Haysvi l le Schools

U.S .D. #261

1745 W Grand Ave

Haysvi l le KS 67060

316 -554 -2303

www.usd261 .com/pat

Parents as Teachers

Newsletter

January/February

2016

You are your child’s first and most important teacher!

PARENTS AS TEACHERS

Note from Emily

The image below takes excerpts from a popular poem written by Dorothy Law Nolte in 1972. The original version of this poem also speaks to what we teach our children when we model the more negative behaviors of life. I chose to share this version with you because it reminded me of YOU! Yes, all of you. I am incredibly fortunate to witness the teaching of these wonderful things in all aspects of Parents As Teachers. From the very personal setting of a home-visit to playgroups and field trips. Great adults are growing great little people all over PAT! Thanks for all you do and keep it up! Grace & Blessings, ~Emily

PARENTS AS TEACHERS

PAT MONTHLY EVENT JANUARY EVENT

This is an evening we make special for our P.A.T. moms to come and socialize. We provide a meal and a speaker, as well as, wonderful door prizes. Location: The Learning Center, 150 Stewart (directly across from the PAT office) in Haysville. Don’t miss this chance for food & fun!

RSVP By

January 22nd

554-2303

PAT’s Mom’s Meal January 28, 2016

6:30pm @ TLC

Energy Leadership Teresa Tosh, USD 261 Asst. Supt. Of Learning Services

Teresa will be talking to us about Energy Leadership.

She will share information about the different levels of

energy we all possess. Come and hear about how your

energy affects your life and the lives of those around you.

PARENTS AS TEACHERS

FEBRUARY GROUP

February 19th

9:30 & 10:30 a.m.

@The Learning Center (150 Stewart—across from the PAT Office)

Growing Cooks is a hands-on cooking experience for parent and child. Because we must purchase ingredients ahead of time,

you must be signed up to attend. We only have space for 12 children at each Growing Cooks Class. There is a sign-up sheet

in the IDEA Room, you can call, or e-mail the PAT office to reserve your spot now.

Parent participation is required. There is no cost to attend.

PARENTS AS TEACHERS

FEBRUARY EVENT

Guest Speakers

Come and check out the Information Booths and

listen to the Guest Speakers.

Some Topics are:

USD 261 ECC

KanCare

Couponing

Nutrition

Speech Development

PARENTS AS TEACHERS

How Children Learn to Like New Food

For a young child learning to eat, all foods are new, even those that are very familiar to you. It generally takes children time and repeated neutral exposure to learn to like new food. Neu-tral exposure is matter-of-factly including the food in family meals and enjoying it yourself without applying outside pressure of any kind.

Make sure you understand normal child eating behavior. Your child will warm up slowly to unfamiliar foods and may have to see, watch you eat, touch or taste a food 15 or 20 (or even more) times before he learns to like it. Even after you child learns to like a food, he won’t eat it every time it is at the meal. He may eat a lot one day, little the next. He is unlikely to eat some of everything that is on the able, but only one or two foods.

Be patient and persistent, but don't pressure. Children generally need to be offered a food 5 to 20 times - or even more - before they learn to enjoy it. In the meantime, they watch us eat, look, touch, taste and spit out (keep the napkins handy). With very tasty foods, however, they do one-trial learning. High-sugar foods such as cookies and candy are easy to like. So are high-fat foods such as French fries and chicken nuggets. Devel-op strategies for using high fat, high sugar foods.

Plan family-friendly meals, and let your child pick and choose from what is on the table.

Don't limit the menu to foods your child readily accepts, but do have his favorites occasionally. Sometimes he gets lucky, sometimes someone else does.

Let your child have seconds and thirds on what he likes, even if he ignores the rest - provided he is not eating someone else's share.

Don't arrange to run out of his favorite foods in order to trick him into eating something you want him to eat.

For more about helping children learn to do well with eating (and for research backing up this advice), see Ellyn Satter's Se-crets of Feeding a Healthy Family: How to Eat, How to Raise Good Eaters, How to Cook, Kelcy Press, 2008. Also see www.EllynSatter.com to purchase books and to review other resources.

Copyright © 2012 by Ellyn Satter. Published at www.EllynSatter.com.

PARENTS AS TEACHERS

WEATHER ALERT If USD 261 cancels school due to weather, ALL home visits

and groups (Move & Groove, Book Look Club, Explorer Lab, Playgroup) will be cancelled as well (check local TV and radio stations—your PAT educator will also call if you have a home visit).

If roads are snow-covered or icy, please allow your parent educator a few extra minutes to arrive for your home visit, due to the increased travel time. If your home visits are held after dark, please remember to turn

on your porch light for your parent educator. Please keep your porch/walk-way as clear as

possible by removing snow or sprinkling rock salt. Thank you!

Keeping PAT Kids Healthy

Cold & flu season is upon us again. If you or your child show any signs of illness, including runny nose, fever , diar rhea, cough-ing, sore throat, etc., please do not come to PAT activities until you have been symptom free for at least 24 hours and call your

PAT educator to reschedule your home visit. This is the best way we know to keep from spreading germs at PAT activities.

Thanks for helping us keep our kids, parents, and teachers well!

Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

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PAT

Closed

No School

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No Groups

No School

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Explorer

Lab/

Playgroup

9:30-11:00

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14 15

No School

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PAT

Closed

No School

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24 25

Move &

Groove

9:30 &

10:30

Playgroup

9:30-11:00

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Mom’s

Meal

6:30pm

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MOM’S MEAL—January 28th 6:30 p.m.

@ The Learning Center (150 S. Stewart in Haysville) RSVP by January 22nd 554-2303

Dinner, speaker & door prizes! - No cost to attend.

Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

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Book Look

Club

9:30 &

10:30

Playgroup

9:30-11:00

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Explorer

Lab/

Playgroup

9:30-11:00

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No School

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No School

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PAT

Closed

No School

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Growing Cooks 9:30 & 10:30 *RSVP is required

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21 22 Move & Groove

9:30 &

10:30

Playgroup

9:30-11:00

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28 29 Book Look

Club

9:30 &

10:30

Playgroup

9:30-11:00

HOT TOPICS—February 22 6:30-8:00pm

@ The Learning Center (150 S. Stewart in Haysville)

Guest speakers and Information Booths about early childhood and parenting.

Hot Topics

6:30-8:00 @ TLC

Blockfest

HANDS ON……

BLOCK FUN!!

BLOCK FUN!!

F U N

FUN!!

PARENTS AS TEACHERS

Blockfest

HANDS ON…..

BLOCK FUN!! FUN!!

B L O C K

F U N !

PARENTS AS TEACHERS

Mastering Family Meals Everybody does better with family meals. To get started with family meals, change the how first; think about the what later-lots later. Make meals your idea-don't just offer them when somebody else wants some-thing to eat. Here is how to get started: Eat what you are eating now. Just have it at regular meal- and snack-times. Round up the family to eat together. Let your child decide what and how much to eat from what is on the table. Make mealtimes pleasant. Talk and enjoy each other. Don't scold or fight. Use snacks to support mealtime. Sit-down snacks between meals let chil-dren and grownups arrive at the table hungry and ready to eat. Yes, I really mean it. That really says eat what you are eating now. Don't let anybody put your food on a ''bad'' list. You like what you like. To feed yourself well, you need to feel good about it. Pizza makes a fine meal, so do chicken nug-gets and French fries. Just have them at mealtime and all sit down to-gether to share them. Put the lunch meat, bread, and mayonnaise on the table, and make your sandwiches together. Throw in some milk and you have a meal. If the shock of drinking milk is too great, drink what you are drinking now. Take your time. Getting the meal habit takes a while. Remember, you don't have to make fresh-cooked food. We are talking about structure-and structure-and structure. A meal is a meal when you all sit down together and share the same food. Are you ready to move on? Consider Step Three: Add On, Don't Take Away. Too elementary for you? Consider Step Four: Do Family Friendly Feeding. For more about making positive use of meals and snacks (and for re-search backing up this advice), see Ellyn Satter's Secrets of Feeding a Healthy Family: How to Eat, How to Raise Good Eaters, How to Cook, Kelcy Press, 2008. Also see www.EllynSatterInstitute.org/store to pur-chase books and to review other resources.

©2013 by Ellyn Satter published at www.EllynSatterInstitute.org.

PARENTS AS TEACHERS

The Runaway Snowman

Thank you for volunteering/donating to P.A.T.

Donnie Ward Jessica Davis Lana Kassik

Telina Herman Jennifer Bailey Lacey Grunden

Congratulations to the Meritt Family!!

Our November drawing winner!!

Five Little Snowmen

Five little men made out of snow (hold up five fingers)

Each with a hat and a big red bow (hold fists above head and pretend to put on a hat, hold hand to sides of neck as if adjusting a bowtie)

Out came the sun and he stayed all day (make a large circle over head)

One little snowman melted away, and he said (hold up one finger and then have it slowly wiggle to the ground)

“Oops—I’m a puddle!” (open hands out to side, palms up)

Repeat with 4, 3, 2, 1

Round and Round the Garden (Begin by holding your child’s hand in your hand, palm up.)

“Round and round the garden”

Draw circles on the child’s hand with your index finger as you say, “Round and round the garden.”

“Goes the teddy bear.” Continue drawing circles in cadence with the chant

“One step, two step” Walk your fingers up the child’s arm (heading for the armpit).

“Tickle under there.” Give a gentle tickle under the child’s arm.

Interactive Finger Plays