Cambridge International (UK)
What children learn
A parent chooses the curriculum each child follows. Here are the curricula, and every unit open now in the one you pick, in the order it's taught.
These lessons are drafts. They're written with help from AI, following each curriculum, and checked by the My Family School team, but no certified teacher has reviewed them yet. If you spot a mistake, please tell us.
The curricula
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United States (Common Core + NGSS)
Common Core for math and English language arts, and NGSS for science: what most schools in the United States follow, with the US national frameworks for social studies, the arts, and PE and health. Lessons for Grades 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 are open, with more on the way. The groups that wrote these standards don't endorse My Family School.
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Canada · British Columbia
British Columbia's curriculum, grade by grade and subject by subject. Lessons for Grades 3 and 4 are open.
First lessons open
Cambridge International (UK)
Cambridge Primary's curriculum frameworks, which international schools follow around the world. Its first lessons, for the age of Grade 3, are open, with more on the way. My Family School isn't a Cambridge school.
What a lesson is like
In a lesson your child talks out loud with their AI teacher, one to one, while a shared board shows pictures, questions and hands-on models. Lessons are planned for 20 to 40 minutes, and go like this:
Warm-up
A quick question about something from before.
Today's challenge
A question to wonder about, which the lesson answers.
Sam's idea
Sam, an AI classmate, shares an idea that isn't quite right, and your child helps sort it out.
Learn it
The teacher shows the new idea on the board, step by step, with something to build, move or act out along the way.
Together
They answer questions together. When your child is stuck, the teacher gives a small hint, one step at a time.
Another way to see it · only when needed
If it hasn't clicked yet, the teacher explains it a different way.
On your own
Your child tries a few questions on their own.
Exit ticket
A few last questions, without hints, to show what your child has got.
Wrap-up
The teacher sums up what they learned.
After each lesson your child finishes, you get a short report: the learning goals, how your child did, and what comes next. Each class also has a time limit: when it's reached before the lesson is done, the teacher wraps up kindly and your child's place is saved for next time.
Watch a demo classA scripted Grade 4 Math class to watch in your browser, with no sign-up.
Grade 3
2 lessons in 2 subjects
English Language Arts
Reading Aloud with Expression
Using punctuation to choose how a sentence sounds, and reading a short story aloud with feeling.
1 lesson · about 20 minutes each
Cambridge curriculum: Reading: read aloud with fluency and expression, using punctuation (full stops, question marks, exclamation marks and speech marks) to guide reading. Speaking: use intonation and expression to engage a listener. Paraphrased from the Cambridge Primary English curriculum framework, Stage 4 (ages 8 to 9, about Grade 3); the exact learning objective codes are still to be checked against the official framework.
The lessons, and the skills they build
- Read It Like You Mean ItFull stops, question marks, exclamation marks and speech marks tell your voice what to do. The student echoes the teacher, then reads a short story aloud in two voices.
Skills
- Use full stops, question marks and exclamation marks to read aloud with expression.
Science
Sound
Where sounds come from: feeling and seeing vibrations in voices, rubber bands and rulers.
1 lesson · about 20 minutes each
Cambridge curriculum: Physics, sound: sounds are made by vibrating objects; the size of a vibration changes the volume and its speed changes the pitch, which are different things. Thinking and working scientifically: make a prediction, carry out a simple test, describe what was observed and explain it. Paraphrased from the Cambridge Primary Science curriculum framework; the stage (4 or 5) and the exact learning objective codes are still to be checked against the official framework.
The lessons, and the skills they build
- Good Vibrations: How Sounds Are MadeFeel your own voice buzz, twang a ruler and pluck a rubber band to find out how sounds are made, and why some sounds are loud and some are high.
Skills
- Explain that sounds are made when something vibrates, and show it with everyday objects.
Which lessons your child takes
US, Grade 1: Math, English Language Arts, Science, Social Studies, Arts Education and Physical and Health Education. US, Grade 2: Math, English Language Arts, Science, Social Studies, Arts Education and Physical and Health Education. US, Grade 3: Math, English Language Arts, Science, Social Studies, Arts Education and Physical and Health Education. US, Grade 4: Math, English Language Arts, Science, Social Studies, Arts Education and Physical and Health Education. US, Grade 5: Math, English Language Arts, Science, Social Studies, Arts Education and Physical and Health Education. US, Grade 6: Math and Science. US, Grade 7: Math and Science. BC, Grade 3: Math, English Language Arts, Science, Social Studies, Arts Education, Physical and Health Education and Career Education. BC, Grade 4: Math. Cambridge, Grade 3: English Language Arts and Science. Children in Grades 1 to 7 can join, and a grade opens as its first lessons are ready. In each subject, a child takes their own grade's lessons in the curriculum you chose for them, or while it has none yet, the grade below's, to review, or else the grade above's. In your child's settings you can choose another grade for any subject, or leave one out for now, and any curriculum's and grade's lessons are one tap away. Children in other grades can't join yet: join the waitlist to hear when My Family School opens for them.
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