REMINDER PARENTS MEETINGS / TRAINING:
EVERY 1st Tuesday of Each Month
Health Training – Rikki Peck (NH Nurse)
EVERY 3rd Tuesday of Each Month
Mental Health Training – Erin Wentz (NAVOS)
•Unemployment Escalation Pathway contact Claudia Alvarado: (206) 376-0782, claudiaa@nhwa.org
• https://survey.alchemer.com/s3/6148800/High-Point-Family-Resource-Center-Diaper-Distribution
•We are still looking for preschool children and families for our home based program. If you have families and friends who are interested to enroll, please contact us.
•STUDIO program enrollment – starts April 12, contact ET Paine at etp@nhwa.org
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National Gardening Day – April 14, 2021
https://www.quartoknows.com/Cool-Springs-Press founded national Gardening Day in 2018 to celebrate the hobby of gardening and to encourage gardeners to share their expert knowledge.
National Gardening Day on April 14 encourages gardeners and would-be gardeners to pick up a shovel and some seeds and kick-off a beautiful year of homegrown bounty.
The observance is a call to action to get out and grow flower or vegetable gardens. No matter how you garden, plant in the ground, in containers, in straw bales or a square foot gardening box. Just garden!
Garden Come to Life | National Geographic
Toddler’s Milestones Cdc.gov
CDC’s Developmental Milestones
Skills such as taking a first step, smiling for the first time, and waving “bye bye” called developmental milestones. Children reach milestones in how they play, learn, speak, act, and move (crawling, walking, etc.).
https://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/actearly/pdf/checklists/Checklists-with-Tips_Reader_508.pdf
“Learn the Signs. Act Early.”
Download CDC’s Milestone Tracker app to see more photos and videos of milestones, track children’s development, and know what to do if you ever become concerned about your child’s development. Learn more at www.cdc.gov/MilestoneTracker.
Language / Literacy
Learn the letter Uu | Jack Hartmann
Starfall
https://www.starfall.com/h/abcs/
Phonics Story U | English Singsing
Learn letter U | Super Simple
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Letter Uu Story Under his umbrella, Uncle Upton starts to frown. /u/ /u/ /u/ Uh-oh! It’s upside down |
Vocabulary Uniform Umbrella Umpire Underwear |
GARDENING VOCABULARY WORDS
STORY TIME!
Lola Plants a Garden
Author: Anna McQuinn
Illustrator: Rosalind Beardshaw
Read by: Caroline Crouse
Dig In!
Author: Cindy Jenson-Elliott
Illustrator: Mary Peterson
Read by: Story Book Time
Art / Writing
Make Straight and Curved Lines | Jack Hartmann
Graphic Practice: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U
Practice straight line and curve u line using music and raise your pencil when the music stop.
Letter Uu song | Learning Dynamics
Letter Uu
Uppercase U – down, curve up
Lowercase u – down, curve up, down
Write the letter U – ABC Writing for Kids
Materials: Journal, white paper or colored paper, crayons or colored pencil, glue, scissors.
- Using your journal, draw or cut and paste upside down umbrella and a regular umbrella.
- Cut and paste or draw raindrops.
- Practice writing “U is for Upside down Umbrella” or “U for Umbrella”
ARTS AND CRAFTS
Letter U for Upside down Umbrella
Math / Science
Count to 100 | Jack Hartmann
COUNTING GAME WITH GARDEN SYMBOLS
- Ask your kid to look at the pictures and identify the pictures.
- Ask your child; how many different items are there in the pictures?
Three (3) rain boots, garden gloves, water sprinklers
- As you child to count how many each items and write the number next to the picture.
FOLLOW UP ACTIVITY
SCIENCE ACTIVITY
World of Wonder Science Song | Jack Hartmann
GARDENING WITH KIDS
Growing flowers and plants, (either from seeds, bedding plants, cuttings or bulbs), provides an endless opportunity to learn about science and nature.
Kids can learn:
* The names of common plants * Which plants are edible
* Why some plants prefer sun * How plants use the sun and soil to grow
* How insects interact with plants * The process of germination
* How to grow plants from cuttings
and bulbs * How plants provide oxygen
* How plants prevent soil erosion * Basic soil chemistry
* How food is grown and preserved
DIY Inside Herb Garden for kids
Materials: Empty milk container or any container, soil, herbs plants or any vegetable and flowering palants.
- Cut your container.
- Put your soil into your container.
- Plant your herbs or vegetables or flower plants.
- Hang or put it into your window sill.
Dish Garden Ideas
Problem Solving
Problem Solving Song | Lisa Hermsmeier
Back to Back Drawing Game for Kids & Adults
DRAWING ON MY BACK
This is a game of creative thinking / imagination for kids to develop their problem solving skills.
Kids Art & Craft Ryan’s World
https://video.link/w/rDUic https://video.link/w/VTUic
Here is a game for two people. If there are, more than two people you can play line one behind the other. So let’s have some fun and see if you
Can copy what is being draw on a piece of paper behind your back.
Materials: paper, pen/pencil, and tape
- One person attaches a piece of paper onto their back.
- Person behind you draws something onto the piece of paper on your back.
- You have to see if you can feel what they are drawing and then draw it onto your piece of paper.
- Draw one bit of the picture on the back first and then wait for the person with the paper on their back to see if they can copy that bit onto their Paper by how it feels.
- Then draw the next bit and so on until you have finished your picture.
- Compare if you have the same picture.
Social Emotional
Emotions (Feelings) Song | ChuChu TV Nursery
Social & Emotional Well-being: Garden can Help!
By: Little Green Thumbs
Grow Resilient Children with a home/Classroom Gardening
Resilience (or resiliency) is our ability to adapt and bounce back when things do not go as planned – an important for children (and adults). Resilience enables us to recover from setbacks, reduces the effects of stress, and can protect us from the development of some mental health difficulties.
How can gardens develop resilient children?
Gardening gives children a place to take risks
Giving children the responsibility to take care of plants may come with setbacks. When a child encounters a challenge, they learn coping skills, and how to find solutions.
Gardens enhance the learning environment
Research has shown us that plants in the environment can help children learn. Environments with living plants can improve concentration, and focus, reduce stress, and best of all create curiosity and excitement to fuel inquisitive minds!
Create a garden as a family activity inside or outside your house!
Movement / Play
Body Stretching | DJ Raphi
The Tissue Dance
This simple activity teach kids a good posture, body control, balance, and coordination.
Materials: piece of toilet paper or napkin
- Have everyone put a tissue on his or her head before you play the music.
- Start the music and begin dancing, but do not let the tissue hit the ground.
- If the tissue start to fall, allow your child to catch the tissue and put it back on your head.
- If they miss and the tissue lands on the floor, they are out.