Three teachers who started posting lessons home

Kite began in 2021, when Hannah Pell boxed up a month of her first-grade activities for a family who had moved away. Today three of us write, pack and teach it from a room above a bakery in Florence, Massachusetts.

A child in a striped hammock reading a picture book

Hannah Pell

Founder. Writes the activities and packs the kits.

Hannah taught first grade in Northampton for eleven years. The lessons that worked best were the short ones a child could take home and finish at the table with someone they loved.

She tests every activity on her own two children before it goes in a box, and still writes the Sunday note to parents herself. An activity that takes more than one try to explain is rewritten.

The teachers on screen

Priya Raman

Teaches Little

Eight years in a Montessori preschool in Amherst. Priya runs the 9:30 am sessions and knows every child in them by the second week.

Marcus Lind

Teaches Big

Nine years teaching science and maths to sixth graders. Marcus runs the 4:30 pm sessions and writes the experiments in each month's fourth week.

Why it works the way it does

Short, so it happens

A fifteen-minute activity gets done on a Tuesday. An hour-long one waits for a free weekend that rarely comes.
Built on the kitchen drawer

We only post what most homes lack. That keeps the box small, the price at $20 and the recycling bin light.
Live, so nobody works alone

Seeing six other children hold up the same paper boat matters more to a five-year-old than any worksheet.

Safety and supervision

Questions about any of this go to Hannah at [email protected].

An adult in the room: Every activity card says what the grown-up does: hands over the scissors, holds the jar steady, or simply stays close.
Materials: Paints and clay carry the AP non-toxic seal. Little kits hold nothing smaller than a ping-pong ball; small parts in Big kits are marked on the envelope.
Sessions: Children's cameras are optional, chat is off and only the teacher shares a screen. Recordings are seen by families in that group and deleted after seven days.
Checks: All three of us hold a Massachusetts teaching licence and pass a CORI background check every year.