The Early Scholars Curriculum | 36-Week Digital Edition

A structured preschool learning path with room for play, curiosity, and different starting points.

The Early Scholars Curriculum is a 36-week, play-based program for ages 3 to 5. It begins with two getting-started weeks for observing participation, interests, and current skills, then moves through literacy, mathematics, science, practical life, movement, creativity, and the wider world.

Inside

• 36 planned weeks across nine inquiry-rich units
• Two getting-started weeks using play and observation rather than formal testing
• Foundation, Current Target, and Ready to Extend options for adapting challenge
• Early-literacy experiences with sound play, word building, shared reading, storytelling, and early writing
• Reasoning-focused mathematics with number sense, operations, measurement, data, shape, pattern, and explanation
• STEM investigations, maps, weather, plants, animals, building, cooking, and invention
• Practical independence, movement, relationships, and social-emotional learning throughout
• Observation and portfolio tools for deciding what to revisit, continue, or extend

Digital curriculum handbook for families, home educators, tutors, microschools, and early-childhood educators. Educational resource only. It does not assess, diagnose, label, or predict an individual child’s development or academic outcomes.