ESH Head Start Program is home to 72 children. Our center's main population is for the children in the Scholar House Program; which is for single parents going to school full time. We are taking a whole-family approach where education is key for not only the parents going to school but for the children birth to five years of age.
We also provide services to families living in poverty, homelessness, or are in foster care.
Our Head Start program is a comprehensive early learning program for preschool-aged children. It is designed to meet children's emotional, social, health, nutritional, and psychological needs.
My Project
Our program really focuses on the importance of family engagement and doing activities together as a family. We want to express the importance of reading to our children on a daily basis and what a difference it will make for our children to be read to at school and at home, but to be able to do this we have to give them the resources to do so.
Children at the preschool age are very curious and ask many questions on different topics, especially topics that can be scary to them.
Several of the books that we have picked are great books for parents to read at home and be able to explain the meaning of each topic with the book. We would have the same books in our classrooms so that they could talk to not only their teachers about it but also their parents if they would like to carry on the conversation.
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