For grown-ups
The Oodleloo curriculum
Everything we teach, planned the way a school plans its year: each subject, each age, and every lesson building on the one before it.
Lessons marked Free play for everybody. The rest open with Oodleloo Premium, in any order you like.
Would rather we picked the next step? The Oodleloo Trail walks a child through it one day at a time.
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Ages 3 to 4
- Letter names A to C
- Imagination, oral language
- Pretend roles
Ages 4 to 5
- Letter names D to G
- Letter names H to K
- Letter names L to O
Ages 6 to 8
- Writing a poem with the five senses
- Story elements: characters, setting, problem, solution
- Word families: -en and -ake
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Ages 3 to 4
- Count 1 to 5
- Count 6 to 10
- Add one more
Ages 4 to 5
- Count 11 to 15
- Count 16 to 20
- Compare groups: more, less, equal
Ages 5 to 6
- Skip count by 2s
- Skip count by 5s and 10s
- Add within 5 (+, =)
Ages 6 to 8
- Add within 20: ten and some more, make a ten, doubles
- Subtract within 20: keep the ten, count up
- Ten more and ten less (skip count by tens from any number)
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Ages 3 to 4
- Size: big, medium, small
- Length: long and short
- Height: tall and short
Ages 4 to 5
- Weight: heavy and light
- Width: wide and narrow
- Time: days of the week
Ages 5 to 6
- Picture graphs
- Time: o'clock
- Time: months of the year
Ages 6 to 8
- Time: half past the hour
- Money: count coins by ones, fives and tens
- Measure length with a ruler (inches)
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Ages 3 to 4
- 2D shapes: circle, square, triangle, star
- Position: in, out, on, under
- Near and far
Ages 4 to 5
- Shapes in the world
- Position: over, behind, in front, between
- 2D shapes: heart, diamond, oval, rectangle
Ages 5 to 6
- Simple maps
- Composing shapes
- Visual perspective
Ages 6 to 8
- Maps: symbols and a map key
- Maps: compass directions
- Partition shapes into halves and fourths
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Ages 3 to 4
- AB patterns
- Same and different
Ages 4 to 5
- AAB and ABC patterns
- Growing patterns
- Sorting by one rule
Ages 5 to 6
- Symmetry
- Sorting by two rules
- Tally marks: one line each, bundle of five
Ages 6 to 8
- Bar graphs: make, read and compare
- Number patterns: find the rule, say the next number
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Ages 3 to 4
- Five senses
- Textures (properties)
- Sounds around us (hearing)
Ages 5 to 6
- Living and nonliving
- Parts of a plant
- Reduce, reuse, recycle
Ages 6 to 8
- Space: moon phases explained (reflect, orbit, waxing, waning)
- Space: the eight planets and orbits
- Earth science: the water cycle (evaporation, condensation, precipitation, collection)
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Ages 3 to 4
- Sharing
- Perseverance: look a new way
- Calm breathing
Ages 5 to 6
- Mistakes help me grow
- Celebrations: many ways, all special
- Being nervous: notice it, name it, cope
Ages 6 to 8
- Community helpers depend on each other (goods and services)
- Social skills: winning and losing kindly
- Social skills: I sentences when something bugs me
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Ages 3 to 4
- Bedtime routine
- Body parts
- Community helpers
Ages 4 to 5
- Heart and exercise
- Personal safety facts
- Health: what to do when you feel sick
Ages 5 to 6
- Health: the five food groups (healthy plate)
- Body science: how scrapes and bruises heal
Ages 6 to 8
- Body science: heart, lungs and oxygen during exercise
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Ages 3 to 4
- Locomotor moves
- Animal moves
- Balance
Ages 4 to 5
- Following directions
- Speed: fast, slow, freeze
- Ball skills
Ages 5 to 6
Planned for later
Ages 6 to 8
- Movement: why and how to warm up and cool down
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Ages 3 to 4
- Colors: five basics
- Steady beat
- Colors: five more
Ages 4 to 5
- Light and dark shades
- Color mixing
- Tempo: fast and slow
Ages 5 to 6
- Music and mood
- Song structure: verse and chorus
Ages 6 to 8
- Art: warm and cool colors
- Music: homemade instruments and why they sound different
Every lesson is a short video led by one of the Oodleloo friends, and many are matched to early learning standards for preschool and kindergarten. New lessons go live all the time; the ones still being made are marked Coming soon.