What can you do during school closure

General

Being at home in self isolation may be a stressful time for all families so we don’t want becoming the “teacher” to add to your stress.  Below are some simple ideas of what you can do to help your child continue learning while at home.

The most important thing is to keep it fun.

Here are some ideas of some things you can do.

Basic Stuff

All our children are 5 years old and it is still the basic stuff that is most important.

Oral language - talk with your children. Ask them questions about how they are feeling and what they think about stuff.  Use the what, where, when, why and how questions to help them to extend their thinking and speech.


Spend time colouring in with your child, check that they are using the correct pencil grip.


Cutting out -  Spend lots of time cutting pictures out of magazines and creating collages which you can talk and write about if you want to.  Create stories and books.


Playing games - teach simple card games like memory and snap. Play games like snakes and ladders with two dice so they have to add the numbers together.


Bake with your child and enjoy eating it!


Read to your child.  Or look at online websites  like https://www.storylineonline.net/ or http://www.scholastic.com/100BestReadAloudBooks/#logo that will read books to you for example storyline online where actors read the story.  Listen with your child and when the story is finished discuss:
- What was the best bit? - Why
- Who were the characters?
- What happened first, next and last?



Keep practicing the alphabet, the name of the letter, the sound it makes and a word that starts with that sound.
Studdyladder is a great website for Maths and English, if you would like. https://www.studyladder.co.nz/

We will continue to upload this blog with ideas. Please don’t make this stressful for yourself or your children. Just do what you can.

If you take photos of your wee people and would like to share them with us, we would love to see what you get up to. :)