🧭Tell us what they love. Homie picks the lane.

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Athlete

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

Homie picks it when you tap: ⚽ Balls & climbing · 🏀 Sports & teams · 🤸 Dance & gymnastics

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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Healer

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

Homie picks it when you tap: 🩹 The doctor kit & band-aids · 🧸 Babies, dolls & pets · 🫀 Doctors & the body · 🩹 Caring for people & pets

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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Naturalist

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

Homie picks it when you tap: 🐛 Dirt, bugs & puddles · 🐾 Animals · 🦁 Animals & wildlife · 🏕️ Bugs & the outdoors · 🦖 Dinosaurs & fossils

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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Builder

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

Homie picks it when you tap: 🧱 Blocks & towers · 🚜 Trucks & tools · 🧱 LEGO & building · 🔧 Inventing & fixing things

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

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Creator

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

Homie picks it when you tap: 🎨 Paint & glue · 🎶 Music & dress-up · 🎨 Drawing & crafts · 🎤 Music & singing · 🎬 Acting & videos

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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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.

Homie picks it when you tap: 🥄 Stirring & pouring · 🧁 Cooking & baking

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

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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.

Homie picks it when you tap: 🔢 Counting & sorting · 🧩 Puzzles & how things work · 🚀 Space & planets · 🧪 Science experiments · 🧩 Math & puzzles · 🤖 Coding & robots

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.

Homie picks it when you tap: 📚 The same book, again · 📚 Chapter books · ✏️ Writing & comics

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.

Homie picks it when you tap: 🌎 Songs & words in Spanish · 🌎 Languages & the world

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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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.

Homie picks it when you tap: 🗺️ Old photos & maps · 🏛️ History & maps

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.

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Host

Belonging, friendship, and making people feel welcome. Greeting by name, setting a place, and the kind of hospitality that turns a house into a squad.

Homie picks it when you tap: 🫖 Tea parties & saying hi · 🎉 Parties & hosting

Week 12, 🎉 Lights, Music & Celebration: This is the Host's week: they stand at the Showcase door, say hello, and show guests where to put their shoes.

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Citizen

Fairness, the neighborhood, and taking care of what we share. Turns, picking up, and the jobs that make a block (and a squad) work for everybody.

Homie picks it when you tap: 🤝 Turns, rules & helping out · ⚖️ Fairness & debating

Week 7, 🚒 Community Helpers: This is the Citizen's week: pick up three pieces of 'litter' (paper you planted) at the park and thank a helper by name.

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Explorer

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

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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Pioneer

Starting things, shops, and figuring out how to get from here to there. The lemonade stand, the sign they made, and the first taste of making their own way.

Homie picks it when you tap: 🏪 Playing store · 💰 Selling & money

Week 6, 🍌 Farm & Food: This is the Pioneer's week: they run the market stand. Price, take the 'money,' bag the goods.

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Seeker

Big questions, quiet minutes, and what your family holds dear. Wonder without rushing, gratitude that isn't a slogan, and room for meaning at every age.

Homie picks it when you tap: ✨ Big questions & quiet looking · ✨ Big questions & why

Week 11, 🥧 Thankful Harvest: This is the Seeker's week: one thankful sentence at dinner every night, and a quiet minute before the feast.