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📖 Lessons, missions and streaks

Every Academy lesson has the same shape: Miss Honeydew teaches, you practice in a short story and an activity, and then you do the real thing in your real life.

For littles

First you read with Miss Honeydew. Then you play a little story. Then you try it for real at home and tick it off, but only if you really did it.

What's in a lesson​

  1. The teaching. Miss Honeydew opens and closes each lesson. In between are a few titled sections that explain the why and the how, usually with a worked example, a step-by-step how-to, a "grown-up versus you now" comparison, and common mistakes with their fixes. Look out for Keeping safe boxes wherever health, money, work or other people come in.
  2. A story. A short branching scenario set in an ordinary moment. Your choices lead to one of a few endings (a proud one, a gentle one, or a "try again"). Miss Honeydew sometimes adds a comment on a choice.
  3. A sitting activity. One or two of these: a quiz, sorting or matching cards, putting steps in order, picking a set, or writing (a journal entry, a letter, lines, a mantra, your own rules, or a baby-talk translator).
  4. Real-life work. A mission or a streak that you do over the next hours or days.

A lesson takes about half an hour to read and practice. When you've done the reading, the lesson shows "That's the reading done", and you can go straight on to another lesson while the real-life work keeps running.

A lesson is finished only when its real-life work is done. That's when its stone turns gold on the map.

Missions​

A mission is one real-life task.

  • Timer missions ask you to stay in something for a set time (for example, an hour). Start the timer from the lesson and let it run.
  • Check-in missions list steps. Tick each one when you've really done it.
  • Some missions ask a short question when you report them done.
  • Some missions need a caregiver's confirmation. If you have a headmaster, they get a bell and tap Yes, they did it. If you're solo, you confirm it yourself.

Streaks​

A streak is something you do on several days, such as "padded every evening for five days".

  1. Open the lesson (or the Real-life work list on the Map or Today).
  2. Each day, answer the day's question. Tap Yes, I did today only if it's true.
  3. The dots show your run so far.

Some streaks must be on days in a row; others just need the right number of days. A few allow a missed day or two by design.

Streak shields​

Every streak that needs days in a row has a shield: the first missed day in each calendar month is forgiven automatically. You don't need to do anything. It shows as a shield in your dots, and your run carries on. A second miss in the same month ends the run (unless the lesson itself allows more).

Days that tick themselves​

Some streaks are about something you already log on the main site (a diaper change, a feed, sleep or mood). For those, a day with a matching entry in your main-site tracker ticks the streak for you. You can still tick by hand.

When you're paused​

Paused days don't count as misses. Your streaks wait where they are until you resume.

Gold stars and stickers​

  • Each subject in each level gets a sticker grade on your report card: a gold star when every lesson in that subject is finished, then a big smile, growing, just hatched, or not yet.
  • Finishing an elective or a teacher-made course adds one gold star to your Schoolhouse star wallet, which you can spend in the School store.
  • Caregivers can award gold stars on assignments from the Teacher's desk.

Worksheets​

Many lessons have a printable worksheet: a rule sheet, chart, checklist, schedule, supply list or tracker, sized for US Letter and fine to laminate.

  1. In a lesson that has one, choose Print worksheet, or open Worksheets from the sidebar (or My worksheets on the Me page) to see every sheet by level.
  2. Your name and today's date are filled in for you, and some sheets fill in your own main-site rules or schedule.
  3. Print it from your browser.

Sheets for solo members use solo wording, and some have a discreet version with plain wording for a wall in a shared home.

Assignments and the gradebook​

Assignments holds work a caregiver set you (a written answer, a checklist, a timer or a day streak). You get a bell when something new arrives. You can also set yourself one. Gradebook shows every grade in one place. Caregivers: see Caregivers as headmasters.

Rating a lesson and reporting a problem​

  • At the end of a lesson you can give it hearts.
  • If something on a page didn't make sense, tap This was confusing and say what (optional). It goes to the Academy team; your name isn't shown with it.

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