Building a K-5 Curriculum for Microschools

Creating engaging, ready-to-use curriculum across all subjects for PreK-5th Grade

Building a Comprehensive PreK–5 Curriculum

  • Partner

  • Educate Station

  • Grades

  • PreK-5

  • Duration

  • 6 subject areas / comprehensive

  • Services

  • Curriculum Development

Overview

Educate Station is an online learning platform built around the idea that high-quality learning should be joyful and engaging. Educator Forever partnered with Educate Station to develop a comprehensive, ready-to-use PreK–5 curriculum that can be used at home, in classrooms, and across a variety of learning environments. The curriculum spans:

  • English Language Arts

  • Math

  • Science

  • Social Studies

  • Social-Emotional Learning

  • Art

We also developed leveled readers to give young learners additional opportunities to build literacy skills through engaging, developmentally appropriate texts. Together, we created standards-aligned learning experiences designed to make learning more joyful (and planning easier for the teachers and parents supporting them).


The Challenge

Educate Station needed cohesive learning experiences that could support seven grade levels, from PreK through fifth grade, across multiple academic and developmental areas. The curriculum needed to work for a variety of situations, such as a classroom teacher needing an activity to supplement an existing unit, a homeschooling parent relying on a learning plan to guide an entire lesson, or a caregiver looking for a meaningful, hands-on way to reinforce a skill at home.

This meant every resource needed to be comprehensive enough to support meaningful learning, structured enough to be ready to use, and flexible enough to work in different environments. At the same time, the curriculum needed consistency across hundreds of learning experiences while remaining developmentally appropriate from early childhood through upper elementary school.

The Solution

Educator Forever brought together experienced educators and curriculum developers to build a comprehensive PreK–5 curriculum grounded in Educate Station’s commitment to inspiring joyful learning and supporting children, teachers, and families. The curriculum combines academic rigor with hands-on, developmentally appropriate learning. Built-in assessment, differentiation, and extension opportunities help adults respond to individual learners. The leveled readers are decodable text sets grounded in the science of reading, supporting early literacy development through structured, systematic skill progression.

Results

Together, Educate Station and Educator Forever created a comprehensive, high-quality PreK–5 curriculum that is award-winning, joyful, and rigorous.

The curriculum features learning plans across English Language Arts, Math, Science, Social Studies, Social-Emotional Learning, and Art, giving teachers and families a single go-to resource for supporting learning across the elementary years.

Each lesson includes assessment, differentiation strategies, and extension activities, giving educators and families built-in ways to check for understanding, respond to individual learning needs, and deepen learning beyond the core lesson.

The result is curriculum that educators and families can confidently pick up, adapt, and use with a wide range of learners.

In 2026, Educate Station received recognition from the Parents’ Picks Awards, Homeschool Awards, and How to Homeschool Awards for best curriculum and homeschool resources.

  • 6

  • Subject areas (ELA, Math, Science, Social Studies, SEL & Art)

  • 100%

  • Standards alignment (CCSS, NGSS, NCSS, CASEL)

  • 133+

  • Learning Plans

  • PreK-5

  • High-quality, ready-to-use curriculum

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