CONGRATULATIONS TO FAIRLAWN VILLAGE PRESCHOOL
CELEBRATING 50 YEARS OF NURTURING CHILDREN!
Ready for Back To School? Looking for some new ideas
to share with your kids? Check out these
great
suggestions and we
have included the related Content Standards to make it easy
for you!
Application
forms for the Good Idea
Grant
and the Send Me to the
OAEYC Conference
Scholarship are now available.
Check it out and apply today!!
November deadlines for both opportunities! Don't Wait!
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NEW
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Director's Roundtable
Join your colleagues for these thought provoking sessions.
Breakfast meetings, danish and coffee provided.
Lunch time sessions cookies and beverages provided.
All sessions will be held at Child Care Connection.
Registration
information attached
September 27, 1:00 - 2:30 Benefits of joining OAEYC Mary
Ellen Monroe, OAEYC President
January 24, 8:30 - 10:00 Difficult Staffing Situations Panel
presentation
March 6th, 8:30 - 10:00 NAEYC Accreditation Cindy Usner &
Yu-Ling Yeh
June, 1:00 - 2:30 Licensing - What every director should
know Aimee Weekly
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In December I was honored to receive
the “Good
Idea Grant”
and I am so pleased to summarize the
progress
of my project.
My idea for a ‘Bird in the
Hand’ project came to be as a result of a SUTQ training at
Seiberling Naturealm.
While enjoying a nature walk, I
observed a group of children and adults handfeeding
chickadees.
The children were highly
engaged, obviously delighted, and very focused on their
interactions.
This became the catalyst to
create a bird-friendly interactive environment within our
playground at the Nurtury in Medina. Some of the steps that
we have taken include:
1.
Installed a birding station
which includes 3 birdfeeders and small bird bath.
In a semi-circle around the
birding station are large stepping tree stumps that we
purchased and placed for children’s observations.
We are frequently greeted by
birdsongs as our children approach our birdfeeders, and
birds quickly fly in to eat – delighting our children who
help on a daily basis!
While we have not successfully
handfed chickadees yet, we are working toward that goal!
2.
Installed bird houses which
have been adopted by birds and a nester which birds use the
materials inside to make their nests.
Also we have materials for
children to weave through our fence that birds take to use
for nesting.
3. Hummingbird
feeders and window feeders are placed on classroom windows.
A cardinal family is regularly
visiting my classroom, and they seem to be content to see
many young eager faces gazing their way.
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State agencies
offer webinar series
to
combat bullying and improve school climate
ODE and several statewide agencies that have formed the Ohio
Anti-Harassment, Anti-Intimidation and Anti-Bullying
Initiative (HIB) are sponsoring a series of 10 one-hour
webinar sessions beginning Aug. 3. The webinars will
be held at 3 p.m. on the first Wednesday of each month
through May and at 11 a.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 19, during
School Bus Safety Week.
School professionals, parents and community support
personnel are encouraged to participate in each session,
which will be presented by content experts from each
sponsoring agency on topics including policy implementation
and supports, cyber safety, legal ramifications, school wide
interventions, teen dating violence prevention and girl
aggression. Ohio’s Anti-HIB Initiative speakers will
represent ODE, the Attorney Generals’ Office, eTech Ohio,
the Ohio Domestic Violence Network and the departments of
Mental Health; Health; and Alcohol and Drug Addiction
Services.
Each webinar will
accommodate the first 100 participants who register,
beginning 30 minutes before each program. The webinars will
be recorded and posted on this
Web page, where visitors may
link to webinars the day of each event. Questions may
be directed to Jill Jackson at
jill.jackson@ode.state.oh.us or (614) 466-9540.
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