A printable weekly pack for Ontario Grade 1 families who want their child to do well at school and pick up real-world skills along the way. Built on the Ontario curriculum, with game-style rewards and you as the coach.
We named this after the way orca families learn. Not because it's cute, but because it's exactly what we're asking you to do.
An orca mother shows the move, lets the calf try, and stays close, between the calf and the shore. The calf does the work. She makes it safe.
Older sisters, aunts and grandmothers all take a turn, and grandmothers carry what the pod knows for decades. In your pod that's mum, dad, a grandparent, a big cousin. Whoever sits down tonight is the coach.
Calves practise for years before they hunt on their own. There's no cramming in the sea. Just the same small things, repeated, with someone who loves you alongside.
That's the whole idea. You beside your child, twenty minutes a day, until the skills are theirs. Your family is a pod.
A paper pack, a pencil, and a grown-up who sits down. That's the whole toolkit.
Twenty minutes at the kitchen table, most days. Mum, dad, grandma, whoever's home: you sit beside your child, not over them. You cheer them on, nudge when they're stuck, and mark the page when it's done.
We didn't want to be another screen. We chose paper and pencil so a six-year-old can touch the work, focus, and make it their own. And most of all, because twenty minutes with you beats twenty minutes with a tablet. It's a parent and child ritual, not another app.
Mondays and Wednesdays are sounds and reading. Tuesdays and Thursdays are numbers. Fridays are for writing. At the weekend there's a real job to do around the house, and that counts too.
When the page is done, you mark it together. Finished the page, every answer right, done inside twenty minutes: each one is a punch on the card. Thirty punches fills a two-week card, and your child gets the prize they circled on day one.
Sounds: ar and or, then numbers: tens and ones. 13 pages: two for each school day, the weekend job, your punchcard, and a two-minute parents' handbook.
Pop your email in and the downloads open up. We'll also email you when each new pack is ready.
Print single-sided. The last two pages are your punchcard and the parents' handbook, so there is nothing else to download.
Up to three punches a school day, once you've marked the page, and three more across the weekend. Prizes stack: 12 punches wins the first, 22 the second, 30 the big one. Finishing the page every day gets a child to 12 on its own, so showing up always pays.
Prizes stay small and real: pick what's for dinner, a movie night, a trip to the toy store. Each column has suggestions, and a blank line to write your own together.
The punchcard is inside every weekly pack, right before the handbook. Print it once and keep it on the fridge for two weeks.
This is the first week. Earlier packs will appear here as the weeks go by.
What took too long, what was too easy, what made your child laugh. Two lines is plenty, and it shapes next week's pack.
A new pack goes up every weekend. Leave your email and it lands in your inbox, ready to print.