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Ten things are built and running. Press one and hand the panel to a child.

Shapes · NC.K.G.2 · NC.K.G.5

Carve the Pumpkin

Fifteen faces, every one built from the five shapes the standard names. Trace it, place it, or draw it with no guide — then the leaves fall, it goes dark, and the lantern is the only thing still shining.

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Maths · NC.K.OA.1

Build the Number

One number shown six ways at once — ten frame, tally, domino, counters, word, numeral. Three tiers, a star jar, and a record of what each child keeps mixing up.

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Reading · RF.K.4

Sounds I Can Make

A two-minute letter-sound check with the Letterland characters. Consonants, then long and short vowels. Children are a hashed number, never a name.

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Writing numbers · NC.K.CC.3

Number Worm

Feed the worm along the number and it eats the dots as it goes. Where the worm comes off the line is exactly where the writing breaks — and it says so, by name.

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Writing · W.K.2 · W.K.4

Draw and Tell

They draw it, say what it is, and watch their own words turn into print — left to right, with the spaces showing. Real writing for a child with no spelling.

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Counting · NC.K.CC.4

Tap to Count

Touch each thing once and it stays touched, so nothing can be counted twice. Then the question that matters: so how many were there?

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Also working today

Three more that are built and running, all inside Build the Number. The first one takes fifteen seconds and should be done before a child touches the panel.

Teacher passcode Live Next number and Start over sit behind it, so a five-year-old cannot wipe their own star jar. Set it once; the page offers to bookmark itself and then sends you straight to the board. Parallel Lanes Live Two to four children at the panel at once, each with their own number and their own pace. No race, no timer. The carving board Live The whole class on three shelves, by the stage each child is carving at. A child moves to the next shelf as they move up, and the bar on each card says which shape is still missing. The class Live Assign up to twenty children a first name and a colour, so they tap their name instead of spelling it. Open a tier by hand for a child who is ready and should not have to earn five more stars to prove it. The record Live Opens straight into the record for all four tools, behind your passcode. Every child as a letter and a colour, what each is finding hard, and which numerals are coming apart. Practise just these two Live Pick a child and the board becomes theirs — their colour, their jar, their record. Three numbers across only the two representations they keep missing, then the same star the ladder gives.

Next out of the workshop

Forty more are designed and eight are only a name. Ordered by what a teacher gets back per week of work, rather than by subject.

02Coverage gridnearly free Thirty-nine standards by twenty children, coloured by how old the evidence is. The holes are the point.
03Phoneme blendingthe gate A child can know all twenty-six sounds and still not read a word. Testing it changes how every result already collected should be read.
04Pull-apart number bondthree standards Drag a whole into two parts and watch the total stay put. One interaction, three maths standards.
05Draw and dictateW.K.4 They draw, they say what it is, and they watch their speech become print. The only route to the one standard that cannot be met without software.

What each one does, and how the data helps

One page each: what a child gets out of it, what the record notices about that child in particular, and what it lets you say to a parent, a colleague or next year’s teacher.

One-pager Build the Number Why a wrong drop says more than a right one, and what the two kinds of wrong mean. One-pager Number Worm Where the worm leaves the line is where the writing breaks — named, per digit. One-pager Tap to Count The cardinality gap a counting worksheet hides, and what to do about it. One-pager Sounds I Can Make Confusion pairs, spaced review, and the blending gate it cannot see yet.

For the planning hour

Why each tool is shaped the way it is, and which standard it actually serves.

Planner The day plan Put each tool where it lands in the day, and see which standards the day touches. Index Every tool All fifty ideas with honest status — built, designed, or just a name. Playbook Maths at the Board Six categories, and eleven ways a five-year-old can touch a panel. Playbook The Alphabet Code What depends on what in early reading, and why blending is the gate. Playbook The Whole Strand What software can do across all thirty-nine live ELA standards. Playbook The Stretch Tier First grade standards for the child who has run out of kindergarten.