A home-learning path from age 2 to Class 1.
91 units in five stages, in the order children actually learn. Each unit tells you the goal, which games practise it, hands-on activities with things you already have at home, what to talk about, and a checklist so you know when to move on. Free to read, no sign-up.
- 📖 Reading & talking
- ✏️ Writing & pencil control
- 🔢 Numbers & shapes
- 🔬 Science & our world
- 🧩 Thinking & feelings
Talking, listening, moving and touching. Everything is play, nothing is a lesson, and ten minutes is a long time.
- Naming things: body parts, colours, animals, the people at home
- Counting songs and first counting to 3, then 5
- Big and small, same and different
Letters start to mean something — first the ones in their own name. Counting to 10, shapes, patterns and the first sounds of words.
- Hearing rhymes, syllables and the first sound in a word
- Knowing the letters in their own name
- Counting 10 objects and knowing numerals to 10
The year sounds turn into words. Letter sounds, blending three-sound words, numbers to 20, adding and taking away with real things.
- Letter sounds, and blending them to read words like cat, sun and pin
- The first tricky words: I, the, to, go, no, is
- Writing their name and forming round letters correctly
Reading short sentences, writing one of their own, number bonds, adding within 20, time, money and the science of everyday things.
- Two-letter sounds (sh, ch, th, ee, oa…) and reading short sentences
- Writing a sentence with a capital letter, finger spaces and a full stop
- Number bonds to 10, adding and subtracting within 20
The topics most Class 1 books open with — numbers to 100, equal groups, halves and quarters, time, money, and science units on ourselves, plants, materials, light, movement and sound — practised at home first.
- Building longer words from sounds (g-r-ow-l, rain + bow) and reading poems and stories
- Signs, labels and non-fiction books
- Numbers to 100, tens and ones, adding and subtracting within 100
Twenty minutes a day is enough.
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Find your child's stage
Go by what they can do, not only their age. Each stage says when a child is ready to move on. If in doubt, start one stage lower — an easy start builds confidence.
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Pick one unit from each strand
Work on a reading unit, a numbers unit and a science or feelings unit side by side, in the order they are listed. Children learn best with a little of everything.
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Play, do, talk
A few minutes of the matching games, one hands-on activity, and the talk questions at mealtimes or bedtime. Stop while your child is still enjoying it.
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Tick the checklist, then move on
Move to the next unit when your child can do most of the checklist — not when the weeks run out. Coming back to an old unit is revision, not failure.