Community Programmes: events, roles and retention

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I'm learning "Community Programmes: events, roles and retention" on The Future Market. Lesson 1: "From rituals to a programme".

What the lesson teaches:
- A community programme is the planned mix of events, rituals, roles and onboarding that serves your community's purpose over a period, for example 3 months.
- Start from the purpose sentence (course 3.11.1). Every activity should help members do the shared thing in that sentence. If it does not, drop it.
- McMillan and Chavis (1986) describe four elements of a sense of community: membership, influence, integration and fulfilment of needs, and shared emotional connection. A good programme touches all four across the quarter.
- A simple member journey used in this course (a teaching model, not a rule or standard): arrive, first post, come back, contribute, help others. Each step needs something that helps the member move to the next.
- Jakob Nielsen's 90-9-1 pattern (Nielsen Norman Group) says that in many online communities about 90% mostly read, about 9% contribute occasionally and about 1% create most content. It is an approximation, and Nielsen notes the vocal few may not represent the silent majority. So plan for readers too, and ask them directly.
- A quarterly programme has four layers:
- Layer - Example - How often

The exercise I'm working on:
Make your one-page quarterly plan: purpose, one numeric goal, the five-box journey and the four-layer table.

I'm stuck. Please:
1. Explain the main idea in plain, simple words with one everyday example.
2. Walk me through the exercise one small step at a time. Ask me what I've done so far before giving the next step.
3. Don't just give me the final answer. Help me do it myself, and check my work when I share it.

I'm a parent helping my child (about 8 years old) with a lesson called "From rituals to a programme" from the course "Community Programmes: events, roles and retention".

Here's what the lesson says:
A few friends can play a game whenever they like. A school sports league needs a season plan: when games happen, who referees, and how new players join. A community programme is the season plan.

The activity:
Make your one-page quarterly plan: purpose, one numeric goal, the five-box journey and the four-layer table.

Please explain this so an 8-year-old understands: short sentences, a fun everyday example, and no hard words.
Then give me 3 simple questions I can ask my child to check they understood, and a way to do the activity together, one tiny step at a time.