Stage · Roots · Year 2 of 4
Grade 1
Age 6
Formation question
“I am known — what does it mean to belong?”
ABC anchor
Attitude · Love · Joy · Peace
Phase 2 — Detailed Family Guide ships in a future quarter
The architecture for Grade 1 is canonized in the Master Curriculum. The fleshed weekly Family Guide ships in Phase 2 (post-launch June 13, 2026). Kindergarten is the only year fully detailed today.
What to Expect
How Grade 1 works in KFA.
Grade 1 is the year independent reading takes root. The child opens a book on their own for the first time. The Story of God arc is retraced, but the child reads parts aloud. ABC reflection becomes a daily bedtime question. Memorial Stones continue at year-end. Detailed Family Guide for Grade 1 ships in Phase 2.
Stage & Cycle Placement
Where Grade 1 sits in the formation arc.
Stage
Roots
Year 2 of the Roots Stage.
Capstone: First Stones — Memorial Stone painted, named, and kept on the family shelf (second-year stone, kept alongside Year 1)
Family Cycle
No Cycle this year
Story of God deepened — Old Testament covenants → judges → kings → exile → return → prophets → Jesus → Acts, with longer passages
Fruit focus
Fruit of the Spirit revisited at deeper attention; child can name them and recognize them in others
What Grade 1 Carries
The skills, the practices, the formation work.
Reads early-reader books independently
Writes simple sentences with capitalization and end punctuation
Adds and subtracts within 20
Place value introduced (tens and ones)
Skip-counts by 2s, 5s, 10s
Tells time to the hour and half-hour
Identifies common coins and counts mixed coins to 50¢
Retells longer Bible narratives in their own words
Faithfulness over perfection. No comparison to grade-level peers.
ESA-Eligible
Texas ESA-eligible · $129/mo · $1,500/yr.
Texas HB 1 (2025) · $2,000/student/year for K-12 homeschool families starting 2026–2027.
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