Read 'Round the Circle

Love Reading? Love Kids?
Join Colts DB Antoine Bethea to help us break the national reading relay record of a single book!

We can make it happen with 500 people! We’ll provide the book. You read the story.

Invite your family and friends to read a sentence from the beloved children’s novel Charlotte’s Web.

June 7
5 p.m. on Monument Circle
Sign up today at uwci.org!

Another FREE webinar: Using ECE Technology DAP-Style! Top Questions Answered

Join the ECE Technology Wizard, Chip Donohue, as the moderator of this fast-paced webinar with Fran S. Simon, M.Ed. and Karen Nemeth, Ed.M., Co-Authors of Digital Decisions: Choosing the Right Technology for Early Childhood Education. The webinar will focus on practical recommendations to help you integrate technology in your program using developmentally appropriate techniques that focus on learning and relationships. You will learn more about:

• the DAP technology planning process
• evaluating apps, websites, and software to ensure they align with constructivist approaches, as well as preschool standards
• integrating technology into learning centers in child-initiated programs.
• using technology meaningfully to enhance child-centered learning

Webinar is June 6th. Learn more and register now!

Summer Reading Programs

With the start of the summer season filled with hot days it gives a great chance to cool off in the shade with a few good books. Many local libraries and bookstores offer great summer reading incentives that will not only keep your children reading but reward them for it.

Half Price Books is once again offering their Feed Your Brain Summer reading program in which children who read at least 300 minutes receive a $5 coupon to use during the month of August.

Barnes and Nobles summer reading program offers a free book for reading 8 books through the summer.

Scholastic has a Summer Reading Challenge in which kids can log their minutes read for a chance to win prizes.

Most local libraries offer fantastic summer reading programs!