Parents as Teachers Update

Parents As Teachers needs your help in recruiting Kirbyville families for our program! Any currently enrolled PAT family will receive a $10 Wal-Mart gift card for recruiting a new family to our program upon their enrollment and completion of at least one personal visit. Also, there will be a drawing for a $10 Wal-Mart gift card for those families in attendance at each of the remaining group meetings. Gift cards will be available until PAT funds are exhausted.

Weekly playgroups are held every Wednesday from 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. in the PAT room at Kirbyville Elementary. You are encouraged to participate in these playgroups as they allow children to engage in activities, with their peers, that stimulate motor, intellectual, language, and social-emotional development. You are invited to engage in discussions with other parents in our community while enjoying refreshments. Approximately once a month, the playgroup is replaced with a themed group meeting.

Playgroups and appointments are automatically canceled when school is not in session.

January

Please pick up this month’s parenting resource located on the parents’ information table. Playgroup is from 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. on Wednesdays. Our group meeting will be on Wednesday, January 27 from 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. in our PAT room. The theme of the meeting will be ‘Sharing is Caring!’ We will discuss sibling rivalry and ways to promote positive play among children. Handouts will be distributed. Our parent-child activity will be making bagel bird feeders. School will be in session on Monday, January 18 as this is an inclement weather make-up day.

For more information concerning PAT contact Jamie Bogacz, parent educator, at 334-2537 or jamie.bogacz@kirbyville.k12.mo.us
Or click on the PAT web page