Interest-led homeschool, classically taught
By nine o'clock it was earth science, geography, physics and a writing assignment — for both of them, at their own levels.
Type the thing your child actually wants to know. Get a morning of real school, printed and ready, before the coffee goes cold.
About a minute. Nothing is scheduled, nothing lands on a calendar — you print it when you want it.
A tractor pulls a sled that gets heavier as it moves. The engine makes a force that pushes the tractor forward. Friction between the tyres and the dirt is what lets that force do any work at all — spin the wheels and you go nowhere. When the sled finally wins, the tractor stops.
The two packets below are real output. Built by a North Carolina family for their own two children: the words, the word counts, the passages and the page counts are exactly what the app produced for Callen and Brynn on the morning of 5 September. The layout here is simplified so both fit on one screen — what comes off the printer is a full worksheet.
The thing nothing else does
If you teach more than one child you already know the problem: whatever you plan is too hard for one of them and too easy for the other, and you end up teaching twice. Here is the same tractor pull, the same morning, as each of them received it.
Tap to swap between them — same morning, same topic.
Long ago, farmers wanted to know whose tractor was the strongest. They would hook their tractors to heavy loads and see who could pull the farthest. This became a contest called a tractor pull. Today, tractor pulls are a sport where specially built tractors pull a heavy sled down a track. The sled gets heavier as it moves!
Long ago, farmers wanted to know whose tractor was the strongest. They would hook their tractors to heavy loads and see who could pull the farthest. This became a contest called a tractor pull. Today, tractor pulls are a sport where specially built tractors pull a heavy sled down a track. The sled gets heavier as it moves! The tractor that pulls the sled the farthest wins. Some tractors have engines as powerful as race cars. The loudest tractors have multiple engines and can have over 5,000 horsepower — that's like having 50 regular cars in one machine!
What stops
There is no week to lay out, no rotation to keep straight and no boxes to stay ahead of. You decide in the morning, from whatever they are actually asking about.
No rewriting the six-year-old's version by hand at ten at night. Each child's sheets come out pitched to where they are — which is not the same as their age.
One packet per child, already separated, every sheet carrying the school, the child and Page 3 of 8. It files straight into the portfolio.
What a month looks like
Every child gets their own work, so every child spends a credit. Sit three of them down to one topic and it costs three — the same three it would cost if they each did something different. You are never charged for doing it together.
The arithmetic rarely comes out even. With two children, fifteen credits is seven mornings and one credit over.
Credits belong to the month. Whatever you have not used goes when the next fifteen arrive — so there is nothing to hoard and nothing to lose track of.
Seven mornings you don't plan
Two children, one topic, both getting their own work — about every fourth school day.
How it teaches
A dive is not an activity pack. It is built on a classical spine, and it is written to be harder than your child expects and exactly as hard as they can manage.
Grammar, then logic, then rhetoric — the Trivium, applied to whatever they asked about. Vocabulary before the passage, the passage before the questions. A child is never tested on something they were not taught first.
Every child carries a per-subject level that moves as they work. A strong reader who is behind in maths gets a hard passage and gentler numbers on the same morning.
Primary sources where they exist, more than one account of the same event, and questions with an argument in them. We would rather they disagreed with us well than agreed with us quietly.
Every sheet is dated and named, with an answer key for the parent. What comes off the printer is what goes in the folder at the end of the year.
What it costs
There is no per-child fee and no family tier to work out. You buy fifteen credits a month; a credit is one child's dive. The only question is whether you pay by the month or by the year.
Paid annually
$14.99/ month
Billed $179.88 once a year — $36 less than paying monthly.
≈ $1.00 per child, per dive
Paid monthly
$17.99/ month
Billed monthly. Stop whenever you like.
≈ $1.20 per child, per dive
Sign-up is not open yet. The privacy, COPPA and billing terms are with an attorney and will be published on this page before anyone can pay for anything.
Before you ask
It is a morning — four lessons, a hands-on project and the reading around it. Families use it as the spine of the day and add their own maths practice, music and outdoors.
Tractor pulls became earth science, geography, physics and a writing assignment. Most things do, if you follow them far enough.
That is the case this was built for. One topic at the table, and work that meets each of them where they are — see the two packets above.
For the packet, yes. Everything can be read on screen, but the work is designed to be written on.
Dives are saved to your account so you can reprint them. The full privacy and COPPA position is with an attorney and will be published here before anyone can sign up.
Still there, still being built. This is the part that is ready to stand on its own, so it is the part going out first.
Then let the morning take care of itself.
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