Welcome
A year built out of mornings, not milestones.
Most curriculum asks what a child should know by June
This one asks who a child is becoming.
Axis is built on the conviction that education is formation before it is information, and that a home is the right size for it. The academics are here, sequenced and complete. They are arranged inside a rhythm that leaves room for morning light, for a walk, for a long silence in the middle of a story.
You are not running a small school. You are keeping a household. The curriculum should know the difference.
Drawing on: Montessori, Waldorf, Reggio Emilia, Charlotte Mason, project-based learning, nature study, and STEAM. Not one method applied rigidly, but the thing each one does better than the others, arranged so they reinforce rather than compete.
Start wherever your question starts
What actually gets taught
Seven threads run the length of the year, the same seven in every season. World Studies, Language Arts, Virtue and Resilience, Art and Music, Imagination Studio, STEM and Future Skills, and Nature and Community.
What arrives, and when you can begin
Four packages of twelve weeks each, travelling the continents across one school year. Each one stands alone, so there is no wrong month to start.
One year, one circumnavigation
The Americas
Arrival and harvest
Beginning in the hemisphere your family is standing in. The land, the first peoples, the crops that came from this soil, and the long American question of who belongs where.
Europe and Asia
Endurance and inheritance
The old world and the long continuities. The Silk Road, the cathedral and the temple, and the things a people keep through the dark in order to hand them forward.
Africa, Oceania, Antarctica
Origin and emergence
Where the human story begins, the navigators who crossed the largest ocean without instruments, and the continent that belongs to no one.
Home ground
The world close up
The year turns back toward your own state, your own watershed, your own street. Lighter, looser, mostly outdoors, and ending in one long child-led build.
Circle two or three. Release the rest.
The Menu Rule · printed in the front of every season
The same eight components, every season
Learn the architecture once in Autumn and Winter needs no relearning. The constants live in the front matter, so weekly preparation is one page read on Sunday.
Cover and copyright, with original botanical watercolour.
Front matter suite: the daily rhythm, the Menu Rule, how Axis approaches AI, the Three Records, and preparing for the season.
Seasonal seven-strand overview, with books, materials, and implementation for each.
Twelve weekly units: the Weekly Map and the Sunday Read.
Our Season in the World, the Family Kaleidoscope dot map.
Seasonal Reflection page: the child's word and the parent's sentence, week by week.
Portfolio Pack, optional: attendance, reading log, field trip log, grades at a glance.
Year at a Glance, so you always know where you are in the arc.
It doubles as your official portfolio
In Florida and many other states a portfolio is a statutory requirement for registered home education programs. The optional Portfolio Pack turns the season itself into the record, so nothing has to be reconstructed in May from memory and receipts.
The child's one word each week. The parent's one sentence. The family's dots on the map. No school on earth hands parents this, because it can only be kept by the people who were there.
Community Labs
Optional hands-on sessions in Brevard County that take one invitation out of the curriculum and give it the equipment, the mess, and eight or ten other families working on the same thing at the same time.
Parents stay for the full session. Axis does not provide drop-off care, and that is the point rather than a limitation.
See the labsTen to fourteen families. Beyond that a studio becomes a classroom, and there are plenty of those already.
Everything listed is included. Bring water and clothes allowed to get ruined.
Announced a season at a time. The letter hears first.
Not sure yet? Try a full sample week, or a season.