Wildgrove builds an interest-first plan around who your child actually is — and quietly turns every session, every park day, every rabbit hole into the state-ready records you'll need, exactly when you need them.
Mia · age 9
What do you want to explore today?
Earth Science
SuggestedHow do volcanoes form? What's the difference between magma and lava?
Tap to start exploring →
You left the age-and-grade box because one curriculum for every child never fit yours. But homeschooling on your own quietly hands you a second box — the paperwork. Records, hours, portfolios, the formats your state expects.
So most families feel forced to pick: follow your child and scramble to document it later, or stay organized and slide right back toward the box you just left.
With Wildgrove, you don't pick. We start from your child — what they love, what they're ready for — and the learning grows outward from there. Every session, online or off, quietly becomes the records your state recognizes.
The child-led part and the documented part stop being a trade-off. Here, they're the same thing.
Every other platform covers one end of this. Wildgrove closes it.
Mia · age 9
What do you want to explore today?
Earth Science
SuggestedHow do volcanoes form? What's the difference between magma and lava?
Tap to start exploring →
Tell us about your child: their interests, their actual level per subject (not their age), and the worldview lens that matters to your family. Five minutes. After that, Wildgrove has everything it needs.
Mia · Volcanoes
How do you want to explore today?
Read
Warm, distraction-free text
Listen
Audio narration, any activity
Watch
Companion-guided video
Do
Activities and projects
Real Life
60-second offline capture
What they know and love is the starting point. The subjects follow the curiosity, not the other way around. Choose how your child learns best: reading, listening, watching, or doing.
Mia · Earth Science
Deep beneath the Earth's crust, rock melts into a thick, flowing liquid called magma. When pressure builds, magma pushes upward through cracks in the crust. The moment it reaches the surface, it becomes lava — and a volcano is born.
Wait — is lava the same as magma?
Same stuff, different location. Underground it's magma. The moment it erupts onto the surface — it becomes lava. You just named one of geology's most important distinctions.
So lava is magma that escaped?
Exactly. The rock found a way out. That's why volcanologists say magma is "promoted" to lava — same material, new world.
Recording · Earth Science · 18 min
The park day counts. The museum trip counts. The cooking project counts. A 60-second capture turns any offline experience into documented learning.
Mia · Portfolio
June 2026 · 18 sessions
Jun 20
Earth Science0.6h
Seamounts and underwater volcanoes
Mia wrote: 'A seamount is a volcano that never broke the ocean's surface. The ocean hid it.'
Jun 18
Earth Science0.5h
The water cycle — evaporation and condensation
Explained the cycle in her own words during narration exercise.
Jun 17
Reading0.4h
Charlotte's Web ch. 4–6
Narration: described Wilbur's fear and how Charlotte's plan gives him hope.
Every session generates a learning artifact: subjects covered, hours logged, standards tagged, samples saved. Tell Wildgrove your state — we generate the paperwork in the format your state expects.
Every learning app on the market says 'personalized.' Read the fine print and it almost always means the same grade-level material, sped up or slowed down. The topics were chosen before anyone met your child. Wildgrove is the other thing entirely: we start from your child — what they know, what they love, what they're obsessing over right now — and build learning outward from there. And when they ask the off-topic question — the one most apps quietly shut down to 'stay on track' — that's not a detour here. That's where the week's reading, writing, and science come from. The subjects follow the curiosity. Not the other way around.
Meet the companion →Mia · Earth Science
Deep beneath the Earth's crust, rock melts into a thick, flowing liquid called magma. When pressure builds, magma pushes upward through cracks in the crust. The moment it reaches the surface, it becomes lava — and a volcano is born.
Wait — is lava the same as magma?
Same stuff, different location. Underground it's magma. The moment it erupts onto the surface — it becomes lava. You just named one of geology's most important distinctions.
So lava is magma that escaped?
Exactly. The rock found a way out. That's why volcanologists say magma is "promoted" to lava — same material, new world.
Recording · Earth Science · 18 min
Tell us where you are and we'll take you to the part that fits.
Every app says “personalized.” Almost all of them mean the same fixed material — sped up or slowed down. Interest-first means your child is the starting point.
Most apps
Wildgrove
This is the fear parents carry but rarely say out loud. What if the school says their learning doesn't count? With Wildgrove, every session automatically builds a record the school can read: subjects covered, hours logged, learning samples — formatted for your state. NY quarterly reports. PA portfolios. FL evaluations. You don't have to remember — we never forgot.
See what we generate →Compliance · Mia Carter
State Records
New York — Quarterly reports
ReadyQ2 2025–26
Required instruction days
75 / 90 required
Core subjects covered
Math, ELA, Science, Social Studies
Standardized test compliance
On track — Grade 3
IHIP on file
Filed Sep 2025
Homeschooling is mostly not in front of a screen. Wildgrove captures what actually happened — the field experiences, the offline deep-dives, the living education — and translates it into documentation that compliance systems understand. One 60-second capture. The proof was always there.
How real life counts →Mia · Real Life Capture
What happened today?
"We found a nest with three eggs under the oak tree. She wanted to know how the eggs stay warm without a parent sitting on them…"
Tagged subjects
Will count toward this week's record automatically
Wildgrove is built by Shasta Mott — M.Ed., 20 years in classrooms, homeschool parent. She was the kid the system failed. She became the teacher who wanted to be for her students what no one had been for her. Now she's building the school she needed.
A real, named educator you can look up — not a brand that appeared overnight, and not a cold text to your phone. Someone who knows what real records look like and what real kids actually need — not a VC-backed team with a grant and an algorithm.
Shasta's story →My daughter is 8 and has never been more excited about learning. Last Tuesday she spent three hours on volcanoes because she wanted to. Three hours. I didn't plan that — Wildgrove just let her keep going.
Rachel M.
Chandler, AZ
1 child · Homeschooling year 2
The compliance piece alone is worth it. I used to spend hours every quarter trying to figure out what New York actually needed from me. Now I open the app, click Export, and it's done. I honestly didn't believe it at first.
David K.
Westchester, NY
2 children · Former skeptic
We left the school system after a really bad experience. I was terrified our records wouldn't be accepted if we ever went back. Wildgrove gave me proof I never had before — real proof, in the format the school actually asks for.
Tamara J.
Austin, TX
3 children · Re-entry from traditional school
Not per child. $24/mo founding rate ($39 later — locked for life), every learner included. And in 30+ ESA states, it may cost you nothing out of pocket.
Interest-led learning and the paperwork your state needs used to be a trade-off. Here, they're one loop — and that combination doesn't exist anywhere else.
Starts from your child's curiosity, not a grade level.
Follows the question your child asked — instead of steering it back on track.
State-ready portfolios and reports, building from the very first session.
ESA-eligible in 30+ states — for many families, nothing out of pocket.
Start free. No card required. No dark patterns.