Prep
Daily Learning
To ensure continuity in students learning while staying at home, we have compiled resources and activities for daily learning at home this week.
Students are encouraged to work through activities each day so that, when your child is ready to head back to school, they have undertaken tasks similar to their peers. We are confident that the completion of these home tasks will support the students in a smooth transition into school and learning routines.
Below is the weekly Home Learning grid with appropriate links to activities.
NB: You will need to use the 'scroll bar' to move up and down the below document.
Please email your child's teacher if you have any questions about the below tasks or would like any feedback.
T4, W1 - MWNPS Home Learning - 5 October to 9 October 2020.pdfPrevious Home Learning GRIDS
Below are the previous Home Learning GRIDS for Prep. Please refer to the specific dates on each Home Learning GRID.
Term 3, Week 9
T3, W9 - MWNPS Home Learning - 7 September to 11 September 2020.pdfTerm 3, Week 10
T3, W10 - MWNPS Home Learning - 14 September to 18 September 2020.pdfUseful Links
Reading Daily
An excerpt from "Why Read 20 Minutes a Day"?
Reading is “brain food”
Our brains develop as we “feed” them with experiences. The experience of reading (whether you’re the reader or the one being read to) activates and “exercises” many of the areas of the brain. The visual cortex works as your eyes track the words on the page and look at the illustrations. Your memory makes connections between what you already know about the topic of the story and its content. You integrate new information learned through reading further strengthening and growing your network of knowledge. Reading provides one of the most enriching and complex brain activities available in life.
Practice makes perfect
Generally, the more time you are exposed to something and the more time you spend practising it, the better you’ll become at performing it. This is absolutely true for reading. Research shows that children who have repeatedly been exposed to books from birth generally exhibit strong reading abilities.
Reading improves academic performance
There is a strong correlation between a child’s ability to read and his/her academic performance. Because so much of our schooling relies on our abilities to read, children must have strong reading skills to succeed and thrive in school.