Learning by ability, not by grade
Learn how the world works.
Free learning ladders for homeschooling families. Four subjects, and each rung is one ability that builds on the one below. Find the rung your child is on and start there.
How it works
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Pick a subject
Reading, math, science or geography. Each is a ladder of seven rungs.
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Find their rung
Every rung opens with a short "ready to start when" list. If your child can already do its "ready to move on" list, go up one.
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Do, don't just read
Each rung has activities for the kitchen table, the backyard and a group of kids, with the words to say.
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Move on when it sticks
Tick off the signs as you see them. There's no test, no deadline and no grade.
The four ladders
Rungs go up as each one is written and checked. The math ladder is the first.
Reading
From hearing sounds to reading to learn.
- 1Loving booksComing
- 2Letters and their soundsComing
- 3Sounding outComing
- 4Early readerComing
- 5Beginner readerComing
- 6Reading wellComing
- 7Reading to learnComing
Math
Each ability builds the next one, naturally.
- 1Counting and number senseOpen
- 2AdditionOpen
- 3Addition and subtractionOpen
- 4Place valueOpen
- 5Adding, subtracting, multiplyingOpen
- 6All four operationsOpen
- 7Fractions, decimals, moneyOpen
Science
Why do things do what they do?
- 1NoticingComing
- 2Living thingsComing
- 3Stuff and forcesComing
- 4Water, weather and seasonsComing
- 5Light, sound and heatComing
- 6Earth and skyComing
- 7Asking and testingComing
Geography
What's around us, and why?
- 1My spaceComing
- 2My neighbourhoodComing
- 3My townComing
- 4Land and waterComing
- 5Reading mapsComing
- 6Ontario and CanadaComing
- 7The worldComing
What you can count on
Free, for good
No accounts, no payments, no ads. Every page is open to every family.
A resource, not a rulebook
In Ontario you choose what your children learn. Use what fits your family and skip what doesn't.
Out in the world
Examples come from right here: the St. Clair River, the Lake Huron shore, the Pinery, a walk down your own street.
Nothing kept about your child
Checklists save on your own device. We never ask for a name, an age or an email.
Who writes it
Lambton Learning Hub is written by a Lambton County parent who has homeschooled for 25 years, with their own children and with larger groups. Every rung is checked by them before it goes up.