Great Start Weekly Communications – Week of June 29, 2020
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This week:
Online Parenting Workshops: MSU Extension is offering a series of online parenting workshops on Tuesday evenings taught by various members of their team. This week’s session on Tuesday, June 30, 8 – 9:30 p.m. is Positive Discipline. Learn about techniques that focus on positive discipline that can help you create an environment that is safe, fun and focuses on learning while helping children develop self control and minimizing behavior problems. Learn More and Register. Find this event and more online resources here: MSU Extension Parenting Education. Next week – The ABC’s of Early Literacy.
Guiding Principles for Highly Successful Parenting Webinar Series. Wednesdays in July, July 1, 8, 15, 22 & 28, 7:30 – 9 p.m. Guiding Principles for Highly Successful Parenting is a parenting series to help you explore ways that you can be highly effective in raising your kids to be successful in school and in life. Learn more here: Guiding Principles Flyer. Register.
Join the Great Start Livingston Parent Coalition for a Virtual Children’s Garden Club this summer. This is an interactive, three-part series designed for Livingston County families with children ages 2-8. Thursdays – July 2, 16, 30, 10:00 – 10:45 a.m. GSPC Children’s Garden Club Registration: https://bit.ly/
Coming Soon and Additional Resources:
Register for Kindergarten or Preschool. Do you have or know someone who has a child between the ages of 3 – 5? Please consider registering for preschool or kindergarten. Schools are currently accepting registrations for kindergarten and preschool. Read more here to learn about where to register and what is needed – Register for Kindergarten or Preschool.
Michigan Listen and Learn Symposium, Sharing Community Based Birth to Five Strategies. Wednesday, July 22, 8:30 a.m. – 2:30 p.m. More information here: Symposium Flyer. Register at https://bit.ly/MISymposium.
“Talking Is Teaching: Talk Read Sing” Livingston Community Campaign:
- Talking is Teaching Livingston Facebook
- Talking Is Teaching Family Staycation Kit
- Ready Rosie is a part of the “Talking Is Teaching: Talk, Read, Sing” Livingston Community Campaign and is FREE to all residents with a Livingston County zip code.
- Ready Rosie is a FREE resource for birth to 5-year-old children. You will receive a weekly playlist of videos that connect fun activities with serious learning opportunities. Register by using your Livingston County Zip Code: readyrosie.com/register
. Click “Register by zip code” (you do not need an invitation code), Enter your zip code.
- Ready Rosie is a FREE resource for birth to 5-year-old children. You will receive a weekly playlist of videos that connect fun activities with serious learning opportunities. Register by using your Livingston County Zip Code: readyrosie.com/register
Look for additional local resources and information here:
Take care and stay well,
Robin Schutz, Coordinator
Great Start Livingston & Livingston Promise
Phone: 517-540-6829
Cell: 810-588-2218
