Category Archives: parent child workshop

February 7, 2011 · 10:06 pm

>Preschool Playschool…Get Ready to Move!

>Continuing our Parent/Child Workshops we invited Joyce Akers from Akers Gym 4 Kids as our professional. Due to a scheduling error she wasn’t able to arrive when we started but we had a good time!

The Bany Room was transformed into an obstacle course for out little learners! The course consisted of crawling through a tunnel, walking over blocks and hopping. The parents added some extra challenges: Stomp like an elephant or hop like a bunny.

We also shared some books:
Eric Carle’s From Head to Toe and Sleepy Little Yoga by Rebecca Whitford.

We busted out some of our best dance moves to Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes and Hey Mr. Knickerbocker.

When Ms. Akers joined us she shared tips for fitness and introduced us to a parachute and hula hoops!
We ended the time with The Hokey Pokey!

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>Preschool Playschool…Here Comes the ABCs!

>Our second week of Parent Child Workshop was all about literacy and engaging little ones. We had two professionals today, Youth Services Coordinator Rachee Fagg and Master Storyteller, Carla Wiley. For Preschool Playschool we invited children and their caregivers to explore a variety of activities to help children get ready to read.

Activities included Chicka Chicka Boom Boom and a tree for the children to send letters climbing, magnetic letters to spell words, an Alphabet Walk in which children searched for letters through environmental print, rhyming games, fishing for letters and free books courtesy of the Book Bank and The Pennsylvania African American Library Association.

Playtime

Sorting through the alphabet

A matching game

Match the rhyming words

Getting ready to fish

Exploring letters

Magnetic letters to sort

Free books from PAALA

Exploring the matching game

Chicka Chicka Boom Boom Tree

Building together

Hunting for letters

More hunting for letters

Placing letters on the tree

Matching games

Children and their parents exploring

>New! Preschool Playschool!

>We are pleased to announce that we will be hosting a NEW preschool Playschool!
Part story time, part exploration, part playtime yet all FUN!

Preschool Playschool is designed to be a playgroup and more! Join us as we explore a variety of themes in a fun casual learning environment!

Our first meeting was held in conjunction with our Parent Child Workshop. We had guest Melisa Mons of Signing with a Smile demonstrate some signs as well as provide great crafts to extend the stories she shared.

What a great time!
We learned plenty of simple signs as well as shared the benefits of signing and some fun activities.
We also did activities to extend the books Good Night Gorilla and Good Night Moon.

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