For child care centers & licensed family-childcare homes · Birth through age 5
We work with you to plan your curriculum. A real person prepares your classroom plans using Playtime Compass curriculum and helps make them work for your program. When an activity doesn’t fit, we offer suitable adjustments or replacement activities for you to choose from.
Review your plans, request changes, and share the day’s activities and teaching guidance with your team, all in one place.
Get in touchExplore a sample week before billing begins.
Leave room to repeat an experience based on children’s responses.
Sample week. Select a lesson to read its complete Teacher Quick View.
A real curriculum week, shown in a simplified planner preview.
From birth through age 5. Room for every stage.
Tell us what needs to change. We prepare options that support the intended learning goals. You choose what works for your classroom.
Example planning-support request. Illustrative screens, not a live request system.
See the activity and what it needs. If something does not fit your classroom, request a change.
“We’re stuck indoors because of the weather. Can you suggest some indoor activities to replace the listening walk?”What we need: an indoor activity
Explain what needs to change and what you have available. We review your request and offer suitable adjustments or replacement activities for you to choose from.
Crumple paper or tap wooden blocks behind a screen. Children listen, describe the sounds, and explore what made them.
We prepare suitable options around your materials and classroom needs, while supporting the intended learning goals. You choose the option that fits and approve it before it goes into your plan.
A calendar for your team, not a fixed path for a child. Follow an interest. Revisit an experience. Leave room for what happens during play.
A ball, a partner, and time to respond. Take a closer look at the preparation, teaching choices, and observation guidance in one Playtime Compass lesson.
If you see The child sends the ball but has difficulty receiving it.
Try Roll more slowly toward the child’s open hands and pause.
The teacher and child roll a ball back and forth to practice sending, receiving, and taking turns.
If you see The child sends the ball but has difficulty receiving it.
Try Roll more slowly toward the child’s open hands and pause.
The child coordinates body and hand movements to send the ball to a partner and attempts its return.
Excerpt from the Teacher Quick View. Sample curriculum preview.
The Playtime Compass knowledge graph connects lessons, reusable learning components, age-path goals, and teacher evidence. Directors can follow how one activity supports learning now and how that learning connects across classrooms.
Start with one learning point.Select another point to make it the center. Depth 1 shows direct relationships. Increase the depth to reveal the connected goals, evidence, components, and lessons around it.
Hand-eye coordination is one reusable ability beneath several age-path goals. The expected action changes as children develop, while the underlying learning stays connected.
Curriculum, classroom planning, and practical teaching guidance.
Choose the plan that fits how your program is organized.
One mixed-age workspace for a licensed family-childcare home, with up to three caregiver accounts.
For licensed family-childcare homes only, not small centers.
Classroom plans, shared teacher access, and director visibility across one center. No per-teacher fees.
One annual payment of $1,788 covers one center.
What to know before you choose.
Playtime Compass provides early childhood curriculum and planning support for child care centers and licensed family-childcare homes. We help prepare classroom plans using our curriculum. Review your plans, request changes, and share activities and teaching guidance with your team in one place.
Playtime Compass covers birth through age 5 with six classroom options: Infant, Younger Toddler, Older Toddler, Preschool 3, Pre-K 4, and Multi-Age. Each age group has its own experiences and teaching guidance, with a familiar planning format across the program.
Tell us what needs to change. We offer suitable adjustments or replacement activities that support the intended learning goals, including options that use materials you have on hand. You choose what fits your classroom before adding it to the plan for your team.
Create a calendar for each classroom and publish the plan for its teaching team. Directors can see what is planned across classrooms and coordinate preparation. Teachers can open activities from their classroom calendar to see what they need for the day.
Each activity includes a learning goal, materials, preparation, a Teacher Quick View, and full teaching guidance. Participation supports and observation cues help teachers offer different ways to join in and notice children’s responses during play.
The calendar organizes the classroom plan; it does not set a fixed pace for a child’s development. Teachers can follow children’s interests, offer different ways to participate, and revisit familiar experiences.
The Family Childcare plan gives one licensed home a shared mixed-age planning workspace, with curriculum from birth through age 5 and up to three caregiver accounts. Caregivers can plan for the group while using age-appropriate guidance and different ways for children to participate.
Activities bring relevant early learning standards and observation cues alongside the teaching guidance, including Minnesota learning connections where available. Observation cues help teachers notice children’s responses; they are not a formal assessment. Standards connections do not by themselves mean state approval or a quality-rating endorsement.
The knowledge graph shows related learning and activities. Select a point to explore its connections, then change the depth to see more or fewer links. It is a way to discover related content, not a fixed sequence children must complete or an automatic activity-replacement tool.
Playtime Compass is a digital curriculum, not a shipped classroom kit. Activities include materials lists and preparation guidance so teachers can see what to gather. Physical books, toys, manipulatives, and consumable supplies are not included in the subscription.
Family Childcare is $30 per month for one licensed family-childcare home. Center is $149 per month, paid as one annual payment of $1,788 for one center. Both include a sample week before billing. Centers of any size need the Center plan; the Family Childcare plan does not cover multiple classroom workspaces, center administration, or director reporting. Additional locations require Center-plan arrangements.
No. Playtime Compass focuses on curriculum planning, teaching, and team coordination. It does not replace attendance, enrollment, billing, or family-messaging software.
Explore a sample week before billing begins.
