Where school feels like play — and play builds readers, counters and curious scientists.
Ages 5–8 · Full school days, 7:00 AM – 2:00 PM · 180-day school year
Four core subjects in real depth, with arts, health and character woven through the week — the same six strands on every band page, at this band's level.
Sounds before everything: phonics, read-alouds and first stories. Children decode, then read for joy — and start writing their own sentences, from labels and lists to a first real story by Grade 2.
Numbers you can touch. Counting, place value and number bonds to 1,000; addition and subtraction with objects, pictures and number lines; shapes, measuring and telling time — always concrete before abstract.
Science as wonder, taught properly: living things and their homes, weather through the seasons, pushes and pulls. Every unit starts with a question a child actually asks.
Me, my family, my neighborhood, my country. Maps of real places in a child's life, helpers in the community, and the first stories from the past — their own home's and America's — told simply and honestly.
Drawing, singing, building and moving every single day — woven into the week, not saved for Friday. Fine-motor practice hides inside the fun.
Feelings have names, friends are made on purpose, and the three most important sentences in school are learned early: “I couldn't,” “I forgot,” and “help me, please” — always safe to say here.
Counting and coins come first — money a small hand can hold, count and keep. Needs vs wants, learned in the classroom store and in play; saving as a habit from the very first jar: save, spend, share. These first touches are woven through the band's days and grow, year by year, into the school's finance pillar.
A real school day — seven full hours, 7:00 AM to 2:00 PM. This is one sample day; the rhythm repeats all year.
Outcomes we teach toward — and check, student by student, before anyone moves on.
✅ Reads short books independently and writes real sentences
✅ Adds, subtracts and reasons with numbers to 1,000
✅ Asks scientific questions and tests simple ideas
✅ Knows their place in family, community and country
✅ Works, plays and asks for help with confidence
Reading and math every day; science and social studies alternate as the wonder block; art, music and movement woven through every day — never as an afterthought.
Omni accounts for its day the way America's leading online schools do: programmed minutes, banded by age. Inside the 420-minute school day (7:00 AM – 2:00 PM), instruction runs at this band's level:
| Subject block | Minutes a day | Minutes a year (180 days) |
|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 70 min | 12,600 min |
| Mathematics | 55 min | 9,900 min |
| Science | 30 min | 5,400 min |
| Social Studies | 30 min | 5,400 min |
| Arts | 20 min | 3,600 min |
| PE / Health | 20 min | 3,600 min |
| Character, SEL & first money touches | 15 min | 2,700 min |
The other 180 minutes of the 420-minute day are programmed, not empty: opening circle, lunch, recess, movement breaks, transitions and the closing circle.
The assessment rhythm is the school's skeleton — the same cadence at every grade, at this band's weight:
One session is one day's lesson in a subject, so a daily subject holds about 180 sessions a year. Sessions group into blocks of 5 and units of about 18 — ten units per subject, per year, paced across 36 weeks in two semesters. The main instruction video in each session runs 5–10 minutes, the band America's leading schools teach in; shorter segments support it inside the session. Nothing here is improvised: the year's minutes, units and checks are counted before the first lesson is written.
A K–11 online school in the Gate Nations Academy family — built grade by grade, to the standard of America's leading online schools.
OMNI SCHOOL, Inc. — a Mississippi corporation, incorporated August 27, 2021.
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