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Your free 90-day plan

Ninety days from now, it won’t feel like this

The quiz doesn’t just tell you a type. It builds a plan for the next three months — what to focus on, what to leave alone, and what to do first each week.

A parent and child looking through a microscope together
01
Days 1–30

Get steady

Stop trying to fix everything at once. You’ll get one routine to build and permission to drop the rest, so the week stops falling apart by Wednesday.

A child reading independently
02
Days 31–60

Fill the gaps

Now that the days hold together, we look at the subject that’s worrying you most — and the resources, curriculum or help that close that gap.

Two children exploring outdoors
03
Days 61–90

Make it yours

Add back the good stuff — the projects, the outdoor days, the things your kids will actually remember. This is the part everyone skips and then misses.

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Free · takes about two minutes

Lion’s Library

Start where your child is

Printables, digital games, digital books and hands-on activities, sorted by grade, subject and skill. Plenty is free to download — for the rest, buy just the one you need or unlock everything.

One-on-one classes

Sometimes a child just needs one good teacher

Live private lessons with a certified teacher — reading, math or Spanish, on your schedule. Book a single session or a standing weekly slot.

  • Taught by certified, licensed teachers
  • Reading, math or Spanish — PreK through 8th grade
  • The same teacher every week, so they know your child
  • Meets online, 30 or 60 minutes
Extra months of learning gained over one school year of weekly lessons
3mo
Untrained
tutor
9mo
Certified
teacher

A struggling elementary student gains around four months of extra learning from tutoring on average — but who teaches changes everything. Certified teachers produce nearly the progress of untrained tutors.Based on 89 randomised trials of PreK–12 tutoring. Nickow, Oreopoulos & Quan (2020), NBER Working Paper 27476.

Private lessons from $35 per session
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Reading, math or Spanish · 30 or 60 minutes · single sessions or a standing weekly slot.

PreK–8 math curriculum

Our PreK–8 math curriculum

A complete, print-at-home math curriculum written by certified teachers. Ten levels, Cubs through Guardians — open the book and teach.

  • Four quarter workbooks — a full year of daily lessons
  • Parent teaching guide with worked examples on every page
  • Assessments booklet and complete answer key
  • Mastery Friday enrichment and a resources toolkit
  • Not sure which level? Free 5-minute placement test

🎬 The curriculum is finished and ready to teach as it is. We’re also recording short lesson videos for parents and students and adding them to each level as they’re done — free, and included with your purchase, so your books keep getting more useful over time.

PreK–8 · 10 levels
Math Curriculum
$19
per level · full school year
Choose a level above Not sure which level? Take the free 5-min quiz →

ELA curriculum coming soon · or pay with ESA →

Books & the Safari Shop

Written by the two of us

Three books on homeschooling from the founders of Homeschool Safari — a certified teacher and a homeschool parent, both raising their own kids at home. Plus Safari gear and the products we actually recommend.

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The Great Safari Art Contest

Draw, paint or build a safari animal. Every entrant gets a certificate, and winners in each age group choose a math level or a year of the library.

  • Ages 4–14, by age group
  • Entry Free — nothing to buy
  • Also on Costume, STEM Build & Nature
See all contests →
Current contests & challenges

Activities happening right now

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Contests & Challenges

Four seasonal contests — real prizes

Fun quarterly challenges for the whole family — art, costumes, STEM and nature, with prizes for our winners. See all four, with this year’s dates and how to enter.

🎟️ Free for members · everyone else welcome with a donation of any size

See the contests → 4 contests · one every season