🧭Every kid has a lane.

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Explorer

The balanced default. A little of everything, tuned to what your kid grabs onto.

You might be here if…

• • Flits happily between bins, blocks, books, and the yard
• • Asks 'what's that?' about everything

Week 1, 👋 Hello, Squad!: 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.

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Athlete

Big body, big movement. More Move It!, obstacle courses, and ball skills woven through the week.

You might be here if…

• • Climbs everything, runs everywhere, never walks
• • Kicks and throws with real intent

Week 3, 🚗 Wheels & Roads: Pit stop sprint: after the tire change, race the ride-on to a cone and back. Time it dramatically.

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Builder

Tools, towers, take-apart. Real screwdrivers (supervised), more Cardboard City, more 'how does it work'.

You might be here if…

• • Stacks, lines up, and knocks down for the rebuild
• • Wants the real tool, not the toy one

Week 8, 🔨 Build It!: This is the Builder's week: add one extra Cardboard City build day at home.

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Healer

Bodies, helpers, kindness. Doctor and vet play, first-aid routines, and how the body works.

You might be here if…

• • Notices when someone is hurt or sad, and goes to them
• • Loves the doctor kit, the band-aid, the checkup

Week 7, 🚒 Community Helpers: This is the Healer's week: visit the pediatrician's office parking lot or a pharmacy and name the helpers.

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Creator

Paint, music, story. Longer Make & Create, more songs with instruments, more dress-up and pretend.

You might be here if…

• • Sings, dances, and performs for anyone who'll watch
• • Would paint for an hour if you let them

Week 12, 🎉 Lights, Music & Celebration: Showcase art gallery: hang the whole 12 weeks in order and walk the guests through it.

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Naturalist

Outside first. Nature notebook every day, more dirt, more water, more creatures, more sky.

You might be here if…

• • Happiest with dirt on their hands
• • Stops for every bug, bird, and puddle

Week 5, 🦋 Bugs & Butterflies: This is the Naturalist's week: flip a log or a pot every day and count legs.

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Scholar

Numbers, patterns, and 'why'. Counting in every block, sorting and measuring, the science behind the Wonder Lab, and math that lives in real life.

You might be here if…

• • Counts everything: stairs, crackers, cars
• • Lines things up by size and notices when one is missing

Week 4, 💧 Water & Weather: This is the Scholar's week: measure rain in the jar and mark it; predict tomorrow's line before you check.

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Storyteller

Words, books, and telling it back. Longer Story & Snack, letters everywhere, puppets, and 'and then what happened?' at every transition.

You might be here if…

• • Asks for the same book a hundred times and corrects you when you skip a page
• • Narrates their own play out loud

Week 10, 🦁 Wild Animals: This is the Storyteller's week: act out Wild Animals with masks, then let them tell it back with the puppets.

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Linguist

Spanish and the world. The week's words in two languages, songs in both, and a second word for everything they already love.

You might be here if…

• • Repeats new words instantly and loves the sound of them
• • Sings along in any language

Week 6, 🍌 Farm & Food: This is the Linguist's week: farm animals and their sounds in both languages; the Spanish cow says 'muu.'

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Chef

Cooking as the curriculum. Real food, real tools, the kitchen as the sensory lab, and healthy meals your kid helped make and therefore eats.

You might be here if…

• • Wants to stir, pour, and taste everything
• • Happiest at the counter on a learning tower

Week 11, 🥧 Thankful Harvest: Pumpkin muffins from scratch: they measure, dump, and stir. Gratitude for the hands that cooked.

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Historian

Then and now, here and there. Photos of grandparents, maps of the neighborhood, old tools and new, and the story of where your family comes from.

You might be here if…

• • Loves old photos and 'when you were a baby' stories
• • Asks where things come from

Week 7, 🚒 Community Helpers: This is the Historian's week: visit a fire station and ask what the trucks looked like long ago. Old helmet, new helmet.