Pulaski County Community Early Childhood Council

We are so excited to share a new series about emergent reading and writing for young children.
To start, let's take a look at some research from The National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC).
Stay tuned for upcoming tips and tools!

Let your littles help make dinner. I never use the marbles and it works fine.

Homemade Butter in a Jar Make homemade butter out of cream in under 10 minutes! A fun activity for kids that doubles as a delicious science lesson!

https://www.fantasticfunandlearning.com/turkey-math-thanksgiving-activity.html

Turkey Feather Math Thanksgiving Activity - Fantastic Fun & Learning Practice number pairs by combining sets of turkey feathers in this addition Thanksgiving activity for kindergarten and first grade.

https://www.facebook.com/100063621066913/posts/840570248073670/?mibextid=Nif5oz

Here are some great family engagement resources to help celebrate Family Engagement month.

Parent Partnership: Secretary Cardona and Friends Celebrate National Parent Involvement Day

National Parent Involvement Day
Thursday, November 16 ET
Parent Partnership Event
Free Live webinar about how the Department can support parents
Registration link:

Webinar Registration - Zoom

Borrowing from one of our activities yesterday, here is a gratitude paper chain craft. Fun for the whole family. If you want it to be a countdown for Christmas, be sure to make enough to cover the number of days you need.

Thankfulness Paper Chain | Kids Activity Teach kids to recognize gratitude and be thankful by doing this thankfulness paper chain with them throughout the month of November.

Thank you to all the families and volunteers who came to Gratitude and Crafts with PCCECC. We appreciate our host and event partner, Pulaski Parents as Teachers! We had fun making a gratitude tree, a kindness paper chain and a thankfulness jar. We built with blocks, acted out emotions at the fishing pond, read books, played with sensory bins and built with magnatiles. And we awarded two bicycles to the most recent readers of 1000 Books Before Kindergarten, a program at the Children's Library. Way to go girls!

Join us this morning and play! 10 - noon. Come to the north entrance of the Pulaski Board of Education and drive down the hill to park. A gratitude tree, a fishing pond, sensory bins, blocks, a kindness chain, and more!

Practicing these skills at home is valuable. Strengthening motor skills is one way to help your child be ready for kindergarten.

Fine motor tips for preschoolers

Learn about voting today with these fun activities. Create a voter registration card and practice knowing name, address, age, parents' names and phone numbers. Create a ballot box and a ballot. Vote dog/cat, ice cream/cookies, bicycle/scooter - whatever your family likes then chart the results with a simple bar graph. Learn through play.

And you can listen to Duck For President in this read aloud.

READ ALOUD! DUCK FOR PRESIDENT (children's picture book by Doreen Cronin) Duck for president!

Spot the ISS Sunday morning
(SpotTheStation) Time: Sun Nov 05 7:27 AM, Visible: 7 min, Max Height: 87 degrees, Appears: NW, Disappears: SE

Indicadores importantes: su bebé a los 15 meses

Copia a otros niños mientras juega, como sacar juguetes de un contenedor cuando otro niño lo hace

Ms. Olivia will be joining us in the Children's Depot for a Dream Catcher activity on Thursday, November 2nd at 4:00 pm! 🪶

Beginning on October 24, 2022, child care employees became eligible to have all household income excluded from their Child Care Assistance Program (CCAP) case as long as they meet ALL technical eligibility requirements and have verified they work in a licensed or certified child care program.

The Employee Child Care Assistance Partnership (ECCAP), which began accepting applications in April 2023, allows employers to contribute towards an employee’s child care cost and have the state match the contribution up to 100%. Child care employees are not currently eligible for ECCAP.

Providers should encourage their staff to apply for CCAP, not ECCAP. When a child care employee applies for ECCAP, they are delaying the opportunity for the family and the provider to potentially receive valuable resources from CCAP. Please advise child care employees to apply for CCAP online at kynect.ky.gov, by calling 855-306-8959, or by visiting a DCBS Family Support office.

Thank you for all you do to support Kentucky's children and families!
Division of Child Care

Family Dinner Book Club is a great way to read together and make memories with accompanying menus or activities. Here is this month's information

Travel to Japan Through Books, Food and Crafts Explore Japan in this Family Dinner Book Club complete with a menu, conversation starters, table craft and a family service project.

Pulaski County participates in the Imagination Library program. If you have a little one younger than 5 years old, you can register online or get a form at the library.

Nearly 30 years ago, Dolly Parton launched Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library to nurture a passion for reading in the hearts of preschool kids and their families by gifting them a handpicked book every single month. Today this program has gifted over 200 million books across the world. 🌎

📖 Check the availability in your area by going to:
https://imaginationlibrary.com/check-availability

Have fun as a family outside today. Paint or carve pumpkins and use one to make this fizzy volcano. STEM and fun rolled into one. This will definitely make memories!

Pumpkin Volcano Science Activity - The Resourceful Mama Kids will love watching as chemicals react and fizz over the sides of this pumpkin volcano, a fun and classic science experiment with a fall twist.

From Jesse at Vroom
Unwind at bedtime. As your child lies down at night, draw a letter on their back with your finger. Repeat the letter again. Your child is learning about letters through their senses. Give clues if it's hard. "It's the letter your name begins with." Guessing games like this let your child build connections between how letters look & feel. Keep it up, brain-builder. You're helping your child learn! 🧠🛌🤛👏

Today 4 - 6! Come see us! So many activities and crafts! PCCECC has pumpkin ring toss, cow bean bag toss and a spider web hamper of goodies

Join us at the library fall party!

What can Appalachian Early Childhood Network do for you?
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🧸 💤 😴 We’re hosting a sleepover for your kid‘s furry friend! First, your family is invited for a special dinner with the Chick-fil-A cow! Don’t forget to wear your pajamas and bring your favorite stuffed animal! You'll leave your furry friends with us for a sleepover! Pick them back up on Saturday morning and you'll be given pictures of how they spent their night! 🧸 💤 😴

Dinner/Registration time will be 6-8 pm on October 20th and the pickup time will be 9-10 am on Oct 21!

Our youngest littles learn through play and activities. A mirror is a fun, easy to find tool for supervised play time.

Reflecting on babies and mirror play Mirror play helps babies develop self-awareness, a key part of their overall social-emotional development. And they love it.

Join us at the library fall party!

As your little ones grow they learn to be more independent. Here are some tips to learn to tie shoes. This one was certainly a challenge in our home. I never thought to use two colors of pipe cleaners to start.

Best tips for Tying Shoe Laces! Are you kids wearing velcro, buckles or lace ups for school this year? There is a growing trend {just my observation} for kids to start school with velcro fastenings on their shoes {mine included}....

Slime and playdoh are fun ways to strengthen hands and fingers. Check out this fun recipe. The theme can be altered to fit your family's favorite.

https://fun-a-day.com/preschool-fairy-tale-fun-princess-slime/?fbclid=IwAR38i4bSqkKKyIAZfO4bZfw6Jkdz1npTFHzztGChOmfmtC7asUnIq34rWno

With the Crappie USA Tournament Trail coming into town this weekend, it means they will also be hosting the Crappie USA Kids Fishing Rodeo! Registration will be at 9am at Pulaski County Park in the gravel parking lot by the ramp with fishing taking place until 11am!

https://crappieusa.com/

Balance and Coordination activities!

Grab some candy corn, fall colored pom poms, pumpkin stickers with the backs still on - whatever you have on hand - and play alphabet bingo today. Games teach great life skills and this one also practices letters. As you call out the letters, say a word that begins with the letter or ask your players to take turns doing that. Make the letter sounds to reinforce. Learn through play!

Alphabet Bingo Game - Frugal Fun For Boys and Girls Here’s a fun game that is perfect for preschool or kindergarten – Alphabet Bingo! Add in a fun snack as a prize for people who get a bingo, and you have instant motivation! Owen started out his school career a little more interested in workbooks than the other two boys were, but that has waned.....