Pre-Kindergarten 3-Year-olds
Pre-Kindergarten 4-year-olds
Kindergarten – 3rd Grade
Pre-Kindergarten 3-Year-olds
Mother Goose Curriculum: Mother Goose Curriculum is aligned with the Head Start Development and Early Learning Framework, along with DC Early Learning Standards. This curriculum enables children to develop confidence, creativity, and lifelong critical thinking skills.
Pre-Kindergarten 3-Year-olds
Mother Goose Curriculum: Mother Goose Curriculum is aligned with the Head Start Development and Early Learning Framework, along with DC Early Learning Standards. This curriculum enables children to develop confidence, creativity, and lifelong critical thinking skills.
Kindergarten – 3rd Grade
enVision Math: enVisionMATH Common Core was built from the ground up to meet the Common Core State Standards. Mathematical Practices are deeply rooted in the curriculum. These practices promote student success in mathematics.
MyView Literacy: MyView Literacy Common Core helps prioritize instruction to support higher levels of reading and writing by:
- Increases text complexity in reading
- Provides accessible rigor
- Balances fiction and informational texts
- Builds content-area knowledge
- Emphasizes close reading
- Focuses on informative/explanatory, argumentative/opinion and narrative writing
- Implements performance assessments
- Integrates media and 21st century skills
Supplemental Instruction: Handwriting without Tears- Grade K
Kindergarten students, or those working at that level, focus on learning capital and lowercase letters, numbers, words, and sentences. Activities are designed to build good handwriting habits and help develop strong writing skills. Letters and Numbers for Me offers kindergarteners practice with letters, numbers, words, and sentences. The multisensory lessons and activities, along with carefully selected word choices, are aligned with grade-level ELA standards.
Supplemental Instruction: Handwriting without Tears- Grade 1
A research-based curriculum that is both easy to teach and easy to learn, designed to promote handwriting automaticity—a key foundation for strong literacy development. By combining explicit instruction with guided practice, it helps students build essential skills. My Printing Book is tailored for first grade students and above, providing ample opportunities to refine printing skills while reinforcing other important language abilities, such as grammar, paragraph writing, and understanding key word roots. First grade students practice forming lowercase letters correctly within words and sentences.
Supplemental Instruction: Handwriting without Tears- Grade 2
Cursive Kickoff offers second grade students the option to start cursive instruction earlier. After a brief review of print letter formations, students progress to learning cursive letters in developmentally appropriate groups based on their stroke formation. In Cursive Kickoff, second graders review print letter forms and begin practicing cursive letters, letter connections, and writing. The word choices in the handwriting lessons are carefully aligned with second grade phonics and reading concepts, ensuring a strong foundation for literacy success. Beginning in second grade, our clear, vertical cursive style closely mirrors print, making the transition from print to cursive seamless. With regular practice, students will quickly memorize letter connections, making cursive easy to learn, read, and write.
Supplemental Instruction: Handwriting without Tears- Grade 3
In third grade, students learn cursive lowercase and capital letters through fun, engaging, and multisensory lessons in Cursive Handwriting. They practice letter formations and connections while working on grade-level ELA activities that focus on paragraphs, poems, and composition. This research-based curriculum is designed to be easy to teach and easy to learn, using explicit instruction combined with guided practice to promote handwriting automaticity—a crucial skill for strong literacy development. Our cursive program uses a child-friendly approach with simple, engaging instructions that children can easily follow. We teach a straightforward, continuous vertical stroke that helps kids master handwriting with ease. The letter style is familiar and recognizable, closely resembling the letters and words children encounter in everyday reading.
Our STEM Program
A key goal of Paige & Paxton is to expose children to STEM careers as early as possible. Children are already thinking about who they are and how they fit into the world around them. They aspire to be firefighters, police officers, entertainers, doctors, fairy princesses, and superheroes. So why not botanists, chemists, computer programmers, mathematicians and structural engineers? The adults around children often ask them: What do you want to be when you grow up? Consider that children’s answers to this question have not changed much over the last decade. Even more profound, their answers do not change much as they progress through high school and college. When young adults were asked their reason for not pursuing a career in STEM, 34% responded that they did not know much about STEM fields!
Paige & Paxton necessarily has a robust, inquiry-based component that allows children to engage in open-ended exploration. In addition to hands-on challenges and projects, Paige & Paxton programming goes one step further: rather than just a litany of projects that create “cool” structures, explosions, and yucky experiments, Paige & Paxton provides context and real-world relevance through the lens of the child.