How Learning and Progress Work

Demonstration, practice, and application

Pip introduces a skill with an example. Learners practice varied tasks and use clues or models when helpful. Activities revisit missing skills and prerequisites; completing ten easy tasks does not establish readiness in every subject.

Stars celebrate participation

Unique completions earn stars. Adventure levels change after ten and twenty completions, and celebrations appear every ten. Reviews can earn participation leaves without duplicate stars. Garden friends remain permanent; a missed day does not remove them.

Learning evidence is a separate record

For grown-ups shows introductions, practice, support use, attempts, and adult observations separately from stars. A pilot looks for four first-try independent successes among five varied checks across at least two sessions separated by 30 minutes. This is a product hypothesis for educator review, not an Idaho proficiency cutoff.

Creative work, writing quality, oral reading, physical investigations, and real-world social behavior require a person's observation. A participation checkbox does not prove a skill has been mastered.

What the standards references mean

The activity maps reference Idaho content standards. Some subjects use multi-grade bands. The maps describe partial coverage, not a complete curriculum, a validated assessment, or state approval. Human educator and cultural review remain pending. Grade guides link to the available activity-level review packets.

Listening and privacy

Listen plays AI-generated narration of the game's approved, fixed text. The site does not record children's voices. Use Save to this device to keep writing, drawings, and tunes before leaving. My creations lets each learner revisit saved work. Download or print a separate copy. A grown-up can optionally add chosen creations to the private family portfolio; those creations are not sent to the narration service.

Completion IDs, attempt outcomes, support use, and adult-reported observations can be saved. Guests in one browser share a garden; clearing browser cookies can lose access to that guest garden. An optional grown-up account supports progress across devices. Site usage reports show aggregate visits, activity starts and completions, help, return visits, and homeschool saves. For up to 90 days, a separate one-way key derived from the existing progress identity connects these events; guest browsers are not counted as unique children. Only the first public page, referring domain and source category, and broad screen-size category are included. No child answers, writing, drawings, voice recordings, names, or raw IP addresses are added to usage events. A grown-up can mark a browser as a testing device to keep its future events out of the public usage overview. To understand traffic, the site also keeps daily request totals by approximate city, state/region, and country using Cloudflare’s IP geolocation. These location counters do not store IP addresses, coordinates, postal codes, names, or account IDs. They cover a rolling 30 UTC days; older counters are removed on the next recorded request or admin refresh. VPNs and mobile networks can make the location inaccurate.

Accessible, flexible practice

Activities support phone, tablet, and desktop browsers, large touch controls, Listen and Help, and a motion-off option. There is no answer timer. Grown-ups can turn off automatic advancement, and open-ended tasks always wait for Next. Some activities need an adult, paper, a reference, or safe real-world materials.