Brijbox

A guide for parents

Run your first lesson.
Bring your assistant.

This page does two jobs: it walks you through your first Year 1 lesson with your child, and it shows you how the AI assistant you already use can coach you from the lesson's own teaching notes.

Run your first lessonConnect your assistantWhat can it see?

Job one

Run your
first lesson.

For every family

  1. In Chrome, open Year 1 and choose Lesson 1, Seeing small groups.
  2. Select Get ready and collect the simple objects shown on that screen.
  3. Let your child do one screen action at a time. Open Grown-up help whenever you want a question or a small hint.
  4. When the lesson asks you to work at the table, put the screen aside and use the real objects together.
  5. Come back for the next part, and open the lesson's printable activity when prompted. You can also find its print link on the Year 1 page.
Open Year 1

Job two

Connect your assistant.

Every Year 1 lesson carries built-in guidance an AI assistant can read: the learning goal, the current step, one prepared hint and the question to ask next. It works with assistants that support the open WebMCP standard — the browser assistants you may already use, such as Claude in Chrome, Gemini in Chrome or ChatGPT's browser, are the kind of assistant this is built for. Support varies by browser and assistant, and the lessons never depend on it.

Brijbox
lesson open→Read-only
lesson tools→Your
assistant→Guidance for
the grown-up

With the assistant you already have

Ask for the next prompt

  1. Open any Year 1 lesson in your browser, with your AI assistant alongside — the assistant you already use, no new account.
  2. If your assistant supports the open WebMCP standard, it can read the lesson's built-in guidance the moment the page is open. There is nothing to install on Brijbox's side and nothing to sign up for.
  3. Ask it: “What should I ask my child next?” It answers from Brijbox's own teaching notes for the step on screen — the learning goal, one prepared hint, and the question to ask — not from guesswork.
  4. Support varies by browser and assistant. If yours doesn't pick up the lesson tools, open Grown-up help on the lesson page — it gives you the exact same prompts.
Other questions to try:
  • “What are we learning in this lesson?”
  • “What should we do next?”
  • “Give me the next Brijbox hint without telling my child the answer.”
  • “What should I notice while my child tries this step?”
For the technically curious: inspect the lesson tools yourself

WebMCP is an early, still-experimental browser capability. If you want to see exactly what a lesson page exposes, Chrome's testing flag and the Model Context Tool Inspector let you list and call the tools directly:

  1. In a recent Chrome that supports WebMCP testing, open chrome://flags/#enable-webmcp-testing, set it to Enabled, and relaunch Chrome. If the flag is absent, this route is unavailable in your current browser.
  2. Install the Model Context Tool Inspector extension. Use it only on sites you trust.
  3. Open any Year 1 lesson in that Chrome window. Open the inspector extension and check that the four brijbox_* lesson tools appear.
  4. In the inspector's chat, try: “Use the Brijbox parent guidance tool for this step. Give me a question to ask, without giving my child the answer.”
  5. The inspector's chat may send your prompt to a model, so keep children's names and personal details out of it. The lessons work fully without any of this.

What can it see?

Enough to guide you.
Never enough to watch your child.

Available to the assistant

  • Authored lesson title and objectives
  • Current authored step and instruction
  • One prepared hint
  • Parent question and evidence to notice

Kept outside the connection

  • Child identity or account information
  • The child's taps, spoken answer or written work
  • Saved progress, scores or mastery claims
  • Physical table activity, photographs, recordings or uploads

The assistant supports the grown-up. The child still does the thinking, talking and building.