Learn Materia

Learn Materia is kindergarten homework, done the old way, organized the new way. Every day has a printable, illustrated worksheet packet and a short warm-up quiz. The child works with a pencil; the app handles everything around the paper — what to print today, a quick warm-up before starting, a scan of the finished work, and a searchable record of how it went.

What's in the app

• A 180-day lesson spine. One coherent kindergarten-year sequence — no activity buffet, no choice paralysis. Today's lesson is today's lesson.
• Print-first packets. Each day renders a front-and-back PDF worksheet: letter formation, counting, phonics matching, handwriting lanes, simple STEM observation. About eighteen minutes of real work.
• Warm-up quizzes. Five quick multiple-choice questions in the app prime the day's idea before the pencil comes out.
• Scan and close out. Photograph the finished packet; the day's record keeps the images, the warm-up score, a parent note, and an effort rating.
• Searchable history. Type "struggled" or "letter m" and jump to the day. The record is for the parent, honestly kept.
• An illustrated object pack. Simple line-art drawn to be unmistakable to a five-year-old and clean to print — the same friendly objects recurring across counting, phonics, and matching.
• Standards-grounded. Lessons are built against California Common Core, NGSS, and What Works Clearinghouse early-learning practice guides, with a plain-English "why this matters" for parents on every day.

Why the studio built this

Most kids' learning apps put the child on the screen. Learn Materia refuses that. At five, the skills that matter are physical — pencil grip, letter strokes, counting objects you can touch — and the research the curriculum leans on says practice on paper is the work. So the app gives the screen the jobs screens are good at: sequencing a year, printing the right packet, keeping the record, and telling the parent why today's page looks the way it does. The child gets paper. The parent gets a system.

How it was made

Native SwiftUI and SwiftData for Mac, iPhone, and iPad, with PDFKit composing the worksheet packets and the camera handling scan capture on iOS. All 180 lessons are composed from a curriculum ledger that maps each day to its standards, so the sequence is inspectable rather than improvised. Every worksheet element passes through an internal component review — layout, printability, age-fit — before it can appear in a packet. Data stays on-device.

Frequently asked

What is Learn Materia?

A kindergarten homework system for parents, built around paper. The child works on printed, illustrated worksheets; the app sequences the days, runs a short warm-up, scans the finished work, and keeps the record.

Why paper instead of screen exercises?

Because kindergarten skills are physical: letter formation, pencil grip, counting real things. The screen does what screens are good at — sequencing, tracking, review. The practice happens on paper.

What does the curriculum cover?

A 180-day kindergarten-year sequence: letters and phonics, counting and early math, handwriting, and simple STEM observation, built against California Common Core, NGSS, and What Works Clearinghouse guidance.

What are the illustrations?

A curated pack of simple black-and-white line-art objects, drawn to be unmistakable to a five-year-old and clean to print, recurring across the year's work.

Is Learn Materia available now?

It's in active development. Use the notify form above and you'll get one email when it ships.