Delta Head Start/Early Head Start
Delta Head Start/Early Head Start Sponsored by Delta Community Action Foundation, Inc. Karen Nichols, Executive Director
March 2013 Sharon Horton, Head Start Program Director
Parenting: Love and Logic Tips
These children are enjoying books donated by Bowman Chapel United Methodist Church in Purcell. The church, in collaboration with Project Noel, provided books to each Delta Head Start Center this Christmas. Thank you Bowman Chapel for making a difference!
Anger and frustration feed misbehavior Enforceable statements must be provided with a caring attitude The more words we use with a misbehaving child, the less effective we become. Great parents keep their enforceable statements short and sweet. Children will always come to need the same number of warnings or reminders as we give them. Great parents describe the limit once. And follow through with actions instead of words. Small children are like copier machines. They can sense when we are the most stressed and vulnerable and self destruct at the precise moment.
Delta Head Start Program Outcomes Report Available for Review
Each program year Delta Head Start does a initial assessment, a mid year assessment and a final assessment of the children enrolled in our program. The mid year assessment is currently available for review at deltacommunityaction.org. This report utilizes the tools in Teaching Strategies Gold which measures a child’s growth in each of the thirty-six objectives for learning. These objectives are aligned with the Head Start Early Learning Developmental Framework and the Oklahoma Early Learning Guidelines. This also enables teachers to see student movement toward School Readiness goals so teachers can individualize learning for each child.
Oral Health Plays a Key Role in the Health of Children • Good oral health means better growth and development. • Poor oral health can lead to eating and speaking problems. • Pain and not wanting to eat because of tooth decay can lead to poor food choices and delayed development. • Oral pain can make children fussy or withdrawn. • Oral pain can make it hard to focus and learn. • Oral pain can mean more missed days of school. • Children who do not have oral pain learn more. Oral Health Plays a Key Role in the Health of Pregnant Women • Pain, shame, and not wanting to eat because of tooth decay can lead to poor food choices. • Oral pain can make it hard to focus. • Stained, broken, or missing teeth can make women feel bad about how they look. • Good oral health during pregnancy means a good start for future oral health. National Center on Health
A Healthy Family Is... When partners see differences as desirable, struggle as beneficial, and grief as necessary. When partners never press the other to change, yet by probity, stir them towards it. When neither accepts that which is not given with an open hand. When each can turn to the other for whatever is urgently, needed and appreciate whatever is available. When love is neither a plan nor a commitment, but only a consequence of who we are to each other. And when there are children... When personal language (NO!: I want I don't want: I like-I don't like: I will-I won't) is the cornerstone of conversation: taught, appreciated and encouraged by example alone. When the home is shaped by the reality of which each is and not according to an ideal of how a house should look and a family should behave. When parents know that a child's deepest instincts and greatest unconscious desires are to cooperate, to please, and to respond in kind. Thank you Lynn Weeks, M.F.C.C. for providing the above article.
Things You Can Do to Help Your Child Remain Safe National Center on Health Home: • Keep all medicine, cleaning and harmful products away from
children. • Use cabinet locks and electrical socket covers. • Use safety gates on stairs. • Use cribs with secure sides rather than drop sides. • Keep cribs away from windows and blind cords. • Lift blind cords out of reach from children. • Put babies to sleep on their backs in a crib with no soft blankets, pillows or bumpers. • Keep children away from hot foods and liquids. Turn pot handles to the back of the stove. Set your water-heater thermostat to 120 degrees or less. Keep children away from heaters or fires. Have a smoke alarm on every floor. Replace batteries in the spring and fall. Check with your local fire station to see if they can help you find a smoke alarm or carbon monoxide detector. Get a carbon monoxide detector, if you do not have one. •Ask your pediatrician about foods and small objects that can cause choking. Make and practice an escape plan. Outside: • Teach your child to stay out of the street. • Look for playgrounds with soft surfaces instead of dirt or grass. • Watch your child closely on the playground. • Remove drawstrings from clothing. • Keep shoelaces short and tied. Water Safety • Know that a child can drown in any amount of water that covers his mouth and nose. • Always stay within arm's reach of your child if in or near water. • Learn to swim, and take your child to professionally supervised swim lessons. • Use four-sided fences with self-latching gates around pools. • Learn cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). • Car and Truck Safety • Choose a car seat that is right for your child's age, height and weight. • Choose a seat that fits in your car or truck and use it all the time. • Ask your Head Start staff where you can go in your community to have your child's car seat installed safely. • Be sure that children under age 12 only sit in the back seat. • Never leave your child in a car without an adult. • Teach children that vehicles are never safe places to play. Even if the windows are open, young children can become dangerously overheated within the first 10 minutes.
Our Fatherhood Activity for the Month of March is Fly a Kite With Dad.
Save the Date 2013 Annual Conference Collaborating for Success: Economic Development for the Next Generation
The Purcell Rotary, City of Purcell, and Purcell Friends of the Library recently sponsored a book give away to benefit Purcell Early Learning Center students.
April 17(AM) Early Childhood Day Oklahoma State Capitol April 17 (PM) Pre-conference Activities Skirvin Hilton Hotel April 18 Conference Skirvin Hilton Hotel
Delta Head Start 308 S.W. 2nd Lindsay, OK 73052
Delta Head Start Mission Our mission is to teach and reach children and families by working together with families, communities, and creative partnerships through comprehensive high quality services, thus, empowering families to shape their future, one child at a time.
Mark Your Calendars! POLICY COUNCIL MEETING On March 25 2013 At 6:30 PM Hwy 76 South Lindsay OK Transportation & Child care provided!
Sponsored by Delta Community Action Foundation, Inc. Executive Director -Karen Nichols Program Director -Sharon Horton [email protected] 308 S. W. 2nd Lindsay, OK 73052 Phone: 405-756-1100
March 2013 Sharon Horton, Head Start Program Director
Parenting: Love and Logic Tips
These children are enjoying books donated by Bowman Chapel United Methodist Church in Purcell. The church, in collaboration with Project Noel, provided books to each Delta Head Start Center this Christmas. Thank you Bowman Chapel for making a difference!
Anger and frustration feed misbehavior Enforceable statements must be provided with a caring attitude The more words we use with a misbehaving child, the less effective we become. Great parents keep their enforceable statements short and sweet. Children will always come to need the same number of warnings or reminders as we give them. Great parents describe the limit once. And follow through with actions instead of words. Small children are like copier machines. They can sense when we are the most stressed and vulnerable and self destruct at the precise moment.
Delta Head Start Program Outcomes Report Available for Review
Each program year Delta Head Start does a initial assessment, a mid year assessment and a final assessment of the children enrolled in our program. The mid year assessment is currently available for review at deltacommunityaction.org. This report utilizes the tools in Teaching Strategies Gold which measures a child’s growth in each of the thirty-six objectives for learning. These objectives are aligned with the Head Start Early Learning Developmental Framework and the Oklahoma Early Learning Guidelines. This also enables teachers to see student movement toward School Readiness goals so teachers can individualize learning for each child.
Oral Health Plays a Key Role in the Health of Children • Good oral health means better growth and development. • Poor oral health can lead to eating and speaking problems. • Pain and not wanting to eat because of tooth decay can lead to poor food choices and delayed development. • Oral pain can make children fussy or withdrawn. • Oral pain can make it hard to focus and learn. • Oral pain can mean more missed days of school. • Children who do not have oral pain learn more. Oral Health Plays a Key Role in the Health of Pregnant Women • Pain, shame, and not wanting to eat because of tooth decay can lead to poor food choices. • Oral pain can make it hard to focus. • Stained, broken, or missing teeth can make women feel bad about how they look. • Good oral health during pregnancy means a good start for future oral health. National Center on Health
A Healthy Family Is... When partners see differences as desirable, struggle as beneficial, and grief as necessary. When partners never press the other to change, yet by probity, stir them towards it. When neither accepts that which is not given with an open hand. When each can turn to the other for whatever is urgently, needed and appreciate whatever is available. When love is neither a plan nor a commitment, but only a consequence of who we are to each other. And when there are children... When personal language (NO!: I want I don't want: I like-I don't like: I will-I won't) is the cornerstone of conversation: taught, appreciated and encouraged by example alone. When the home is shaped by the reality of which each is and not according to an ideal of how a house should look and a family should behave. When parents know that a child's deepest instincts and greatest unconscious desires are to cooperate, to please, and to respond in kind. Thank you Lynn Weeks, M.F.C.C. for providing the above article.
Things You Can Do to Help Your Child Remain Safe National Center on Health Home: • Keep all medicine, cleaning and harmful products away from
children. • Use cabinet locks and electrical socket covers. • Use safety gates on stairs. • Use cribs with secure sides rather than drop sides. • Keep cribs away from windows and blind cords. • Lift blind cords out of reach from children. • Put babies to sleep on their backs in a crib with no soft blankets, pillows or bumpers. • Keep children away from hot foods and liquids. Turn pot handles to the back of the stove. Set your water-heater thermostat to 120 degrees or less. Keep children away from heaters or fires. Have a smoke alarm on every floor. Replace batteries in the spring and fall. Check with your local fire station to see if they can help you find a smoke alarm or carbon monoxide detector. Get a carbon monoxide detector, if you do not have one. •Ask your pediatrician about foods and small objects that can cause choking. Make and practice an escape plan. Outside: • Teach your child to stay out of the street. • Look for playgrounds with soft surfaces instead of dirt or grass. • Watch your child closely on the playground. • Remove drawstrings from clothing. • Keep shoelaces short and tied. Water Safety • Know that a child can drown in any amount of water that covers his mouth and nose. • Always stay within arm's reach of your child if in or near water. • Learn to swim, and take your child to professionally supervised swim lessons. • Use four-sided fences with self-latching gates around pools. • Learn cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). • Car and Truck Safety • Choose a car seat that is right for your child's age, height and weight. • Choose a seat that fits in your car or truck and use it all the time. • Ask your Head Start staff where you can go in your community to have your child's car seat installed safely. • Be sure that children under age 12 only sit in the back seat. • Never leave your child in a car without an adult. • Teach children that vehicles are never safe places to play. Even if the windows are open, young children can become dangerously overheated within the first 10 minutes.
Our Fatherhood Activity for the Month of March is Fly a Kite With Dad.
Save the Date 2013 Annual Conference Collaborating for Success: Economic Development for the Next Generation
The Purcell Rotary, City of Purcell, and Purcell Friends of the Library recently sponsored a book give away to benefit Purcell Early Learning Center students.
April 17(AM) Early Childhood Day Oklahoma State Capitol April 17 (PM) Pre-conference Activities Skirvin Hilton Hotel April 18 Conference Skirvin Hilton Hotel
Delta Head Start 308 S.W. 2nd Lindsay, OK 73052
Delta Head Start Mission Our mission is to teach and reach children and families by working together with families, communities, and creative partnerships through comprehensive high quality services, thus, empowering families to shape their future, one child at a time.
Mark Your Calendars! POLICY COUNCIL MEETING On March 25 2013 At 6:30 PM Hwy 76 South Lindsay OK Transportation & Child care provided!
Sponsored by Delta Community Action Foundation, Inc. Executive Director -Karen Nichols Program Director -Sharon Horton [email protected] 308 S. W. 2nd Lindsay, OK 73052 Phone: 405-756-1100
