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Monday 8:30am - 5pm Tuesday 8:30am - 3:30pm Wednesday 8:30am - 3:30pm Thursday 8:30am - 3:30pm Friday 8:30am - 3:30pm

Brightside Academy Toledo

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Free books to take home today at Lagrange :)

Check out our available jobs here---> https://www.indeed.com/cmp/Brightside-Academy?from=mobviewjob&tk=1g2ke908hjm7r800&fromjk=44cddc17d9982fe9&attributionid=mobvjcmp

Find some time to enjoy the library this week and make plans for the next weekend!

TO OUR LAGRANGE FAMILIES:
Don't forget about our Parent Meeting today from 1:30-2:30pm.
Engage in a presentation from a Unison Representative while enjoying chicken wings and potato salad!

TO OUR CITY PARK FAMILIES:
Don't forget about our Parent Meeting today from 2:30-3:30.
Engage in a presentation from a Unison Representative while enjoying chicken wings and potato salad!

TO OUR WOODVILLE FAMILIES:
Don't forget about our Parent Meeting today from 2:30-3:30pm.
Engage in a presentation from a Unison Representative while enjoying chicken wings and potato salad!

Family Friday! Parents and families are children’s first teachers. Family Friday focuses on engaging families to support our youngest learners. Check out this article below on how! https://www.naeyc.org/our-work/families/childs-first-teacher

Artsy Thursday! Children develop creativity, social skills, and fine muscles with open-ended art projects that let them make choices, use their imaginations, and create with their hands. Check out Activities you can do at home here -> https://www.naeyc.org/our-work/families/meaningful-art-projects-parents-can-fit-busy-day

Work Together Wednesday! When children build together they experience teamwork and develop their social and early literacy skills. Grab some materials and create! Learn more here about meaningful play. -> https://www.naeyc.org/our-work/families/five-essentials-meaningful-play

Tasty Tuesday isn’t just about eating your favorite snacks together. It’s also about cooking together and connecting math with literacy skills and science while introducing ways to incorporate healthy habits into children’s lifestyles. Find a recipe Here to try with your family->https://www.naeyc.org/sites/default/files/globally-shared/Images/events/woyc/taco_cookbook.pdf

Following along with The Week of the Young Child, its Music Monday! Today is more than singing and dancing, it’s a way to encourage children to be active while developing their early literacy skills and having fun with friends and family! Check out more infomation here ->
https://highscope.org/how-to-use-music-throughout-the-daily-routine/

The Week of the Young Child® is an annual celebration sponsored by the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC). The purpose of the Week of the Young Child® is to focus public attention on the needs of young children and their families and to recognize the early childhood programs and services that meet those needs.
In Celebration of this we are having spirit week at all of our centers starting Monday! Check with your Advocates and Teachers to see what fun things we have planned for your family!
Follow along on our page for some other fun activities to keep your family learning!

Brightside Academy Toledo is a high quality Early Childhood program that offers Early Head Start and

Operating as usual

12/09/2022

We are so happy and grateful to be a part of Feet on the Street! Thank you to the awesome staff members who helped and participated to make the children’s day special!

Photos from Toledo Police Department's post

12/09/2022

We had so much fun being a part! Thank you Feet on the Street!

Photos from Brightside Academy Toledo's post

11/17/2022

Students had fun catching snowflakes on their tongues and playing outside in the snow flurries today! ❄️

11/12/2022

Can’t wait to see you at The 35th Annual Toledo Blade Parade!

11/11/2022

Happy Friday! It's going to be a great day!

11/04/2022

Students enjoyed their last session with "Mr. Jay" from OSU Extension Program. They enjoyed his visits. They learned how to eat healthy and about "Go Power"!

10/27/2022

Our toddlers had some fall fun this past week exploring pumpkins! Happy Fall!

10/26/2022

Our students love our "Buddy Reading" or "Read to Self" time that we do each day. Reading helps promote vocabulary, grammar, and language skills.

10/24/2022

Check out some of our students exploring patterns and testing water absorbency. Working on their school readiness goal of scientific inquiry! Both of these STEM related projects are excellent for exploration!

10/21/2022

We know you are at war with the 3 day weekend or staying at school, but we will be back on Monday! NO HEAD START KIDS TODAY.

10/20/2022

Learning about our emotions is the first step in helping children learn to identify them and communicates to children that these feelings are normal, and in a fun way too!
Find out more here! > https://www.pbs.org/parents/thrive/helping-toddlers-understand-their-emotions

10/07/2022

Play doh is the best! So many opportunities for a child’s creativity to shine through! Here we made our own and then explored with shape cutters.

10/05/2022

Today is a day to celebrate how teachers are transforming education but also to reflect on the support they need to fully deploy their talent and vocation, and to rethink the way ahead for the profession globally. Take some time today to show your appreciation to a teacher.

09/30/2022

This week during small groups, to go along with our Family and Friends theme, students made playdoh people. They also practiced counting how many babies go into the matching number on the stroller. Another group learned small, medium, and big size bears.

09/29/2022

When people think about music, dancing is one of the first activities that come to mind. Dancing, being held and rocked to music, and making musical sounds by snapping colorful scarves in the air or jumping on bubble wrap are all melodic ways that very young children can build the muscles in their arms, legs, and trunk.

https://www.zerotothree.org/resource/beyond-twinkle-twinkle-using-music-with-infants-and-toddlers/

09/28/2022

Gross motor time with the infants! Read more about gross motor skills here. https://www.chrichmond.org/services/therapy-services/developmental-milestones/gross-motor-skills-birth-to-5-years

09/27/2022

Teamwork makes the dream work! Here you can see the children working collaboratively on a group collage.

09/26/2022

Happy Monday! Here are some fun moments from last week!

09/23/2022

Creating Self Portraits!

09/22/2022

Early literacy is so important! Reading aloud to young children is not only one of the best activities to stimulate language and cognitive skills; it also builds motivation, curiosity, and memory.
Find out more here: https://www.zerotothree.org/resource/five-fast-facts-reading-with-under-threes/

09/22/2022

Attention Lagrange Parents:
Parent Meeting Today!
Join us at 1:30 for an Ice Cream Social and presentation from H.U.G.S.

09/21/2022

Look what we did in school!! The
children were engaged as Ms. Tina read
stories and used emotion (emoji) faces
to express our feelings.. Happy, excited,
surprised, angry.

09/21/2022

Attention City Park Parents:
Parent Meeting Today!
Join us at 2 for an Ice Cream Social and presentation from H.U.G.S.

09/20/2022

Attention Woodville Parents:
Parent Meeting Today!
Join us at 2 for an Ice Cream Social and presentation from H.U.G.S.

09/19/2022

Happy Monday!!
Today students learned what a "recipe" was and then followed the recipe to make their own playdoh! It was a gooey and sticking fun time! Try making it together at home!

09/16/2022

Happy Friday! We hope you all have a wonderful weekend!

09/13/2022

Did you know that nursery rhymes are patterns and they can help children learn easy recall and memorization?
Find out more here
https://www.noblesvilleschools.org/site/handlers/filedownload.ashx?moduleinstanceid=4380&dataid=4576&FileName=2%20Rhymers%20are%20Readers-Why%20Important.pdf

09/09/2022

We love when the dentist comes to see our kiddos! Thank you to Smile Programs the mobile dentists! We appreciate all that you do for our families :)

09/07/2022

We are so happy to have parent's volunteer in our classrooms! Research shows that parent engagement in schools is closely linked to better student behavior, higher academic achievement, and enhanced social skills.

09/06/2022

We are excited to be there! Hope to see you there!

Our first Hiring Event of Workforce Development Month will feature Brightside Academy. Brightside is looking to hire a number of Head Start teaching positions. Visit https://www.ohiomeansjobs.com and enter the job order number in the KEYWORD search field to read the entire job description.

09/01/2022

A HUGE thank you to Brenda and Dutch from The Shoe Shack for providing our families with the essentials they need to be successful this year! The smiles on our families faces makes all the difference.

08/31/2022

First days of school fun! This class practiced matching-colored bears and making patterns! We are so happy to have our friends back in school!

08/29/2022

Happy first day of school friends! We're so happy to have you here!

08/12/2022

A huge part of what we do here at Brightside Head Start is training our staff on the valuable resources our community has to offer so that we can better serve our children and families. Thank you to all of the resources who were able to come out today! We appreciate your support!