Granthalaya · What your child will study
What your child will study, and why
A recognised examination pathway and the Indian Knowledge Systems side by side in every school day, taught the way the Anaadi Gurukulams have taught for ten years. The curriculum is built by a team of IIT graduates, PhD holders and acharyas with master's degrees from India and the United States, working with the gurus of the Anaadi Gurukulams.
| Area | Level 1 · Beginning | Level 2 · Foundation | Level 3 · Growing | Level 4 · Preparation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The board: CBSE or NIOS | Readiness through play; no board work yet | Literacy and numeracy in the board's form | The board's syllabus: English, mathematics, science, social studies | Preparation for the 10th, with the path to the 12th |
| English | Rhymes, listening, first words | Reading and writing | Reading for meaning, writing of their own | Essays, literature, speaking to a room |
| Bhāratīya Gaṇita · mathematics | Counting, shapes, patterns in play | Arithmetic, Indian ways of reckoning | Fractions, geometry, the puzzles of the Līlāvatī | Algebra and geometry for the 10th; Āryabhaṭa read |
| Bhāratīya Vijñāna · science | Looking, touching, growing a seed | Experiments from the book kit | Virtual labs; the body, the earth, the weather | Physics, chemistry and biology for the 10th |
| Saṃskṛtam | Ślokas and songs | Speaking and reading | Stories, simple grammar | Source texts, composition |
| Nakṣatra Vidyā · the sky | Sun, moon and the seasons | Stars and the calendar | Planets and the pañcāṅga | The sky of the Sūrya Siddhānta, with instruments |
| Āyurveda | Food and the body | Herbs at home, dinacaryā | The doṣas, the kitchen pharmacy | Suśruta and Charaka read |
| Itihāsa–Purāṇa | Stories told | The Rāmāyaṇa | The Mahābhārata | The Purāṇas and India's history |
| Darśana | Wonder and questions | Questions through stories | The pramāṇas: how we know | The darśanas in outline |
| Sangīta and Kalā | Song, clay and colour every day | Music and craft | An elective art begins | The elective art, performed |
| Global skills | Telling a story to the class | Typing, the app, presenting | Computing and communication | AI tools with viveka, writing for the world |
| Yoga, every day | Play and āsana | Āsana and prāṇāyāma | Yoga nidra, the practice deepens | A practice of their own |
Two boards, one school day: see CBSE and NIOS. How each subject is taught, with the sources in the original: How it is taught.
What is taught
Preschool, and after it
Level 1 is the preschool: songs, stories, first words and first numbers in short live sessions, most of the day off the screen. Levels 2 to 4 carry the same child on through reading in two languages, arithmetic, science and the board's foundation. See the four levels.
Why: one school from 3 to 11. No change of school at 6, no lost year.
Saṃskṛtam from the first year
Spoken, sung and read before it is parsed: a greeting, a śloka, a story, then the grammar when the child is ready for it.
Why: Saṃskṛtam is the key to the source texts. A child who has it reads the tradition for themselves, for life.
Stories from the Itihāsas and Purāṇas
A story a day: told by the acharya, then talked over. The Rāmāyaṇa, the Mahābhārata and the Purāṇas, through every year of the school. See a story a day.
Why: a child meets the person before the moral. Values and ways of reasoning arrive the way they always did, as stories remembered for life.
Electives: an art and an IKS subject
Each child chooses an art, such as Sangīta, Bharatanāṭyam or Kalā, and one Indian Knowledge Systems subject to go deeper in, such as Āyurveda or Nakṣatra Vidyā, with their own sessions in the week. See the electives.
Why: every child, their own path. A choice made by the child is work the child owns.
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