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Change the method. Not the child.

Free resources that work the way kids actually learn: moving, making, and asking why.

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A mother and father drawing at the kitchen table with their young daughter, all three smiling at the page
A mother and father drawing at the kitchen table with their young daughter, all three smiling at the page

Learn your way.

Curious kids from JK to Grade 8 explore by seeing, hearing, building and moving.

This week: plan the Quest around your child.

A boy crouched on a forest floor examining moss and plants through a magnifying glass
A boy crouched on a forest floor examining moss and plants through a magnifying glass

Kids ask the best questions

Nobody can answer all of them. Tully answers some, out loud, so your child can listen as many times as they like.

Ask TullyTully, Curious Kite’s young sage-green elephant, sitting and smiling with a kite.

Why do we yawn?Why does popcorn pop?Why do leaves fall off trees in fall?How do spiders make webs?Why do some animals sleep all winter?

What will we try today?

Something to do today

Activities to print or play, for the kid who moves, builds, draws, talks or reads.

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This week’s adventure

Leaf Detectives: why do leaves change colour? A new free Quest every Monday.

Weekly Quest →

A big question to answer

Why do we yawn? Why does popcorn pop? Tully reads the answers aloud.

Ask Tully →

Kindergarten at home

A full year for JK, then SK, planned from Ontario’s Kindergarten Program.

Coming next

The Curiosity Cycle: seven stages in a circle — Regulate, Wonder, Try, Notice, Adjust, Capability and Confidence — returning to Regulate, inside a frame labelled Structure: tools, choices and useful boundaries.

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How we think about learning

Every child reaches for learning differently. Some think best while moving; some need to hold a thing before they can talk about it. We keep the learning goal the same and change the way in.

Behind everything we make is the Curiosity Cycle: regulate, wonder, try, notice, adjust, build capability, grow confidence, and round again. There is no graduation from curiosity.

Read about the Curiosity Cycle →

Christine, founder of Curious Kite, smiling at the camera.

Hi, I’m Christine.

I make Curious Kite in Ontario, for every child who learns their own way.

About Curious Kite →

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