Rebecca usually watches two hours of television a day, mostly drama. She uses the internet for approximately two hours a day at work, primarily to do research about student finance and financial services. She emails and does online banking at home.

Rebecca wants both of her children to go to university. She teaches every couple of months and her children see her marking her students’ work. They also see her doing finances and reading handouts from her son’s school. Her son does not see her watching television because she watches after he is in bed. She sometimes models reading in books and her children occasionally see her using the internet.

Her son practices printing in scribblers and writes letters for one hour a day. They have story time every second night. Rebecca’s son attends French immersion and he brings home books from his school’s library. His school has a Home Reading Program where he brings home one book a week for them to read together. After her son has read to her, Rebecca signs a form confirming that he completed his reading. Rebecca’s son brings home four books a month; two are assigned to him and he chooses two on his own.

Rebecca helps her son with homework. Her son has his own bookshelf and a lot of books. He also has a public library card and visits the library every few months although more in the summer. Rebecca’s son does not watch television during the week but he watches cartoons for three hours on the weekend. He uses the internet for half an hour a week to play educational games.

Their cultural activities include going to Fort Edmonton and Artworks. They do not visit the museum, art gallery or TELUS World of Science because he goes to these places with his school. Rebecca rhymes and sings songs with her daughter, much the same way she did with her son when he was younger. Her son also does extra work (problem solving, math, drawing and shapes) in a workbook for half an hour a day.