Palmetto Basics # 4: Explore Through Movement and Play
This month’s featured Palmetto Basic is #4: Exploring Through Movement and Play. This is a perfect Basic to showcase this month as this is such an important part of child development, but can be difficult sometimes with the unpredictable weather we often experience this time of year. It is important to note that children can explore through movement and play both indoors AND outdoors. Children learn by touching, banging, dropping, stacking, pouring, climbing, crawling, walking and running. Helping your child become an explorer helps develop their curiosity and critical-thinking.
Here are a few indoor activities that promote exploration that you may want to consider: playing with kitchen utensils or cookware; stacking books, boxes and/or clothes; and yoga. Outdoor activities that enhance the development of exploration through movement and play are playground climbing, taking walks in nature and running in the yard.
Since Exploring Through Movement and Play is such an integral part of your child/ren’s development, WE WILL PLAY OUTSIDE whenever possible at all CDCs throughout the winter. Please be assured we do limit the amount of time we spend outside depending on the conditions as well as monitor the children’s clothing for appropriate wear. We do have some extra clothing at each CDC for those children that may need something a little warmer. To help us with this, please be sure to send your child to school with warm clothing (jacket, hat, mittens, etc.) if possible. If your child has a medical condition that prevents them from playing outside in cold weather, be sure to communicate that to your child’s teacher or center nurse.
Kale....Say What!?!?
Ms. Produce is introducing KALE as the produce for the month by sharing a book, dressing in costume wear and serving kale in some form for lunch each week this month.
Kale is one of the most nutrient-dense foods on the planet!
A single cup of raw kale contains:
- Vitamin A: 206% of the DV (from beta-carotene)
- Vitamin K: 684% of the DV
- Vitamin C: 134% of the DV
- Vitamin B6: 9% of the DV
- Manganese: 26% of the DV
- Calcium: 9% of the DV
- Copper: 10% of the DV
- Potassium: 9% of the DV
- Magnesium: 6% of the DV
It also is full of antioxidants as well as helps lower cholesterol, so why not try it out??
Hoping You and Your Child Have Fun Trying Some Kale This Month!
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Manner of the Month: Apologize It is important that when we hurt someone's feelings or hurt them physically that we apologize. This can be a difficult circumstance as we do not want to FORCE a child to say sorry, but rather help them to develop empathy for the other individual so they WANT to say they are sorry. Here is an article worth reading consider some ways to teach this difficult skill: How To Teach Your Child To Apologize and Actually Mean It. | My Child Wants to Watch YouTube!!Now that the holidays have passed and many of our children have access to online content they may not have had before, we often wonder how can we still maintain safe boundaries for them? The article below talks about YouTube and gives information to help you make decisions and take control of your child's access to this app. | If Sick Please Stay HomeAlthough, most of what we hear about is COVID, please keep in mind, in an effort to decrease the spread of ANY contagious illness at school, we would like to remind you of the following: · If your student has fever, they must be fever free for 24 hours before returning to school (this means without the use of fever reducing medications). Fever is defined as a temperature of 100.4 or greater. If they have a fever one day and wake up the next day fever free, they should NOT come to school because it will not have been 24 hours. It is very common for children to not run fevers when they awake in the morning, but for it to reappear later in the day. · If your student has diarrhea, they must be diarrhea free for 24 hours before returning to school (this means without the use of diarrhea suppressing medication). Diarrhea is defined as 3 or more episodes of loose stools in a 24 hour period. · A student must not come to school if vomiting 2 or more times in 24 hours. A student should have 1 or 2 meals without vomiting before returning to school. If you have questions concerning your student’s health, please contact your school nurse. Thank you for your assistance in decreasing the spread of illness. |
Manner of the Month: Apologize
Here is an article worth reading consider some ways to teach this difficult skill: How To Teach Your Child To Apologize and Actually Mean It.
My Child Wants to Watch YouTube!!
Now that the holidays have passed and many of our children have access to online content they may not have had before, we often wonder how can we still maintain safe boundaries for them?
The article below talks about YouTube and gives information to help you make decisions and take control of your child's access to this app.
If Sick Please Stay Home
Although, most of what we hear about is COVID, please keep in mind, in an effort to decrease the spread of ANY contagious illness at school, we would like to remind you of the following:
· If your student has fever, they must be fever free for 24 hours before returning to school (this means without the use of fever reducing medications). Fever is defined as a temperature of 100.4 or greater. If they have a fever one day and wake up the next day fever free, they should NOT come to school because it will not have been 24 hours. It is very common for children to not run fevers when they awake in the morning, but for it to reappear later in the day.
· If your student has diarrhea, they must be diarrhea free for 24 hours before returning to school (this means without the use of diarrhea suppressing medication). Diarrhea is defined as 3 or more episodes of loose stools in a 24 hour period.
· A student must not come to school if vomiting 2 or more times in 24 hours. A student should have 1 or 2 meals without vomiting before returning to school.
If you have questions concerning your student’s health, please contact your school nurse. Thank you for your assistance in decreasing the spread of illness.