Homeschooling with Kidling
If you teach at home, you already have a plan, and you do not need another app telling you what your week should look like. Kidling is built to slot into what you are already doing. This page covers what the daily plan and the weekly worksheet packs actually contain, how long they take, and what is worth writing down.
What this covers, and what it does not
Kidling covers early literacy and early numeracy for ages two to eight. Letters, sounds, first words, handwriting, counting, shapes, patterns and first sums, plus songs, stories and colouring. It is not a full curriculum. There is no science, no history, no geography and no scheme of work to hand to anyone. Treat it as the practice half of the morning, the part that goes better as a game than as a conversation across a table.
The daily plan
A short quiz at the start asks your child's age, what they already enjoy and where they could use a nudge. From those answers Kidling builds a plan and serves it one day at a time, so nobody has to choose from a catalogue at half past eight in the morning. A day is a handful of short activities, usually ten to fifteen minutes in total. Skip a day and nothing breaks, nothing resets and nothing nags you about a streak.
Weekly worksheet packs
Each week of the plan unlocks a pack of printable sheets that matches what your child has been playing on screen. The sheets are pages in the browser rather than stored PDF files, so you open one and press Print, or choose Save as PDF from the same dialogue if the printer lives somewhere else.
- Week 1, First Steps. Eight gentle sheets: letters, numbers, counting and a little colouring.
- Week 2, Letters and Sounds. The rest of the alphabet, plus first-sound matching.
- Week 3, Numbers and Counting. Counting to ten, comparing amounts, forming the digits properly.
- Week 4, Shapes and Thinking. Shapes, patterns and matching puzzles that stretch attention a little.
- The tracing sheets use the same stroke data as the tracing games, so the letter on paper is the letter from the screen.
A week that actually holds up
You do not need to use all of it. This is a rhythm that survives a normal week, including the bad days. Scale it down for a two-year-old and up for a seven-year-old.
- Monday to Friday: one short session of games, ten to fifteen minutes, at roughly the same time each day.
- Twice a week: one sheet from the current pack, at the table, with a pencil.
- Once a week: print the colour-by-number sheet and let it run as long as it runs.
- Any evening: a song or a story with no goal attached to it.
- Friday: five minutes in the parent area to see what was actually played.
Record-keeping
What counts as an acceptable record varies by country and often by county or state, so check your own requirements first. Nothing here is legal advice, and Kidling does not produce an official report. What it does give you is a per-child view of which games were played, how often, and the best result so far, which you can copy into whatever log you already keep. Finished worksheets are the easy half. Write the date in the corner as you go, keep them in a folder per month, and you have a paper trail that needs no explaining to anybody.
Common questions
Is Kidling a complete curriculum?+
No, and we would rather say so on the way in than have you find out in March. It covers early reading, writing, counting and logic for two to eight year olds. Everything else in a home-education week is yours.
Can I set up more than one child?+
Yes. Each child gets their own profile and their own progress, and you can switch between them. The parent area sits behind a quick adult check, so small hands do not wander into settings or billing.
Do I need a printer?+
It helps, but it is not essential. Sheets can be saved as PDF and printed later or elsewhere, and the games cover the same skills on screen. The one thing a printer genuinely adds is pencil work, which a screen cannot replace.
Does it work offline?+
No. Kidling runs in a browser and needs a connection. Printed sheets do not, so if your connection is unreliable, print the week's pack while it is working.
How long should a session be?+
Ten to fifteen minutes for most children in this age range. A two-year-old may be done in five. The useful signal is your child's attention, not the clock, and stopping while they still want more is better than stopping when they have had enough.
Can I ignore the plan and choose activities myself?+
Yes. The whole catalogue is browsable by skill and by age band, and nothing locks because you went off-plan. The daily plan is a default for the mornings when choosing is the hardest part, not a track you are stuck on.
What happens when my child turns eight?+
The fit thins out. Kidling is built for two to eight, and it is strongest between about three and six. By eight most children want longer reading and less tapping, and you will feel that before we tell you.