Many parents have been heard saying that they can always catch-up on lost time, but they will never be able to live with the consequences of their child being infected by the virus and potentially dying from it.
A printer (although not absolutely necessary, it can save you a lot of time, especially with younger children who have to a lot of actual writing)
Once these are in place, parents need to be structured in terms of what they will teach and they need to have a very good understanding of the outcomes for the specific term, per subject.
This means that parents can link the learning outcomes with the activities that their children need to do, or concepts they need to learn e.g.: by end of Term 2 in Grade 1 Maths, a child should be able to describe and order numbers from smallest to greatest and greatest to smallest.
My recommendation for parents of primary school children, particularly for those who want to keep their children home but who are pressed for time, is to focus on developing their children’s literacy skills.
Yandiswa Xhakaza is the CEO of the Nal’ibali reading-for-enjoyment campaign
For more information about the Nal’ibali campaign, or to access children’s stories in a range of SA languages, visit www.nalibali.org, or send the word ‘stories’ to 060 044 2254 .
