Homeschool Huddle 🌳

The Treehouse Tutoring Center provides standards-aligned academic enrichment for homeschool students in Grades K–6. Our small-group learning experiences are designed to strengthen foundational skills, develop independent thinking, and provide additional opportunities for students to practice reading, writing, problem-solving, and mathematical reasoning.
Instruction is aligned with Florida's Benchmarks for Excellent Student Thinking (B.E.S.T.) Standards and is differentiated according to each student's grade level and instructional needs.

​📚 Focus and Skills

Kindergarten

​ELA
​Areas of Focus

• Phonological and phonemic awareness
• Letter recognition and letter-sound relationships
• Phonics and decoding
• High-frequency words
• Vocabulary development
• Listening and reading comprehension
• Oral language and communication

Core Skills

• Identify and manipulate sounds in spoken words
• Connect letters to their corresponding sounds
• Blend and segment sounds to read words
• Read simple decodable text
• Retell stories and identify key details
• Ask and answer questions about texts
• Build vocabulary through literature and informational texts 

1st Grade

Math
Areas of Focus

• Phonics and decoding
• Word recognition and reading fluency
• High-frequency words
• Vocabulary
• Literary and informational text comprehension
• Oral reading
• Written responses to reading

Core Skills

• Apply phonics patterns to decode unfamiliar words
• Read grade-level text with increasing accuracy and fluency
• Identify characters, settings, events, and central ideas
• Ask and answer questions using text evidence
• Retell and summarize important information
• Determine meanings of unfamiliar words using context
• Write simple responses about texts

ELA
Areas of Focus

• Phonics and decoding
• Word recognition and reading fluency
• High-frequency words
• Vocabulary
• Literary and informational text comprehension
• Oral reading
• Written responses to reading

Core Skills

• Apply phonics patterns to decode unfamiliar words
• Read grade-level text with increasing accuracy and fluency
• Identify characters, settings, events, and central ideas
• Ask and answer questions using text evidence
• Retell and summarize important information
• Determine meanings of unfamiliar words using context
• Write simple responses about texts

2nd Grade

ELA
​​Areas of Focus

• Advanced phonics and word analysis
• Reading fluency and accuracy
• Vocabulary development
• Literary comprehension
• Informational text comprehension
• Text evidence
• Written responses

Core Skills

• Decode multisyllabic and increasingly complex words
• Read grade-level text fluently
• Identify main idea and supporting details
• Describe characters, events, and story elements
• Explain connections between ideas and events
• Use context clues to determine word meaning
• Answer questions and support responses with evidence from the text 

3rd Grade

ELA
​Areas of Focus

• Reading fluency and comprehension
• Literary analysis
• Informational text
• Main idea and supporting details
• Text evidence
• Vocabulary and context clues
• Written responses to reading

Core Skills

• Determine the central idea or theme of a text
• Explain how characters, events, and ideas develop
• Identify and use relevant text evidence
• Compare information presented in different texts
• Determine the meaning of academic and domain-specific vocabulary
• Summarize literary and informational texts
• Construct organized written responses using evidence

4th Grade

ELA
​Areas of Focus

• Complex literary and informational texts
• Main idea and theme
• Text structure
• Vocabulary
• Evidence-based responses
• Comparing texts and perspectives
• Writing about reading

Core Skills

• Determine themes and central ideas
• Explain relationships among events, ideas, and concepts
• Analyze text structure and author's purpose
• Use context and reference materials to determine word meanings
• Compare information across multiple texts
• Cite relevant evidence to support ideas
• Write organized responses that demonstrate comprehension

5th Grade

ELA
​Areas of Focus

• Advanced comprehension
• Literary analysis
• Informational text analysis
• Author's purpose and perspective
• Text structure
• Vocabulary
• Evidence-based writing

Core Skills

• Analyze themes and central ideas
• Explain how authors develop ideas and perspectives
• Compare and contrast information across texts
• Analyze relationships between ideas and events
• Interpret figurative and academic language
• Select strong textual evidence
• Develop written explanations supported by evidence

Math
​Areas of Focus

• Place value
• Addition and subtraction
• Number relationships
• Measurement
• Geometry
• Data and problem-solving

Core Skills

• Understand place value within 100
• Add and subtract within 100
• Represent and solve addition and subtraction problems
• Compare numbers using mathematical symbols
• Measure and compare lengths
• Tell and represent time
• Identify and compose shapes
• Organize and interpret simple data

Math
​​Areas of Focus

• Place value and multi-digit numbers
• Addition and subtraction
• Foundations of multiplication
• Measurement
• Money
• Geometry
• Data and problem-solving

Core Skills

• Understand place value within 1,000
• Add and subtract within 1,000
• Develop multiplication and division concepts
• Solve one- and two-step word problems
• Measure length using standard units
• Work with money and make comparisons
• Identify and describe shapes
• Represent and interpret data 

Math
​Areas of Focus

• Multiplication and division
• Fractions
• Place value and operations
• Measurement
• Geometry
• Area and perimeter
• Data analysis
• Mathematical problem-solving

Core Skills

• Develop multiplication and division fluency
• Solve multi-step word problems
• Understand fractions as numbers
• Compare and represent fractions
• Find area and perimeter
• Solve measurement problems
• Analyze and represent data
• Explain mathematical reasoning using models, equations, and words

Math
Areas of Focus

• Multi-digit operations
• Multiplication and division
• Fractions and decimals
• Factors and multiples
• Measurement
• Geometry
• Data analysis
• Mathematical reasoning

Core Skills

• Fluently multiply and divide multi-digit numbers
• Solve multi-step problems
• Compare and operate with fractions
• Understand decimal notation
• Identify factors and multiples
• Solve problems involving measurement
• Classify and analyze geometric figures
• Interpret and represent data

Math
​Areas of Focus

• Multi-digit multiplication and division
• Fractions
• Decimals
• Numerical expressions
• Volume
• Coordinate geometry
• Data analysis
• Financial literacy

Core Skills

• Perform operations with multi-digit numbers
• Add, subtract, multiply, and divide fractions
• Perform operations with decimals
• Evaluate numerical expressions using order of operations
• Solve real-world mathematical problems
• Find volume and apply measurement concepts
• Plot and interpret points on the coordinate plane
• Analyze data and solve multi-step problems 

6th Grade

ELA
​​Areas of Focus

• Complex text comprehension
• Literary analysis
• Informational text analysis
• Author's purpose, perspective, and point of view
• Evidence and reasoning
• Vocabulary and language
• Analytical writing

Core Skills

• Analyze literary and informational texts
• Determine central ideas and themes
• Analyze how authors develop ideas and arguments
• Evaluate textual evidence
• Compare perspectives and information across texts
• Determine meaning and impact of words and phrases
• Write clear analytical responses supported by evidence

Math
​Areas of Focus

• Ratios, rates, and percentages
• Fractions, decimals, and integers
• Algebraic expressions
• Equations and inequalities
• Geometry and measurement
• Coordinate plane
• Data analysis and probability
• Mathematical reasoning

Core Skills

• Perform operations with positive and negative numbers
• Apply concepts of ratios, rates, and percentages
• Translate real-world situations into algebraic expressions
• Evaluate algebraic expressions
• Solve equations and inequalities
• Calculate area, surface area, and volume
• Use the coordinate plane to represent relationships
• Analyze and interpret statistical data
• Apply mathematics to real-world situations

​Science Enrichment | Grades K–6 🧪

​The Treehouse Science Enrichment Program provides engaging, hands-on learning experiences that encourage students to explore the world around them through scientific inquiry. Activities are aligned with Florida’s K–6 Science Standards and are designed to strengthen students’ understanding of scientific concepts while developing curiosity, problem-solving skills, and scientific thinking.

Science Strands

​🧬 Life Science
Explore living organisms, life cycles, ecosystems, habitats, adaptations, heredity, and the relationships between living things and their environments.

​🌎 Earth & Space Science
Explore Earth's systems, weather, climate, rocks and minerals, natural resources, the solar system, and the patterns and processes of Earth and space.

​⚛️ Physical Science
Investigate matter, energy, forces, motion, light, sound, heat, electricity, magnetism, and the ways objects interact with one another.

​🔎 Nature of Science
Develop scientific thinking through questioning, observation, investigation, experimentation, data collection, analysis, evidence-based reasoning, and communication.

Social Studies Enrichment | Grades K–6 ⏳

The Treehouse Social Studies Enrichment Program provides engaging learning experiences that help students understand history, geography, economics, government, and their connections to everyday life. Students develop critical-thinking skills by exploring historical events, geographic concepts, economic ideas, and the foundations of government through age-appropriate activities, discussions, primary sources, maps, projects, and real-world applications. Our activities are supplemental and enrichment-based and may include hands-on projects, guided discussions, primary-source exploration, map activities, research projects, and real-world applications.

​🏛️ American History
Explore important people, events, ideas, and developments that shaped the United States and Florida while developing skills in historical inquiry, chronology, source analysis, and evidence-based thinking.

​🌎 Geography
Explore maps, places, regions, physical systems, natural resources, and the relationships between people and their environments.

💰 Economics
Develop foundational economic understanding by exploring needs and wants, goods and services, producers and consumers, resources, choices, money, saving, spending, and real-world decision-making.

🇺🇸 Civics & Government
Explore rules, laws, rights, responsibilities, government, civic participation, and the foundational principles of the American political system.