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 A Place of Our Own / Los Niņos en su Casa Workshops
Based on the daily television series and “Martha Speaks”, the new vocabulary-based PBS series, this FREE workshop for adults focuses on developing children's language and literacy skills. Next month's theme is play and creativity. Participants will receive a Workshop Caregiver Kit complete with episode DVD, activity cards and a children's book.
Kingwood Library, Kingwood, TX
Sat, Oct 11, 10 a.m. - 2 p.m.
Theme: Play and Creativity
Henington Library, Alief, TX
Sat, Nov 8, 10 a.m. - 2 p.m.
Theme: Preventing Childhood Obesity
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 Reading Rainbow
Young Writers & Illustrators ContestHouston 1st Grade Author Wins National Honors!
HoustonPBS congratulates our local Reading Rainbow Young Writers and Illustrators Contest 1st Grade winner, Dane D., in winning 2nd place for 1st Grade in the National Contest which had over 40,000 entries submitted by Kindergarten 3rd grade authors from around the country! For winning 2nd place nationally in his grade, Dane received a flat-panel TV with DVD player and three Reading Rainbow Library sets (5 DVDs and books) for his home, school and library. Read Dane's award winning story, Building Buddies, at Reading Rainbow Contest Results 2008 http://www.houstonpbs.org/houstonpbskids/contests.html. If you didn't get a chance to enter this year, entries for the 2009 contest will be posted on our website in January 2009 and deadline will be mid March. Remember to keep writing & illustrating! Special thanks to Whataburger for their support of this contest.
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Join HoustonPBS in welcoming one of the newest resources available to child care providers. A Place of Our Own and it's Spanish counterpart, Los Niņos en su Casa make up a daily television series, a website, and an extensive outreach program devoted to the unique needs of people who care for children. Both programs share ways for us all to help children acquire cognitive, social, emotional and physical skills, as well as nurture language and literacy development.
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