Early Learning
Early learning centres may be closed or operating in a limited capacity during the COVID-19 pandemic. This means that young children may not be getting the necessary opportunities to learn. The resources on this page have been designed to help mothers and anyone else in the home to keep children under age 5 stimulated and learning throughout the pandemic.
Resources
Educational game: Help to stop the COVID-19 coronavirus
This educational game was conceptualised and developed as part of ECD Let’s play, learn and grow together and the Active Learning@Home series, compiled by the Department of Basic Education, Department of Social Development, and with support from Unicef. The purpose of...
Early Learning under Lockdown Resource 19: Listen, touch, smell, watch and taste is learning
Children start learning about the world around them through their senses - touching, smelling, tasting, listening and watching. That is why sensory play is extremely important for their brain development. It stimulates the development of their motor, visual, language...
Early Learning Under Lockdown Resource 18: Problem Solving is Fun
This resource assists caregivers to teach children how to use their inborn creativity when dealing with issues and problems in everyday life, think critically, investigate and discover solutions to problems through play. This is very important for their overall...
Early Learning Under Lockdown Resource 16: Practice Counting Every Day
This resource assists caregivers to teach children one-to-one correspondence and how to understand the value of numbers, which is a foundation of mathematics. It gives suggestions for ways to practice counting in everyday activities with children according to age...
Early Learning Under Lockdown Resource 15: Have Fun with Sounds, Words and Reading
This resource teaches caregivers about the importance of communication for the overall development of children and gives suggestions for ways to communicate with children according to age group: 0 – 18 months, 18 months – 36 months, 3 – 5 years. Compiled by the...
Early Learning Under Lockdown Resource 14: Have Fun with Measurements
This resource assist caregivers to teach young children how they can have fun while learning about measurement and thus developing important base for mathematics later on. It gives suggestion fors easy to do at home exercises according to age group: 0 – 18 months, 18...
Early learning under lockdown resource 13 – Have Fun with Counting
This resource assist caregivers to teach young children how they can have fun with numbers, shapes and counting, by suggesting easy to do at home exercises according to age group: 0 – 18 months, 18 months – 36 months, 3 – 5 years. Compiled by the Department of Basic...
Early learning under lockdown resource 12: Learn about space
This resource assist caregivers to teach young children about the relations of objects in space, by suggesting easy to do at home exercises according to age group: 0 – 18 months, 18 months – 36 months, 3 – 5 years. Compiled by the Department of Basic Education,...
Early learning under lockdown resource 11: Playing and sorting
This resource assist caregivers to teach young children about sorting, by suggesting easy to do at home exercises according to age group: 0 – 18 months, 18 months – 36 months, 3 – 5 years. Compiled by the Department of Basic Education, Department of Social...
Let’s Play, Learn and Grow Together: Mini activity books for parents of young children
These little booklets were developed by the Department of Basic Education and UNICEF to support parents and their young children with reading, pictures and ideas that focus on the early learning and development of children from birth to five years. Available in...
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