Community Kids · (Juneau County WIC: 608-847-9375) Adams County Directory of Community Services...

Fall 2016Inside...2 Family Resource Center Services2 Community Services Directory2 Fall 2016 WIC Schedule3 When to keep your child home sick4 Family Resource Center Calendar5 Help Out our center—Volunteer!5 Play Groups & Center Resources6 Childcare Provider Trainings6 Parent Meeting Information7 Too much time on the phone?8 Remember to turn your clocks back!

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Adams County Learning Center

Community KidsWelcome back! Home visiting and school begin!

Parents can encourage their children’s cognitive, physical, and emotional development while playing with their children at home. Head Start teachers and Early Head Start/Head Start home visitors appreciate having children who are excited and curious when approaching new activities. Parents can encour-age their children to follow simple directions, are understand-ing to other children’s feelings, and can take turns and share. Parents can also help your child acquire some basic skills, like recognizing and remembering letters, numbers, and colors.

Read to your children everyday beginning with infancy.

Provide them with a learning environment where they can safely explore by touching, seeing, smelling, tasting and hearing. Infant and toddlers need to be able to use their five senses to learn. Parents talk to your baby or toddler! With your help, their coos and gurgles will one day give way to words. Remember to expose older children to real life expe-riences by taking simple trips to the museum, playing sports or enrolling them in 4-H programs. To promote all these and other basic skills, bring your children to the Adams County play group! (See our calendar on Page 4.)

Skills to work on for ages 3-5:• Plays well with other children with minimal fighting or crying.

• Listens and participates when being read a story

• Have good self-help skills such as toileting, putting on her shoes and coat

• Number and letter recognition

Skills to work on with infants and toddlers:• Motor skills-rolling over, walking and picking up small items

with their fingers

• Enjoys books by pointing to simple pictures (cat, dog, etc.)

• Coos and laughs when parent/caregiver talks to them

• Enjoys exploring with new experiences, understanding how things work (playing with pots/pans)

• Saying new words (ma-ma, da-da, ba-ba)

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Adams Food Pantry1874 State Highway 13/P.O. Box 647 Friendship, WI 53934 608-339-0273

Energy Assistance (Division of Energy)136 S. Main St. Adams. 608-339-6767. Wisconsin Home Energy Assistance Program (WHEAP) provides home heating assistance to eligible households. Indian tribal agencies and community agencies.

Wellness: High School Walking Hours 1109 E. North St., Adams, WI 53910. (Enter at the front door. Available on school days only) Monday: 6:30-7:30 a.m. & 4-9 p.m.Tuesday-Friday: 6-7:30 a.m. & 4-9 p.m.Weight Room Hours: Mon.-Thurs. 5-7 p.m. 608-339-3921

WIC (Women, Infants, and Children)Adams County Health/Human Services. 108 E. North St., Friendship, WI 53934. 608-339-4313. WIC is a nutri-tion and education program for pregnant, breastfeed-ing, and postpartum women up to 6 months, and in-fants and children up to age five. WIC provides nutrition and breastfeeding information, supplements nutritious foods, and makes referrals to other health and nutrition services. (Juneau County WIC: 608-847-9375)

Adams County Directory of Community

Services

WIC Schedule Fall 2016

Adams CountySchedule subject to change. Call your local WIC office for

appointments, dates and times.

September 9 Adams 9 a.m.-3 p.m.


September 15 Big Flats 9 a.m.-12 p.m.



October 7 Adams 9 a.m.-3p.m.

October 10 Adams 9 a.m.-2 p.m.



November 4 Adams 9 a.m.-3 p.m.


November 10 Big Flats 9 a.m.-12 p.m.



Services Available At The Family Resource CenterThe Family Resource Center provides free services to all Juneau County

families who have children ages 0-5. Those services include:

We serve all families with young children!We invite you to visit our wonderful facility and meet our staff today!

Warmline: Parents can use this opportunity to call center staff and discuss child and family issues. Call 608-564-1255. All calls are confidential.

Resource Library: Filled with toys, games, books, and videos to borrow and take home until you are ready to check out a different item.

Play Group: Offered for ages birth through five. Loosely structured child/parent interaction for families. See calendar for dates and times.

Parenting Today: Join us for these monthly workshops on a variety of topics of interest to families with young children.

Newsletter: Contains our most recent schedules and other family information. It is distributed quarterly to interested parties. Call if you’d like to be added to the mailing list. Please provide your name, address, phone number, and e-mail.

Head Start Home Visiting Program: Provides activities and home visits for income eligible families of children ages 0-5. Call for an application.

Find out more about the many

services and programs offered by

The Adams County Learning Center!

1070 Highway 13 Friendship, WI 53934

608-564-1255

Renewal Unlimited Head Start

Photography Policy

When taking picture of your

children at Head Start sponsored

events, please respect the wishes

of other families that may not

want their child’s picture taken or

shared on social media.

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Dear Parents,Many parents have

questions about when to cancel a home visit, or when to keep your child home from playgroup or school. The following information should be helpful. It is important to watch your child carefully for signs and symptoms of illness and keep your child home if necessary. Keeping your child home when they are sick helps children recover faster and helps prevent other children and staff from getting sick.

• A persistent dry, productive or wheezy cough

• A sore throat (look into the throat with a flashlight) any redness or white patches could be strep throat

• A fever of 100 or higher

• A complaint of an earache or drainage from the ear

• Continuous yellow or green drainage from nose

• Crusted, reddened or irritated eyes

• Diarrhea or vomiting within the past 24 hours

• A rash known to be contagious, or a rash you cannot identify

• Infected sores or those that have drainage or blood exposed—cuts or burns which cannot be covered completely with a dressing or Band-Aid

• A pale, flushed tired appearance, change in normal energy level, big change in appetite, unusual irritability

• Any illness sufficient to warrant staying indoors. (As a healthy break from indoor activities, children are expected to go outdoors, weather permitting.)

• A prescription antibiotic—If your child is put on an antibiotic, they must be kept home for a full 24 hours from the time they receive their first dose of antibiotic medication.

• Any illness that could be spread to other children/staff

• Changes in appearance, behavior, difficulty waking, confusion, irritability, lack of appetite or complaints of aches or pains (aches/pains could indicate possible illness.)

(Please talk with your home visitor about these guidelines and plan together about when to cancel a home visit due to sickness)

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1070 Highway 13 • Friendship, WI 53934

608-564-1255

THANKSGIVING BREAK

Childcare Providers: Strengthening Families

w/Nancy Myers at JCFRC

6-8:30 p.m.

Childcare Providers at Adams Co. Learning Ctr.

6-8 p.m.

Parent Committee Meeting 5 p.m.

School Readiness? 6 p.m.

Parent Committee Meeting (Elections of officers)

5 p.m.

Childcare Providers at JCFRC 6-8 p.m.


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Be sure to join us for...

Play GroupsWednesdays: 9:30-11:30 aM

Come check out our...

Child interaction

Activities

Healthy Snack

Come check out our Family Resource Center.

Come join the fun for children ages 0-5!

(Please see calendar for dates & times)

Did you know......we offer access to an AccuCut die cutting machine on site

available to the public?

Bring your own materials (paper, felt, cardboard, foam) and let your creative side shine!

...you can check out our new library materials in our lending library?

Come in during our regular hours and find what you’d like!

Love and Logic books & CDs

1-2-3 Magic books & CDs

Resources Books on Pregnancy, Cooking, and Raising children

Puzzles, board books, and other educational toys

Family Resource Center

Adams County Learning Center At 1070 Hwy 13 Friendship, WI 53934

YOU

Thank You...to our Wisconsin Bookworms

for reading to our children each week!

We Are In Need Of

ReadersVolunteer to read to a small group

of children for 15 minutes. We welcome community readers

every week, and we’d love for you to be our next guest!

Call 608-564-1255 ext. 200

WISCONSIN BOOKWORMS™ Giving young children an opportunity to be read to and own their first new books, this project is supported by the Corporation for

Public Broadcasting with additional funding provided by friends of WPT, Wisconsin Association for Home & Community Education and local county-based partners.

Help us collect Milk Moola

bag tops & caps from Kwik Trip!

Redeemable sizes include bags, gallons, 1/2 gallons, quarts, pints and 1/2 pints. Sizes do vary per product so always be sure to look

for the Milk Moola logo on the cap or bag top.

Simply save your (rinsed out) milk caps or bag tops from Kwik Trip and send them with your child to school or bring the with you to conferences, family fun nights, play groups, etc. There is a box located at each site for easy collection

Thank you for your help!All the money collected will be turned back over to sites to be used to pur-chase items such as supplies or toys. We also need help with counting out

bag tops and caps. If you are interested please talk with your child’s teacher or family resource staff!

Also...Remember to bring in your County Market Receipts!


Our first parent meeting will be held Thursday, September 15th at 5 p.m.

(Agenda: Elections of the officers )

October Parent Meeting: Tuesday, October 18 at 5 p.m.

at the Adams Head Start Learning Center followed by our Parent Training: School Readiness Goals at 6 p.m.

FREE Childcare and refreshments will be provided.

The monthly parent meeting is a great opportunity to be involved in your children’s education. Parent meetings provide parents of enrolled children, the opportunity to be leaders and decision makers within our programming and the local community.

We believe that parents are the key to the success of the program.

Parent involvement is very important to us and we value your ideas and suggestions.

Early Head Start/ Head Start

Parent Meetings

If you have any questions, please feel free to call 564-1255

It is our privilege to

host educational opportunities for Childcare Providers in Juneau and

Adams County. Starting in September, we will be alternating sites for the workshops

on the 2nd Monday of the month: Juneau County Family Resource Center,

102 Hickory Street, Mauston and Adams County Learning Center,

1070 Hwy. 13, Friendship. For more information contact:

Louise Walter, Early Childhood and Home Visitor Supervisor (Adams County)

at (608)564-1255 Ext. 209.

Strengthening FamiliesMonday, September 12, 6 – 8:30 p.m. Juneau County Family Resource Center 102 Hickory Street, Mauston. (608) 847-4991 Nancy Myers, YoungStar Educator will be the presenter.Participants in this training will learn about Strengthening Families, a strength-based approach to preventing child abuse and neglect. The five protective factors that help to strengthen families will be discussed along with next steps to help build these factors in early education and care environments. This training now qualifies as a mandated reporter training for child care licensing purposes.

Stay Tuned for More On These Dates:October 10, 6 p.m. Adams County Learning Center (previously Pineland School) 1070 Hwy. 13, Friendship

November 14, 6 p.m. Juneau County Family Resource Center 102 Hickory Street, Mauston. (608) 847-4991

Childcare Provider Trainings...


How much time do we spend on our phones?Unfortunately everyone struggles with putting down

those cellphones! With our busy schedules, we want some

structure and balance with our own family but also stay

connected to family and friends.

However over the years, we are hearing more and more,

“Mom, look at me” or “Watch me” as the child is begging for their

parent’s attention. It’s true that distraction creeps up on us. Un-

fortunately, if you carry your cellphone around with you, you will

check it for notifications. If you send a post to Facebook, you will

receive five back. If you get a text on your phone, you will be

eager to check it out.

As parents we need to set some limits and boundaries of how

much we use our phone and ignore our children. Sometimes we

are on our phone to save time, but at what expense?

Your children need to know that you are present with them

and acknowledge their accomplishments. That’s not to say

you should get rid of your phone completely, but just be

aware of how much you are on it.

Adams County Learning Centerc/o Renewal Unlimited2900 Red Fox RunPortage, WI 53901

Daylight Saving Time

ENDS AT 2 AM SUNDAY,

NOVEMBER 6.Remember to

TURN YOUR CLOCKS BACK

when you go to bed

SATURDAY NIGHT.

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