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Hearth & Pencil — sample packet
Two real sheets, exactly as they print: a 1st-grade day and a kindergarten day, each with the next part of that child's story at the bottom.
Something in the palms is making honey. Something on the hill is making nothing at all.
Name: Liam
Date:
Code: SAMPL
Start by telling Liam this is a quick warm-up sheet, not a test — no rush! The first few problems are ones he already knows well, so let him build momentum there. Watch closely on the subtraction and length items in the middle; if he pauses, invite him to count on his fingers or think out loud. The 'add a multiple of ten' items are brand new, so read the Learn it! boxes with him out loud before he tries them. This should take about 15 minutes total — stop for a stretch break if he seems tired.
Chapter 1 · Part 5 of 6
Last time you chose “Ask what Jack knows about the island first”.
Past the ridge the air turned sweet. Not flowers — honey. Liam pushed a frond aside and found the hum: bees, hundreds, pouring from a split palm, honey creeping down the bark like candle wax.
Scout sneezed and backed off. Barnacle Jack, the salt-crusted parrot who'd led them over the ridge, landed on Liam's shoulder. "There's a riddle for this place. Ten thousand wings, no—" He clicked his beak. "Lost the middle again."
Then he went quiet. He wasn't watching the bees. He'd turned to the hill past the grove, and the pale square on top.
“There's a light up that hill,” Barnacle Jack said. “Dark nine years. Ships don't stop for sand.”
Write what Liam says back:
Platform Two only ever sends ten cans. So why is one more coming?
Name: Ira
Date:
Code: SAMPL
Hi! This sheet warms Ira up with some easy letter spotting before moving into trickier lowercase letters, word order, and syllable clapping. Sit with him for the first few items and read every prompt aloud — he's four, so reading is still your job, not his. Watch for b/d mix-ups on item 6, that's totally normal at this age. If he gets stuck on syllables, clap the word out loud together before he answers. This should take about 10-15 minutes with breaks if he gets wiggly.
Chapter 1 · Part 4 of 6
Last time you said “Eleven” — Ira said eleven, and the yard took him at his word — a lid started knocking at the far end of the platform.
"Eleven," Wren repeats. She chalks the loads on Platform Two and knows every car by heart. "Ten cans is all this run ever sends, Ira."
Then wheels squeal at the far end. A porter pushes one more can up the platform, late — the milk train is already sliding out with its ten.
Ira puts his hand on the cold lid. It rattles. Not the sloshing kind. Something knocks it from underneath, twice.
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