Family Place

Program Description

Family Place Parent/Child Workshops are typically very informal and stress children learning through play.  Workshops consist of five weekly sessions, which parents must attend with their child, who must be between 1 and 3 years of age.  Each session will feature a visiting professional knowledgeable in areas such as speech, nutrition, or child development.  Instead of lecturing to parents the visitng professiona circulates through the room speaking with parents one on one and addressing their individual concerns and questions.  The children’s librarian will also circulate through the room talking to parents about the importance of reading with their child and early literacy skill and helping parents to locate library materials.  Parents and child are also encourages to socialize with one another.  Each workshop will also include themed displays that relate to the guest speakers topic and the workshop will include an age appropriate craft. 

	PLAY AND LEARN FAMILY PLACE PARENT CHILD WORKSHOP ONE
Guest Speaker	Dr. Ruby and Dr. Rochon Pediatric Dentists http://www.sbpediatricdentists.com/
Craft	Play Dough
Display	·      Denist Jacqueline Gorman ·      Out and About at the Dentist Bitsy Kemper ·      ABC Dentist Harriet Ziefert ·      At the Dentist Mari Schuh ·      Going to the Dentist Anne Civardi ·      Maisy, Charley, and the Wobbly Tooth Lucy Cousins ·      Zach at the Dentist Jonathan London ·      Hippos Go Bananas Majorie Dennis Murray ·      Albert’s Impossible Toothache Barbara Williams ·      Smiles for a Lifetime: how to care for your child’s teeth like a mommy dentist DVD
Handouts	·      “Your Babies Teeth”  http://www.aafp.org/afp/2004/1201/p2121.html ·      Play Dough Recipe
Storytime	Sing “Teeth” (MacMillan 2009 p. 8). Clarabella’s Teeth An Vrombaut Sing “Now It’s Time to Say Goodbye”

	PLAY AND LEARN FAMILY PLACE PARENT CHILD WORKSHOP TWO
Guest Speaker	Speech Therapist
Craft	Finger Painting
Display	·      Hooway for Wodnay Wat by Helen Lester ·      Ruby Mae has Something to Say by David Small ·      Gerald McBoing Boing by Dr. Seuss ·      Oops! David Shannon ·      A Parent’s Guide to Speech and Language Problems Debbie Feit ·      Stuttering and Your Child DVD ·      Stuttering and Your Child, Help for Families DVD
Handouts	·      Reading Rockets “Healthy Hearing” http://www.readingrockets.org/pdfs/edextras/27502-en.pdf ·      Reading Rockets “Talking Counts” http://www.colorincolorado.org/pdfs/edextras/15340-en.pdf ·      Finger Paint Recipe
Storytime	Sing “These Are Babies Fingers” Wiggle Waggle Jonathan London Sing “Now It’s Time to Say Goodbye”

	PLAY AND LEARN FAMILY PLACE PARENT CHILD WORKSHOP THREE
Guest Speaker	Child Development Specialist
Craft	Squish Bag from Lapsit Services for the Very Young Linda L. Ernst Quart size ziplock bags Instant pudding mix Food coloring Masking tape Put about ¼ cup of pudding in Ziploc bag.  Zip shut tightly after squeezing most of the air out of the bag.  Reinforce sides and corners with double layers of masking tape.  Squish bag serves as a portable fingerpainting platform, without the mess (Ernst 1995 p.63-64).
Display	·      Brain Rules for Baby John Medina ·      Come and Play Aerial Cross ·      Active Baby, Healthy Brain Margaret Sasse ·      The Wonder Years ·      Simple Steps Karen Miller ·      Ten Things Every Child Needs for the Best Start in Life! DVD ·      Cooing, Crying, Cuddling Infant Brain Development DVD ·      Laughing, Learning, Loving Toddler Brain Development DVD
Handouts	·      Zero to Three Child Development 12 to 18 months http://www.zerotothree.org/child-development/brain-development/DocServer/12-18months.pdf?docID=328&AddInterest=1153 ·      Zero to Three Child Development 18 to 24 months http://www.zerotothree.org/child-development/brain-development/DocServer/18-24months.pdf?docID=324&AddInterest=1153 ·      Zero to Three Child Development 24 to 36 months http://main.zerotothree.org/site/DocServer/24-36months.pdf?docID=326&JSe
Storytime	Sing “Bumping Up and Down in My Little Red Wagon” Hello Baby! Mem Fox Sing “Now It’s Time to Say Goodbye”

	PLAY AND LEARN FAMILY PLACE PARENT CHILD WORKSHOP FOUR
Guest Speaker	Nutritionist
Craft	Collage using recycled pictures from magazines
Display	·      Just Two More Bites Linda D. Piette ·      French Kids Eat Everything Kare Le Billon ·      Early Sprouts Karrie Kalich ·      The Taming of the CANDY Monster Vicki Lansky ·      Feeding Your Child for Lifelong Health Susan B. Roberts ·      Simply Natural Baby Food Cathe Olson ·      Tid Bits Gina La Monica ·      The Cleaner Plate Club Beth Bader ·      Real Food for Healthy Kids: 200+ Easy, Wholesome Recipes Tracy Seaman ·      Cooking with Children: a learning activity DVD ·      Baby Lets Eat Rena Coyle ·      The King’s Taster Kenneth Oppel ·      Pinkalicious Victoria Kann ·      Gregory, the Terrible Eater Mitchell Sharmat ·      Yoko Rosemary Wells ·      Growing Vegetable Soup Lois Ehlert ·      Eating the Alphabet Lois Ehlert
Handouts	·      Zero to Three “Healthy from the Start” http://main.zerotothree.org/site/DocServer/healthy_from_start_eng2.pdf?docID=3101&AddInterest=1147&JServSessionIda004=wakrrivvy1.app211c ·      Reading Rockets “Grocery Store Literacy for Preschoolers” http://www.readingrockets.org/pdfs/edextras/31497-en.pdf ·      Green and Orange Pasta Salad Recipe fromEarly Sprouts ·      Butternut Squash Fries Recipe from Early Sprouts
Storytime	“Five Little Apples” Flannel Board (MacMillan 2009 p.73) Recite “Pease Porridge” Growing Vegetable Soup Lois Ehlert Sing “Now It’s Time to Say Goodbye”

	PLAY AND LEARN FAMILY PLACE PARENT CHILD WORKSHOP TWO
Guest Speaker	Kinder Musik
Craft	Homemade Shaker Reuse old prescriptions bottles or plastic spice jars to make homemade shaker toys for babies and toddlers.
Display	·      Babies on the Bus Karen Katz ·      The More We are Together Board Book ·      How Much is that Doggie in the Window Iza Trapini ·      Baby Beluga Raffi ·      Bear Went Over the Mountain Rosemary Wells ·      Itsy Bitsy Spider Rosemary Wells ·      Book of Fingerplays and Action Rhymes: Let’s Pretend ·      The Book of Beginning Circle Games: Let’s Make a Circle ·      The Book of Call and Response: You Sing, I Sing ·      The Book of Movement Exploration: Can You Move Like This ·      The Book of Songs and Rhymes with Beat Motion: Keeping the Beat ·      The Book of Bounces ·      Critters and Company Pamela Byrne Schiller ·      The Book of Tapping and Clapping
Handouts	·      Reading Rockets “Playing with Words Sounds” http://www.readingrockets.org/content/edextras/word-sounds_en.pdf ·      Reading Rockets “Reading with Jack and Jill” http://www.readingrockets.org/pdfs/edextras/14017-en.pdf
Storytime	Sing “Shake Your Sillies Out” using shakers made for craft Jazz Baby! Lisa Wheeler Sing “Now It’s Time to Say Goodbye”

Costs

$75 for craft supplies

Staff/Volunteers

All the guest speaker are volunteering their time.  The children’s librarian should be present to help parents choose books, educate parents on early literacy, and to perform storytime.  At least one support staff member should be included in the workshop to help parents and children with the craft activity and to help locate library materials. 

Marketing/Advertising

The Family Place Workshops will be advertised on the library website, on flyers in the library, and on parentsclick.com.  The library will send press releases to The Santa Barbara News Press, Santa Barbara Independent, and local television and radio stations.  Additionally, the library will send flyers advertising the workshop to local preschools and other local organizations involved