Date: 7.13.

2021 Session # 7 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

Legos Dictation Pattern Blocks Easel painting Balls, babies, blocks,

cars, and Oballs
playdough
Patterning

Conversation Prompts

What are you building? Tell me a story. What piece are you Talk about what you see Promote safe trial and
How should we start? Tell me more. looking for? What piece your child doing. Ask error through play.
What else? comes next? 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
Breathing and Stretching
Conversation Prompts
How does your body feel
when you stretch?
How does it feel when
you take a deep breath?
Positive Possibilities
Effort over Ability/Speed
Safe Trial & Error
Celebrate Growth
Model managing errors
with ease - oopsy!
And then ask… what can
we try next?
Share playground rules Brain States Wooden Pattern Blocks
Identifying Emotions
Strive for child-led, Composure Techniques Cardboard Blocks
teacher engaged Developing Healthy
experiences to promote Internal Dialog Crayons
confidence in making
decisions and initiating Positive Possibilities Math book
experiences. Effort over Ability/Speed
Safe Trial & Error
Celebrate Growth
frequent conversations
open ended questions
repetition and extension
self and parallel talk

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

GoGurts Rosie Revere Engineer
Muffins
Bottles Water

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

Wooden Pattern Blocks Discount $26.80 set of 250 0 Need 6 = $160.80

Cardboard Blocks Discount $44.83 set of 40 3 Need 8 = 358.64

Crayons Discount $3.14 - 24 pack 0 Need 12 = $37.68

Crayons Discount $2.19 - 8 jumbo 60 Need 12 = $26.28

Math - Patterns all Around Included on another session - -

 Bringin’ it Home Fresh Air &
Movement

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

Children are natural explorers and
Trial-and-error is one of the most useful discoverers. Being outdoors
forms of learning. When we make an inspires us to wonder and wondering
error, or fail at something, we give inspires learning! Pick a spot nearby
ourselves an opportunity to analyze that your home and walk to it with your
failure, make a change, and then try child regularly. This spot should
again.Children need opportunities daily to have something growing. Snap a
try something over and over and over again. For an infant, it may be learning picture of your child in this spot
to use a spoon. They scoop up their food and attempt to get it in their whenever you visit. Create a file of
mouth without dropping it. Sometimes it makes it…sometimes it doesn’t. these pictures on your phone and
Many preschoolers enjoy drawing every day. This gives them the chance to share them with your child. Look for
keep working to control the crayon, to make purposeful marks and eventually small changes. Has the plant grown
to write their name. Trial and error is essential to learning new skills. or changed? Is the child wearing
Nurture comfort in trying. Let your child know that all things are hard at first. warm clothes or shorts? Has the
child grown? What color is the sky?
These conversations will nurture an
Taking only a few slow, Standing up, cross your ankles. appreciation of being outdoors and
deep breaths relaxes your Now cross your right noticing nature.
body & refocuses your wrist over left, turn your
mind. It is hard to hands so your thumbs We are building healthy bodies!
remember to take a are facing the floor, put
breath when you're palms together and Join your child in play! Ask
stressed, anxious or interlace fingers. Bend your questions that require more than one
angry. Help your child learn how to take elbows out and gently turn your word or have one right answer. For
a calming breath when they are hands down and toward your example, “Tell me about what you are
comfortable or as part of playing doing here.” “That’s a lot of pieces.
body until they rest on your chest.
together. As you both become more What can
comfortable with taking a calming Place your hands on you do
breath you and your child will start to top of your head and with
think of this as a solution when you are interlace your these?”
struggling. fingers. Breathe in For preverbal children, use self and
Make three calming breaths part of your through your nose as parallel talk strategies. Say things
child’s routine when taking a nap. This you raise your arms, inflating an like, “We have collected all of the red
will help your child slow their brain and imaginary balloon. Release the squares. How many do we have?
ready their body to rest. air in the balloon making a sshhh Let’s count them.” Can we work
sound and lowering your arms. together to stack these cardboard
bricks up tall?

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!