Playbook
Eight protocols with print buttons: dialogic reading, conflict, risk versus hazard, praise, screens, emotion coaching.
For families learning at home
The shelf is the curriculum. The week is the plan.
You already refuse flashcards and buy real materials. What is missing is the operating layer: which eight trays this week, what the adult says, what to rotate on Sunday, and a record that is not a test. That is Yearkeep. It follows the child, and every default is yours to change.
Invitations
260 activities with the adult’s move written out
Twelve domains from practical life to finance. Each card names the age band, the materials, and exactly what the adult does and says, in the adult’s language. Filter by what you already own.
Add to shelf or add to plan. The card keeps a history of how many times it was done and how engaged the child was. Add your own activities with the same fields.
Projects
Reggio panels that fill themselves
A project has four quadrants: wondered, did, found, she said. Tagged photos and quotes land in the right quadrant. Twenty project starters help you begin; closing a project makes a portfolio page.
Progress without scores
Fifteen mastery ladders and a domain map
Ladders have five rungs each. The child can move her own marker; a parent confirms. Domain outcomes are cards you mark emerging or secure, each linked to the evidence entries. Nothing is a percentage.
Sunday
Rotate the shelf with reasons
Auto-plan proposes two or three swaps: this tray was ignored for two weeks, this domain got twelve minutes, this interest showed up in four quotes. You accept or edit. The plan follows what the child actually did.
Also in the box
Materials and printables
An inventory by zone, a wishlist by age and budget tier, and twenty printable aids as PDFs.
Books and songs
A reading log per language, a nudge when a book has not been read in three weeks, and eight CROWD prompts for any book.
Outdoor hour
Place cards with best time and what to bring, a haze and heat check, and an indoor movement plan for bad days.
Roadmap
A two-to-six timeline by domain with milestones, and a birthday wizard that rewrites next year from your data.
Yearbook
Monthly pages build from the portfolio. Export a PDF at each birthday.
FAQ
Do we need more than one adult?
No. One parent can plan, run, and review. The plan still needs to leave your head, and everything on this page works with one adult. Invite more people when you want their hours and their eyes.
Is this Montessori-certified?
No. It draws on Montessori environments, Reggio documentation, HighScope Plan-Do-Review, and Tools of the Mind. It is not a franchise and does not award badges.
Can I add my own activities?
Yes. Custom activities sit beside the catalogue with the same fields, including the adult’s move.
Does the child use the app?
Only with a parent, from about three and a half: a picture board for Plan-Do-Review and moving her own ladder marker. There is no child account and no screen-time content.
Set out eight trays. Run one week. Rotate on Sunday.
Setup asks what you already own and proposes the first eight trays.