An Overview of the Curriculum
Little Lincoln is an interactive and engaging standards-based curriculum that combines
rich multimedia with comprehensive offline activities. Little Lincoln is currently
offered for Kindergarten and First Grade students. Two additional grades, Early
Kindergarten and Second Grade, will be available for the 2010 - 2011 academic year.
Students enrolled in Little Lincoln will complete 36 weeks of lessons that are designed
to stimulate the minds of all types of learners in the areas of math, reading, writing,
social studies, science, and visual arts. The daily lessons can be completed at
each student's own pace.
Online each day, students will login to a secure website to listen to four short
audio stories on Little Lincoln Radio about the fictional world of Midlandia and
the unique Midlandian characters who live there. The stories are fun, interesting,
and engaging, and they incorporate the daily learning objectives, as well as many
wonderful children's songs. After listening to each audio story, students will watch
teacher videos on Little Lincoln TV that will further explain and model the daily
objectives. The teachers in the videos are lively characters with distinctive personalities
who use images, graphics, and tools to show students how to do things like write
the letters of the alphabet correctly, identify and pronounce the letter sounds,
complete science experiments, and learn the fundamentals of mathematics. Students
will also have the opportunity to play mini-games for practice and reinforcement,
create an avatar and participate in the multi-player space of Midlandia, keep track
of some of their favorite things, and monitor their progress as they complete their
educational journey.
In addition to the online component of Little Lincoln, students are given significant
offline resources as well, including supplies and four boxes of printed materials,
one for each nine week season.
Little Lincoln is a truly dynamic curriculum for elementary students that will surely
engage their minds and imaginations and start them off on a solid path to becoming
lifelong learners.