9:00am - Be the Pied Piper--play a song, sing a song... find your beautiful way to begin the morning lesson together

9:00am - 11am - Daily Wonder Morning Lesson

11 - 11:30am - Snack time/fresh air/free play

11:30am - 12:30pm - Options to rotate through on a weekly schedule and based on your home life and needs:

1. Outdoor hike, adventure
2. Painting-- free painting or guided
3. Beeswax, clay, play-dough modelling---can have them create things based on morning lesson or seasonal themes
4. Knitting
5. Music lesson/practice
6. Free drawing- crafting time--based on morning lesson or seasonal themes
7. Cooking/baking
8. House chores
9. Journal writing
10. Older students could catch up on morning lesson work

 
12:30pm - 1:30pm - Lunch time/ outdoor time

1:30pm - Options to rotate through on a weekly schedule and based on your home life and needs

1. Story time/ silent reading
2. Gardening
3. Woodwork
4. Building projects
5. House chores
6. Cook/bake

 
2:30pm - Chores/clean-up time

3pm - Free play

You got this!

Hey Parents! After you have been a super hero and guided your child through the Daily Wonder morning lesson, maybe you want to take a step back, maybe you have to attend to your regular job, or maybe you need a coffee break.  Whatever the reason, learning does not have to stop. In fact, learning is an ongoing process, and Daily Wonder will show you how easy it is to connect regular play and regular life experiences with your Ministry of Education Big Ideas and Learning Outcomes!

Applied Design, Skills and Technologies
Grades 1-3: Big Idea/Concept: Designs grow out of natural curiosity
Grades 4-5: Big Ideas/Concepts: Designs can be improved with prototyping and testing.  Skills are developed through practice, effort and action.

Math
Grade 1: Big Idea/Concept:  Addition and subtraction with numbers to 10 can be modeled concretely, pictorially, and symbolically to develop computational fluency.
Grade 3: Big Idea/Concept: Fractions are a type of number that can represent quantities.
Grade 5: Adjust the recipe and learn this Big Idea/Concept: Numbers describe quantities that can be represented by equivalent fractions.

Career Education
Grade 1-3: Big Ideas/Concepts: Strong communities are the result of being connected to family and community and working together toward common goals.  Everything we learn helps us to develop skills.  Communities include many different roles requiring many different skills.

Career Education
Grades 4-5: Big Ideas/Concepts: Strong communities are the result of being connected to family and community and working together toward common goals. Leadership requires listening to and respecting the ideas of others.
Grades 6-7: Big Ideas/Concepts: Practicing respectful, ethical, inclusive behaviour prepares us for the expectations of the workplace.  Leadership represents good planning, goal setting, and collaboration.

Career Education
Grades 1-3: Big Idea/Concept: Confidence develops through the process of self-discovery

Physical and Health Education
Grades 1-3: Big Idea/Concept: Knowing about our bodies and making healthy choices helps us look after ourselves.

Physical and Health Education
Grade1: Big Idea/Concept: Good health comprises physical, mental, and emotional well-being.
Grades 2-3: Big Idea/Concept: Having good communication skills and managing our emotions enables us to develop and maintain healthy relationships.

Physical and Health Education
Grade 1: Big Idea/Concept: Good health comprises physical, mental, and emotional well-being.
Grades 2-3: Big Idea/Concept: Having good communication skills and managing our emotions enables us to develop and maintain healthy relationships.

Physical and Health Education and Career Education
Grades 6-7: Big Ideas/Concepts: Our personal digital identity forms part of our public identity. Practicing respectful, ethical, inclusive behaviour prepares us for the expectations of the workplace.

Applied Design Skills and Technology
Grades 1-3: Big Idea/Concept: Technologies are tools that extend human capabilities. 
Grades 4-5: Big Idea/Concept: Skills are developed through practice, effort, and action. 
Grades 6-7: Big Ideas/Concepts: Design can be responsive to identified needs. 
Complex tasks require the acquisition of additional skills. 

Thank you to those that were able to attend our first Zoom info session last week.  We appreciate you and thank you for considering Daily Wonder as a homeschooling option for your family.

We will hold our next Zoom information session on August 31st at 7pm PT.  To register, please send an email to admin@dailywonderhomelearning.com and we will send you the Zoom link on the day of the call.

Our mission is to empower parents to provide integrated, culturally diverse, creative, hands-on curriculum for their homeschoolers that meet grade level learning outcomes.  

Our vision is to use stories and human connection as the foundation for acceptance and appreciation of diversity so we can build a more compassionate and responsible world.

Daily wonder, wonder daily...
Mareesha, Jennifer and Rebecca

Thank you to all the engaged parents who attended our first Daily Wonder info session, we appreciate you!  If you couldn't make our first session, no worries - stay tuned, we will announce dates for our next info sessions soon...