How to read this page
There are no scores here, on purpose. A percentage tells you nothing useful about a four-year-old. Instead the page reports the way a good nursery teacher writes an observation: what has been practised, what is being worked on now, and what comes next. A skill appears under "has practised" when every game in that ladder stage has been finished at least once.
Practised is not the same as mastered
Finishing a game means your child has met the idea, not that they own it. The real test is off the screen: can they count the stairs, find the letter on a biscuit packet, tell you what happened first in the story? Use this page to choose what to talk about this week, not as proof of anything.
What each part means
Marbles are dropped into the Goli Jar each time a game, book, song or activity is finished. Different activities tried shows breadth — a child with 200 marbles from three games and a child with 60 from thirty are learning differently, and both are fine. Minutes today counts time the site was open and visible; the WHO and paediatric guidance suggest at most an hour of screen time a day for ages two to five, shared with a grown-up where possible, and the tile turns amber past that.
About favourites
Most children play two or three things over and over. That is how they learn, not a sign of being stuck. Rather than steering them away, sit beside them for one round of the favourite and then offer the next step from a reading or maths ladder as something to try together.
Better questions than "how many did they get right?"
Early-years teachers are trained to watch for a handful of things that matter far more than right answers, and you can watch for them too while your child plays:
- Do they keep going when it is hard? A child who tries a third time after two wrong taps is building the most useful habit there is. Praise the trying, out loud.
- Do they talk about it? Naming what they see, asking why, telling you what happened — language used, not just heard.
- Do they choose? Picking a game, a language, a colour. Choice is where motivation comes from at this age.
- Do they carry it off the screen? Spotting a letter on a shop sign, counting the stairs, singing the tidy-up song. That is the only evidence of learning that really counts.
- Can they stop? Ending a session without a storm is a skill in itself, and it improves with a predictable routine more than with rules.
If the answer to most of these is "sometimes", your child is doing exactly what a two- to six-year-old should. If one is a steady "never", the feelings first aid and milestones pages are the places to look next.
Why there is no account
Children's data deserves more care than anyone's. This site has no sign-up, no adverts, no analytics cookies and no server-side record of your child at all; marbles, ticks and settings are kept in your browser's own storage on this device. The cost is that progress does not follow you to another phone. If you want a backup, press "Save a copy" and keep the file; the ⚙ grown-ups menu can load it on another device. "Erase everything" removes it for good.
More than one child on one device
Progress is per browser, so two children sharing a phone share a jar. The simplest fix is a separate browser profile (or a different browser) for each child; each keeps its own marbles, age setting and language.
What to do with what you see
Pick one thing from "working on now" and bring it into real life this week — the weekly letters give you words and things to say for each theme. If a theme has never been visited, open Golu's Day, which walks through all twelve in turn. And if the minutes tile is often amber, the things to do at home and Move with Golu pages are there to be the next thing.
Now do it for real
When the screen goes off, do something with your hands. Try 🌈 Find a rainbow indoors — an easy science experiment for ages 3-6, with every step read aloud in your language. You will need an old cd or a glass of water, sunshine and a white wall; nothing that needs a trip to a shop.
There are 56 more on the things to do at home page, and free printable worksheets if you would rather have something on paper. Ten minutes on a screen and twenty minutes off it is a good shape for a day at this age.
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