equivalent fractions, angles, and area and perimeter.

📖 Reading

Greek and Latin roots, text structure, making inferences, idioms and metaphors, and using evidence.

🌎 Social Studies

U.S. regions and states, early colonies, supply and demand, the Constitution, and key events in U.S. history.

🔬 Science

Body systems, adaptations, weathering and erosion, energy transfer, circuits, and sound.

🎨 Arts & Humanities

Color schemes, music basics, art movements, point of view, figurative language, and the design process.

🎮 Plus

19 illustrated storybooks for this grade, 9 games, Fact World, stars, and treasure chests.

Not sure which grade to pick? Choose the grade your child is in now. You can change it any time in the Parent Zone. See every stop in the curriculum.

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