PreK Weekly Newsletter
April 6, 2020
A Note From Our Early Childhood Team
We hope you and your families are doing well and are staying healthy! In an effort to provide support tailored to your specific needs during the COVID-19 closures, we are working to offer several options for support at this time.
Click here to access our NEW Early Childhood Google site! We are working to consolidate our information and resources to provide easy access for all districts/charters in Region 20. The main page has current information and the tabs on the side offer program specific information that is being updated daily.
Stay Well, Texas: APART WE STAND TOGETHER
This important message about COVID-19 will help to keep you safe and healthy. The most important thing you can do right now is stay at home! If that’s not possible, practice social distancing by staying 6 feet from others. Wash your hands with soap and water for 20 seconds and disinfect frequently touched surfaces such as doorknobs and countertops. Avoid touching your eyes, nose, or mouth, and cover a cough or sneeze with your elbow. If you have symptoms of COVID-19 – a fever, dry cough, or shortness of breath, call your doctor. Remember, by staying apart now, we can all be together again faster!
Click the picture below for more helpful information about COVID-19
Meals For Students When They Are Needed The Most
Normally TXschools.gov is used to find school performance information. In the wake of coronavirus, you can click picture to find free school meal pick-up locations near you.
Click on picture to visit website
Rain, Rain, Go Away!!
5 Fun Indoor Activities That Will Keep Your Munchkins' Entertained
- Create a Homemade Sensory Bin. Grab an empty shoebox, rice, small spoon, small dinosaurs, or any other small toys that the kids would have fun digging up. Let the kids dig to reveal the treasures.
- Letter Snowball Fun! On pieces of paper, write different letters and throw the paper balls to your child. Your child will open up the piece of paper and name the letter and the sound the letter makes.
- Raining Cotton Craft. Grab so crayons/paint, glue, construction paper, and cotton balls. Have your child look out the window to create what they see outside.
- Marshmallow Towers! All you need is pretzel sticks, marshmallows, and an imagination. Watch your child build eatable structures.
- We're Going on a Treasure Hunt. Hide objects around the house for your child to find. Create a treasure map for your child to follow, to help them locate the treasure.
Build it Like Me
- This building activity encourages children to recognize shapes and to use math-specific vocabulary to talk about a structure they are building.
- As you watch the video, you will see that he is using ideas from structures he sees outside.
- He asked great questions about the shapes he noticed as we were building.
- To extend this activity, you can ask your children to count how many rectangles (and other shapes) they see in their structure.
Click on picture to see activity in Spanish
Grover's Playground Workout
Children love to move—anywhere, anytime! Physical activity is great for growing bodies and minds. Being active together helps channel kids’ energy and keeps them healthy and strong. Plus, movement can help us—kids and grown-ups—calm down and relieve stress. Consider these ideas to get moving every day!
Health emergencies. (n.d.). Sesame Street in Communities. https://sesamestreetincommunities.org/topics/health-emergencies/?activity=learning-at-home-physical-movement
Digital Library
5 Ways to Extend Your Read Aloud
- Introduce new vocabulary to your child before reading (blustery, blizzard, haboob, derecho, funnel, hurricane).
- Have your child draw/paint what the clouds look like outside on a rainy day.
- Look at the clouds to see different shapes the clouds create.
- Talk to your child about staying safe during different weather storms.
- Create a rain cloud science experiment https://laughingkidslearn.com/rain-cloud-science-experiment
Take a Virtual Field Trip with SeaQuest
Helping your child learn responsibility
- Notice and Narrate: Draw attention to strategies that work.
- Ask Instead of Tell: Support your child’s independent actions.
- Put Your Child In Charge: Ask questions that inspire your child to solve problems.
- Celebrate Success: When you notice your child being responsible, show your appreciation.
Naeyc. (n.d.). NAEYC. https://www.naeyc.org/resources/pubs/tyc/apr2019/helping-child-learn-responsibility
Early Childhood Consultants
Early Childhood Special Education Team
Vanessa Moran
Email: vanessa.moran@esc20.net
Website: https://sites.google.com/esc20.info/ece/home
Location: 1314 Hines, San Antonio, TX, USA
Phone: 210-370-5903