Encouraging regular school attendance is one of the most powerful ways you can prepare your
child for success—both in school and in life. When you make school attendance a priority, you
help your child get better grades, develop healthy life habits and avoid dangerous behavior.
You can help prevent your child missing school by:
Practical Life activities are the activities of everyday life and they are involved
in all aspects of life. The child observes these activities in the environment and
gains knowledge through the real experience of how to accomplish life skills in
a purposeful way. These activities are cultural and specific to the child's time and
place. Practical life activities help give the child a sense of being and belonging,
established through participation in daily life with us. Through practical life,
the child learns about his culture and all about what it is to be human.