The Learning System.
The Countdown Calendar 4Kids is the foundation of the TLSS Learning System, creating opportunities for children, educators and schools to make abstract learning visible through sensory exploration.
How Children Experience Time
Before children can understand time, they need opportunities to experience it. The Countdown Calendar 4Kids transforms the passing of time into a daily classroom ritual, helping children see change, anticipate what comes next and build understanding through meaningful, hands on experiences.
The Countdown Journey
Making routines, transitions and the passing of time visible through sensory experiences children can explore and understand
Together, the Countdown Calendar 4Kids, Sensory Rings, and Little Learner Kits form an integrated TLSS Professional learning system designed to support meaningful exploration, inquiry, and skill development across school and home environments.
This learning system is grounded in a cohesive learning framework that supports children’s developing understanding of time awareness, number sense, patterns and sequencing, measurement, data handling, emotional regulation, and independence.
One Resource. A Growing Learning System.
Designed for purposeful reuse, the sensory rings extend beyond the Calendar as flexible sensory strips, opening opportunities for continued exploration across mathematical concepts and giving each resource an ongoing role in children’s learning.
The TLSS Learning System brings together the Countdown Calendar 4Kids, sensory rings, Learner Cards and the TLSS Professional Learning Collection, connecting sensory exploration, playful inquiry and intentional teaching to make abstract learning visible.
Learning in Children's Hands
Learner Cards
Invitations to explore, investigate and think.
Our Learner Cards invite children to use the sensory strips in different ways as they explore ideas, test possibilities, make connections and represent their thinking. The cards create opportunities for children to revisit concepts across different learning journeys while leaving space for their ideas, strategies and discoveries to shape the experience.
Professional Learning Behind the System
The Learning materials invite children to explore. Professional learning supports educators in recognising, responding to and extending the thinking that emerges.
The TLSS Professional Learning Collection brings together pedagogical thinking, Little Lessons, Learning Opportunities, purposeful questions and opportunities for observation and reflection across each learning journey.
Designed to support the educator alongside the child.
Continue Your Learning Journey
Explore how the TLSS Learning System can become part of your classroom, school or family life.
Families
Bring routines, transitions and meaningful learning into everyday family life.
School Community & Families
Strengthen school home partnerships through parent workshops and community learning.
Learning Support & Wellbeing
Create learning opportunities that support inclusion, regulation and participation.
School Leaders
Explore implementation, professional learning and whole school adoption.
Educators
Bring inquiry, sensory exploration and mathematical thinking into everyday classroom practice.
Learning That Grows Together
Every learning journey begins with curiosity and grows through children, educators, families and schools working together.