Our curriculum
Our K–9 curriculum.
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Three pillars
What students learn, by category.
Religious foundation, heritage preservation, and academic reinforcement — each given its own dedicated time every Saturday.
Religious Education
Quran · Islamic Studies
Recitation with proper tajwid, memorization of selected surahs, the pillars of faith, the lives of the prophets, and the ethics that anchor day-to-day Muslim practice. The school's founding subjects, taught with the dignity our tradition deserves.
Grade-level focus: shorter surahs and daily duas in early grades; longer surahs, fiqh, and seerah in middle grades.
Heritage & Culture
Dari · Pashto · Afghan Culture & History
Reading, writing, and conversation in Dari and Pashto; geography, holidays, foodways, and the long history of Afghanistan and its people. The work of making sure our children can speak with their grandparents in their grandparents' language.
Grade-level focus: the alphabet and conversation in K–2; writing, poetry, and historical texts by middle school.
Academic Subjects
English · Math · Science
Reinforcement of the skills students see at their weekday public school. Reading comprehension and writing; arithmetic, number sense, and problem-solving; inquiry, life science, earth science, and basic physical science.
Grade-level focus: complements the Virginia Department of Education's Standards of Learning so the work students do here reinforces, rather than diverges from, what they already know.
Alignment with Virginia
Designed to complement your child's weekday school.
Afghan Academy students attend Virginia public, private, and charter schools during the week. Our academic subjects (English, Math, Science) are designed to complement and align with the Virginia Department of Education's Standards of Learning framework so weekend lessons reinforce weekday concepts rather than diverging from them.
In practice that means our English instruction emphasizes the same comprehension and writing skills Virginia students are evaluated on; our math sequence introduces concepts in the order public schools encounter them; and our science work touches on the life, earth, and physical-science strands the VDOE outlines for each grade band.
The alignment is a practical convenience for parents familiar with the Virginia system, not a curricular limitation. Lessons remain authored by Afghan Academy instructors and shaped by our community's needs.
Grade by grade
Subjects available for each grade.
Click any grade to browse its lesson list. Empty subjects are in active development; the schedule below shows what's planned, not just what's already written.
Honesty about scope
Content development is ongoing.
Religious and heritage content has been the school's foundation since 1992 and is taught by long-time community instructors. The academic strand — English, Math, Science — is in active development, written by qualified instructors in alignment with the Virginia Standards of Learning.
If a grade-subject page shows a "Curriculum in development" notice today, that means lessons are being authored and reviewed for the next school year — not that the subject is unavailable when the program runs.