ELEMENTARY GRADES 3-5 ONLINE

The NFC Academy On-Line Elementary program provides the student an opportunity for discovery, discernment, and direction of his or her life of learning. NFC Academy elementary program provides a comprehensive and challenging academic curriculum that engages students and encourages them to reach for the highest in their learning. 

Select from our two online programs and we will get you started in your own accredited homeschool program.

MEET MARY LOOKING FOR A ONLINE PROGRAM

YOU BE THE TEACHER OR SELECT OUR TEACHERS

Online Grades 3-5 you can be the primary teacher at home and we will provide you with one of our experienced NFC Academy teachers as your Resource Teacher for the year.  Your Resource Teacher will answer your questions during the year as you are working with your child.

The NFC Academy Homeschool Advantage Program is available to you where our teachers are assigned as the primary teacher for each subject.  The home parent is still essential for homeschool success as we work together to provide the best homeschool experience for you. 

​WE TAKE CARE OF ALL YOUR SCHOOL RECORDS

Once you get started we take care of all your academic records.  If you are the primary teacher, your Resource Teacher will complete your report cards for you, or if you are in the Advantage Program the assigned NFC Academy teacher for each subject will complete the report cards.

Report card grades are completed by the semester as the student completes the work in their online courses. These are available for you to view on your parent portal and we will send you the official school copies.

Standardized testing is available each spring using the Stanford Achievement Test series. 

TRY A ELEMENTARY ONLINE LESSON NOW

​Go to our Do A Lesson Now Page and try some Elementary School courses out so you can see how our online program works.The courses are set up by grade level as we try to give you a good picture of how the program works.  
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Current lessons are ready for you in each grade division: Elementary, Middle School, and High School. Before you start, write down the login information so you will have it when you get ready to login. Just click on this link - Try A Elementary Online Lesson Now - read the page and then when you are ready login with the login and password.

TAKE A LOOK AT COURSES FOR EACH GRADE

All courses for our Elementary grades 3-5 are online ready to be accessed from your desktop, laptop, or many tablets.  If you want to see the courses for your grade just click on the button at the bottom and you will see the courses for each elementary grade.
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Better still…visit our Do  A Lesson Now page you can actually do work in the courses we have set up for each elementary grade level.  A login and password is ready for you to try out a lesson in one or more of the courses. ​

THIRD GRADE COURSES

FOURTH GRADE COURSES

FIFTH GRADE COURSES

MIDDLEBURY SPANISH 

​Students continue or begin their language-learning adventure in Elementary (grades 3-5) starting with Spanish I (version for grades 3-5) and if they chose, move on the next year to Spanish 2 (version for grades 3-5).  The content for each unit provides a fun and interactive experience for students and is based on an authentic story, myth, or legend from various Spanish-speaking cultures.  Although the course focuses primarily on vocabulary acquisition, basic grammar principles are intuitively grasped through stories, games, activities, songs and assessments.
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The Middlebury Spanish for Elementary is an additional tuition charge for those families wanting this optional course.

VIRTUAL LABS FOR SCIENCE

No expensive equipment or supplies to purchase for your labs in the science courses as you follow the curriculum's virtual lab options. ​

Students will enjoy the labs for elementary as they complete their science program. Completing each lab will give the student understanding of the concepts being covered in their lessons.

​The student's labs will reinforce the material being presented to the engaged learner giving them a visual picture for that which was presented in the lesson on the topics  being covered. 

MORE MATH HELPS FOR STUDENTS

Sections of the NFC Academy website includes Student Resources for all enrolled students in each grade level. Each online course has an Academic Instructional Library that provides all course assignments on our web pages in Student Resources.
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For each math course’s Academic Instructional Library in online grades 3-12 we have aligned additional instructional videos with each daily assignment. This is in addition to the instructional material in the curriculum and provided by Academy teachers in the Homeschool Advantage program, or the parent teacher at home. Take advantage of these additional math helps for both our Homeschool Edition and Homeschool Advantage students. ​

PARENT PORTAL IN THE ONLINE PROGRAM 

We know that it is essential for parents to be involved in their student’s work in a homeschool program.  We have that covered for you when you use NFC Academy teachers…you will have your own Parent Portal in the online learning program.

Your portal will allow you to see the title of each daily assignment, the amount of work completed, the due date of the assignment, the completion date and the final score. There can be more than one Parent Portal for family members. 

Your copy of the Parent Portal Handbook will give you the details to see your student(s) work and the NFC Academy calendar. Since parents can be the teachers up to grade seven, those in this program will have access as the teacher rather than the Parent Portal. 

britannica school

Britannica School is an online library of hundreds of thousands of high-quality readings, videos and images created and maintained by Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc. Some key features of Britannica School: 1) Allows students to change the reading level of a text (between two to three different levels provided for most resources);  2) Provides academic vocabulary support within readings- double clicking on any word provides the definition; 3) Support for English Language Learners- double clicking on any word will also bring up its Spanish translation; 4) Provides ‘text-to-speech’ functionality for all readings; 5) Provides a library of images and videos along with text resources for multi-modal learning opportunities​.   

FULLY ACCREDITED PROGRAM

USE OUR ASSESSMENT TESTING 

NFC Academy knows there are a variety of resources that should be used for educational placement for the student’s best success. Included in those comprehensive resources are items like previous school records, annual testing results, professional reports along with the option of diagnostic testing if needed, or if you just think it best.

All resources are important along with the input from the parent related to the student’s records thus far in school. We offer diagnostic testing at no charge for our enrolled students 1st – 8th grade. All testing is online for students entering 4th grade and above and a hard copy test administered at home for students entering 1st  – 3rd grade. ​

ANNUAL TESTING AVAILABLE 

Some states require some form of annual standardized testing for homeschool students. Typically, a test must be called a norm referenced test and not one similar to the various state created tests.

To enable our families to meet this requirement and to help us evaluate our academic program we make the Stanford Achievement Test Online available for our students.

The test given in April each year is online for grades 3-11 and for our K-2nd grade we use the booklet tests for students. The most recent test results for our elementary students is in the image showing the percentile scores of our students who took the test.  The median percentile score on this test is at the 50th percentile and you can see our students score well above that average. 

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