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Schoolio
Curriculum
Learn more about our curriculum approach and how we help homeschooling parents with accessible, affordable home kits. You can stop searching and spending hours creating your own lessons and workbooks.
EARTH DAY MINI UNIT
In this 22-page unit, a mini-unit from Schoolio Learning on Earth Day covers, All About Earth Day, Fresh Water, Recycling and Composting, Earth Day Poetry Study and Save Our Park Pond Poster Design for homeschoolers.
Our mission
Schoolio supports parents choosing to homeschool with an affordable and structured Canadian Curriculum
You’re schooling at home, not schooling alone.
Schoolio provides parents with a range of customizable in-home learning solutions. You can choose our full, all-in-one curriculum program or choose specific units and build your own year.
Parents with children in virtual-learning or in-person school can add-on and supplement their child’s education wherever and whenever they need.
Our curriculum is completely Canadian content, from math measurements to history and geography. We align well with most provincial standards and offer specialty units that focus on provincial topics, with more to come!
Team Schoolio:
The Schoolio team includes educators, parents, and experienced homeschoolers who understand the unique needs and capabilities of the world of home education. The Schoolio team is here to help you, with a commitment to superior customer service.
The Perks:
Why Schoolio? We know Canadian content for home education is hard to find. We want to change that! We will continue expanding our library to meet more and more provincial needs.
All our Schoolio customers are welcomed into our unique, customer-only Facebook community that includes parents, teachers, resources and special events. We know that a warm, supportive community is an important part of homeschooling success!
Customer perks also include additional resources, like planning and scheduling tools, boredom buster ideas, and more. When you join Schoolio, you’re not on our own!
Schoolio’s curriculum is the perfect fit, whether you are homeschooling full-time, or just need some additional resources for virtual or in-school learning!
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Canadian math
No need to change measurements, weights, or money from US units!
Our mastery program follows the latest in expert content recommendations for each grade, including Financial Literacy and Coding for every grade!
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Canadian History
From first contact to Confederation to modern day communities, our history program is progressive and all Canadian! Includes prairie First Nations, early life in central and western Canada, and Westward Expansion.
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Canadian geography
Physical geography of Canada, including provinces and territories, as well as Canadian national interests and international issues and relations, our Geography program is uniquely Canadian.
Don’t miss our one-of-a-kind province-specific geography units, with more units being added!
How Does Schoolio Align with Provincial Government Outcomes?
Not all homeschoolers care to follow provincial government outcomes, if that’s you, Schoolio’s structure lets you mix & match whichever units meet your unique child’s needs and interests!
Some homeschoolers prefer to follow provincial government outcomes, for a variety of reasons. We have you covered too! While it isn’t feasible to modify content to each provincial government’s specific outcomes, as a Canadian curriculum company, we align much better than most! We cover much of the content required by most provinces- including Canadian history and geography, government, and Canada’s international relationships. Combined with our rigorous math program, Schoolio is everything your child needs for a top-quality education!
FAQ
How Does Schoolio Choose Curriculum Content and Unit Topics?
Schoolio Teacher-Writers choose unit topics and content based on a variety of factors.
Data on student achievement from the Organization of Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) shows that Canada has an overall ranking of 6th in the world* for education. A Canadian education is a respected, quality education worldwide, so we use provincial expectations from all over Canada to source unit ideas and content.
Ontario students’ high performance in reading, math, and science was a significant contributing factor to Canada’s overall rankings, and Ontario’s Mathematics Learning Outcomes are the most recently updated by governmental and educational experts. They include areas we at Schoolio feel are crucial to student success in a modern age, such as Coding and Financial Literacy. Therefore, we have modelled our Mathematics program on Ontario learning outcomes, confident that this program is the most up-to-date and thorough of all the Canadian provinces.
We continue to add new units all the time. Some of those are topics included in various provincial outcomes, others are topics we think will interest students. If we think a unit is valuable to all our Schoolio Canadian students, we’re working to create it! Stay connected to see our library grow!
*The OECD is an established organization, with 63 member countries, and has a goal of stimulating economic progress. Since education is tightly linked to economic progress, the OECD ranks the quality, equity, and efficiency of school systems worldwide every three years. https://www.oecd.org/pisa/PISA-results_ENGLISH.png
The world is a constant evolving place that our Schoolio students will grow to be a major part of. At Schoolio we believe in a secular, accessible education that includes important world issues like climate change, diversity, and socio-emotional learning. Our goal is to include unit topics that reflect our world and give students a solid foundation not only academically, but socially.
Schoolio Teacher-Writers specialize in a wide variety of areas, from Math District Leads to part-time honeybee farmers, our writers are encouraged to write units based on topics they are interested and experts in!
Our math program is a mastery approach. We follow this approach because we wanted our program to align as closely as possible with the Ontario curriculum guidelines, and mastery is the most common method used in public education.
In a mastery math program, students focus on one topic at a time and develop a thorough comprehension of that topic before moving on. In a spiral math approach, all topics are presented together, weaved amongst each other, and each time a topic is revisited, more depth is added.
There is no right or wrong way to teach math; we chose mastery because it is easier to follow for homeschooling parents and children.
We use the Fry Frequency Words List for our spelling program. The Fry List was developed by Dr. Edward Fry, based on the most common words to appear in English language reading materials. Learning all 1000 words in the Fry List will equip a child to read 90% of the words in a typical book, newspaper, or website.
Because the Fry Lists are listed by frequency of occurrence, rather than difficulty of spelling, students get a mix each week of easier and more challenging words. We believe in this approach to solidify the spelling of simpler words while allowing more focused attention each week on the more challenging words. This balance helps maintain confidence in students.
