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moving outside.
Scavenger Hunt: List 10
items for your children to find, such as an oak leaf, an acorn, a bird’s feather, a dandelion, and so forth. Allow the child who finds the most items to choose next week’s family fitness activity.
Ultimate Frisbee Com-
petition: Take your Fris-bee competition to a public park and it might just turn into a fun competition with other families. Playing Fris-bee involves running, jump-ing, diving, and throwing, all of which are great exercise and great fun.
Walk and Talk: Use fami-
ly walks to talk about your children’s favorite things, concerns, hopes, and dreams. Let younger kids push dolls in strollers, or encourage your children to walk your dog while they plan a new family activity.
Article taken from Homelife Maga-zine
Angie Messmer
Play It Out
Autumn is the perfect time for outdoor family activity. Making fitness a priority for your family is important, says fitness expert Dian Griesel. Children learn by example, and we need to do a better job of modeling healthy habits, she explains. “Yes, 25 percent of kids today are obese, but more horrifying is that adult obesity in the U.S. is nearing 70 percent,” Griesel reveals. “Everything starts at home.” Sport’s science and exercise physiology expert Ben Greenfield believes incorporating activity into your daily life is a good first step to reverse this trend. “If your child sees you getting home from work and crashing on the couch for two hours while you watch television, then they will do the same,” Greenfield says. “If they see you grab the dog and head out the door for a walk, they will be influenced by that instead.” It’s not as important to join a gym or install a home exer-cise room as it is to let your children observe you being ac-tive. Park at the far end of the grocery store lot and explain to your kids that you parked far from the door so you could gain the benefits of walking. Bike to a nearby park instead of driving there. Look for everyday ways to become more active.
M a k e E x e r c i s e F u n Getting children to become more physically active is as easy as playing pretend, Greenfield sug-gests. “Children have strong imaginations, especially younger kids,” Greenfield explains. “Pretending to be their favorite
animal, cartoon character, or superhero can help make fitness more fun.” For example, when he takes his children to the park, Greenfield encourages them to run by pretending to be race cars from their favorite cartoon. Suddenly, the task of running turns into a racing game that involves the entire family. Or, while playing tennis as a family, Greenfield tells his younger chil-dren to pretend they’re squirrels gathering nuts for the winter. With that, a mundane task of picking up stray tennis balls be-comes a fun fitness activity.
Get Moving
When the weather is nice like it is this time of year, encourage outdoor family fitness. Here are three ideas to get your crew
From The Early Childhood Administrator
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T H I S I S S U E :
From the
Health &
Nutrition
Specialist
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Holiday’s,
Special Days,
& Events 2
From the
Family In-
volvement
Coordinator 3
From the
Education
Specialist 4
October: Fall
Walk & Talk 4
From the
ERSEA
Specialist 5
S O U T H E R N S E V E N
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P A G E 2
Holiday’s, Special Days, & Events
From The Health & Nutrition Specialist Hello everyone! Hope that you and your fam-ily are having a fantas-tic school year so far. I look forward to seeing you this month at our Parent Group Meet-ings. This month our focus is on Health & Nutrition and either myself, or Ms. Bobi Cavins, our Program Assistant will be at your meetings. We will
have a brief discussion concerning making meals on a budget and a small food demonstra-tion. I look forward to seeing you there!
Laura Duckworth
10—Columbus Day; Na-tional Angle Food Cake Day
11—National Sausage Pizza Day
12—Old Farmers Day
13—National Yorkshire Pudding Day; Bring Your Teddy Bear to Work or School Day
14—National Chocolate Covered Insects Day
15—National Grouch Day
16—National Boss’s Day; World Food Day
17—National Pasta Day
18—Alaska Day; National Chocolate Cupcake Day
19—National Seafood Bisque Day; Electricity Day
20—National Brandied Fruit Day
21—Reptile Awareness Day
22—National Nut Day
23—National Boston Cream Pie Day
24—National Bologna Day
25—National Greasy Foods Day
26—National Pumpkin Day
27—National Potato Day
28—National Chocolate Day
29—Oatmeal Day
30—National Candy Corn Day
31—Halloween/Harvest Day
October
1—World Smile Day; World Vegetarian Day
2—National Custodial Workers Day; Child Health Day
3—National Caramel Cus-tard Day; Fire Prevention Week
4—National Taco Day
5—National Apple Betty Day; Long Walk Day
6—National Noodle Day; National Storytelling Fes-tival
7—Bathtub Day
8—National Fluffernutter Day
9—National Children’s Day; Submarine/Hoagie/Hero/Grinder Day
P A R E N T N E W S L E T T E R
From The Family Involvement Coordinator P A G E 3
BE THERE ….BE THEIR DAD!!
This month you will receive a pamphlet with suggestions for being an involved Dad. Also each of our Head Start Centers will be planning Male Involve-ment Activities especially for the Dads and Father Figures of our Head Start Children. Watch for the announcement of these spe-cial events and I hope you will plan to attend. I would also like to encourage you to stop in to your child’s classroom anytime and visit – eat a meal, join the children on the playground, or read to the class.
Below are some ideas about be-ing an involved Dad.
D—Do tell the child what he did wrong.
A—Accept what he did wrong without being nega-tive.
D—Do teach the child by explaining and modeling the correct behavior.
About being a good dad:
Be the man your son or daughter looks up to
Treat their mother the way you would like your mother to be treated
Teach your children honesty by being honest
Teach them to keep their promises by always keeping yours
Make time for each child separately
Teach them the kinds of things they will not learn in school
Encourage talking. Ask them about their day, their friends, their inter-ests. Tell them about your work, and if possi-ble, let them see you at work.
Be the kind of man you
would like to see your daughter marry
Remember:
Discipline does not mean punishment. It means to teach and pursue the be-havior that you expect.
Children need your affec-tion as much as they need food and clothing
Being a father is a big responsibility….that brings big rewards!!!!
Janice Taylor
P A G E 4
October: Fall Walk & Talk
From The Education Specialist Each month I will sub-mit a fun activity you can do at home with your child to promote School Readiness. This month the activity coordinates with
Southern Seven Head Start’s School Readi-ness Goal #10: Chil-dren will demonstrate their ability to gather information about the natural and physical
Other Ideas
Make "binoculars." Take two empty paper towel or toi-let paper tissue rolls. Tape the two rolls together, side by side. Attach a string to the rolls. Put the binoculars around your child's neck and ask, "What can you see?" Your child may want to use crayons or markers to decorate the binoculars.
When walking, ask your child, "How many ways can you walk?" Use the words "forwards, backwards, side-ways, giant or large steps, baby or little steps, fast steps, slow steps." Ask, "Can you hop
like a bunny? Can you waddle like a penguin? Can you jump like a frog? What else can we do?"
Related Books
Red Leaf Yellow Leaf by Lois Ehlert
Taking a Walk: A Book in Two Lan-guages / Caminando: Un Libry en Dos Len-guas by Rebeccas Emberly
I Went Walking by Sue Williams
Jonathon and His Mommy by Irene Smalls
As you walk around the neighborhood, choose a tree with col-orful leaves. Talk about the color of the leaves and ask, "What do you think will hap-
pen to the leaves as the weather gets colder?" Then watch this tree throughout the year to see what happens. Collect leaves, acorns, chestnuts, or seeds and put them in a gro-
cery bag. Turn a long strip of masking tape inside out and make a belt to stick the leaves on. When you get home you can glue or tape your new treas-ures on paper or card-board. Talk about how they are alike and how they are different.
P A R E N T N E W S L E T T E R
world and organize that information into knowledge and theo-ries.
Jennifer Parks
From The ERSEA Specialist P A G E 5
Enrollment News
Happy Fall! I have been out to many of the sites visiting and doing hearing/vision screenings, it seems like the children are settling nicely into their new routines. It is so nice to finally put faces with all of the names I have been seeing.
Just in case you didn’t know, Octo-ber is Head Start Awareness Month. I think Head Start is one of the best kept secrets, make sure to let all of your friends know about our pro-gram. We take applications year round, so it’s not too late for them to apply!
Attendance
Attendance for August was wonder-ful! I have highlighted the class-rooms below with at least 85% at-tendance rates. I hope this contin-ues throughout the year. Getting up and going to school every day is a great habit to learn early on in life. It will most definitely help in getting your child ready for kindergarten too. Congratulations, I hope every-one has a happy and healthy month!
Anna
Class A – 85%
Class B – 98%
Class C – 92%
Class D – 94%
Class E – 97%
Class F – 95%
Brookport
Class A – 93%
Cairo
Class A – 95%
Class B – 98%
Class C – 94%
Class D – 94%
Class E – 96%
Class G (EHS) – 90%
Class H (EHS) – 93%
Class I (EHS) – 94%
Egyptian
Class A – 92%
Goreville
Class A – 93%
Hardin County
Class A – 96%
Jonesboro
Class A – 94%
Metropolis
Class A – 92%
Class B – 88%
Class C – 91%
Class D - 97%
Class E – 94%
Class F – 94%
Class G – 99%
Class H – 92%
Mounds
Class A - 98%
Class B – 99%
Class D (EHS) - 97%
Class E (EHS) – 91%
Pope County
Class A – 93%
Rustic Campus
Class A – 92%
Class B – 97%
Class E (Daycare) – 90%
Vienna
Class A – 97%
Class B – 96%
Terri Stewart
Phone: 618-634-9340
Fax: 618-634-9394
Website: www.southern7.org
The mission of
Southern Seven Health Department is:
“To promote a safe and healthy envi-
ronment by providing preventive health
care, family support services, and child
development programs.”
Southern Seven Head Start/
Early Head Start
37 Rustic Campus Drive
Ullin, IL 62992