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Homeschool · Hampton Roads, Virginia

Homeschool Coding

A weekly coding class where kids design their own games and a parent builds them alongside. For ages 5 to 12, with a parent at the table, not at drop-off.

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Level 1: over the tide
  • when flag clicked
  • repeat 10
  • jump!
  • move right
  • add a lava pit
Illustration of a small game level: a coral character on a platform, dashed jump arcs past two stars, and a flag on the last platform, above a green tide.

How it works

Each week, families meet for about 60 minutes. Parents join in, so what kids learn keeps going at home. Families bring their own device: one per family is all they need, and one per kid is fine too.

Dream it up

Each kid designs their own game: the hero, the rules, and what it takes to win.

Build it together

Everyone starts in ScratchJr with a parent beside them and moves up one step at a time, from Scratch to Blockly to real code. Older kids team up with younger ones as lead programmers.

Share it

Finished games go online with the parent's permission, so kids can show family and friends what they made.

  • Break a problem into steps
  • Give exact instructions
  • Test it
  • Fix what went wrong

Who it's for

No coding experience needed. The class is one group, so siblings can come together. Kids first learn to put ideas, problems and solutions into words, then move on to programming languages and AI tools.

Start here

ScratchJr

Every kid starts here, with picture blocks that snap together into games and stories. It works for kids who are still learning to read.

Move up

Scratch

When a kid is ready, they move up to Scratch to build bigger games. Older kids help younger ones as lead programmers.

Next

Blockly

Blocks that turn into real code, so kids can see the text behind every block they snap together.

Then

Python, JavaScript and the web

Typed code, plus HTML and CSS to build web pages, for kids who've outgrown blocks.

Made by kids

Homeschool Coding grew out of Coding with Dad, what my sons and I do at home. Pantheon School is our family homeschool, and my two sons design games that we build together: they sketch their ideas, choose the rules and test every change.

Orion and Apollo started with ScratchJr and Scratch, then moved on to Blockly. Now they're learning HTML, CSS and JavaScript, keeping their work in GitHub, modeling in Blender and building with Claude.

Every game teaches problem solving, coming up with ideas and working as a team, and practices skills like math and spelling along the way.

Orion and Apollo

Robot Battle

A robot fight-and-fix game where every repair is a math fact. The boys drew the robots, and those drawings became the bosses.

Play Robot Battle →

What the 36-second video shows, with no sound: a wave fight, then a downed robot repaired with Quick Fix by typing 7 × 3 = 21 and matching 12 ÷ 6 to 2. The robot reboots and joins the squad. It ends on the parent's facts-mastery screen: a 9 × 9 grid of times facts, the slowest facts, and minutes practiced per day. The practice history comes from a demo profile we set up for this video, not a real child's.

Screenshot of Wild World: a blocky player in a red shirt and green cap stands on open grassland, looking toward two giraffes and a cheetah on the savanna, with an elephant and flat-topped trees in the distance.
Designed by Apollo

Wild World

Walk anywhere, meet animals and become them. Every animal you meet goes into your book, and there are 18 to find, with spelling practice along the way. Two players on the same home network can race, play tag and hunt for animals together. Apollo's newest game.

Play Wild World →
Screenshot of Family Knockout: a crowd of round, colorful characters runs along a pink-and-white course toward swinging hammers, under a timer and a Qualified 0 of 10 counter.
Orion and Apollo

Family Knockout

A party race where a crowd of players runs, jumps and dives past swinging obstacles, and only the fastest make it to the next round.

Play Family Knockout →
Screenshot of Neon Dash: a glowing yellow cube jumps over a pink spike on a neon grid, with dark city towers and a bright sun behind it.
Orion and Apollo

Neon Dash

A runner where a glowing cube races through a neon city, and every spike has to be jumped at just the right moment.

Play Neon Dash →

Pricing

Family pricing for homeschool families, who often have more than one kid. A parent comes along at no extra cost.

$40 / month
One kid

A weekly 60-minute session, with a parent taking part.

$70 / month
Two kids

The same weekly session for both kids.

$90 / month
Three kids

The same weekly session for all three.

More than three kids? Add $25 a month for each additional kid.

Founding families: families in the first class keep their price for a full year.

Join the interest list

The first class starts once enough families sign up. The day, time and library will be set from what works for the families on this list, so tell us yours. Joining doesn't commit you to anything.

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What we ask and why. We ask a parent for their name, email, part of Hampton Roads, how many kids and their ages, which days and times work, which devices they have, and anything else you'd like to tell us. We don't ask for children's names.

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