Parent Engagement for Active Child Enrichment

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Tips of the Week

Behavior Tips

Give positive feedback! Use encouraging feedback and comments.

Help your child to learn to use self-calming techniques (e.g., Teach taking deep breaths, counting to ten, etc. to calm down when feeling agitated or angry.)

Provide positive and encouraging feedback regularly to build confidence in your child. Try to reinforce positive behaviors: When your child responds well to instructions or completes an assigned task or displays a lot of concentration on a task. (For example, Say, “I like the way you are listening to the story” or “You have really worked hard at cleaning up your toys”).

Use on-the-go activities to build your child's thinking skills.

Have your child engage in a variety of Math (computation) activities: Counting, Addition, Subtraction and Measurement problems. You can do it while on-the-go when you are waiting at a Doctor’s office or at the Airport or Riding in the car when you have a few minutes to spare.
Let your child count the number of people waiting at the doctor’s office.
Give addition problems (e.g. 2+2 or 3+1=?) for your child to calculate in his/her head or use fingers to count if needed.
Play the “I Spy” game and give clues to an object in the room and have your child predict. (e.g., “It has 4 legs and a seat.” (chair) or, “It opens and closes.” (door)
Make an encouraging comment about your child’s efforts for guessing even if the prediction was not accurate .

Working Paper No. 1 (2009)

This 2009 paper from the Center on the

Developing Child at Harvard University

provides a thoroughly documented

overview of the many ways in which

healthy development depends on the

quality and reliability of a young child’s

relationships with the important people

in his or her life, both within and outside

the family.

Brain Development
http://main.zerotothree.org/site/PageServer?pagename=key_brain

This ZERO TO THREE site offers a variety of audiovisual resources on the topic of early brain development.
Summer Reading List to Grow
Young Minds
Click here to view the full list
This comprehensive summer enrichment list includes a wide variety of books and cognitive activities that will grow the minds of your young ones.
Resources that Promote Children’s
Learning and School Success
Click here to view the file
This document provides various website links to promote your chidl's success in school and in the future. There are links for toddlers all the way up to grade school kids.

Literacy Tips

Read to your child daily. As you read engage in a shared reading experience.

Read the book “Chicka, Chicka Boom Boom” by Bill Martin, Jr. and John Archambault.

It will help to build your child’s letter knowledge, learn the alphabet sequence and to expose your child to rhyming words.

Read the book “Are you My Mother?” By P. D. Eastman to teach problem solving skills.

Read books that portray feelings and how to express it and what to do when feeling angry:

Help your child to label his/her feelings and how to express feelings safely.