GROUP MEETINGS HOME VISITS COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT

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GROUP MEETINGS HOME VISITSCOMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT

• Parent Educators
• Joan Flieg
• Amy Breig
• Barb Jokerst
• Marlene Gegg
• Angela Lewis
• Nancy Weibrecht

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Egg Hunt 2 6
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Sensory Experiences

• Exploring object permanence by looking for hidden
  objects
• Exploring textures with hands
• Exploring with sound by shaking containers to
  experience hard and soft sounds

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More Sensory Play
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Intellectual Development

• Children begin to understand concepts of same and
  different
• Children begin to identify and sort by shape,
  color and category
• Children begin to recognize simple patterns
• ACTIVITY
• Matching
• Colors
• Patterns
• Shapes

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More Matching
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Large Motor Activities

• Musical Eggs
• Children learn to march in time to music
• Children exercise large muscles
• Children participate in turn taking and
  cooperation with friends

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Sizzling Summer Fun 2006More Gross Motor
Activities

• Through outdoor play
• Large muscles are strengthened
• Children learn to socialize through interaction
  and turn taking

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Infants exploring texture!

• Infants use eyes and hands together to explore
  texture of crinkly homemade toys.
• Infants discover interesting sounds as they use
  their hands to explore.

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Cooling Off On A Hot Day
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Making Bubbles

• Fine Motor Development
• Children use small muscles in facial area when
  blowing.
• Children enhance large and small muscles of the
  hands and arms while manipulating wands.
• Children use their senses of sight and touch by
  watching the bubbles float through the air, and
  touch when catching the bubbles.

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Moving on to Kindergarten2006 PAT Graduates
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Graduates Receive Certificates
Congratulations
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More 2006 PAT Graduates
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Infant Massage 2007

• Instructor
• Kelly Fallert OTR/L,
• Occupational Therapist

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Mother Demonstrates Heel to Toe Massage

• Helps baby learn to relax
• Promotes longer and sounder sleep
• Promotes bonding and communication

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Family Demonstrates Sun-Moon Massage

• Enhances family life
• Babies tend to be more alert and sociable

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Mother Demonstrates Water Wheel Massage

• Helps regulate digestive, respiratory,
  circulatory, and gastrointestinal systems
• Helps relieve colic, gas, congestion and symptoms
  of teething

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Back To School Fair

• Miss Amy and Miss Marlene recruiting new families
  to the Parents As Teachers Program

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WOMENS HEALTH FAIR 2007

• Parent Educators participating in Recruitment
  activities and Public Awareness events

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Messy Day 2008
clean mud
pudding painting
pet rock painting
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More Messy Day Play
water relay
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Wind !!! April 2008

• Making wind socks
• Children enhance fine motor skills using hands to
  place stickers onto the wind sock
• Parent child interaction promotes learning and
  social skills

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More Wind Experiences

• Children explore the properties of wind through
  cause and effect

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Children enhance number recognition and
one-to-one correspondence
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Graduation April 2008
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More Graduates
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Congratulations PAT Graduates 2008
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Home Visit with Miss Marlene

• Activity Grain Box
• Children use hands and fingers to promote
  eye-hand coordination
• Children learn about object permanence
• Fosters interaction through turn taking
• Promotes attachment between child and parent

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Home Visit with Miss Marlene

• Activity Step, Jump, Climb
• Children practice stepping up and down
• Children practice jumping off low objects
• Children build large muscle, balance and
  coordination

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Home Visit with Miss Amy

• Through cooking experiences children learn about
  measurement, transformations, part to whole
  relationships and one-to-one correspondence
• Through block building children enhance spatial
  and fine motor skills
• Tie-Dye painting with eyedroppers strengthens the
  muscles used for writing and cutting skills. The
  child also explores with mixing colors to create
  new colors.

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Home Visit with Miss Amy

• Activity Chemistry in the Kitchen
• Children gain understanding of science concepts
  by observing, exploring, problem solving with
  objects in their environment
• Children explore with all their senses
• Children explore with transformations

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Home Visit with Miss Barb

• Activity Tracking
• Eye-hand coordination is developed when infants
  practice tracking objects
• Patterns with high-contrast are visually
  attractive
• Infants demonstrate excitement by their own
  reflection in a mirror by cooing and smiling at
  their own image.

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