Cooking Matters at the Store!

 Cooking Matters at the Store is an hour long tour where families learn skills like buying fruits and vegetables on a budget, comparing food labels and identifying whole grains. Educators are encouraged to post/share the information below with families.
 

Cooking Matters at the Store!
Place:              Stop & Shop – Route 44 Raynham
Date:               Tuesday August 12, 2014
Time:               5:30 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.
 

After the tour, participants will get a FREE $10 gift card to purchase healthy groceries, a FREE book of tips and recipes and a reusable grocery bag.
 

 Registration is required. Please call Rita 508.822.5388 x 137  (Unfortunately, childcare is not available for this night)
 

Project Learning Tree Workshop at the Buttonwood Park Zoo

Buttonwood Park Zoo in New Bedford is hosting a Project Learning Tree workshop for Early Childhood and Early Elementary Educators on Saturday, September 6, 9:00 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.. 

Project Learning Tree's curriculum builds on what's familiar and interesting to young children and engages them in experiencing and learning about the natural world.  Participants will receive two PLT Educator Guides:  Environmental Experiences for Early Childhood (includes eleven major themes with activities structured in a typical PreK format) and the PreK-8 Guide (includes ninety-six activities and supporting resources).   

These award-winning guides are only available by attending workshops.  The Early Childhood Experiences curriculum meets NAEYC criteria and the Head Start Child Outcomes Framework.  The PreK-8 Guide is correlated with current national standards.

Educators will participate in activities from the PLT curriculum and discuss their application individual teacher's situations, in a supportive, collegial atmosphere.  Weather permitting, we will incorporate zoo exhibits into the workshop.   

Limited enrollment, $35 per person includes zoo admission.  Questions or to pre-register (by August 30), please contact me at 413/584-6788 or Gini.Traub@state.ma.us.  To see more, please visit the Project Learning Tree website, www.plt.org, click on Educational Resources and click on the Environmental Experiences for Early Childhood and the PreK-8 Curriculum.

Just Playing

Commonwealth Family Childcare Inc. believes in the difference that Early Educators make in the lives of children. Thank you to all Teachers, Assistants, and especially CFC Family Child Care Educators! 

Just Playing

By Anita Wadley

When I’m building in the block room, please don’t say I’m “just playing”For you see, I’m learning as I play, about balance and shapes.
Who knows? I may be an architect someday. 

When I am getting dressed up, setting the table, caring for the babies.Don’t get the idea I’m “just playing”. For you see, I’m learning as I play.I may be a mother or a father someday. 

When you see me up to my elbows in paint or standing at an easel, or moldingand shaping clay, please don’t let me hear you say “He is just playing”For you see, I’m learning as I play, I’m expressing myself and being creative.I may be an artist or an inventor someday.

 When you see me sitting in a chair “reading” to an imaginary audience.Please do not laugh and think I’m “just playing”.For you see, I’m learning as I play.
I may be a teacher someday. 

When you see me combing the bushes for bugs, or packing my pockets with choicethings I find, don’t pass it off as “just playing”. For you see, I’m learning as I play.I may be a scientist someday. 

When you see me engrossed in a puzzle or some “plaything” at school.Please don’t feel the time is wasted in “play”.  For you see, I’m learning as I play.
I’m learning to solve problems and to concentrate.I may be in business someday. 

When you see me cooking or tasting foods, please don’t think that because I enjoy it, it is“just playing”. I’m learning to follow directions and see differences.I may be a chef someday.

 When you see me learning to skip, hop, run and move my body, please don’t say I’m “justplaying”. For you see, I’m learning as I play. I’m learning how my body works.I may be a doctor, nurse or athlete someday.

 When you ask me what I’ve done at school today, and I say, “I just played”
Please don’t misunderstand me. For you see, I’m learning as I play.
I’m learning to enjoy and be successful in my work. I’m preparing for tomorrow.
Today, I am a child and my work is play.