A Peek Into Our Day: February 2012

Raising Resiliant Children

California Parenting Institute presents a new workshop:

Emotional Resiliency: Raising Resilient Children

Ideas on how to help children learn to cope with their feelings. Children's emotional resilience is important to their long-term happiness, well-being, and success in life.

Topics include:

* Helping children recognize, understand, and accept feelings
* How to encourage your child to express their feelings in an appropriate way
* Helping your child develop a positive outlook
* Teaching children coping skills
* Helping your child learn to deal with negative feelings and coping with stressful
life events

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Workshop Dates
Date: Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Time: 6:30-8:30 pm
Cost: $10
Place:California Parenting Institute,
3650 Standish Ave. Santa Rosa 95407
Presenter: Kate Robey, MFTI Child Therapist and Certified Triple-P Provider
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California Parenting Institute | 3650 Standish Avenue |
Santa Rosa, California95407 |

Dates To Remember

Monday Feb 20th ~ CLOSED Presidents Day

Thursday Feb 23rd ~ Dentist Visit 11:20 am. ALL parents and families welcome to attend even if it is not your scheduled day. Please arrive at 11:15 and plan to stay with your child.

March 19th through 23rd ~ CLOSED Spring Break

Tax ID

Several of you have asked for our tax ID number. It can be found on your receipt when you log into childcarepay.com. I will not post it publicly (I hope you understand).


https://www.childcarepay.com/index.php

Your log-in info was sent to you via email when your child first enrolled. The default password is child

Valentine's Day

We will be having a card exchange and party next Tuesday morning. Please bring 12 unnamed cards or treats (enough for 12). They can be signed by your child but leave the "to" field blank.

We will be having a small party and would appreciate any food items you would like to contribute.

Unfortunately, we are completely full on Tuesday mornings so we can not invite those who are not regularly scheduled to also attend (I hope you understand). However, if those kids would like to bring something for their friends on Monday we will welcome them to do so.

Tactile Letter Book Project

Posted By: Miss Anna

For the month of February the Red Birds and I will be working on pre-reading work; introducing the letter sounds l,c, and v. The intent is to introduce letters phonetically since this is the way they will learn how to read. Oftentimes teachers will introduce the Alphabet in order and without any sounds or movements to associate the visual with. Earlier this week I brought out a basket full of objects that begin with c. The kids had fun thinking of other words during snack and at other play times. I have attached a list of sounds below if you are interested in helping your child as you read to them in the evening and have them begin to sound out basic words.

We will increase our study of the letter sounds by identifying objects that begin with the associated sound and creating a tactile book with materials associated with their beginning sound. For example: 'yarn' for the letter 'y'; 'confetti' for the letter 'c'. Note here that we did not do 'circle' for c as that has a s sound instead of the soft k heard in cup or cake.The children will glue materials to an outline of the letter and when all 26 pages have been finished, they will take them home. We will not go in order of the alphabet and we will cover one letter per week. We have already covered 'y' and are continuing our study of 'c'.

I also wanted to take the opportunity to say thank you all for the warm welcome. We are having lots of fun at PBPH and I am looking forward to another fun filled month of new concepts and fun crafts!

When practicing letter sounds with your child pronounce each sound as you hear it in the following words:

a- at

b-rib

c-can

d-lid

e-end

i-if

g-bag

h-him

i-indian

j-jam

k-ink

l-lag

m-am

n-in

o-odd

p-map

q-quit

r-rat

s-us

t-bat

u-up

v-vivid

w-wit

x-box

y-yet

z-zest

Here are a list of animals a-z:

a-alligator

b-bee

c-cow

d-dog

e-elephant

f-fish

g-goose

h-horse

i-iguana

j-jellyfish

k-kangaroo

l-lion

m-moose

n-norwal

o-octopus

p-porcupine

q-quail

r-racoon

s-snail

t-turtle

u-umbrella bird

v-vulture

w-walrus

x-fox

y-yak

z-zebra

Groundhog Day!

Happy Groundhog Day!

What a fun day for kids :) Today we not only talked about Punxsutawney Phil but also shadows, weather and the sun.

So grateful for technology! We watched the video of the announcement on the weather channel this morning at circle time. It brought this yearly event to life for the kids.

Below are a few other projects we did today