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How to keep kindergartners learning during Covid-19

Allow your child to explore and discover their talents (Photo: Shutterstock)

With the fate of preschoolers still uncertain, ensuring that they continue learning and are sufficiently occupied is paramount. 

When the lockdown started, my daughter was quite keen to get out her new workbooks, her teacher had sent book recommendations to help her keep up with her school work, and get to her number work, language and colouring. We had a routine. As I worked, she’d sit beside me and do her sums, read and write and colour a picture or two. I even bought her a sketchpad that she used to create her own art which was quite good, I might add.

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