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The Childhood Almanac is a one-time purchase $199, not a monthly or yearly subscription. You pay once and it's yours. Because you're joining as a founding family, this is the lowest the price will ever be.
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No. We didn't want to build one more thing that drains your account every month. You pay once, and you keep it.
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Yes, and I'd rather you did. The first three days of Little Oceans are free, and they're not a sample or a preview. They're the actual days, in the actual member portal, so you'll know exactly what you'd be getting. Use them with your kids, keep them either way.
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Yes. Once you're in, the full curriculum is yours to keep and use for as long as you're raising little ones. No renewals, no expiring logins.
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Yes, every one of them. Buy it once and teach all your children with it, this child, the next one, and the ones after that. There's no per-child fee, ever.
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The Childhood Almanac opens to our founding families in [February 2027]. Join the waitlist and you'll be among the very first ones in.
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You'll get a warm welcome from us, a little gift to start, and then occasional notes as we count down to opening day. When the doors open, waitlist families get first access, before anyone else.
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Yes. The founding price is a thank-you to the families who trust us first. After our founding families are in, the price rises. Getting on the list now locks in the lowest price we'll ever offer.
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That's the plan. We're beginning with ages 3 to 6+, and we intend to grow with your family into the older grades. Founding families will get first access to everything we build next.
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Due to the digital nature of our curriculum and the immediate access granted to the Homeroom Club portal, all sales are final. We encourage you to read our "The Childhood Almanac" details thoroughly before applying.
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Everything lives in a members-only portal built just for parents. You'll create a simple login, and your whole year is waiting inside, organized and calm. Nothing to download, dig through, or lose.
We're so glad you're here. Choosing how to teach your children is a big, heartfelt decision, and we want you to feel completely at peace before you ever join us.
Here's everything you might be wondering. If we've missed anything, just reach out.
Purchasing + AccessThe Everyday Practical Questions-
This is the heart of how we designed it. The Almanac lives online for you. You open the day's plan on your phone or tablet over your coffee, read the few-minute plan, and put the screen away before your child ever sits down. What your child experiences is entirely analog: real books, real objects, and their own paper notebook. You hold the plan. They hold the crayon.
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Never. There are no worksheets to print, file, or toss in the recycling. The only paper in your child's day is their own notebook.
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Yes. Every founding family gets a seat in The Gathering Place, our private community away from social media. There are rooms for each unit, so you can ask about Little Oceans while you're actually in Little Oceans, and rooms for everything that has nothing to do with curriculum. You choose what reaches your phone. I'm in there daily.
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Just a phone, tablet, or computer to read the daily plan. That's it.
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The plan takes you only a few minutes to read. The morning itself is gentle and flexible, often about an hour, sometimes less on a hard day, sometimes longer when your little one is lost in something wonderful. It's built to fit a small child, not to fill a school day.
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You choose the rhythm that fits your family. You can go slow and steady at three days a week, year-round, or four days a week across a traditional 180-day year. Both cover the full curriculum.
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Very little. A library card, a simple notebook for your child, and the ordinary objects already in your home, buttons, measuring cups, a handful of shells. We hand you book lists you can fill at the library for free. This was built to be done with little more than a library card and the time you already spend together.
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It's your child's one notebook, the draw-on-top, write-below kind, where they keep their letters, numbers, drawings, and the words you write down for them. Day by day it fills, until by spring it isn't a workbook. It's a handwritten record of a whole year of their childhood, the kind of thing you keep forever.
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Check with your state for their regulations but typical, no. No one knows your child the way you do, and you don't need a classroom or a certificate to give them a real education. We hand you the plan, day by day. We hold the map. You hold their hand.
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No. Open the plan, gather a book and a couple of household items, and you're ready. We designed this specifically to not bury you in prep before breakfast.
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You can't fall behind in your own home. The Almanac waits for you. Skip a day, take a slow week, follow a rabbit trail of your child's curiosity, it all still works. There's no red pen and no "behind" here.
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Yes. The rhythms are gentle and interruptible by design, and much of the day is the kind of reading and hands-on play a little sibling can happily sit near.
Ages & Teaching More Than One Child-
Ages 3 to 6 and up, the pre-K and kindergarten years, reaching into first grade for children who are ready.
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Yes, and this is one of the things families love most. The curriculum is built in three flexible stages, not rigid grade boxes, so your four-year-old and your six-year-old can gather at the same table, each meeting the same morning right where they are. You teach your children side by side, not in two separate schools.
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Stage One focuses on sensory play, the rhythm of sounds, and early letter-sound awareness. Stage Two adds tactile learning, tracing letters in flour trays, and counting real objects. Stage Three fulfills kindergarten standards with phonetic blending, mental math, and writing in the notebook. Children move through them as they're ready, not by their birthday.
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That's exactly why we built it in stages instead of grades. Your child meets the material where they are and moves when they're ready. We also offer a simple placement guide to help you find your child's starting stage.
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Both beautifully. It's just as sweet one-on-one as it is around a full table.
Our Educational Approach-
Slow, wonder-led, and rooted in how young children actually learn: through real books, real objects, play, and time outdoors. If you love the spirit of Charlotte Mason and the hands-on heart of Montessori, you'll feel at home here, though we're not strictly either. We're our own gentle blend.
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No. Slow and screen-free does not mean behind. Every lesson is built on the research that actually works, and the curriculum meets kindergarten standards and reaches into first grade. Going slow protects childhood; it doesn't cost your child a thing.
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With the science of reading. Letters and sounds are taught in the proven order so that words click into place, building real, confident readers, not guessers.
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With real objects in real hands first, pouring, counting, sorting, long before any symbol appears on a page. Numbers make sense to little ones when they can hold them.
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Yes. It meets kindergarten standards and reaches into first grade, and it hands you the records to show your progress the moment your state asks.
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No tests, no grades, no pressure. Just a childhood tended day by day, with a notebook full of real work to show for it.
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Because childhood is short and a young child's attention is precious, and we'd rather it be on real things: a book, a bug on the porch, your face while you read. We're not anti-technology. We're pro-childhood.
faith-
Little Homeroom is unapologetically Christ-centered. We're a nondenominational, Bible-believing home, and we welcome Christian families from across the church. Jesus isn't a subject we tacked on. He's the reason the whole thing exists.
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Every single day begins with Him, before the letters and the numbers. A verse, a short story, a song, and a prayer. Ten minutes that set the tone for everything after. We call it Mornings with Jesus.
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We use the NIV.
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For most Christian families, yes. We keep our daily faith teaching centered on the heart of the gospel and the truths most believers share, so you can add your own church's traditions on top.
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We teach that God is the Creator of all the things we study, so science and history meet the truth of His Word rather than standing apart from it. Wonder and faith belong together.
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You are so welcome here. You don't need to have it all figured out. Many mamas grow right alongside their little ones, and the daily rhythm is a gentle place to start.
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Yes, woven right into the days, all drawn from beloved, timeless songs and hymns.
Being a Founding Family-
You're one of the very first families through the door, the ones who help this little sanctuary take root. You get the founding price, the free electives, first access to everything we build next, and a real seat at the table with us.
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No, and that's on purpose. We're opening to a small first circle of families, not thousands. We would so much rather build a real community than a crowd. If you've been aching for people who get it, these are your people.
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Yes. When you join, you're not just getting a curriculum, you're pulling up a chair at a table full of Christian mothers raising children who love Jesus and love to learn, cheering each other on, far from the noise of social media.
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The lowest price we'll ever offer, the electives included free, first access to future grades, and the quiet honor of being first, with us right beside you the whole way.
What's Included-
The full Childhood Almanac: twelve units gathered into four seasonal collections that carry your family through the year, all inside your calm members portal. You also get a Parent Orientation to set you up for success, book lists, the flexible three-stage design, and, as a founding family, the electives free.
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Rabbit Trails are hands-on bonus journeys, homesteading, homemaking, photography, art, cooking, and history, included free for founding families. They're a joyful little something extra for when your family wants to wander.
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Bible, reading, writing, math, science, social studies and history, art, music, nature, and life skills, all woven into a gentle daily rhythm rather than chopped into separate periods.
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Twelve units, gathered into four collections that move with the seasons and carry your family from the first day to the last.
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Yes. A Parent Orientation walks you gently through the portal and your first days, so you begin with confidence, not overwhelm.