Length: 4/30 minute
Rights: Perpetuity w/ Duplication & Distribution
Internet: http://fcps.edu/fairfaxnetwork

Parents, childcare providers, and teachers can influence the play environment to enhance numerous developmental skills. Using inexpensive materials, program hosts illustrate how the different projects can hone fine and gross motor skills, prediction skills, and the ability to discriminate between alike and different.

Feeds

1.) Me & My Family.  Each activity—from making masks to playing tambourines—prompts adult caregivers to encourage children to play as they learn.
Wednesday, 11/1/06; Tuesday, 1/2/07; Wednesday, 4/25/07

  
2.) Colors, Shapes & Sizes.  Fun is learning and learning is fun as preschoolers and parents make pinwheels, household prints and geometric characters, and sort by size.
Wednesday, 11/8/06; Tuesday, 1/9/07; Wednesday, 5/2/07

3.) The World Around Me.  Program hosts demonstrate activities that can be used to develop preschoolers' skills, such as the ability to identify, match, sort, and create.
Wednesday, 11/15/06; Tuesday, 1/16/07; Wednesday, 5/9/07

4.) Animals, Animals, Animals.  Using inexpensive materials, the program hosts offer suggestions on ways to use animals to help preschoolers develop basic skills.
Wednesday, 11/22/06; Tuesday, 1/23/07; Wednesday, 5/16/07

Weekly Feeds

Wednesdays, 11/3/06-1/22/06, 12:30-1:00 p.m.
Tuesdays, 1/2/07-1/23/07, 12:30-1:00 p.m.
Wednesdays, 4/25/07-5/16/07, 12:30-1:00 p.m.