Ten minutes.
Held every day.
Groundwork is a companion for the early years: ninety works, six domains, five threads. Built from Montessori practice and Charlotte Mason's narration, checked line by line against current research rather than tradition alone. Built to run offline, on your device, for your child. I built it for my own two sons. It's free for every Bronze Street member.
No account inside the app. No data leaves your device. Ever.
Not an activity list. A rhythm.
A day for each
Memory, Hand, Space, Number, Body, and Sense, one a day, Monday to Saturday. Sunday is rest, on purpose.
The wider subject
Word, World, Practical Life, Making, and Character. Reading, animals, real responsibility, and the kind of manners that come from respect.
What's actually understood
Every work moves from introduced to fluent, and returns on a schedule so nothing quietly gets forgotten. A record, not a guess.
Not one idea. Checked against several.
Hands before paper
Works, not lessons. Practical Life, mastery tracked over four stages rather than age, and an adult who sets up and steps back. The vocabulary and the structure are Montessori's own.
Tell it back
Every one of the ninety works ends with narration, telling a thing back in your child's own words. What they keep is what they understood. What they drop is what passed them by.
Checked, not assumed
Where the evidence is strong, the app says so. Where a popular claim doesn't hold up under re-testing, including on its own memory games, it says that too. Nothing here is oversold to you.
Four minutes into a real week
No login screens, no dashboards to learn. Open it, and the day is already chosen for you.
The Works
Today
Things I Can Do
Parent
Why I'm giving this away
I built Groundwork for my own sons, Kaya and Juda, because I wanted something that met them where they actually were, not where a calendar said they should be. It started as a private tool. It didn't stay one on purpose.
It draws from Montessori practice and Charlotte Mason's narration, checked against current research rather than repeated on the strength of tradition alone. Where the evidence is strong, the app says so. Where a popular claim doesn't hold up, so is that. Nothing here is oversold, including to you.
Every household deciding to give ten minutes a day, consistently, to a child's earliest learning deserves a tool built with the same care I'd want for my own. That's the whole reason it's free. Nothing about Groundwork is a trial, a teaser, or a lead-in to a paid version. It's the same app my sons use.
This is not an easy time to ask a parent to pay for their child's early education. So I'm not asking.
What it asks in return is a Bronze Street membership, which is also free, because this is where the rest of what I'm building lives, and because I'd rather build this for people who are actually here.
What it is
- A companion for children from under three years old to ten, used ten to twenty minutes a day
- Ninety hands-on works, each shown at three levels, so it grows with your child
- Built from Montessori practice and Charlotte Mason's narration, checked against current research work by work
- Entirely offline once installed. Your child's record never leaves your device
- Free, permanently, to every Bronze Street member, for personal household use
What it isn't
- Not a curriculum, and not a replacement for your child's formal education
- Not endorsed by, or affiliated with, any education department or authority
- Not a subscription funnel. There's nothing further to buy inside it
- Not fast. Its value shows itself over months, kept quietly, not days
Groundwork is provided free for personal and household use by 1825 Bronze Street Productions (2026/618954/07), trading as Bronze Street. It may not be modified, redistributed, rebranded, or sold. Full terms are in the app under Settings.
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Free membership, then Groundwork installs straight to your phone or tablet, no app store, no account, nothing to renew.