2022 Mountainview Daycare Nutrition Program
  Celebrate April! Ramadan—Passover—Easter  Holidays for everyone!
They say “April showers bring May flowers” - which means April is the perfect rainy-day stay-inside month to READ MORE BOOKS! We’ve found a fun group of books by South African author Avril VanderMerwe that kids love to hear and see the brilliant illustrations. You can find her books on Amazon and local bookstores in Edmonds, Redmond, etc.
 
Our KIdKare column this month focuses on the Knowledge Base page. You’ll find so many helps built into this program to keep your child care business up to date and make it easy to plan, feed and report great nutritional meals for kids.
 
Spring is for Gardening! CACFP promotes child well being beyond nutrition. A home, community, or school garden provides the perfect setting to explore the wonders of nature. With spring finally here, there is no better time to start planning a garden! Need additional ideas for gardening projects in the classroom? Click HERE.
APRIL header holidays: 1st April Fool’s; 2nd Ramadan; 7th Int’l Beaver Day; 15th Passover;
17th Easter; 21st Kindergarten Day; 25th World Penguin Day; 29th Arbor Day

Social-emotional skills, such as self-awareness, cooperation and responsible decision making, are important for the health and success of young people. Whether at home or in school, there are many simple ways adults can help develop social-emotional skills in children. To get started, try some ideas in this pdf.
 
Learning social-emotional skills like kindness, sharing, and self-regulation that will contribute to their overall success in life paves the way for children as they enter school. Some research suggests that social-emotional activities might be the most important work children can do in the early years.
Don’t miss these great tools
The KidKare Knowledge Base https://help.kidkare.com/help page is packed with useful tools for your business. Whether you are a Center or Home Child Care, new to the business or active
for decades, you will find timely information to help you in 2022.

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