Artful Teaching. Joyful Learning.® 

The all-in-one program to simply and skillfully teach your Early Learner {grade 1 or under} through ART and PLAY.

✔ Open. Gather. Go.
✔ 10-month comprehensive curriculum with monthly themes
✔ Implementation workshop + coaching to grow your teacher confidence

What do ‘Artful Teaching’ and ‘Joyful Learning’ actually mean? 

Artful Teaching is..

♥︎ Inspiring your young children to love learning.

♥︎ Teaching with calm confidence because you are prepared with the right tools and aligned with your homeschool vision.

♥︎ Feeling organized and “on top of it” with a plan to cultivate your child's curiosity, while also making sure the fundamentals are covered.

♥︎ Incorporating beauty, art, and learning into your everyday activities

♥︎ Calm, relaxed, natural: knowing where your child is academically and adjusting your teaching as needed.

Joyful Learning is...

♥︎ Following our interests and curiosities in a playful way.

♥︎ Sparking joy and wonder in the everyday.

♥︎ Kids are engaged and can’t wait “to do school everyday. Beautiful, blissful days!

♥︎ A calm - yet fun - learning environment where your child thrives through play, wonder and the arts.

♥︎ Your child is proud, confident and motivated to learn because it's fun and meaningful.

You want to give your child the experiences that will turn into a life-long love of learning. 

So what’s stopping you? 

A hands-on yet still-fits-into-your-life plan to intentionally teach your child feels like something that you’ve yet to master.

I hear this from parents a lot.

Does any of this sound familiar to you?

Be your child’s favorite teacher - and become very, very good at it.

Finding the right curriculum for your family isn’t easy.

Wherever you look, you find the same three things… 

✍  A pencil and paper curriculum that only serves to recreate the butt-in-chair, nose-in-book, for a solid 6, 7, or 8-hours a day classroom experience.

🍪  Cookie cutter curriculum - sometimes based on religions or modalities that you don’t align with, that just aren’t personalized to your family’s beliefs, needs, or goals.

🧱 A giant wall of curriculum between you and your child, between your child and their own interests, between your child and the world around them - with no room for inspiration or play.

You need a plan to teach your kids.

The problem is traditional curriculum - workbooks and worksheets - don't inspire you or your kids. 

But following your kid's lead feels too unstructured, and you worry you'll miss important academics.

We believe that children learn best through play, not by sitting at a desk for 5 hours a day. We understand what it feels like to worry that your kids will fall behind, or that you aren't enough, which is why we have helped hundreds of parents and teachers teach with competence, ease, and creativity, so their kids fall in love with learning.

Hey, Mama!

If you’re a parent who believes in a gentle and playful approach to learning, but also need a plan to teach your Kindergartener or First Grader to read, write and do math...

You're in the RIGHT place.

The ATLJ Curriculum, Implementation Program, and Ongoing Support offers a whole new take on comprehensive.

If you're overwhelmed with worry and doubt about how to homeschool your child, what tone you want to set, or whether you can give them what they need….

I GET IT.

I actually created this program just for you. Designed especially to rid you of that overwhelm and doubt. 

Your desire to feel confident and capable as a home educator is valid, especially as you start this journey.

Your decision to homeschool may be exciting and liberating but at the same time a bit overwhelming and daunting.

Taking on teaching your child because it can be a weighty proposition.

You value play as the work of the child. 

We want to preserve the wonder of childhood. 

And while it's true that young children don't need a program or curriculum, there's nothing wrong with you wanting one. 

You want to raise smart, successful, creative, and well-rounded kids.

You want them to love learning.

That doesn’t just happen by accident.

You need a plan. Let me be your guide.

Done-for-You Day Plans 

Say goodbye to end-of-day freakouts forever. {At least about this.}  Take all the guesswork out of planning your days and enjoy life on Easy St. & Intentional Instruction Blvd with everything mapped out for you - including suggested poems and songs, books, supplies and lessons.

Monthly Themes 

The Artful Teaching. Joyful Learning® curriculum is laid out beautifully in monthly themes and integrated lessons that bring in learning across all subjects: Literacy, math, sciences, sensory, as well as STEM, cooking, entrepreneurship, and money management

At-a-Glance Supply Lists 

We make it easy to put the “gather” in your new “Open, Gather, ‘N’ Go” curriculum. These supply lists are at your fingertips and {bonus!} are easy on the wallet too - with most of the supplies being found at The Dollar Tree.

Book Lists 

Every one of your lessons is paired with a beautiful picture book recommendation designed to spark your child’s imagination and ignite their art & action-packed learning. This handy book list makes it easy to reserve at your local library, or purchase online

Joysheets™ 

These aren’t your sister-in-law’s worksheets. These are worksheets made fun - and paired with each lesson! These specially- made, joy-filled, paper-based activities aren’t just delightful, they reinforce everything your delightful ones are learning. 

Teacher Toolkit, Poems and Printables! 

All the resources at your fingertips to make teaching easy and streamlined. Assessments and checklists at the ready so you can be sure you're on track. Printable poems, songs and fingerplays accompany lessons, and include your own private YouTube library  to engage and delight your little ones, so they can get active and build their phonemic awareness!

Module 1

Personalize Your Success

Where done-for-you meets personalization. 

Planning and preparation are the first steps towards getting your family set up for success. Design your dream-fit homeschool day with a schedule and routines that work for your family. 

Module 2

Identify and Implement

Tap into your child’s strengths and your inner teacher.

It’s time to identify what your child is great at and learn to build on that - like a pro - so that you’re keeping your child engaged.

Module 3

Teach Your Child to Read and Write

The simple, playful system to teach literacy in the Early Years.

Module 4

Budding Math Learners

The fear-free method for easy numeracy teaching.

Cue the math moans. Actually, don’t! Develop a love of math in your child in a moan-and-groan-free environment - for both of you.

Module 5

Assessment without Testing

Measure Once, Track Always

Measure your child’s progress and track their growth.

Module 6

Wonder Learning

Harness their curiosities and follow their lead. 

Get the best of both worlds - child -led learning and intentional teaching.

Get ready for the best parent-teacher conferences ever.

Get the training and support you need to do your best at your new dream job - from Day 1.