PCA 2025-26 School Year

At the beginning of August:

• Download Google Classroom if you have not done so yet. Familiarize yourself with it!

• Go through your new 25-26 Family Google Folder.

• Go over this page thoroughly.

• Log into your student's school Gmail account at the beginning of August to accept Google Classroom invites (I will send out an email when these invites go out)

• Ask me any questions you may have. If I am not available, email me, and I will respond when I am available on July 28.

• Read for fun! You can access Sora via Clever (or this link) or one of these other free sites: (TK-2nd grade, check out Comprehension Engine, and 3rd-8th graders, check out Quindew - they are free!). Also, Literacy Chops is a free reading program for high school. 

• Sign up for the summer reading program at your local library.

• Go to the library for more reading!

• Check out the County Library app, Libby. You can check out books to read or listen to for free!

• Popular Grade-Level Books

• ENJOY YOUR SUMMER!

• Plan to attend our Back-to-School LP1 virtual meetings August 18 - August 21. (Pencil it in on your calendar!)

• Also, plan to attend one of our Back-to-School Park Days (August 22). Last year, it was a phenomenal event, like a private fair for PCA!

Learning Period Meetings will take place every month (like usual), with every other Learning Period meeting being IN PERSON at either the Bonita Library, Mira Mesa Library, or Mission Valley Library in the Children's section. The exact dates will be shared at least a month prior to the meeting week, so we can plan accordingly. I also highly encourage you to attend the LP PCA Park Days. If you do this, you will be able to connect with other families, participate in fun and educational activities, and meet our every other LP In-Person requirement.  I am so excited that I get more opportunities this year to see you and your students in person!

We will be using the Google Calendar Sign-Up, which goes directly to your Google calendar and sends out reminders. If you do not have a Gmail account, you can simply add it yourself to your own calendar.

SPARK CLASSES

PCA's SPARK Online Semester-Long Classes

• SPARK is an online program for grades K-6

• Courses offered in Math, Writing, Social Studies, Science, and Robotics

• Mission: To provide inquiry-based active learning opportunities and ignite the love of learning in all students

• Goal: Students will make authentic multi-disciplinary connections to the world

Pricing is as follows:

- $200/Session for single classes, Grades K-5

The curriculum cost:

Language Arts: between $90-$236

Math: $134-$164

Writing: $109

Robotics (Grades 2-8): $209-$469

You can view the SPARK Course Catalog in the document below.

ELEVATE Classes

ELEVATE Learning Labs provide free, online enrichment classes that are taught by our talented PCA teachers in the areas of Math, Language Arts, Social Studies, Science and various enrichment courses.

• Interactive & hands-on learning opportunities

• The core courses are standards-based and provide students with work sample opportunities. 

• Offered every school day

• Each course meets weekly for the duration of a Learning Period (4-5 weeks) for approximately 45 minutes.

• TK-12 options available

• Middle School/High School Elevate offers students a chance to study various enriching topics while providing skills to prepare them for the future.

A specific schedule of each course title, description and materials list for the semester will be posted when school begins in August. Elevate Learning courses will begin in September. All courses will follow the Weekly Elevate Schedule found on the ELEVATE Site.

The ELEVATE program is a la carte so your families are able to pick and choose what they want to attend and how often. For example, maybe one month your child wants to take a math and science ELEVATE course and not attend ELEVATE Community Days, that’s no problem. If your family only wants to attend ELEVATE Community Days, that is an option as well. We offer many options so families can take advantage of what works for them and the needs of their student(s).

Writing Focus

For the 25-26 school year, I will be suggesting that students in Grades TK-8 submit a writing assignment every Learning Period. I know some students aren't used to writing, so I am giving you a goal. Students should write daily so that their ideas come more naturally when they are asked to write for an assignment or for a test. I am hoping families will enjoy supporting students through the writing process! I am looking forward to seeing what students create! Click here for the grade-level writing assignments! 

In-House Curriculum Options

Please feel free to review our curriculum flyers for more information about next year’s in-house curriculum offerings!

In-House Curriculum Flyer

TK-5 PCA Options

• Accelerate Education: Grades K-5

• Aleks Math: Grades 3-5

• SPARK Online Learning: Grades K-5

• Embark: Grade TK

• K12: Grades K-5

• English Language Development (ELD): Grades TK-5

Middle and High School PCA Options

• Aleks Math: (only for Pre-Algebra and Math Foundations)

• Choice Plus Academy (CPA): Grades 6-12

• HQT-Led Edgenuity: Grades 6-12

• SPARK Online Learning: Grade 6 (Also, Coding & Robotics for Grades 6-8)

• English Language Development (ELD): Grades 6-12

Middle and High School Course Catalog

25-26 Online Subscription Options (OSP)

The Online Subscription Package (OSP) options for the new school year are here!

PCA 25/26 OSP Flyer

All students will receive the following subscriptions based on their grade level…

TK-2nd grade

• Reading Eggs

• Mathseeds

• IXL

• IXL Spanish

• Generation Genius

3rd-8th grade

• IXL

• IXL Spanish

• Generation Genius

9th - 12th grade

• IXL

• IXL Spanish

• Shmoop

NEW! Generation Genius is a K-8 teaching resource that brings school science and math standards to life through fun and educational videos paired with lesson plans, activities, quizzes, reading material, and more. 

IXL  provides students with:

• Access to a comprehensive TK-12 curriculum for the following subjects:

  • Math

  • English/Language Arts

  • Science

  • Social Studies

IXL Spanish provides students with:

• Seven units of interactive course material.

• Curriculum Covers:

  • • Vocabulary

    • Grammar

    • Reading

    • Listening Comprehension

• The adaptive curriculum ensures learners understand basic concepts before moving on to more challenging material.

Shmoop is a comprehensive curriculum option for high school, offering a wide variety of core and elective course options.

Key Features of Reading Eggs

• The lessons use colorful animation, fun characters, songs, and rewards to keep children motivated.

• When children start the program, they can complete a placement quiz to ensure they are starting at the correct reading level.

• Parents can access detailed progress reports as well as hundreds of downloadable activity sheets that correspond with the lessons in the program.

• Offers a huge range of carefully structured lessons and activities that build mathematical skills over a broad range of number, shape and measurement topics.

• Children complete animated online lessons where they learn essential reading and phonics skills. The variety of fun activities within each lesson provides the repetition needed for these skills to become part of the child’s long-term memory.

Click here for a quick start guide to Reading Eggs.

Key Features of Mathseeds

• Children can progress at their own level.

• Mathseeds provides parents with a simple “dashboard” to show each child’s mathematical progress.

• The program features a wide variety of lessons and activities that have been created by educational experts. Each lesson is carefully structured to build early mathematical skills

• Offers a huge range of carefully structured lessons and activities that build mathematical skills over a broad range of number, shape, and measurement topics.

• Once a lesson is complete, it can be repeated as many times as needed.

Additional subscriptions will be available via A LA CARTE:

• ABC Mouse

• Accelerated Reader

• Adobe Creative Cloud

• Adventure Academy

• Gizmos

• Grammarly

• iReady

• Microsoft Office 365

• Minecraft: Education Edition

• MobyMax

• Pear Deck (Tutor Me)

• Prodigy Math and English

• Reading Eggs & Mathseeds

• Rosetta Stone

• Typing Club

Check out the new OSP Handbook, where you will be able to find additional information and answers to our frequently asked questions.

Testing will remain the same this year.

ALL grade levels will participate in the Star 360 during our Fall, Winter, and Spring windows.

3rd-8th and 11th-grade students will participate in State Testing (CAASPP Math and Language Arts) in the Spring (with 5th, 8th, and 11th graders taking the Science portion as well).

5th, 7th, and 9th graders will participate in the Physical Fitness Test in February.

All multilingual English learner students will participate in the annual ELPAC English testing in February.

Accounts will be down over the summer until ordering opens again on July 28th. You will be prompted to sign several forms when you first log in for the 25-26 school year. These are the forms that you typically sign during the first week of school every year.

PCA Media Release & Student Parent Handbook

The first part of student Planning Amounts will be arriving for returning students on July 28th and for new students on August 1st (once Master Agreements are signed).

• Product orders can begin as soon as you receive access to your funds

• Service orders can be placed, but the services cannot begin until after the first day of school (August 15th).

Please ensure that you read through the Enrichment Guidelines (at the top of your Homeschool Hub page) as a refresher prior to placing your first orders.