Studio Gaudet

Our Educational Approach

Studio Gaudet combines evidence-based literacy instruction, research-informed early mathematics, inquiry-based science, social-emotional learning and hands-on play to create meaningful learning experiences families can enjoy together.
How it holds together
The adventure gives context. The curriculum gives sequence.
Children learn best when learning feels like it belongs to something. A month of hermit crabs, tide pools and shells gives a child a reason to care about the letter they are learning and the number they are counting.
Underneath that story sits a careful sequence. Literacy in particular follows a deliberate order that does not change based on the theme. A child working through letter sounds keeps moving forward whether the adventure is the ocean or the forest.
Adventure
Provides the theme, the story, the real-life connection and the reason to be curious. Changes every month.
Curriculum
Provides the sequence, the skills and the outcomes. Moves forward steadily regardless of the theme.
Literacy is sequential.
Everything else spirals.
What we teach
Every subject area, woven together.
Rather than teaching subjects in isolation, each adventure draws them together around one theme. A single lesson often supports literacy, vocabulary, science, oral language and fine motor development at the same time.
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Literacy
Systematic, sequential, explicit

Reading instruction follows a structured progression grounded in the science of reading. Children learn letter sounds explicitly, then blend those sounds into words, then read those words in real books and real sentences.

Handwriting develops on its own developmental timeline, which often sits behind reading. A child reading confidently may still be building the motor control to write. Both are supported at the level the child is actually at.

Informed by
Reading.com progression Handwriting Without Tears Dolch sight words McCracken spelling
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Mathematics
Concrete before abstract

Young children build number sense by handling real objects long before they work with symbols on a page. Counting shells, sorting rocks, finding patterns in the sand and noticing one more all come before written equations.

Concepts return again and again across adventures rather than being covered once and left behind. A child meets counting, patterns, comparison and early addition many times in many contexts.

Informed by
Canadian curriculum outcomes Concrete to pictorial to abstract Spiral review
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Science
Inquiry over information

Science is taught as a way of thinking rather than a list of facts to memorise. Children practise the habits of a scientist first, and the content follows naturally from their curiosity.

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I notice. Looking closely and describing what is actually there.
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I compare. Finding what is the same and what is different.
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I predict. Using what we know to wonder what might happen.
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I care. Understanding that living things depend on us.
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Social and emotional learning
Regulation before instruction

A child who is overwhelmed cannot learn. Every day includes a moment to pause, name how they feel and choose what to do next. This is a skill that gets practised, not a mood that gets waited out.

Belonging is woven through the adventures themselves. Understanding that a hermit crab needs a home leads naturally into understanding that people need homes and communities too.

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I belong. My family, my home, my place.
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We belong. Sharing, kindness, seeing others.
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My community. The people and places around us.
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Our world. Caring for what we all share.
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Hands-on play and movement
The primary way young children learn

Play is not the reward at the end of the learning. For children under seven it is the learning. Tracing letters in sand, crab walking across the kitchen, painting a mermaid and building a shell home all develop real skills while feeling like play.

Movement is built into the week deliberately. Children think better after they move.

Meeting each child
Two pathways, one shared lesson.
Children in the same family are rarely at the same place, and the same child is rarely at the same place in every subject. A child can read well and still be building handwriting. Studio Gaudet is built for that reality.
Every lesson has two pathways running through it. Families choose the one that fits each child in each subject, and change it whenever it stops fitting.
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Practice
Building strong foundations with guidance. Letter sounds, early number sense, guided conversation and plenty of repetition. Roughly kindergarten level, though age matters less than readiness.
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Challenge
Greater independence and deeper thinking. Blending, digraphs, vowel teams, written response and extended reasoning. Roughly grade one and beyond.
Younger siblings join in at whatever level they can. A two year old tracing a letter with a finger and repeating a sound is doing exactly the right thing for their age. No separate plan is needed.
What a lesson looks like
About 15 minutes for the core lesson.
Each day follows the same shape so that families stop having to think about the structure and can put their attention on the child instead.
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A real moment
Something that actually happened, told in Danielle's voice
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I can
What your child will be able to do, written per pathway
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The core lesson
Step by step, with what to say and what to listen for
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Keep exploring
Journal, movement, story time and real-life extensions, all optional
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Look what happened today
The skills your child just practised without either of you noticing
One meaningful lesson is enough.
Curriculum alignment
Connected to what your child would be learning in school.
Lessons are built against Canadian provincial curriculum outcomes for the early years, drawing on Alberta and Prince Edward Island in particular. Families elsewhere will find the outcomes broadly familiar, since early literacy and numeracy expectations are similar across provinces and countries.
Those outcomes sit underneath the lesson rather than on top of it. You will not find outcome codes or jargon in the app. You will find an activity that quietly covers them, and a short note at the end of each day telling you what your child actually practised.
Every resource is designed to do more than one job. A single poem can support phonemic awareness, vocabulary, comprehension, print awareness, oral language and discussion. That is how 15 minutes goes further than it looks.
On technology
Screens should support childhood, not replace it.
Studio Gaudet is designed for the grown-up and the child to use together. The video and the voice-over are for the adult. They explain the lesson, model the language and show what it looks like in practice.
Then the device goes down and the learning happens between you.
The richest learning happens through conversation, movement, books, creativity, play and exploration.
Thoughtfully planned.
Wonderfully simple.
The planning is done. The sequence is built. All that is left is the part only you can do.
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