Glowwood
/glowwood/A living forest home screen. Scout, the guide, speaks the day's quest (finish a homework sheet, grow this week's words, rescue the next animal), words bloom in a garden as they're mastered, and rescued animals gather in her park.
Field Station began as a set of tools for our 10-year-old daughter, a bright 5th grader with dyslexia, and her 8-year-old sister. In a few weeks it has grown into more than twenty rooms where reading, writing, spelling and math live inside real adventures. We'd love you to play through it, as a child would, and tell us what a school would need from it.
Children with dyslexia make the most progress with structured, explicit, multisensory instruction and a lot of well-built practice. The instruction usually comes from a tutor or learning specialist a few hours a week. The practice is where families struggle: it's repetitive, it's hard to make interesting, and parents rarely have the time or training to run it.
Field Station is our answer to the practice gap. Each child gets a personal coach that teaches through the things they already care about (wild animals, soccer, sushi, escape rooms, piano), follows the same methods their tutor uses, and sends what it sees back to the parents, teacher and tutor.
Each card shows the address after the site name, what the room teaches, and a good first thing to try. Rooms marked Grade 3 were built for our 8-year-old; they work for Maya too.
Where each day starts.
/glowwood/A living forest home screen. Scout, the guide, speaks the day's quest (finish a homework sheet, grow this week's words, rescue the next animal), words bloom in a garden as they're mastered, and rescued animals gather in her park.
/field-log/Daily reading and writing in one place. Real books count (Kindle, Audible, Bookshare) with a short spoken recap; a written dispatch earns more than a told one. Credits go to a Trading Post of real rewards the parents set.
Decoding, morphology, vocabulary and comprehension.
/word-safari/Patrol a Kenyan conservancy with Ranger Jess: track lions, free a snared elephant calf, stop rhino poachers at night. Each mission unlocks word logs built from the week's spelling and morphology list, and ends with a patrol report in her own sentences.
Try: the lion-tracking mission, then the word log.
/story-trail/Break words into parts, read along as each word lights up, then talk about the story with Scout. Teachers can snap a word list and get a new reading passage written around those exact words.
/song-studio/Her own words become a song. She hears it, reads the lyrics with sound-by-sound help, then sings and records it. Reading practice disguised as making music.
/discovery-theater/History and science you watch like a documentary, pause to explore, and ask questions about. Episodes: Jamestown, the Serengeti food web, the wolves of Yellowstone, coral reefs.
Talk first, so spelling never blocks the ideas.
/field-journal/A personal-narrative studio. She tells her true story to an editor, storyboards it, writes it scene by scene with starters and dictation, and earns "writer's marks" for craft moves like a hook, dialogue and slow motion.
Try: tell it about a time something surprised you.
/wild-times/She writes her own wildlife documentary series, episode by episode, choosing the story beats while a narrator reads it back. Also holds fact-family houses for times tables, written with a finger or Apple Pencil.
/cookbook/She writes every recipe step herself against a writer's checklist, scales the recipe with real fractions, and reads it back. The finished page is illustrated.
Facts to fluency, then multi-digit work and fractions.
/zoo-breakout/Nine zoo animals have escaped to nine cities. Times-table facts bring each one home. Our girls invented this one together, and it's the room they choose most.
Try: the first rescue, then visit the park.
/sushi-bar/Run a sushi restaurant. Rolling and cutting orders is multiplying; dealing out family platters is dividing. Chef's School teaches the real craft first: the fish market, knife skills, why salmon is cut against the grain, and why only licensed chefs may prepare fugu.
/big-number-bridge/Build rope bridges so animals can cross a gorge, using the box method to multiply and partial quotients to divide.
/fraction-feast/Feed the zoo animals exactly the right share: shade, cut, compare and add fractions.
/base-camp/A few minutes a day of number sense: ten frames, number neighbors, making ten, and math words like sum and product.
Reading, words and math mixed into one experience.
/escape-room/Locked in a harbormaster's office during a storm. Each lock is a real puzzle: read the captain's note, set the ship's clock by its bells, crack the cargo crate with multiplication, spell the password in real signal flags. Two children can play together, each at their own level.
Try: start with the captain's note.
/soccer/Captain a 7-a-side team under the floodlights. The coach freezes play to teach real tactics (triangles, scanning, making the field big), and each stop has a reading play card, a code word, or half-time math.
/moons-flight/Raise a dragon from a hatchling by rescuing other dragons in real cities, starting with Edinburgh. Flying through answer rings, sneaking through the Old Town and working fraction traps all need times facts, grammar and word study.
/game-studio/She designs her own game (card battles, a restaurant, a sports season) by talking it through with a designer. She owns the world and the characters; the math is the characters' power, and naming them means building words from tiles.
/keyboard-concerto/Learn to type on a piano: every right key plays the next note of a song. Accuracy earns stars; speed doesn't count.
Tools for the work that comes home from school.
/homework-helper/Snap a worksheet or describe it. The helper talks it through by voice and fills in the sheet with her. It guides, it doesn't give answers. Math work can be written with Apple Pencil.
/test-taker/Takes a school test with a learning center's accommodations: read word for word, help at the level the teacher allows, never the answers. The teacher gets a recording and transcript to judge whether the help was fair.
/field-checks/A minute or two a week: read a passage aloud, quick math facts, a short spelling list. Fixed forms and no hints, so the progress line is real. Every check earns a stamp.
/admin/The parent, teacher and tutor side: notes and this week's focus, word lists from a photo, every result and recording, progress charts against a goal line, and feedback the children send.
Try: add a note as a teacher would, then reopen a room.
Where your view would help most: whether this would fit alongside how a school like Prentice teaches reading and math; what teachers would need to see in the Grown-ups' Corner to trust it; what a family and a school would expect on student data privacy and consent; and which rooms you'd put in front of a child first.