Homeschool that
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A week matched to their stage, a lane for what they love, and a pod of families nearby. Two hours a day, from your phone.
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Toddler Squad
20 months – 3 years · Real jobs, real adventures, real friends. Two hours a day.
- 12 weeks: home days, pod days, a real adventure every week
- Squad Jobs, taste-safe sensory labs, Move It! games
- Letter-of-the-day worksheets and Wonder Lab experiments
- Spanish play Fridays, hosting board, pod photos
- Taste-safe sensory, always
- Screen-free for kids
- 30-day money-back guarantee
- Pause or cancel anytime
- Both parents included
Every stage
Start wherever you are. Stay the whole way.
Ten programs, one account, one rhythm. Your newborn, your toddler, and your second-grader each get the right week, and the whole family shares one portal, one pod, and one login per grown-up. Tap a stage to explore it.
0–3 monthsNewborn Squad
Feeding, sleep, and the first serves and returns.
10–15 minutes a day, spread across the day
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3–6 monthsInfant Squad
Rolling, reaching, first tastes.
30 minutes a day, in three pieces
Explore
6–12 monthsCrawler Squad
Motion, mouths, and object permanence.
30–40 minutes a day
Explore
12–20 monthsYoung Toddler Squad
Walking, pointing, the first fifty words.
45 minutes a day plus one pod morning
Explore
20 months – 3 yearsToddler Squad
Real jobs, real adventures, real friends. Two hours a day.
About two hours a day
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3–5 yearsPreschool Squad
Letters, numbers, friendships, and big questions.
Two hours a day
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5–8 yearsEarly Elementary Squad
Reading takes off. So does independence.
Two focused hours a day plus lane time
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8–11 yearsElementary Squad
Deep dives, real work, first mastery.
Two focused hours plus project time
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11–14 yearsMiddle Squad
Identity, rigor, and real-world stakes.
Three to four focused hours
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14–18 yearsHigh School Squad
College-ready, career-curious, self-directed.
Four to five focused hours
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Try it on
See a sample month for your kid, in their lane.
A new mom with a newborn, a dad with a kid who lives for sports, a second-grader who wants to build things, a sophomore aiming at the right college. Pick the stage, pick the lane, and see exactly what the first weeks look like.
Toddler Squad · 20 months – 3 years
Toddler Squad
Real jobs, real adventures, real friends. Two hours a day.
How a week is shaped
Home days Monday and Wednesday (seven short blocks), pod day Tuesday, adventure Thursday, Spanish play Friday with the teacher.
Time: About two hours a day
Every week you get
- A theme, a Squad Job, and a character word
- Two home days with seven blocks each, fully scripted
- A pod day with stations and a big game
- An adventure with a scavenger hunt
- A Wonder Lab experiment and two letter-of-the-day worksheets
- Shopping list, books to hold, songs, and Little Wins
🥄 Nourish at this stage
Toddler meals that get eaten, snack ideas tied to each week's theme, and calm at the table.
Pick a lane to see the tilt
🧭 Explorer in the Toddler Squad: Balanced; we watch what your kid returns to.
A sample month (weeks 1–5)
Week 1
Hello, Squad!
Me, my body, my friends
- Squad Job: Wash-Up Station
- Wonder Lab: Germs Run Away
- Adventure: Patch Reef Park Sensory Hunt at Patch Reef Park
- Character word: Kindness; Spanish play Friday
🧭 Lane tilt: Follow their lead in Free Play this week and write down the one thing they returned to three times. That's your first clue for a lane.
Week 2
Color Splash
Red, yellow, blue and the magic in between
- Squad Job: Laundry Helper
- Wonder Lab: Walking Rainbow
- Adventure: Sugar Sand Park Color Hunt at Sugar Sand Park Science Playground
- Character word: Order; Spanish play Friday
🧭 Lane tilt: Add a 'mystery color' each home day: hide three same-color objects around the room to find before circle.
- unlocks the weekend before
Week 3
Wheels & Roads
Cars, trains, trucks, and a real pit stop
- unlocks the weekend before
Week 4
Water & Weather
Sink, float, pour, splash, and a museum morning
- unlocks the weekend before
Week 5
Bugs & Butterflies
Wiggle, crawl, fly, and plant something that grows
Lanes
Every kid has a lane. The program leans into it.
The bones of the week stay the same for everyone in the pod. Your kid's lane adds one concrete tilt each week: the Builder takes a toy car apart at the pit stop, the Naturalist flips a log every day of bug week, the Athlete gets a relay in every block. Later stages go deeper: the aspiring athlete's travel schedule, the future vet's field work.
Squad Brain
The same great week, tuned to your family.
Tell us who your kids are and how you like to live. Squad Brain turns that into specific, explainable tweaks on every week, and Ask Squad answers your questions in the moment.
Stage-sized
Every block reads differently for a 20-month-old and an almost-three-year-old. Squad Brain tells you which notes to read first, per kid.
Lane-tilted
Pick a lane per kid: Explorer, Athlete, Builder, Healer, Creator, Naturalist. Each week gets one concrete tilt toward what they love.
Near you
Share your location once and every park, museum, and field trip sorts by distance. New pods get places around them, not ours.
Your rhythm
Mostly home, mostly out, or balanced. The week's suggestions follow: stay-home adventure versions, or a second outing with a picnic story time.
Inside the Toddler Squad · 20 months – 2.5 years
Two days at home, two days with the pod, and a Friday that's just play.
Monday
Home Day
At home, one-on-one. About 110 minutes in seven short blocks.
Tuesday
Pod Day
All six families at a host home or a central park. Stations, a big game, snack, and a story.
Wednesday
Home Day
At home, one-on-one. About 110 minutes in seven short blocks.
Thursday
Adventure Day
The squad meets somewhere real between Fort Lauderdale and Boynton. Two hours on site.
Friday
Spanish Play Day
Our Spanish teacher leads the morning. No lesson to prep; just show up and play in Spanish.
Week 1 · Monday
All About Me
- 1Hello Circle10 min
- 2Sensory Lab: Soapy Baby Wash25 min
- 3Move It!: Body Part Freeze Dance15 min
- 4Squad Job: Wash-Up Station15 min
- 5Make & Create: Handprint Me15 min
- 6Story & Snack15 min
- 7Free Play Wind-Down15 min
Members see every step, every material, and the notes for younger kids, older kids, and wigglers.
Week 1
Hello, Squad!
Me, my body, my friends
Week 2
Color Splash
Red, yellow, blue and the magic in between
Week 3
Unlocks the weekend before
Week 4
Unlocks the weekend before
Week 5
Unlocks the weekend before
Twelve themed weeks, released one at a time. Squad Jobs, taste-safe sensory labs, Wonder Lab experiments, letter-of-the-day worksheets, Spanish play Fridays.
Planned, printed, shopped
More than eighty ready-to-print pages, and the shopping list for each of them.
A worksheet for every home day, a Wonder Lab card for every experiment, a scavenger hunt for every adventure, picture schedules, checklists, placemats, masks, certificates.
- Two hours or less, every day
- Every sensory bin taste-safe by design
- A Show What You Know photo every Wednesday
Pods
Join a pod near you. Or start one and lead it.
Five or six families, one calendar, one hosting board, one group of kids who grow up together. Pods can be a block, a church, a CrossFit gym, or three friends and their friends.
Lead your pod
Leaders get an invite link, approve the families they bring, post announcements, and run the hosting board. The curriculum and weekly releases are handled by us.
Every friend you bring shrinks your bill
10% off for each family you invite who becomes a member, stacking all the way down to $20/month. Plus 10% off for the whole pod once 5+ families are in.
Same calendar, same rhythm
Each pod has its own start date and its own release schedule. Everyone shops, prints, and shows up on the same week.
The portal
Your family's home base, in your pocket.
The week, the calendar, the reminders, the growth profile, the photos, and the pod, one login per grown-up. Subscribe once and it lives in your phone's calendar too.
The whole family
Up to four grown-ups, each with their own phone login. Every kid on one account, each in their own stage and lane.
Your colors, your preferences
Pick a theme. Set home-vs-out. Turn weekly texts on or off. The portal is yours.
Progress that means something
Little Wins per kid per week: small, observable, checkable. The record of what this season was.
Your family's little database
Notes and reminders, photos by week, what worked, what to bring Tuesday. All in one place, for both parents.
Community
A private room for your pod and a room for every Pod Squad parent. Ideas, questions, wins. House rules and real moderation.
Ask Squad
Ask anything about the program and get an answer grounded in your released weeks and your kids' setup.
Grounded in research
We didn't invent play-based learning. We made it runnable.
American Academy of Pediatrics
Play is how young children build executive function, language, and social skills; the AAP's 2018 clinical report asks pediatricians to prescribe it.
In Pod Squad: Every Pod Squad block is play with a purpose, and the learning is baked in rather than bolted on.
Harvard Center on the Developing Child
"Serve and return" interactions between children and caring adults build brain architecture.
In Pod Squad: Every block script tells the grown-up what to say, ask, and notice. Narrate, don't quiz.
CDC Learn the Signs. Act Early.
Developmental milestones (2022) describe what most children do by each age across four areas.
In Pod Squad: Your Development snapshot uses these checklists per kid, with a plain reminder to bring questions to your pediatrician.
Pod Squad is built by parents with these sources as the backbone. We are not affiliated with or endorsed by the organizations above.
Try a real day first
Get three pages from Week 1, free.
A letter worksheet, the Germs Run Away Wonder Lab card, and the Sensory Scavenger Hunt. Print, play, decide.
Pricing
One price per child. Siblings and pods save.
Per child
$99/month
- First 14 days free
- The full program for their stage, released weekly
- Every worksheet, printable, and Wonder Lab
- Squad Brain, Ask Squad, community, progress
- Up to 4 grown-up logins; cancel anytime
Siblings
25% off
Each additional child in the same household, in any stage. Two kids: $173/mo instead of $198.
Pods
10% off
When 5 or more families in your pod are members, everyone's bill drops. Two kids in a full pod: $156/mo. Refer friends and take 10% off each, down to $20/mo.
Prices in USD. Annual plans get 2 months free. 30-day money-back guarantee on your first paid month. Applicable sales tax added at checkout.
Calculator, comparison & billing FAQOur story
It started with six families and a lot of boys who wouldn't sit still.
We wanted our toddlers to learn the way toddlers actually learn: with their hands, with their whole bodies, with friends, and with the real world. So we built a program around real jobs, real places, and real play, and a portal to run it with the families we love. Then we realized the same idea works at every age. Pod Squad is that program, opened up: stage by stage, pod by pod.
Play-based, always
The learning is baked into the play, not bolted on.
Real jobs, real tools
Kids want to do what grown-ups do. We let them, at their size, and finish the job every time.
Built for wigglers
Ten-minute circles. A movement version of everything. Heavy work every day.
Grows with you
Newborn to 18. Whatever stage you find us at, there's a place for you, and the next one is already on the map.
Questions parents ask
What ages is Pod Squad for?
All of them: ten stages from newborn to high school, each with its own program, and every kid in your family on one account. Slide to your kid's age above to see theirs, then explore a sample month.
How much does it cost?
$99 per child per month, 25% off each additional child, and 10% off for everyone when 5+ families in a pod are members. First 14 days free; cancel anytime.
What's a lane?
An interest track. Explorer is the balanced default; Athlete, Builder, Healer, Creator, and Naturalist each tilt the week toward what your kid lights up about, without changing the bones of the program. Change it anytime.
Do I need to be a teacher?
No. Every block tells you exactly what to set out, what to say, and what to do when it falls apart. Squad Brain adds the notes for your kid's age.
How do pods work?
Five or six local families on the same calendar. Someone leads (you can), families join through the leader's invite link, and hosting, snacks, and field-trip captaining rotate on a sign-up board. Leaders earn referral credit for the families they bring.
Why is the curriculum released one week at a time?
Because a pod runs on rhythm. Each week unlocks the weekend before it starts so everyone shops, prints, and plans together.
Can both parents log in?
Yes. A family account holds up to four grown-ups with their own phone logins. Kids are the seats; grown-ups are free.
Is it screen-free for the kids?
Yes. The portal is for grown-ups. Kids get bins, blocks, buckets, and each other.
Start a pod. Join one. Bring every kid you have.
Tell us who you are, where you live, and who your kids are. We'll match you with a pod nearby or help you start one, at any age from newborn to eighteen.