Take-Home Practice
Every topic your child covers this year — with a two-minute check to find out whether it's actually a problem, and one practical thing to do about it tonight if it is.
Pick their grade
Every topic that year contains, grouped into six strands, with nothing hidden behind a signup.
Run the two-minute check
Each topic has one question and a description of what a solid answer looks like. Most checks pass — that's the time saver.
Do the take-home
For any check that fails, there's one activity with steps, an easier version and a harder one. Ten minutes, household materials.
Or download the pack
Every grade page has a free PDF: the whole year's topics, or just the one-page check sheet for the fridge. No signup.
The six strands, every grade
The same six headings from Pre-K to Grade 10, so once you know your way around one grade page you know your way around all of them.
Decoding, fluency, and understanding what was actually said.
Getting a thought out of the head and onto the page so a stranger understands it.
Number sense first, then the procedures that ride on top of it.
Noticing, predicting, testing — and being willing to be wrong out loud.
Maps, communities, history, and why people who were there disagree.
Attention, organisation, and the habits that decide whether the rest lands.
Pick your grade
If your child is between grades, or behind in one subject, use the checks rather than the label — they tell you where to actually start.
Follow one strand up the years
A gap is usually a year or two below where it shows up. Open a strand and read backwards until you hit the topic that was never solid — that's the one to work on.
📖 ReadingDecoding, fluency, and understanding what was actually said.
- 🧸 Pre-Kindergarten
Hearing the first sound in a word · Rhyming · Recognising letters — starting with their own name · Listening to a story and telling it back
- 🎨 Kindergarten
All 26 letter sounds · Blending sounds into a word · The first sight words · Understanding a story that's read to them
- 🚀 1st Grade
Digraphs and blends — sh, ch, th, and str · Reading smoothly, not word by word · Retelling and finding the main idea · Growing vocabulary on purpose
- 🌟 2nd Grade
Vowel teams and r-controlled vowels · Fluency — reading like talking · Reading between the lines · Working out a word from context
- 🦋 3rd Grade
Breaking long words apart · Finding the main idea in non-fiction · Prefixes, suffixes and word parts · Fluency at 100 words a minute
- 🌍 4th Grade
Theme, motive and deeper inference · How non-fiction is organised · Greek and Latin roots · Summarising without retelling
- 🔬 5th Grade
Figurative language and author's craft · Comparing two texts on the same topic · Spotting the argument and the evidence behind it · Academic vocabulary — the words school assumes
- ⚡ 6th Grade
Tracing an argument: claim, reasons, evidence · Citing evidence precisely · Word choice, connotation and tone
- 🧭 7th Grade
Author's purpose and how a text is built · Comparing how different media tell the same story · Analysing longer texts and sustained argument
- 🛰️ 8th Grade
Rhetoric — how persuasion actually works · Literary analysis — how the writing creates the meaning · Synthesising several sources into one understanding
- 🧬 9th Grade
Close reading and annotation that works · Reading dense non-fiction without drowning · Reading volume and academic vocabulary
- 🏛️ 10th Grade
Analysing complex literature · Evaluating scientific and statistical claims · Reading under test conditions
✏️ WritingGetting a thought out of the head and onto the page so a stranger understands it.
- 🧸 Pre-Kindergarten
Holding a crayon and making marks on purpose · Cutting with scissors
- 🎨 Kindergarten
Forming letters the right way round · Spelling by the sounds you hear · Writing a whole sentence
- 🚀 1st Grade
Sentences that hold together · Writing about one small moment · Spelling by pattern, not by memory
- 🌟 2nd Grade
Writing a paragraph that stays on topic · Opinion writing with real reasons · Editing and spelling rules
- 🦋 3rd Grade
Writing more than one paragraph · Narrative craft — dialogue, detail and a real ending · Revising — changing the writing, not just the spelling
- 🌍 4th Grade
Writing with evidence from a text · Researching and taking notes in your own words · Sentence variety and grammar that carries meaning
- 🔬 5th Grade
An essay with a thesis · A research report with real sources · Grammar that changes meaning
- ⚡ 6th Grade
The argument essay · Explaining something clearly · Revising for a reader
- 🧭 7th Grade
Arguing from credible sources · Citing properly and writing in your own voice · Precision — saying exactly what you mean
- 🛰️ 8th Grade
The analytical essay · A research-based argument · Sentence craft and academic register
- 🧬 9th Grade
The high-school literary essay · The research paper and citation format · Writing well under time pressure
- 🏛️ 10th Grade
Analysis with genuine sophistication · The synthesis essay · Actually using feedback
🔢 MathNumber sense first, then the procedures that ride on top of it.
- 🧸 Pre-Kindergarten
Counting things, one touch per number · Seeing how many without counting · Sorting into groups · Making and continuing patterns · Naming and spotting shapes · More, less, bigger, smaller
- 🎨 Kindergarten
Counting to 100, and counting on from anywhere · Reading and writing numerals to 20 · Adding and subtracting within 10 · Number bonds to 5 and 10 · Flat shapes and solid shapes · Measuring and comparing
- 🚀 1st Grade
Tens and ones to 100 · Adding and subtracting within 20 · Word problems — deciding what to actually do · Telling time to the hour and half hour · Counting coins · Measuring, and reading a simple graph · Equal shares — halves and quarters
- 🌟 2nd Grade
Hundreds, tens and ones to 1000 · Adding and subtracting with regrouping · Mental strategies within 100 · Two-step word problems · Arrays, doubles and repeated addition · Time to five minutes, and money with change · Measuring in standard units and graphing results
- 🦋 3rd Grade
Times tables to 12 — automatic, not calculated · Division and fact families · Multi-step problems, and estimating first · Fractions are numbers, not pictures · Equivalent fractions · Area and perimeter · Elapsed time, measurement and scaled graphs
- 🌍 4th Grade
Multi-digit multiplication · Division with remainders · Factors, multiples and prime numbers · Adding and subtracting fractions · Multiplying a fraction by a whole number · Decimals — tenths and hundredths · Angles, lines and symmetry · Unit conversion and measurement problems
- 🔬 5th Grade
Adding and subtracting fractions with unlike denominators · Multiplying and dividing with fractions · Decimal operations and powers of ten · Dividing by two-digit numbers · Volume of solid figures · The coordinate plane · Order of operations and writing expressions
- ⚡ 6th Grade
Ratios, rates and proportional reasoning · Percent as a ratio out of a hundred · Dividing fractions by fractions · Negative numbers and the number line · Expressions, variables and what a letter means · Solving equations by balancing · Statistics: mean, median, spread and what a graph hides · Area, surface area and nets
- 🧭 7th Grade
Proportional relationships and the constant of proportionality · Percent in the real world — tax, tip, interest, markup · All four operations with negatives, fractions and decimals · Multi-step equations and inequalities · Scale drawings and similar figures · Circles — circumference, area and where pi comes from · Surface area and volume of solids · Probability, sampling and why one survey isn't enough
- 🛰️ 8th Grade
Linear functions and what slope actually means · What a function is · Systems of equations · Exponent rules and scientific notation · Pythagoras and irrational numbers · Transformations, congruence and similarity · Volume of cylinders, cones and spheres · Scatter plots, correlation and the line of best fit
- 🧬 9th Grade
Equation and inequality fluency · Functions, notation, domain and range · Modelling with linear functions · Systems of equations in real problems · Polynomials and factoring · Quadratic equations and their graphs · Exponential growth versus linear growth · Data, regression and interpreting a model
- 🏛️ 10th Grade
Deductive proof and geometric reasoning · Triangle congruence and similarity · Right-triangle trigonometry · Circle theorems and arc relationships · Coordinate geometry · Surface area, volume and how they scale · Probability, permutations and combinations · Keeping Algebra I sharp
🔬 ScienceNoticing, predicting, testing — and being willing to be wrong out loud.
- 🧸 Pre-Kindergarten
The five senses and describing words · Weather and the seasons
- 🎨 Kindergarten
Living and non-living, and what plants need · Pushes, pulls, and what things are made of
- 🚀 1st Grade
Light and sound · How plants and animals survive
- 🌟 2nd Grade
Properties of matter, and changes you can undo · Life cycles, seeds and how plants spread
- 🦋 3rd Grade
Forces, friction and magnets · Traits, inheritance and adaptation · Weather, climate and reading data
- 🌍 4th Grade
Energy transfer and simple circuits · Erosion, rocks and reading the landscape · Waves, and how information travels
- 🔬 5th Grade
Matter, mixtures and chemical change · Ecosystems, food webs and energy flow · Earth's systems and the water cycle
- ⚡ 6th Grade
Cells, organs and body systems · Energy, heat transfer and insulation · Earth, moon, sun and the seasons
- 🧭 7th Grade
Atoms, molecules and chemical reactions · Heredity, genes and natural selection · Human impact on ecosystems and resources
- 🛰️ 8th Grade
Forces, motion and Newton's laws · Waves and the electromagnetic spectrum · Plate tectonics and Earth's history
- 🧬 9th Grade
Cells, macromolecules and energy · DNA, protein synthesis and inheritance · Evolution, evidence and ecosystems
- 🏛️ 10th Grade
Atomic structure and periodic trends · Bonding, reactions and balancing equations · Moles, concentration and acids and bases
🌍 Social StudiesMaps, communities, history, and why people who were there disagree.
- 🧸 Pre-Kindergarten
My family, my home, my helpers
- 🎨 Kindergarten
First maps and position words · Rules, fairness, and jobs people do
- 🚀 1st Grade
Maps, globes and where we are · Then and now
- 🌟 2nd Grade
Map skills and landforms · How a community works, and who decides
- 🦋 3rd Grade
Regions, landforms and why people settle where they do · Local history and primary sources
- 🌍 4th Grade
Regions, states and physical geography · How government works and what citizens do
- 🔬 5th Grade
Causes and consequences in history · Whose story is being told?
- ⚡ 6th Grade
Ancient civilisations and why they rose where they did · World geography, resources and trade
- 🧭 7th Grade
Trade, empires and the exchange of ideas · Supply, demand and why prices move
- 🛰️ 8th Grade
Constitutions, rights and the limits of power · Industrialisation and how technology changes societies
- 🧬 9th Grade
Building a historical argument from documents · Globalisation, migration and interdependence
- 🏛️ 10th Grade
Turning points in modern history · Information, media and democratic decisions
🧭 Study & Life SkillsAttention, organisation, and the habits that decide whether the rest lands.
- 🧸 Pre-Kindergarten
Following a two-step instruction · Dressing, tidying, and doing it themselves
- 🎨 Kindergarten
Sticking with one thing · Running their own morning
- 🚀 1st Grade
Listening and following three-step directions · Trying when it's hard, and being wrong safely
- 🌟 2nd Grade
Reading stamina — sticking with a book · Owning their own stuff and their own jobs
- 🦋 3rd Grade
Typing without looking · Doing homework without a hostage negotiation
- 🌍 4th Grade
Taking notes that are actually useful · Breaking a big project into days
- 🔬 5th Grade
Studying that actually works · Judging what's true online
- ⚡ 6th Grade
Tracking work across five teachers · Asking a teacher for help
- 🧭 7th Grade
Beating procrastination with structure, not willpower · Digital footprint and being decent online
- 🛰️ 8th Grade
A study system that survives high school · Sleep, stress and actually functioning
- 🧬 9th Grade
Understanding what actually counts now · Managing a real workload
- 🏛️ 10th Grade
Preparing for standardised tests properly · Working out what comes next · Running your own life
Frequently Asked Questions
What is this, exactly?
A page per grade listing every topic that year actually covers — reading, writing, maths, science, social studies and study skills. For each topic you get the skill in plain words, why it matters, what it looks like when it's shaky, a two-minute check to find out, and one practical activity to fix it using things you already have at home.
How is this different from a worksheet site?
Worksheets assume you already know which skill is the problem. This starts a step earlier: the two-minute check tells you whether a topic needs work at all, so you spend your evening on the one topic that's actually wobbly instead of a pack of thirty pages that covers everything equally.
Can I download or print these?
Yes, and it's free. Every grade page offers a PDF of the whole year's pack — each topic with its check, its activity, tick boxes and a date line — plus a one-page two-minute check sheet, and single-subject packs if only maths is the problem. You can also download one take-home on its own. Nothing needs a signup, and the activities themselves still only use ordinary household things.
How much time does this take?
Between 10 minutes a day in Pre-K and about 45 in Grade 10, and each grade page suggests a five-day rotation so no strand gets quietly skipped. Two short sessions beat one long one at every age.
My child is behind. Should I use their grade or a lower one?
Use the check, not the label. Run the two-minute checks on the grade below for the topic in question — if those pass, the gap is in the current grade. Working at the level the check reveals is the entire point of having a check.
What if the practice isn't enough?
Every grade page has a "when to ask for help" section listing the specific signs that mean a conversation with the teacher is worth more than another month of home practice. Those signs are worth acting on early — most of them respond well to support and badly to waiting.
Is it free?
Yes. Every topic, check, activity, red flag and milestone on all twelve grade pages is free and needs no signup.