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There are many benefits of playing board games with your children!
Social:
- A TV-free activity for you and your child to enjoy.
- Mommy/Daddy & child time.
- Practice of turn-taking and cooperating
- Sharing in an exchange of ideas and points of view.
- Making decisions and choices and accepting the consequences.
Emotional:
- Practice in regulating emotions if child does not “win”. Avoid competition if a cooperative alternative is available. Play in teams rather than one vs. another.
- Sharing and communicating emotions—both excitement and disappointment.
- Developing self-esteem while gaining success at playing by the “rules”.
- Focusing attention on the game and avoiding distraction.
- Persisting even when frustrated and coping with disappointment.
Communication, language and literacy:
- Responding appropriately to the verbal and print directions on how to play the game.
- Using new words and building vocabulary.
- Recognizing numbers in print and counting.
- Recognizing colours and shapes and matching their names.
Cognition:
- Asking questions to solve problems and clarify understanding.
- Using numbers, letters, shapes and quantities of items.
- Sorting objects, pictures and things into groups (classifying).
- Identifying patterns and knowing what comes next in a sequence.
- Using memory to remember picture cards in a matching game.
- Using counters to represent objects.
Physical:
- Fine motor dexterity, eye-hand coordination, by picking up and placing small items such as cards and game pieces.
- Large motor in floor games such as hop-scotch and twister.
- Auditory skills when identifying sounds on a sound bingo/lotto game.
HAVE FUN!
Tickets are now available for the Family Fun Festival on Sunday, February 26, 2012.It’s a fundraiser for Childreach and lots of fun for the whole family – from the young to the old. Sunday, February 26 from 11 am to 2 pm at the Hellenic Community Centre, 133 Southdale Rd. W., London. There will be activities, crafts, face painting, cupcake decorating, balloon animals, Imagination Playground, silent auction, goody bags, buffet brunch, ice cream bar, visits from Tinkerbell & Buzz Lightyear, and more!!! Tickets are $10 for children 2 to 12 and $40 for adults. For more information call Jane at 519-434-3644 ext. 36, or purchase your tickets here!
Thanks to our generous donors, over the last year Childreach has:
- led monthly Parent Circle programs in the Kipps Lane community, bringing families together to address parenting and neighbourhood challenges;
- introduced a new summer program AND a second stage program for our young moms group that has doubled in size;
- provided over 100 one-on-one parenting sessions to parents that are struggling; some of which required a translator;
- piloted a very successful ready for school family literacy program in a vacant store at Northland Mall.
Parents are the most important influence on a young child. By supporting parents, we work toward our dream of the best start in life for all children. We can’t do it alone.
Thanks for Giving!
Some of the challenges that families face in the summer are not having a huge budget to spend on things to do, meeting the needs of a variety of ages, and beating boredom.
We recommend you PLAN! :)
- Think ahead
- Post activities on a calendar
- Plan for structured and unstructured activities daily
- Include your children in the planning
- Schedule a break in the day for everyone to relax (e.g. read or nap)
Our parent educators have compiled a summer handout. Click on the link, save, print, share and enjoy!
This is the last year that we will be bringing Charlotte to London, so this is your last opportunity to see her live! Treat yourself and your child(ren) to a fabulous, interactive musical experience! You have your choice of two concerts on Tuesday, April 12 – 9:30 a.m. and 11 a.m. – at Forest City Community Church! Tickets are $10 each.
For tickets or more information, please call Jane at 519-434-3644 x36.
If you have young children in your life, consider taking them to the 5th Annual Family Fun Festival on Sunday, February 27, 2011 from 11 am to 2 pm at the Hellenic Community Centre. It’s a fundraiser for Childreach, tickets are $10 for children 2 to 12 and $40 for adults, and it’s fabulous value and fun for all ages. This year’s event is shaping up to be the best year yet with Storybook Gardens’ Imagination Playground, crafts from the Children’s Museum, karaoke, cupcake decorating, storytelling with the Waldorf School, face-painting, clowns, and visits from Princesses Belle & Aurora and Spiderman! There’s a child-friendly brunch buffet, a sundae bar, a family-focused silent auction, a big loot bag for each child, and so much more! For more information or to buy tickets, call Jane at 519-434-3644 x36 and check out the website at www.familyfunfestival.ca. We hope to see you there!
Planning a stay-cation during the winter break? We invite you to bring your children 0-6 years of age to our playroom for lots of FUN at NO COST. For the first time, we are opening our doors between Christmas and New Years. The playroom will be open on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday (December 28 – 29) from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. This is a great opportunity for those of you who work Monday to Friday and aren’t able to visit the playroom with your children during the week year-round. It’s especially good for those days when the children begin to get bored, and you need to get out of the house!
Happy holidays from the staff of Childreach!!
Friday, December 31 10-4 p.m.
Ring in the new year twelve hours early at the Children’s Museum! Enjoy lots of festive family fun including live music, cookie decorating, face painting, balloon animals, glitter fireworks, and crafts and activities from around the world! Don’t miss the countdown to the balloon drop at 12 noon!
The London Centre of Hope Family Health Team is accepting new patients. Anyone without a family doctor is welcome to apply. Please bring a valid Ontario health card with you. The London Centre of Hope Family Health Team is located at 281 Wellington St., London, Ontario (Corner of Wellington and Horton). For more information please call 519-645-2348 or drop in to register.
DISNEY’S GEPPETTO AND SON: The “When You Wish Upon a Star” Musical! is showing until the end of this week in the Rotary Reading Garden at the Central London Public Library. This is a PAY-WHAT-YOU-CAN-EVENT. No ticket is required.
SHOWTIMES:
Today at 7pm
Thursday, August 5 at 7pm
Friday, August 6 at 7pm
Saturday, August 7 at 10:30am & 5:30pm
Sunday, August 8 at 5:30pm
The classic tale of an aging toymaker and his puppet, Pinocchio, takes on new meaning in this new musical, with songs by Stephen Schwartz of Wicked fame, and based on the touching Disney film! Join the Blue Fairy, Stromboli, and a lively cast of characters, as Geppetto journeys beyond the toyshop to discover what makes the “perfect child”. This lovely family musical, a magical mix of heart-warming fairytale and action-packed adventure, is a perfect fit for family audiences. Everyone will love following Pinocchio’s journey from awkward puppet to real live boy, and will be charmed by Geppetto’s transformation from tyrannical creator to real live father. 75 minutes. (G)
