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E-learning in Ontario: Follow this family as they adjust to school at home (Day 7)

Kitchener couple Carin Lowerison and Matt White are trying to support their three elementary-school age girls: Berkeley, Heidrun, and Clementine, as they learn from home during COVID-19.
Jackie Sharkey · CBC News ·
Heidrun, 9, and Berkeley, 11, get some school work done at the dinner table while the family's 'ball of chaos' Clementine, 5, and her dad Matt ham it up in the kitchen. (Submitted by: Carin Lowerison )

Families all over Ontario are figuring out how to support their school-age kids as they learn from home during COVID-19.

For the past week we've been following Carin Lowerison and Matt White's family, as they try to help their three daughters with their home-based education.

The couple has three girls: Berkeley, 11, Heidrun, 9, and Clementine, 5. Up until March Break, the girls spent their days at Sheppard Public School, in downtown Kitchener.

Then the pandemic closed the schools. Ever since, Berkeley, Heidrun and Clementine have been doing their lessons at the kitchen table, in the attic — wherever they can find a quiet place to study. 

But never far away is the reality that they can't see their friends and they can't really play outside like they used to. That creates stress and anxiety that kids are only so equipped to deal with. 

Especially empathic ones, like Heidrun, who are prone to worry. 

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Jackie Sharkey

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Jackie Sharkey is the daytime radio news anchor for CBC News in her home province of P.E.I. She spent 10 years working as a producer, guest host and studio technician in Kitchener, Ont. and helped launch the station when it was created in 2013. She has also worked for CBC in Kelowna, B.C., Quebec City and Rankin Inlet, Nunavut.

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