Progress Without a Dashboard: What to Ask Parents
There is no teacher dashboard, on purpose. Instead, four questions to ask at pickup that tell you more than a chart of minutes ever would.
Read it →For Montessori school directors
Recommend YHO to your families
A calm, screen-free app for ages 4 and up that follows the order your classroom already teaches: one quality isolated at a time, a control of error the child finds alone, and real work repeated until it is mastered. No ads, no rewards to chase.
How the app maps to your materials
YHO is not a curriculum. It is a practice shelf: all six activities, each mirroring work you already present. A child who uses it at home arrives at the same concepts, in the same order, with the same vocabulary you use in the classroom.
Color Stack
Mirrors Knobless cylinders
Cubes arrive in graduated sizes and the child stacks them from largest to smallest. One attribute is isolated at a time, and the tower is its own control of error: it stands only when the order is right.
What the child does
- Orders cubes from largest to smallest
- Sees the mistake without being told
Color Sorting
Mirrors Color tablets
Children sort a mixed set into its families, then line shades from darkest to lightest. Same isolation of color, same self-check when a piece does not belong. This is the only activity in the app that uses a timer.
What the child does
- Sorts a mixed set into colour families
- Grades each family darkest to lightest
- The one activity with a timer
Number Rods
Mirrors Red and blue rods
Fixed lengths from one to ten, built and compared on screen. The child meets quantity before the symbol, exactly as the rods sequence asks.
What the child does
- Compares and combines lengths one to ten
- Counts only after the quantity is felt
Solve It
Mirrors Inset puzzles and logic work
Logic puzzles the child works through by trying, noticing, and trying again. There is no score; the puzzle itself is the answer key, and a wrong turn is always reversible.
What the child does
- Holds two conditions in mind at once
- Reasons before the reasoning is named
Golden Beads
Mirrors Golden bead material
One activity with five works inside it, following the golden beads sequence from counting a single bead to adding two quantities together. A child moves through them in the same order you would present them on the shelf.
Five works inside
- Bead counting
- Place value
- Build numbers
- Addition
- Comparison
Movable Alphabet
Mirrors Large movable alphabet
Children build words from loose letter tiles instead of writing them by hand, so a strong idea is never blocked by a still-forming pencil grip. Tiles are voiced by sound, not by letter name.
What the child does
- Builds words from loose letter tiles
- Works with sounds, not letter names
- Leaves invented spelling alone
What you can promise parents
COPPA compliant
No account needed for children. Child profiles stay on the device.
Zero ads
No advertising, no third-party tracking, no upsells inside the app.
One-time $4.99
A single purchase. No subscription, no renewal, no school account to manage.
Works offline
Activities run without a connection, so a spotty school network is not a barrier.
Classroom pricing
Classrooms with a minimum of 20 students get 50% off, which works out to $2.50 per child instead of $4.99. Email me with your school name and class size and I will set it up.
Ask about classroom pricingQuestions teachers ask
The practical ones, answered plainly, before you put it in front of a child.
Notes for educators
Short guides written for directors and teachers: what to say to parents, how the activities map to your shelf, and where the app deliberately stops.
Classroom Pricing, Explained Plainly
One purchase per child, $4.99, and 50% off for classrooms of 20 or more. No seats, no renewals, no invoice chasing at the end of the year.
Read it →Using YHO Where the Wi-Fi Is Not
Old buildings, dead corners, guest networks that time out. How the app behaves without a connection, and how to set up a shared classroom device.
Read it →Six Questions to Ask About Any App a Family Mentions
A checklist directors can keep on hand: cost model, ads, what data is collected, offline use, what work it mirrors, and whether it can be switched off.
Read it →A Short Screen-Time Note for Your Parent Newsletter
Paste-ready copy for your next newsletter: what the app does, where it stops, and how a family can keep the screen a small part of a large day.
Read it →Color Sorting at Home, Without Buying a Thing
Laundry, buttons, spoons. A materials list parents already own, plus the one instruction that turns sorting into real visual discrimination.
Read it →Number Rods at Home: What to Tell Parents
Length before numerals, comparison before counting. A short brief for parents so the number rods work at home the way they work on your shelf.
Read it →When the Movable Alphabet Goes Home
Parents want to correct spelling. Don't. Here is what to tell them about sound-first work, letter tiles, and letting invented words stand.
Read it →Classroom Language, Home Screen: Keeping the Words Consistent
What a child hears in class and what they hear at home should match. Four phrases to send home so the vocabulary of your shelf survives the trip.
Read it →How to Explain YHO to Parents in One Minute
A one-minute script for pickup time: what YHO is, what it is not, and the three lines that answer most parent questions before they ask them.
Read it →Questions about your classroom?
Email me directly. Tell me your school, the age group you teach, and whether you want to try the app before recommending it, and I will reply personally.
support@yho.appSubject line is pre-filled as “Educator inquiry”. Replies usually come within two business days.