The campus · ages six to twelve · anywhere in the world
47 courses and 965 lessons of Montessori cosmic education for home-educating families anywhere. The story runs from the first moment of the universe to the work of your own hands. Start with the Great Story; after that, follow whatever catches.
A year on the campus is $795.00 for your first child, $395.00 for each child after, and every child after 3 is included.
What a lesson is
Every lesson has the same shape: a question worth wondering about, the story, something to play with, then something to make with the screen put down. And every lesson is written twice, once for a younger child and once for an older one, in the same sitting.
The campus assumes an adult is there: landscape first, big read-aloud type, one screen on the table between you rather than a child alone with headphones. You are not asked to become a science teacher. The lesson carries the subject; you carry the conversation.
Alongside the lesson runs a quiet line of notes for the grown-up: where to pause, what to ask, when to hand the screen over, and when to put it down and go outside. On by default, hidden with one tap.
The interactions are the lesson, not decoration. Build the pressure and it erupts; do not build enough and it tells you why, which is the Montessori control of error doing its job without anyone marking anything.
Spin the real Earth and light its oceans, ice and air. Walk the timeline of the universe. Put the golden beads together and watch the number become a quantity.
Open to everyone
These three are open in full, right now, with no account and nothing to enter. They are the same lessons a subscribing family gets, not a trimmed sample.
Somewhere beneath your feet, rock is hot enough to melt. Now and then it finds a path to the surface and bursts out as glowing lava …
Play it now →If you could float far out in space and look back, you would see something astonishing: a blue and white marble hanging in the dark,…
Play it now →Right now it is daytime where you are. But somewhere in the world, children are tucked up asleep in the dark. How can it be day and …
Play it now →The part that is not on the screen
Montessori is not a thing you watch. So all 965 lessons finish away from the screen: something to build, grow, measure, walk out to and argue about. The screen tells the story, then it gets out of the way.
Every lesson also carries a Navigator pack: experiments, research and going out, for when a child wants to keep going.
Start here
Montessori begins with the whole and moves to the parts, so the campus does too. Five great stories are told first, and each one is the doorway into a whole field of learning. Everything else on the campus hangs off them.
Open any of them to read every lesson title inside, before you decide anything. The whole contents of the campus is public.
The whole curriculum
Cosmic education does not teach subjects in boxes. It tells one story and lets the child find their place in it. The Great Story is the five lessons above; these are where they lead.
Twelve strands for the children, and one written for you.
Included with every subscription
18 lessons written for the adult, not the child: how a Montessori lesson is given, what to do when a child stalls, how to read what they are actually ready for, and how to keep a record that holds up.
This is the training. It comes with every child's year.
And a companion note in every lesson. All 965 of them carry their own guide for the adult beside the child's text: where to pause, what to ask, when to hand the screen over. On by default, hidden with one tap.
When you get stuck
You are not left to work it out alone. Every family with a child on the campus can ask a question in the whānau portal and Julia answers it herself: about a lesson, about a child who has stalled, or about what to do next. There is no call centre here, and never will be.
How it works
A shelf of courses with a gentle suggested path through each, but nothing locked and nothing that has to be finished first.
One screen between you. Read the story aloud, play the thing in the middle of it, then put the screen down and make what it asks you to make.
Each child keeps their own record of what they have explored, ready to print, which is the part that matters for your exemption.
The campus plays on your screen for whoever is in the room, and that is never policed. What a year buys is that child's own story, kept under their name: what they explored, when, and the printed record you can put in a folder.
The record outlasts the year. A child's work stays open to read, print and download as a spreadsheet for three months after a subscription ends, so a break never costs you the evidence.
It writes into the same learning journal the farm days use, so a family who does both ends up with one record rather than two.
What it costs
In New Zealand each year sits just under that child's home
education supervision allowance, which is the point.
Pay by internet banking; nothing is ever charged
automatically.
$795.00
for your first child, for twelve months.
$395.00 for each child after that.
Once your family has 3 children on the campus, every child after that is included. All prices include GST.
A family of four, for a year
Add a child at any time and their year runs to the same date as the rest of the family, with no part year charge.
Montessori on the Farm
It began as a
Montessori day for home-educated children on a working farm in the Whangaehu Valley.
The campus carries
that same work home to your own table, supporting your home education rather than replacing it.