Wild & Rise · Canadian Homeschool Curriculum

A complete Kindergarten year,
made for Canadian families teaching at home.

Because children who are free to be wild are the ones who rise.

Wild & Rise is a Canadian homeschool curriculum company. The Kindergarten year is complete: thirty-two weeks across eight themes, a ninth bridge theme to Grade 1, everything that travels beside them, and one hub that holds it all. It begins with your child's own name and ends with a look back at how far they've come. Built on the Alberta Programs of Study, designed to align across Canada.

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The year

One year. Eight themes, and a bridge.
Your child at the centre of every one.

Eight themes make the thirty-two week Kindergarten year, and a ninth, four weeks long, bridges to Grade 1 for when your family is ready. Five trace your child's widening world: from me, to my people, to my community, to the land we share, and back to a child who has grown. Three follow the wild itself as it tucks in, sleeps, and wakes. They run in order because each one builds on the last. The pace is yours.

  1. Weeks 1–5All About MeThe gentlest way in: your child's name, body, feelings, and senses.
  2. Weeks 6–9When the Wild Tucks InThe living world prepares for winter. First letters and first blended words arrive here too.
  3. Weeks 10–12All About My PeopleFamily in all its shapes, first friendships, and telling our own stories.
  4. Weeks 13–16My CommunityHelpers, neighbours, needs and wants, and the first sense of being one of many.
  5. Weeks 17–20When the Wild SleepsDeep winter, and the richest hands-on science of the year.
  6. Weeks 21–23Caring for Our WorldThe land we live on, how we care for it, and the many kinds of people who belong here.
  7. Weeks 24–29When the Wild WakesSeeds, eggs, habitats, and growing things. The theme children never want to end.
  8. Weeks 30–32Look How I've GrownThe year turns back to the child who lived it.
  9. Weeks 33–36Getting Ready for Grade 1A four-week bridge, included, never required.

Every week carries an anchor lesson with a script you can read aloud, branch lessons across literacy, numeracy, science, social studies, art, and physical education, low-prep wander days, and a note for you inside every one. Each theme opens where the last one closed.

Your home base

One file opens
the whole year.

The hub is where your year lives. It asks three quick questions, then greets your child by name, tells you what today holds, keeps a tickable list of what this week needs to gather, and opens straight to the week you're on. Pick the light rhythm, the full rhythm, or build your own week. The hub follows whichever you choose, and you can change it any week.

It works offline, from the folder you download, with no account and no internet, and it works online too, from a link that comes with your purchase. On a computer, open the folder. On a tablet, open the link. It will still greet you on your phone, but the year reads most comfortably on a bigger screen.

You never have to plan a week from scratch. You open the hub, and today is already waiting.

Inside the hub

  • Greets your child by name
  • Tells you what today holds
  • What this week needs to gather
  • Opens to the week you're on
  • Light rhythm, full rhythm, or your own
  • Every theme, journal, and companion, one click away

What's in the folder

The year, and everything
that travels beside it.

On paper

The Printables Packs
Nine packs, one per theme: every lesson on paper, Morning Meeting and Closing Circle for every week, wander days for the fridge. Print a theme, or only the week you're in.
The Morning Rhythm Kit
Home and wall editions, both included. The calendar wall your mornings gather at, with a laminated Morning Meeting script card, built once and used every day of the year.

Two books you keep. One kit you show.

My Wild Year
Your child's daily journal: a page a day, a drawing box, and Closing Circle prompts that carry the themes into their own words and marks.
One Wild Chapter
Your book of the year. Twelve undated monthly spreads, one page a month, whenever you're ready to reflect.
The Record Keeping Kit
The paperwork: a weekly one-line log and a facilitator prep page, mapped to both journals. What your province asks for, without the compliance language creeping into the rest of the year.

Alongside

The Parent Guide
How Wild & Rise works, start to finish, written for a parent who has never taught before. One read and the whole year makes sense.
Wild Kitchen
Sixteen recipes, with image cards for the Kindergarten cook. Real cooking, small hands welcome.
Wild Outings
A bank of outings matched to every theme, ready when your family wants to go.
The Year in Books
Every picture book in the year, theme by theme, so library holds arrive right on time for their lesson.
The Materials List
One list for the whole year. Most of it is already in your house.
The Celebrations Pack
The year's observances, dropped in by date, wherever you are.
The Homeschool Starter Kit
Homeschool basics for when questions come up.

Your province

Twelve provincial and territorial alignment guides, from day one
Where the year lands in your own province or territory's language, ready for any facilitator visit. Alberta leads because it is verified. Built on the Alberta Programs of Study, designed to align across Canada. Quebec is the noted exception; families elsewhere confirm their own province's requirements.

Two ways in

The whole year,
or the first five weeks of it.

The Full Homeschool Year Bundle

$295 CAD

Every theme, every companion, the hub, and the twelve alignment guides, complete the day you buy it. Some families know from the first page that this is their year.

Get the full year →

The First Five Weeks

$35 CAD

All About Me, complete: five weeks, the same hub, the printables pack, both journals, the Record Keeping Kit, and all twelve alignment guides. Other families want to live inside a real week first, and see how their child settles into it.

Start with the First Five Weeks →

Both are a real beginning. What you pay for the First Five Weeks stays with you: your code is on the Year page of your hub, and it comes off the full year in full, plus a founding-families thank-you. Your child's name, your week, your rhythm, and your plan carry over. Nothing you built disappears.

The educator behind it

Hi, I'm Kimberly.

I'm a Canadian educator with close to twenty years spent making sure every child finds a way in. Wild & Rise is the curriculum I wished existed when my own son started Kindergarten. For my boys, and for yours.

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Try it before you buy it

A full week of Wild & Rise,
interactive and free.

Walk through Week 1 the way it's meant to be experienced. The anchor lesson, all six subjects, the Rise Together. Click through everything. It is the same week that opens the year.

Open the sample week →

Why Wild & Rise is different

Made for real weeks.

Every lesson is ready to open

Written to be taught as it is, with the why in plain language beside the what. You'll understand what you're teaching and why it matters, not just what to do next.

The week bends to your family

Every week comes with a full rhythm and a light rhythm already laid out, and a planner of your own. A few good learning moments beat a stressful full day, every time.

Every child at your table finds a place

Every lesson opens wide enough for more than one age. A younger sibling can come along, and an older one can be stretched further, at the same table, in the same lesson.

Learning that goes somewhere

Rise Together is a weekly act of care connected to the week's learning. Children who learn to give back don't just learn. They rise.

Built as a one-time purchase, never a subscription. When anything in the year grows, it grows for you too, free.

The letter

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Wild Wanderers.

The Wild Wanderers are the families learning this way alongside you. Join the list and the Canadian Homeschool Starter Kit is yours free. You won't hear from me often. Just the kit, and the occasional letter when something is worth your time.

  • Homeschool requirements for every province and territory, in plain language.
  • The Wild & Rise daily rhythm guide. What a real homeschool day looks like.
  • A Canadian book list for Kindergarten. Picture books, read-alouds, and nature stories.
  • A guide to documenting your homeschool year for facilitator visits.

Ready to rise?

The whole Kindergarten year is built and ready to open the day you buy it. Or begin with the first five weeks and see how your child settles in. Both paths lead to the same place.

Get the full year → Start with the First Five Weeks →