Here is a selection of Home Based Learning for your child during Lockdown to support the hard packs that were sent home on 22.8.21.  We appreciate that all of our circumstances are varied, and so are our expectations of Lockdown Home Learning.  You may be in a position where your child will complete all or just some of the following (which are listed roughly in order of importance). Please do whatever works best for you and your child.

Reading every day. 

Please encourage your child to read to themselves and to you.  Discuss the book they are reading e.g. identify any tricky words, questions they have related to the text, what they think might happen next, what would they do if...etc  Reading eggs has a vast library, and the Palmerston North City Library also offer free online books.

Keep active. 

Walk, jump on the trampoline, dance, skip, ride.  Take out a ball and practise your skills.  

Home-based Learning.

Bake together, play board games together, build or create something!  

Daily online google hangouts. Many classes will be having meetings and workshops, and teachers will have told families the details of this. 

Seesaw:  Activities will be posted onto Seesaw for children to complete.  These will not be time wasters, but (modified) learning opportunities that your child would have completed at school.

Prodigy: A maths online ‘game’ that some classes use is called prodigy. It can be used on laptops, Chromebooks, tablets or phones. 

Education TV. The Ministry of Education has partnered with TVNZ to deliver an educational TV channel for our tamariki during lockdown.

Reading Eggspress  (the step up from Reading Eggs) is another programme that we use at school. It has a variety of literacy based games, learning, and a vast library of thousands of digital stories. (which can be read aloud to your child).