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Join us for WISDOM’s Family Camp, celebrating 30 years of WISDOM Home Schooling!

WISDOM began as a way to meet the needs at the heart of home schooling families, with service offered ‘by home schoolers, for home schoolers’. That passion for this amazing lifestyle continues to this day, as we continue to work to help parents teach their whole child. Join us at this fun family camp to connect with other WISDOM families, reminisce, and celebrate!

When:

• June 19: Evening Arrival
• June 20: Full Day of Activities
• June 21: Full Day of Activities, including Dance Instruction, Catered Dinner, and a Formal Dance
• June 22: Clean Up and Depart

Where: Battle Lake 4H Centre

Accommodation options include camping in your trailer/rv or tent, or booking dorm space or multi-family teepee (sleeps 15, only 3 available). First registered, first booked! No hookups/powered sites available. Families may bring their own food or purchase meal passes.

Activities Include: archery, baseball, swimming, boating/kayaking (bring your own watercraft), chess, soccer, card making, perler beads ...and more!

Cost: $275 per family or $100 per individual

Can’t make the whole weekend? Join us for Saturday’s 30th Anniversary Banquet & Festivities!

Celebrate 30 years of WISDOM with a special day to connect with other WISDOM families, reminisce, and celebrate! Saturday includes a Full Day of Activities, including Dance Instruction, Catered Dinner, and a Formal Dance—perfect for those who can’t attend the full camp. Come share in the joy and community that make WISDOM so special!

Where: Battle Lake 4H Centre

When: June 25, 1 - 4pm
Where: Calgary Area
Edowrthy Park (Meet at Picnic Site 1)

Every trip into the woods can bring something new! Join us for a wander through the forest and learn what plants and fungi are edible, medicinal and useful. 

The class will end with some tea and perhaps, depending on what we find, some foraged food. Feel free to bring pictures or fungi specimens for the group to ID with field guides! 

When: July 4, 9-11am

An afternoon in the North Saskatchewan river valley with wild food guide Kevin Kossowan. Learn about 10-20 species of wild edible plants and fungus, with a focus on their use in the home kitchen.

Kevin Kossowan has been on 100+ wild food adventures in the Canadian wild for his twice James Beard Foundation award nominated web series ‘From The Wild’. He’s taught field cookery at the Global Bushcraft Symposium, co-creates the series ‘Wild Harvest’ with Les Stroud and chef Paul Rogalski airing on PBS and National Geographic, has led numerous foraging workshops and forage-to-table workshops, and regularly works with chefs exploring the culinary potential of the Canadian wilderness.

This event is only for WISDOM families. A parent or graduate may attend by themselves; students must be accompanied by an attending parent.

When: Aug 8, 9-11am

An afternoon in the North Saskatchewan river valley with wild food guide Kevin Kossowan. Learn about 10-20 species of wild edible plants and fungus, with a focus on their use in the home kitchen.

Kevin Kossowan has been on 100+ wild food adventures in the Canadian wild for his twice James Beard Foundation award nominated web series ‘From The Wild’. He’s taught field cookery at the Global Bushcraft Symposium, co-creates the series ‘Wild Harvest’ with Les Stroud and chef Paul Rogalski airing on PBS and National Geographic, has led numerous foraging workshops and forage-to-table workshops, and regularly works with chefs exploring the culinary potential of the Canadian wilderness.

This event is only for WISDOM families. A parent or graduate may attend by themselves; students must be accompanied by an attending parent.

When: Sunday, September 7, 2025, 4-8pm

Where: Bethel Bible Camp - 10 minutes west of Westlock, Alberta

Directions: Click link for directions to Bethel Bible Camp

This event is open to all current WISDOM home schooling families. This is a great opportunity to visit with other home schoolers and members of the WISDOM team, and find out more about how WISDOM can serve you best.

WISDOM will provide hot dogs, buns, condiments and beverages. We will enjoy a meal together as well as have an information time, door prizes, games and socializing. This event will run rain or shine.

Please bring: For the meal, please bring potluck sides, salads or desserts to share with the group. (Please note: if you have a highly restrictive diet, feel free to bring your own food if you wish.)  There are many activities to enjoy at the facility, but you are welcome to bring other lawn games, board games, or lawn chairs if you would like.

Please RSVP by September 7, 2025. 

If you have any questions or for late registrations please contact:

Liz Gurnett by text at 780-349-1577 or email liz@wisdomhomeschooling.com

Rachelle Godin 780-349-1827 or email rachelle@wisdomhomeschooling.com

Our 'umbrella school', The Gilbertine Academy, will be opening a new half day STEM program next Fall, with a limit of 25 spots. It will run for the full year as a home school support program (not shared responsibility), and they are opening it to WISDOM students as well.

Who: For students in Grades 5-8
When: September 10th to June 10th, Wednesday afternoons from 12:45 - 4:00 pm
Where: Gilbertine Academy, 1423 8 Ave SE, Calgary
Instructor: Mr. Shane Lambert, B.Ed. (Math & Science), M.Div.

Questions? Email Shane!

This program will introduce students to the scientific method and develop their knowledge and skills in the realm of the Physical Sciences in Chemistry and Physics. They will study and conduct experiments regarding: Study of Motion (Uniform vs. Non-Uniform motion); Study of Matter (Properties of Metals/Non-Metals/Ionic Compounds/Molecular Compounds/Acids); Dynamics (Ramp-Acceleration); Physical and Chemical Change (Factors that determine melting points of various molecular compounds). Students will write a lab report for each experiment and will receive personalized feedback to aid and improve further studies. 

The General Physical Science laboratory seminar offered through WISDOM Home Schooling is designed to prepare students to be successful in senior level Chemistry and Physics courses. To that end, this lab seminar will serve as a prerequisite for Senior Chemistry Lab Seminar, Senior Physics Lab Seminar, and Biology 30 Seminar.