Strategies + Tips

Ensure the learning space at home remains in place

• Organising the learning space each afternoon for the next day will help your child be ready to learn each morning.

Keep your family routines going

• Be flexible with the Daily Learning plans and make it work for your family. Change the order of learning tasks if needed and support your child to get the work done when it works for you.

• Younger children need more structure, so make sure to let them know what to expect. Use the Daily Learning Plans to help plan out the day.

• Have your child follow a routine as if they're going to school, e.g. getting dressed, brushing teeth, etc.

• Movement and brain breaks are really important, especially for children with learning and attention difficulties, so make sure to build those in and break work into smaller pieces if needed.

• Plan to take a break with your children, have fun together.

Take time to review expectations

• Go over the PB4L expectations. This is what the school expects during online learning

Display work

• Let children hang up their drawings, writing, or other work in your home. It shows them you're proud of their work and helps them value their learning.

• Even older children like it when you show pride in their work by bragging about their efforts and showing off their work.

Give detailed praise

• Instead of saying "good job," try giving specific details about your child's work. If they tried hard, let them know you noticed. Have they made progress? Used a new skill or knowledge? In what ways are their efforts kind, clever, beautiful, or insightful?

• Also, encourage a growth mindset, which means reminding children that it's not about being good or bad at something, but working toward getting better at it.