Dear families,
We hope you had a blessed Easter weekend! This week, we will focus on elections,☑️ preparing for next year with curriculum 📚, and Poetry Month ✍️.
Announcements & Reminders
- Canadian Home Education Resources is offering all BC customers free shipping until May 9th, 2025. Use the coupon code CHERBC25 on orders over $200 at checkout to unlock the free shipping option.
Parent Events & Webinars
- If you missed our Curriculum Selection Tools and Tips Webinar, you can watch it here. Curriculum Consultant Cynthia Duncalfe shared practical tips on choosing a curriculum that fits your home education style. She covered selection strategies, top picks, and helpful Learning Commons resources to get you started.
Student Highlights & Contests
- A Sheep Shenanigans Storytime with Margaret, Dewey and Erin on May 6, 2025, at 10 am PST. This Storytime is for K- Gr. 4, but everyone is welcome. Register here.
- Book Highlight & HCOS Teacher Review – A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver
- Happy Poetry Month! To celebrate poetry month, we are running one of our most popular events… Join the fun with our Book-Spine Poetry Contest! Use book titles to create a poem.
Resource Updates & Tips
- Need help choosing a curriculum for the year? Our Curriculum Options page offers a vetted selection of recommendations, filtered by grade and subject. Use the filters to find resources that fit your family’s needs, view short descriptions, and access publisher websites for more information. Please consult your teacher, as most resources do not fully meet BC learning standards.
- Find some Elections/Democracy educational resources at Elections Canada Teaching, and on Sora.
- New Books on Sora range from graphic novels to mystery, adventure, and more.
- Plan ahead and book curriculum and kits for the 2025/26 school year! Note: Families new to HCOS will receive access to the search portal in early August.
- What’s on your summer reading list? Check out these resources on home education!
Blessings From The Learning Commons
