Date: 6.29.

2021 Session # 4 Health Component: Fresh Air & Movement, Oral Health, Healthy Foods

We strive to work in partnership with parents of children ages birth - five to provide quality early learning experiences that can
be replicated at home with an on-going focus on nurturing a Growth Mindset, nurturing foundational language & literacy skills
and Conscious Discipline.
● Growth Mindset Principles: Foster a belief in positive possibilities, Acknowledge effort over ability or speed.
Support safe trial and error. Celebrate growth in self, individual children and the group.
● Foundational Language & Literacy: CLASS - Language Modeling - frequent conversations, open ended
questions, repetition and extension, self and parallel talk and advanced language.
● Striving Readers Comprehensive Literacy Program - phonological awareness, vocabulary, strategies to enhance
children’s motivation to learn to read and write.
● Conscious Discipline: Share Conscious Discipline with modeling in the classroom & Conscious Parenting instruction.

Building Activity Language/Literacy Math Activity Creative Art Carpet Activities

Large Cardboard Blocks Name Builders Shapes Puzzles Colored Pencils Babies, balls, blocks and
cars
Geometry & Spatial Playdough with letters
Reasoning

Conversation Prompts

What are you building? Share the story of your What do you notice about Talk about what you see Promote safe trial and
How should we start? child’s name. Label the these shapes? What your child doing. Ask error through play.
letters as you work. else? questions about what Narrate their actions and
your child is doing? your actions.

Conscious Discipline Growth MIndset Outdoor Plans Conscious Parenting Parent Guide

Brain States
Identifying Emotions
Composure Techniques
Developing Healthy
Internal Dialog
After the Fall with Feeling
Buddies
Positive Possibilities Share playground rules
Effort over Ability/Speed
Safe Trial & Error Strive for child-led,
Celebrate Growth teacher engaged
experiences to promote
confidence in making
decisions and initiating
experiences.
Brain States Sharing After the Fall
Identifying Emotions
Composure Techniques How to play with puzzles
Developing Healthy for brain building
Internal Dialog
Math and Faces Books
Positive Possibilities
Effort over Ability/Speed
Safe Trial & Error
Celebrate Growth

Conversation Prompts frequent conversations

open ended questions
What does his face say? Model effort and repetition and extension
persistence with puzzles self and parallel talk

Snack ($300 weekly = up to 60 servings) Read Aloud and Engaging Questions:

Banana Bread Sing along with children’s instruments
Apple Slices/Sauce
Bottled Water

Take Aways & Consumables($600 weekly = up to 40 children) Additional Participants

After the Fall Amazon $9.99 8 Need 12 = $119.88

Shapes Puzzles Discount $9.62 8 Need 6 = $57.72

Knob Puzzles - 17 -

Math - Shapes book - Included in another session -

Baby Faces - Splash - Included in another session -

 Bringin’ it Home Fresh Air &
Movement

Parents - a child’s first & most influential teacher.

Help your child work through
setbacks, or lack of
self-confidence, by helping to
identify negative thoughts that
may suggest concerns about
his or her ability to be
successful. As a parent, you
can help children see what the small steps are and how persisting and
overcoming obstacles is a part of succeeding. Help your child realize
that setbacks are not permanent or all-encompassing. You can also
use books like After the Fall to discuss challenges and how the
characters manage those challenges. You can ask your child…’What
else could Humpty Dumpty try?’ In early childhood, generating
thoughts and sharing them are more important than their solutions
being realistic.
Outdoor play is a great way to
model the joy of physical activity.
When children run, jump, climb,
throw and kick balls, and ride toys
that require balance, they also
build gross motor skills and start
developing a habit of being active.
Toddlers are all about challenging
themselves to do new and difficult
things—pet a dog, climb some stairs,
venture a little farther away from a
caregiver and then return. Playing
outside provides opportunities to run
faster, climb higher, jump farther, and
more—all under the watchful eye of a
caring adult.
We are building healthy bodies!

After the Fall by Dan Sanat is a story about Puzzles allow children the
how Humpty Dumpty feels after falling off chance to build their small
of the wall. This is a great story for muscles, hand-eye
discussing feelings coordination, and
and trial and error. problem-solving strategies
Point out the look on Repeating what your child says and
through repeated practice. Sit
Humpty Dumpty’s extending their thoughts with your
with your child if they are
face. Ask when your own builds foundational language
struggling. Be calm and let skills. This is especially important to
child has felt this way
them know that they will get it. children three years old and younger.
and share how you
Resist the urge to ‘fix it’ for Speak out loud with your infant like
have managed these
feelings too.
them. Talk them through you are carrying on a rich
Discussing feelings when your child is turning the piece to get it to fit conversation. Repeat the babbles of
calm will build their emotional knowledge or to try another piece. If the young toddlers and use words to
and vocabulary. When you feel like your puzzle is causing too much describe your actions. These simple,
child is beginning to understand what distress the child could be tired ongoing steps will develop the
feelings are, use this language when your or hungry and it may be best to language center of your child’s brain
child is struggling to regulate their put it away and try again later. and build a healthy foundation for
emotions. lifelong language skills.

Snap a couple of pics of your child participating in activities at home. Email them to Sherry at sroush@tps.org or
text them to 419-480-9624. We will use these to understand your family’s experience and to evaluate our program.
We are so glad you are here!