The screen isn’t the teacher. You are.
Bell & Flag brings your Kindergarten lessons together — real books, original teaching guides, and a planned schedule, with you at the head of the class. We open with the Pledge and a verse — you’re the one who says the words.
Parent-led, and screen-free for the kids.
Your plan combines carefully chosen teaching books with Bell & Flag’s own guides and printables. Our five-day Kindergarten starter plan uses household supplies: you can teach your first lesson today.
READING
phonics first, then stories older than Grandma
WRITING
real penmanship — two lines a day, every day
ARITHMETIC
facts to mastery, flash cards and all
SCIENCE
nature study, seasons, and the backyard lab
GOOD CITIZENSHIP
the Pledge, the founders, how a town works
Start this morning. We mean it literally.
five original starter days, ready for your kitchen table
Sign up over coffee
Two minutes: your email, your kids, your first day. No passwords, no sales call.
Open the starter day
Print the original starter lessons and gather household supplies. Order the listed books from their publishers or booksellers.
Ring the first bell
Your book plan brings page references, materials, and our original teaching guides together. You teach. We keep the bells.
A schoolhouse you can hold.
real books, real pencils, a real flag in the corner — photographed at a real kitchen table (ours)
Meet the principals.
ninety seconds with Josh & Ramsey Ford — we run the schoolhouse; the teacher is you
"The plan I wish I could hand every parent."
How a family morning fits together.
A sample family plan with Kindergarten and a Grade 2 preview. Their mom teaches both — one morning, with time for each child
TogetherOpening — the Pledge, a verse & a story
One flag, one verse, one story — both kids. Today's devotional: "Let us run with patience the race" — steady like the tortoise. Then The Tortoise and the Hare from the First Reader, with two questions printed under it. Choices, never quizzes.
Emma · KMath with you — Saxon Math K, the Meeting
Calendar, count the date, and a short counting game, with your teaching book beside you.
MEANWHILE, JACK: copywork page on his own — the plan hands him independent work whenever you're teaching his sister.
Jack · Gr 2Swap — math with you: Saxon Math 2, Lesson 29
A preview of his turn with you, using the lesson in your purchased teaching book. Grade 2 content remains in development.
MEANWHILE, EMMA: draws, builds with large blocks, or browses a familiar picture book nearby.
Together☀️ Recess
Outside. Yes, it's on the schedule — this is a real school.
Emma · KPhonics with you — The Ordinary Parent's Guide to Teaching Reading
Open the referenced lesson in your purchased books. Read the instructor directions and practice together; review when your child needs more time.
MEANWHILE, JACK: silent reading, his pick. (It still counts. It especially counts.)
TogetherGood Citizenship — Our Flag
Taught once, to both — fifty stars, thirteen stripes, and what the stars stand for. Your talking points are written out; the fridge gets its first flag.
Together🔔 Closing
Ring the bell, narrate the win, check the boxes — two grades, one morning, and you record the lessons you finish.
This is the part nobody tells you is possible: the plan interleaves your children automatically — who's with you, who's working alone, when to swap. You don't need experience. You need a plan.
Notice what isn't in that morning: a login. A child learns handwriting with a pencil in her hand, not a finger on glass — and she learns to read out loud, to somebody who loves her. That's not nostalgia, it's just how these particular things are learned.
Younger siblings are welcome.
Join the family story, then return to play nearby.
Three promises.
the whole company, in one row of index cards
Values first.
Every morning opens with the Pledge and a short, grade-level devotional — one verse, one thought, one prayer. Faith and character, taught plainly, with you leading.
Build the foundations.
Phonics, penmanship, arithmetic, science, and good citizenship — with stories, practice, and room to slow down when your child needs it.
Start the same day.
Sign up this morning and teach an original Kindergarten starter lesson today. Five starter days give you something useful to teach while you arrange your books.