Since your child’s birth, you’ve been building the essential foundational skills for her school readiness, and now this significant milestone is just a few months away. You don’t need to cram six years of work into the next two months, but doing a bit of “finishing work” can help build confidence and ensure a smooth transition to big school. This doesn’t mean you should intensely drill your child - that could put her off school permanently. Instead, you can playfully reinforce the existing skills that her Grade 0 teacher has been working on all year.
MATHEMATICS
■ Ensure your child can count effortlessly and understand numbers up to at least 10 (preferably beyond) and can count backwards from 10. Don’t drill your child, but use every counting opportunity: count while driving in the car or setting the table. Teach her counting rhymes. Be concrete: she should understand the
