Homeschooling in Canada – Sarah Davidson

We live in British Columbia in a small town on the Arrow Lakes. We are with the distance learning school SelfDesign. You can enroll and have a learning consultant to help you with your child’s learning path; you can also enroll and not have to report to anyone (but we are registered). Also, day one, we had a wonderful and helpful learning consultant.

This is our family’s third year homeschooling our nine- and eleven-year-old children.
Our typical stay-at-home day starts with farm chores. We feed the horses, chickens, and dogs; after that we go in and eat our breakfast and start our morning basket activities, and the kids take turns reading aloud. Then we move on to reading the Green Ember. Then, the kids are off to take our old coonhound for a walk, usually ten to fifteen minutes. It gives them a little break from school and a little exercise to burn off the seemingly endless energy.

During this time I will make a snack or tea and get the next things ready. They move on to math with their Teaching Textbooks, taking turns on the computer and following up in the book. Then they can choose to do either science or social studies in the Canadian curriculum books. At this point, it’s usually around noon; so we eat lunch and walk the other coonhounds.
That’s usually it for the day, and it all gets done at the kitchen table—and a small book shelf!

My name is Sarah Davidson. I homeschool my two children in a small town in the west Kootenay’s area of British Columbia. Our family owns the General Store and I am also an independent Usborne books consultant.