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Elementary School Academics
Curriculum that Sparks the Joy of Learning
At Wisconsin Virtual Academy (WIVA), we believe all students should wake up excited to learn, and that true learning starts by calling out to the innate curiosity in each child and sparking the excitement of discovery.
That’s why WIVA uses the K12 curriculum. It was created by an experienced team of educators using proven instructional approaches. At the elementary level, students take courses in the core subjects listed below. Beginning in grade 3, they also take a self-guided elective course in music or a world language.
ENGLISH / LANGUAGE ARTS
MATH
SCIENCE
HISTORY
ART
A Strong Foundation for Your Child’s Academic Journey
The elementary curriculum focuses on developing fundamental skills and teaching the key knowledge building blocks that each student needs to master the major subject areas, meet state standards, and complete more advanced coursework. Our personalized approach means students can go as fast or slow as they need to.
Bringing Lessons to Life
Lessons come alive with a rich mixture of online and hands-on materials including interactive animations; printed books with beautiful illustrations and narrative, original music and videos; and materials for hands-on experiments.*
Lessons are followed by formal and informal assessments, so you can be sure that your child has mastered a concept before moving on. Built-in planning and progress tools make it easy to stay on track. And with hundreds of lessons per subject, students can dive deeply into areas of interest.
Recurring Themes
Throughout our 4K–5 courses, you’ll find repeated themes that build on the previous grade’s teaching and weave an ever-richer tapestry of knowledge. That means your child may be reading literature from the same time period as the art or history lesson being studied. A story about a king who lost his wife and built a monument to her dovetails with an examination of the architecture and history of the Taj Mahal.
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..
Explore Our Courses
*Course materials vary by course. Please check with WIVA staff to see what offline course materials are provided.
**The K12 K–5 course descriptions are a complete list of the K–5 courses that K12 provides. While WIVA offers a comprehensive selection of courses, not every K12 K–5 course is available to WIVA students. Information on specific courses is provided upon enrollment. For details, please ask your Personal Admissions Liaison (PAL) during the enrollment process.