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4K & Kindergarten Academics
Curriculum that Shapes a Lifetime of Learning
Wisconsin Virtual Academy (WIVA) makes learning fun with engaging 4K and kindergarten curriculum that introduces students to core subjects through interactive, play-based activities.
WIVA students at the 4K and kindergarten levels take courses in the subjects listed below.
ENGLISH / LANGUAGE ARTS
MATH
SCIENCE
HISTORY
ART
4K Approach
Our 4K curriculum is designed to prepare your child for kindergarten while nurturing their social skills through hands-on learning and play. Our approach leverages innovative technology to create a supportive learning environment that emphasizes literacy and joyful exploration. Start your child’s educational journey with us, where every day is filled with growth, discovery, and excitement.
4K Curriculum
Embark is an engaging transitional kindergarten curriculum created by a team of developmental psychologists and academics. It includes high-quality online and offline learning experiences and provides exposure to core subjects. Courses are highly interactive, with audio and visuals to help children follow along, and can be taken at a pace that suits each child’s learning.
Kindergarten Curriculum
Our curriculum is rooted in the principles of how children learn, while the online school platform harnesses the power of 21st-century technology to make learning come alive. All courses are designed to help spark your child’s joy of learning—a joy that’s sure to grow with each academic year.
What does the online kindergarten experience look like?
Our online platform is designed to deliver engaging classes, support students, and keep things organized for parents. Young learners can access tools to help them become stronger readers, build skills through games, and recharge with their learning companion, Strider the Fox. Watch the demo videos to see how it works.
Meet Demonty
Demonty is a kindergarten student building his confidence and growing academically through online school. His mom, Janell, wanted an option that would allow her to be more involved and provide extra support to keep him on track. Demonty loves to explore outside, read books, and make friends while playing sports.
Schedules are Intentionally Designed to Support Student Growth in
Reading
In the spring of 2024, we collaborated with teachers, learning coaches, and virtual schools across the country to create an instructional design that supports increased reading growth for our students. We have prioritized balancing screen time, teacher live instruction, independent work, socialization, play, and family time while providing instruction that meets the needs of individual students.
To ensure our instruction meets our learner’s needs we will be administering short assessments at our meet and greets and throughout September so we know what each individual learner needs for their reading instruction. We are doing this as early as possible so we can begin with the appropriate instruction without delay. Given the need for assessment information before instruction, your learner’s schedule will be tentative and may change within the first few weeks of school.
Learning Partnerships at WIVA Elementary School
Partners Active in Learning (PALs): We believe that our learning coaches are our partners in learning, so we intentionally plan weekly meetings with them to support their role as LCs. PALs sessions vary from 4x a week in 4K, kindergarten, and 1st grade to 1x a week in 2nd-5th grade. The times are consistent in our master schedule and LCs are expected to attend. During the sessions, teachers will walk through the week explaining the needed materials and how LCs can support their child’s learning. The goal is to provide LCs with the skills and information needed to support their learners’ learning while also providing an adult community for LCs.
Learning Partners (New in 2024-2025): To support our focus on early literacy we have scheduled designated times in our master schedule for learning coaches and their learners to engage in structured, offline literacy activities provided by the teacher. The focus is on oral language development, reading aloud to learners, early reading skills, and overall fun. 4K and kindergarten will engage daily while 1st and 2nd grade will have longer blocks of time weekly. The goal is to provide LCs with knowledge, skills, and materials to engage in fun learning activities with their learner to support their love of reading while growing their early literacy skills.
BOY & MOY Conferences: We start every child’s experience at WIVA Elementary School with a conference with their new teacher during their Week of Welcome (WoW). In addition, every student is invited to a Beginning of Year (BOY) conference prior to the start of school with their homeroom teacher. This is a time for our teachers to get to know the learners and their specific goals for the school year. We also host Middle of the Year (MOY) conferences where we update progress and goals to ensure a strong finish of the school year..