Date: 7.13.

2021 Session # 6 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 Eating the Alphabet Big and small watercolors Balls, blocks, cars,
babies, Spike the Hedge
Geometry and Spatial Playdough with Hog
Relations Playdough Kitchen set

Conversation Prompts

What are you building? Read Together and ask Compare yourself and Talk about what you see Acknowledge effort over
How should we start? your child if he/she likes your child. your child doing. Ask ability through play.
that food? Big hands - small hands questions about what Narrate their actions and
Big feet - small feet 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
Feelings Buddies and
Internal Dialog
Conversation Prompts
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 Math & Faces books
Identifying Emotions
Composure Techniques Alphabet knowledge
Developing Healthy expectations for
Internal Dialog preschoolers
Positive Possibilities Why bubbles?
Effort over Ability/Speed
Safe Trial & Error
Celebrate Growth

Talk about feelings. Comment on how a child frequent conversations

Model caring for a Feeling is trying over how smart open ended questions
Buddy. You are safe. You they must be to repetition and extension
can handle this. accomplish something. self and parallel talk

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

Veggie Pizza Eating the Alphabet
Pretzels & Bottled Water What other foods start with the same sound? Who likes this food?

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

Math - Big & Small Discount $40.94 4 pack 8 Need 12 = $491.28

Baby Faces - Eat - Included in another session -

Eating the Alphabet Amazon $7.99 board 2 Need 18 = $143.82

Playdough Kitchen Set Amazon $15.99 Need 1 = $15.99

Fubbles Amazon $30.50 for 18 Need 2 = $61.00

Gazillion Bubbles Amazon $9.99 for 4 Need 8 = 79.92

Roam & Bubbles Amazon $19.99 Need 1 = 19.99

rulers Discount $11.34 for 12 8 Need 2 = 22.68

 Bringin’ it Home Healthy
Foods

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

Summer is a great time for eating
healthy foods! Yummy fresh fruits
Phrases to Encourage and vegetables are all around us.
Make a picnic lunch and find a nice
Growth Mindset spot outside for the afternoon.
When a child says they can’t do
Make Kiwi & Watermelon Pops
something or don’t know something,
Mash watermelon and kiwi together
reply, “You can’t do it yet.” or “You
don’t know it yet.”…“Hard work and place in a plastic or paper cup.
leads to success.”…“Build your brain’s muscles by working hard!”…“You Freeze for 2 hours. Serve with a
learn from your mistakes.”…“The harder you try, the smarter you spoon and enjoy!
become.”…“Never give up!”…“Everyone makes mistakes.”…“Failure =
learning”…“Mistakes make your brain bigger.”…“I love how hard you’re Make a Homemade Lunchable
working!”…“Great effort!”…“Effort is exercise for your brain.”… “I love how Kids seem to like food cut up small
you didn’t give up, even when the work was difficult.”…“Great job being enough to fit in their hand. Make a
persistent!”… “People aren’t smart or not smart; people work hard or don’t plate with fruits, veggies and cheese
work hard.”…“The more you use your brain, the smarter it gets.”…“I’m so sliced up just for them. Sit down
proud of how you worked through that challenge!”… “You can do anything together and encourage them to try
when you work hard.”…“You are so hard-working!” (Say this instead of, “You something new.
are so smart!”)
We are building healthy bodies!

Did you know that you can help develop a

child’s healthy internal dialogue???
Children just seem to love the Feeling
Buddies and they are a
great tool for teaching
positive coping skills. Let
your child choose a Feeling
Buddy and ask how that
Buddy is feeling. Ask how
they know that. Then hold
the Feeling Buddy gently and say ‘You are
safe. You can handle it.” Encourage your
child to say the same. Children will begin
to develop this pattern for themselves and
eventually be able to apply it when needed.
Conversation drives literacy skills and cognitive development,
regardless of parents' income or education. It is a powerful, actionable,
and simple tool for all parents to use. A ‘conversation’ looks very
different with much younger children. With infants, it might be taking
turns exchanging giggles or coos. With toddlers, it might be repeating
and expanding their sentences. With preschoolers, it might be asking
‘who, what, where,
and how’ questions.
Conversation builds
language skills and
brains.

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!