Tuition-Free Online Elementary School Program in Florida
Online Elementary School Program
Every child in the Sunshine State deserves an education that fits their needs. At Virtual Prep Academy of Florida, families can access a tuition-free elementary school in Florida that blends accredited academics with the comfort and safety of home. Our flexible K-5 program supports every learning style for children just starting their education or those who need a fresh start in the classroom. Explore Florida’s Virtual Preparatory Academy admissions guidelines or enroll today.
How Online Elementary School Works
Our online elementary school in Florida has been designed to feel structured, supportive, and accessible for all students from day one. With the help of a Learning Coach (often a parent or guardian), students log in daily to connect with certified teachers, complete interactive lessons, and participate in class activities. The mix of pre-scheduled live sessions with self-paced coursework offers daily flexibility and fun. Here’s how Virtual Prep Florida online learning works:
Daily Structure with Flexibility Built In
Students follow a consistent schedule with live lessons and independent work time. This gives families flexibility to plan around what works best at home.
Certified Teachers and Real-Time Instruction
Florida-certified teachers lead live classes and offer small group sessions. Regular one-on-one support helps students grow and stay connected.
Engaging and Age-Appropriate Digital Tools
Young learners explore interactive lessons that use built-in visuals, games, and audio. This makes online school feel intuitive, exciting, and easy to navigate.
Benefits of Online Elementary School Programs
Choosing a virtual elementary school in Florida allows your child to thrive in a safe environment that offers flexibility and encouragement. Families often turn to Virtual Prep Academy for personalized learning and real academic support. With the freedom to learn at their own pace, students love Florida Virtual Prep’s approach to online education.
Safe, Bully-Free Learning Environment
Free of the pressures of bullying, peer pressure, and classroom distractions, your child can focus on what matters: learning.
Flexible Scheduling to Fit Family Life
The freedom of a flexible schedule lets working parents and caregivers supervise their child’s education, even when a non-traditional routine makes it difficult.
Personalized Pace for Every Learner
We tailor support for your child’s unique needs. Students who are ahead or need more time receive the same care and attention.
Award-Winning Online Elementary School Curriculum
Virtual Prep Academy students learn through an accredited online elementary school in Florida that sparks curiosity and supports growth from the ground up. Our standards-aligned curriculum meets all state requirements and gives students space to explore and shine. The online elementary curriculum at VPREP includes the following:
- Core subjects that include reading, math, science, and social studies
- Enrichment classes such as arts and crafts and PE
- Regular assessments that track growth and adjust learning paths
Online Elementary School: Grades K-5
Curriculum, Grades K-5
* Course offerings are subject to change and may vary based on school staffing.
LANGUAGE ARTS
The Kindergarten course lays the groundwork for reading and writing. It aims to combine excellent decoding instruction with frequent reading-aloud to ensure that students can translate letters into words and make sense of the words they are decoding.
Skills lessons address decoding skills, focusing on sounds or phonemes as the primary organizing principle, rather than letters. Phonics instruction begins with sounds and then attaches those sounds to spellings. Students build awareness of environmental noises, sounds within words, and words within sentences. As students gain phonological awareness, they progress to blending and segmenting sounds within words. Students are introduced to reading using decodable readers that are engaging and fun.
Students learn the mechanics of writing. Starting with pre writing basics, students learn correct grip and the writing strokes used to create letters. Students learn how to “spell the sounds,” writing the letters that represent the sounds that they have learned.
The course includes daily read-alouds that help students build the background knowledge and vocabulary critical to listening and reading comprehension. Students learn by listening to nursery rhymes, fables, classic tales, and nonfiction texts.
While teaching skills in reading, writing, listening, and speaking, the course also builds students’ knowledge and vocabulary in literature, history, geography, and science.
MATH
In this problem-based curriculum, students will build on their math skills through exploration with interactives and virtual manipulatives.
Students will develop counting skills and compare values of a wide variety of counting tools including 5-frames and connecting cubes. They will explore differences in shapes and describe, compare, and sort them. They will also use pattern blocks to make larger shapes. They reinforce their counting and comparison skills as they count and compare the pattern blocks used to create larger shapes. Students also use positional words to describe shapes.
Finally, they will solve story problems to begin to develop their understanding of addition and subtraction. Students represent the problems in different ways, by acting them out, drawing, using numbers, or using objects.
SCIENCE
The Kindergarten science course builds students’ knowledge about core ideas in life, physical, and earth sciences, as well as engineering design. Students will explore pushes and pulls, the needs of plants and animals, changing environments, and weather patterns.
Students will develop and use scientific practices that give them firsthand experience in scientific inquiry, engineering, and technology. Throughout the course, scientific learning is connected to concepts across various disciplines, such as mathematics and literacy.
SOCIAL STUDIES
Kindergarten Social Studies includes history, geography, economics, and civics lessons plus additional resources for teachers and students.
This is a comprehensive course, integrating topics in civics and the arts. The course helps students build knowledge of the diverse civilizations, cultures, and concepts.
LANGUAGE ARTS
The course continues to build the foundation for reading and writing. It includes frequent read-alouds that help students build the background knowledge and vocabulary critical to listening and reading comprehension. Students learn by listening to fables and stories, as well as nonfiction texts that include topics related to science and history.
Skills instruction starts with a review of sounds and spellings. Students are introduced to tricky spellings (spellings that look the same but are pronounced differently) and tricky words (words that cannot be sounded out using the letter-sound correspondences taught so far). Decodable readers are provided for students to practice their emerging reading skills. Students learn to read and write words with separated digraphs (such as a and e in cake). They begin to work with weekly spelling words.
Grammar lessons address parts of speech, including nouns (common and proper), past-tense verb forms, and adjectives. Students progress to work with nouns and verbs in phrases and to use adjectives for descriptive writing. They begin formal instruction in a writing process with a focus on narrative writing.
MATH
Semester A: In this problem-based curriculum, students will build on their math skills through exploration with interactives and virtual manipulatives.
Students will deepen their understanding of addition and subtraction within 10 and extend what they know about organizing objects into categories and representing the quantities. They will solve new types of story problems within 10 using the relationship between addition and subtraction. They develop an understanding of the meaning of the equal sign and connect story problems to equations as they begin to learn to add and subtract within 20. Students apply the properties of operations and the relationship between addition and subtraction.
Semester B: In this problem-based curriculum, students will build on their math skills through exploration with interactives and virtual manipulatives.
Students will count and group two-digit numbers and compare them using the symbols >, =, and <, while using place value and properties of operations to add within 100. Students will begin a study of measurement, measuring length and counting up to 120 length units. They solve addition and subtraction story problems with unknowns in all positions. They will continue to learn basic geometry skills as they reason with shapes and their attributes, partition shapes into equal pieces, and tell time to the hour and half hour.
In the final unit of this course, students will prepare for Grade 2 by revisiting major work and fluency goals of the grade, applying their learning from the year.
SCIENCE
Grade 1 science continues to build students’ knowledge about core ideas in life, physical, and earth sciences, as well as engineering design. Students will explore the sun, moon, and stars; light and sound; plant and animal survival; and simple machines.
Students will develop and use scientific practices that give them firsthand experience in scientific inquiry, engineering, and technology. Throughout the course, scientific learning is connected to concepts across various disciplines, such as mathematics and literacy.
SOCIAL STUDIES
First Grade Social Studies includes history, geography, economics, and civics lessons plus additional resources for teachers and students.
This is a comprehensive course, integrating topics in civics and the arts. The course helps students build knowledge of the diverse civilizations, cultures, and concepts.
LANGUAGE ARTS
The course includes frequent read-alouds that help students build the background knowledge and vocabulary critical to listening and reading comprehension. Students learn by listening to fairy tales, tall tales, myths, and nonfiction texts that include topics related to science and history.
Skills instruction continues as students are introduced to spelling alternatives for vowel sounds, as well as various tricky spellings (spellings that look the same but are pronounced differently, such as o in hop or open). Weekly spelling lessons are a regular part of student work.
Students practice using a writing process with a focus on writing narratives and opinions. Grammar instruction focuses on capitalization, quotation marks, ending punctuation, and common and proper nouns. Students are also introduced to antonyms and synonyms.
Decodable readers for every skills unit include both fiction and nonfiction selections.
MATH
Semester A: In this problem-based curriculum, students will build on their math skills through exploration with interactives and virtual manipulatives.
Students represent and solve story problems within 20 using picture and bar graphs. Students build toward fluency with addition and subtraction as they add and subtract within 100 using strategies based on place value, properties of operations, and the relationship between addition and subtraction. They then use what they know to solve story problems.
Students measure and estimate lengths in standard units and solve measurement story problems within 100 and then learn about the structure of a number line and use it to represent numbers within 100. They also relate addition and subtraction to length and represent the operations on the number line.
Semester B: In this problem-based curriculum, students will build on their math skills through exploration with interactives and virtual manipulatives.
Students extend place value understanding to three-digit numbers and use properties of operations to add and subtract within 1,000 and work with equal groups of objects to gain foundations for multiplication.
Students continue their study of geometry as they reason with shapes and their attributes and partition shapes into equal shares, building a foundation for fractions. They relate halves, fourths, and skip-counting by 5 to tell time, and solve story problems involving the values of coins and dollars.
In the final unit of this course, students will prepare for Grade 3 by revisiting major work and fluency goals of the grade, applying their learning from the year.
SCIENCE
Grade 2 science continues to build students’ knowledge about core ideas in life, physical, and earth sciences, as well as engineering design. Students will explore the properties of matter, the needs of plants and animals, land and water features, and electricity and magnetism.
Students will develop and use scientific practices that give them firsthand experience in scientific inquiry, engineering, and technology. Throughout the course, scientific learning is connected to concepts across various disciplines, such as mathematics and literacy.
SOCIAL STUDIES
Second Grade Social Studies includes history, geography, economics, and civics lessons plus additional resources for teachers and students.
This is a comprehensive course, integrating topics in civics and the arts. The course helps students build knowledge of the diverse civilizations, cultures, and concepts.
LANGUAGE ARTS
The course includes frequent read-alouds that help students build the background knowledge and vocabulary critical to listening and reading comprehension. Students learn by listening to nonfiction texts that include topics related to science and history. The first unit includes selections from The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame to reinforce understanding of story elements.
Students practice and build reading skills as they read selections in their readers. Many reading selections are informational texts that address topics related to science and history. Students also read excerpts from some classic tales, plus a variety of stories and myths from diverse groups.
During writing instruction, students use a writing process as they practice expository (cause and effect), narrative (story), and opinion writing.
Morphology lessons address reading and understanding words with common prefixes, suffixes, and Greek and Latin roots. Morphology instruction also addresses the meaning of various prefixes, suffixes, and roots.
Grammar lessons address various speech and language-usage conventions (such as capitalization and punctuation). These specific grammar skills are then reinforced and applied in all writing exercises.
Spelling lessons include weekly word lists that focus on content words and words with morphological patterns taught in each unit. Spelling exercises provide students with opportunities to practice applying knowledge of letter–sound correspondences learned in earlier grades.
MATH
Semester A: In this problem-based curriculum, students will build on their math skills through exploration with interactives and virtual manipulatives.
Students will represent and solve multiplication problems using picture and bar graphs. They will learn about the relationship between multiplication and division, place value, and the properties of operations to multiply and divide whole numbers within 100. They also represent and solve two-step word problems using all four operations.
They will learn about area concepts and relate area to multiplication and to addition as well as use place value understanding to round whole numbers and add and subtract within 1,000. They represent and solve two-step word problems using addition, subtraction, and multiplication and assess the reasonableness of answers.
Semester B: In this problem-based curriculum, students will build on their math skills through exploration with interactives and virtual manipulatives.
Students will begin to develop an understanding of fractions and fraction equivalence by representing fractions on diagrams and number lines, generating equivalent fractions, and comparing fractions. They continue their study of measurement as they represent length data in halves and fourths of an inch on line plots. They learn about and estimate relative units of measure including weight, liquid volume, and time, and use the four operations to solve problems involving measurement. Students also continue their study of geometry as they reason about shapes and their attributes, with a focus on quadrilaterals. They solve problems involving the perimeter and area of shapes.
In the final unit of this course, students will prepare for Grade 4 by revisiting major work and fluency goals of the grade, applying their learning from the year.
SCIENCE
Grade 3 science builds on prior understanding of scientific topics to support increasingly sophisticated learning. Students will investigate forces; life cycles, traits, and variations; habitats and change; and weather and climate.
Students will develop and use scientific practices that give them firsthand experience in scientific inquiry, engineering, and technology. Throughout the course, scientific learning is connected to concepts across various disciplines, such as mathematics and literacy.
SOCIAL STUDIES
Grade 3 social studies is a comprehensive program that is meant to prepare students to actively participate in a democratic society. Students will learn about history and geography as they study world rivers, ancient Rome, the Vikings, the earliest Americans, and the thirteen colonies.
Projects that accompany each unit expand upon the historical and geographical learning and allow students to build an understanding of local history and geography, civics, and economics.
LANGUAGE ARTS
Students read from a variety of texts, including excerpts from Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson, legends of King Arthur and his knights, poetry, and informational texts about science and history topics.
Students use a writing process to develop several writings, including a memoir, a persuasive paragraph, a short story, a variety of poems, and shorter writing projects.
Morphology lessons address reading and understanding words with common prefixes, suffixes, and Greek and Latin roots. Morphology instruction also addresses the meaning of various prefixes, suffixes, and roots.
Grammar lessons address various speech and language-usage conventions (such as capitalization and punctuation). These specific grammar skills are then reinforced and applied in all writing exercises.
Spelling lessons include weekly word lists that focus on content words and words with morphological patterns taught in each unit. The spelling exercises provide students with opportunities to practice applying knowledge of letter–sound correspondences learned in earlier grades.
MATH
Semester A: In this problem-based curriculum, students will build on their math skills through exploration with interactives and virtual manipulatives.
Students apply understanding of multiplication and area to work with factors and multiples. Students generate and reason about equivalent fractions and compare and order fractions and learn to add and subtract fractions with like denominators, and to add and subtract tenths and hundredths.
Finally, students will read, write, and compare numbers in decimal notation. They also extend place value understanding for multi-digit whole numbers and add and subtract within 1,000,000.
Semester B: In this problem-based curriculum, students will build on their math skills through exploration with interactives and virtual manipulatives.
Students will focus on developing an understanding of the relationship between multiplication and division. They use this thinking to convert units of measure within a given system from larger to smaller units. Students multiply and divide multi-digit whole numbers using partial products and partial quotients strategies and solve multi-step problems using the four operations.
Students continue their study of geometry as they learn to draw and identify points, rays, segments, angles, and lines, including parallel and perpendicular lines. Students will learn how to use a protractor to measure, draw, and identify angles. They will classify triangles and quadrilaterals based on the properties of their side lengths and angles and learn about lines of symmetry in two-dimensional figures. They use their understanding of these attributes to solve problems, including problems involving perimeter and area.
In the final unit of this course, students will prepare for Grade 5 by revisiting major work and fluency goals of the grade, applying their learning from the year.
SCIENCE
Grade 4 science builds on prior understanding of scientific topics to support increasingly sophisticated learning. Students will investigate energy transfer and transformation; waves; structures and functions of living things; processes that shape the earth; and using natural resources for energy.
Students will develop and use scientific practices that give them firsthand experience in scientific inquiry, engineering, and technology. Students will also have the opportunity to use problem-based learning to develop and present solutions based on learning, and, ideally, interact with their community. Throughout the course, scientific learning is connected to concepts across various disciplines, such as mathematics and literacy.
SOCIAL STUDIES
Semester A: Grade 4 social studies is a comprehensive program that is meant to prepare students to actively participate in a democratic society. Students continue to build upon their knowledge of geography as they study world mountains. The age of exploration is covered and the historical focus shifts to American history topics such as the American Revolution, the Constitution, and early Presidents.
Projects that accompany each unit expand upon the historical and geographical learning and allow students to build an understanding of local history and geography, civics, and economics.
Semester B: Grade 4 social studies is a comprehensive program that is meant to prepare students to actively participate in a democratic society. Students continue to build upon their knowledge of geography as they study world mountains. The age of exploration is covered and the historical focus shifts to American history topics such as the American Revolution, the Constitution, and early Presidents.
Projects that accompany each unit expand upon the historical and geographical learning and allow students to build an understanding of local history and geography, civics, and economics.
LANGUAGE ARTS
Semester A: Students study contemporary and classic fiction, as well as informational texts. Readings include excerpts from the contemporary novel They Call Me Güero: A Border Kids Poems by David Bowles, an adaptation of the Adventures of Don Quixote, and a variety of informational texts related to historical topics.
Writing instruction centers on a comprehensive writing process and focuses on writing increasingly complex sentences, composing coherent paragraphs, and writing for a variety of purposes. Students develop a variety of writings, including a personal narrative, an informative report, a persuasive essay, and a research project.
Morphology lessons address reading and understanding words with common prefixes, suffixes, and Greek and Latin roots. Morphology instruction also addresses the meaning of various prefixes, suffixes, and roots.
Grammar lessons address various speech and language-usage conventions (such as capitalization and punctuation). These specific grammar skills are then reinforced and applied in all writing exercises.
Spelling lessons include weekly word lists that focus on content words and words with morphological patterns taught in each unit. The spelling exercises provide students with opportunities to practice applying knowledge of letter–sound correspondences learned in earlier grades.
Semester B: Students study contemporary and classic fiction, as well as informational texts. Readings include an adaptation of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, a novel that students select, poetry, and a variety of informational texts related to historical topics.
Writing instruction centers on a comprehensive writing process and focuses on writing increasingly complex sentences, composing coherent paragraphs, and writing for a variety of purposes. Students develop a variety of writings, including a friendly letter, a variety of original poems, and a persuasive essay.
Morphology lessons address reading and understanding words with common prefixes, suffixes, and Greek and Latin roots. Morphology instruction also addresses the meaning of various prefixes, suffixes, and roots.
Grammar lessons address various speech and language-usage conventions (such as capitalization and punctuation). These specific grammar skills are then reinforced and applied in all writing exercises.
Spelling lessons include weekly word lists that focus on content words and words with morphological patterns taught in each unit. The spelling exercises provide students with opportunities to practice applying knowledge of letter–sound correspondences learned in earlier grades.
MATH
Semester A: In this problem-based curriculum, students will build on their math skills through exploration. Throughout this course, students will use interactives and virtual manipulatives to explore math concepts.
Students continue their study of geometry as they find the volume of right rectangular prisms and solid figures composed of two right rectangular prisms. They will then solve problems that involve the multiplication of a whole number and a fraction, including fractions greater than 1 as well as multiply fractions by fractions and divide a whole number and a unit fraction.
Finally, students use the standard algorithm to multiply multi-digit whole numbers. They divide whole numbers up to four-digits by two-digits divisors using strategies based on place value and properties of operations.
Semester B: In this problem-based curriculum, students will build on their math skills through exploration. Throughout this course, students will use interactives and virtual manipulatives to explore math concepts.
Students will use their understanding of place value to round, compare, order, add, subtract, multiply, and divide decimals. They will then solve multi-step problems involving measurement conversions, line plots, and fraction operations, including addition and subtraction of fractions with unlike denominators.
Next, students plot coordinate pairs on a coordinate grid and classify triangles and quadrilaterals based on properties of side length and angle measure. They generate, identify, and graph relationships between corresponding terms in two numeric patterns, given two rules, and represent and interpret real world and mathematical problems on a coordinate grid.
In the final unit of this course, students will prepare for middle school by revisiting major work and fluency goals of the grade, applying their learning from the year.
SCIENCE
Grade 5 science builds on prior understanding of scientific topics to support increasingly sophisticated learning. Students will investigate matter; energy and matter in ecosystems; modeling Earth’s systems; protecting Earth’s resources; and astronomy.
Students will develop and use scientific practices that give them firsthand experience in scientific inquiry, engineering, and technology. Students will also have the opportunity to use problem-based learning to develop and present solutions based on learning, and, ideally, interact with their community. Throughout the course, scientific learning is connected to concepts across various disciplines, such as mathematics and literacy.
SOCIAL STUDIES
Grade 5 social studies is a comprehensive program that is meant to prepare students to actively participate in a democratic society. Students continue to build upon their knowledge of geography as they focus on the physical features and climate of the United States. They learn about the ancient civilizations that paved the way for modern societies and systems. American history topics focus on westward expansion, before and after the Civil War.
Projects that accompany each unit expand upon the historical and geographical learning and allow students to build an understanding of local history and geography, civics, and economics.
Kindergarten-3rd Grade:
- Physical Education
- Health
- Art
4th-5th Grade:
- Physical Education
- Health
- Art
- Spanish
Teacher and Peer Interaction
Connection is important for all students, especially those who attend online schools for elementary students in Florida. At VPREP, our students regularly engage with teachers and classmates to promote learning and friendship. Connections often come to life through:
- Class discussions, group activities, and social learning
- Optional virtual clubs and events that foster friendships
These social connections become a reality thanks to the tireless efforts of our teachers who make them possible.
Parental Involvement and Support
Online learning requires adjustment, but you’re not alone on this journey. Our free online elementary school in Florida supports students and their Learning Coaches (parents, grandparents, or caregivers) at home. From onboarding training to weekly updates and teacher communication, you’ll always know how your child is doing. Dedicated Success Coordinators and tech support are just a few of the online learning parent and student resources available to help families like yours thrive.
Ensuring Student Success
Families choose our online elementary school in Florida for a fresh start, but they often find more than they expect. Our students build confidence, discover new interests, and thrive — all thanks to the right support at the right time.
From Struggling to Thriving
92% of families whose children attend VPREP say the decision has been a rewarding one that has changed the entire scope of their students’ lives. We make it possible to learn in a distraction-free, safe environment.
Support Systems That Make a Difference
Our Success Coordinators, certified teachers, and school counselors work together to ensure your child receives the academic and emotional support they need during the school year.
Providing Educational Pathways for All Learning Levels
Virtual Prep Academy of Florida is an online tuition-free school for grades K-11 in the Sunshine State. Students who start their journey in elementary school can continue through the middle school years and high school. In addition, VPREP schools nationwide offer education continuity so your online learning experience can continue, even if you move.
FAQs
Find answers to common questions about online elementary school through Virtual Prep Academy.
Is Florida Virtual Prep’s online elementary school program free?
Yes! Virtual Prep Academy of Florida is a tuition-free online school for K-5 students. There are no enrollment fees or hidden costs.
How does Florida’s Virtual Prep’s online elementary school program work?
Students attend live online classes, complete independent lessons, and interact with certified teachers each day. Families receive ongoing support like progress updates, academic guidance, and technical help.
What does a sample online elementary school curriculum look like?
Students study core subjects like reading, math, science, and social studies. Enrichment classes include PE and art. This curriculum is standards-aligned, accredited, and designed to engage young learners.
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