Discover With Me!TM IN ACTION
Early Childhood Professional Development WorkshopsLady Veggie & Friends!
Ms. Claudia is the lead actor/educator/writer for Lady Veggie & Friends. Lady Veggie & Friends offers a variety of services including a children's healthy habits show and workshops for parents and young adults. Book a healthy habits children's show for your school, daycare, after school program, summer library programs, vacation bible school, church youth group, health fair, or special event!
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Workshop: San Jacinto College North Early Childhood Early Education Club
DWM! was invited to share best early childhood practices with San Jacinto College students on their way to becoming teachers! Spring 2011
Workshop: Discover With Me! & Veggie Pals Train the Trainers Workshop at NAACP State Conference
October 2010
 Discover With Me! Education Solutions Leading a Train the Trainers Workshop for Veggie Pals at the NAACP State Conference in Killeen, Texas.
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Workshop: DWM! Co-presented with Write to Know! at Harris County Department of Education Early Childhood Winter Conference
January 29, 2011
January 29, 2011
Workshop: DWM! presented a workshop at San Jacinto College North for North Channel Childcare Seminar Series. Marcie Chapa, world renown musician, co-presented by lending her talent and demonstrated how to infuse music into your every day lessons.
December 4, 2010
December 4, 2010
Veggie Pals and Discover With Me!Using the mission of Veggie Pals and my experience as an early child educator, I created an early childhood show for Veggie Pals. The title of the show, "Discover Healthy Habits with Veggie Pals!"
I have three loves: working with young children, singing and dancing! I'm currently the "star" of the show and I get the chance to sing, dance and "discover" healthy habits with 3 - 6 year olds. |
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Dr. Seuss Story Time with Music, Movement, Rhythm, & Rhyme!In honor of Dr. Seuss' Birthday and Read Across America, I led a story time at my girls' school!
The children and I "rapped" the story Hop on Pop. The use of music, movement and rhythm help children make a connection to the story, new vocabulary words and practice the phonological awareness skill of rhyming. |
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Galena Park ISD Bilingual-ESL Conference
November 18th 2010
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DWM! Playgroup May 14, 2010
Discovering the texture of dirt with our sense of touch!
Discover our sense of touch!
We discovered our sense of touch by identifying our hands and fingers with a song. We also identified the meaning of soft, hard and rough by exploring sensory centers with our parent/caregiver. We crawled through a soft tunnel and slid down a hard slide! We also explored our sense of touch by manipulating sand paper, cotton balls, ice, sand, and dirt! We made soft scarves dance on a parachute and then we caught slippery and wet bubbles. We closed with handprint art as we painted our hands and put handprints on our Discover With Me! t-shirt!
We discovered our sense of touch by identifying our hands and fingers with a song. We also identified the meaning of soft, hard and rough by exploring sensory centers with our parent/caregiver. We crawled through a soft tunnel and slid down a hard slide! We also explored our sense of touch by manipulating sand paper, cotton balls, ice, sand, and dirt! We made soft scarves dance on a parachute and then we caught slippery and wet bubbles. We closed with handprint art as we painted our hands and put handprints on our Discover With Me! t-shirt!
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DWM! Playgroup May 6, 2010 Manipulating big blocks to construct a zoo for the animals!
Theme: Discovering Zoo Animals with Our Sense of Sight and Sound!
At this week's DWM! we played, listened to a story, climbed up the "mountain" slide then slid down, crawled through a "bear" tunnel then under a waterfall, and learned ASL (American Sign Language) for the words panda, more, and again. We also sang songs to develop phonemic awareness, practiced paying attention skills by listening and responding to the words slow, stop, fast, up and down while making a monkey "jump on the bed" during parachute time. We also caught bubbles as they floated "down like leaves" from the trees that giraffes eat from. While listening to the big book story Panda Bear, Panda Bear What Do You See? by Eric Carle, we discovered endangered animals and our sense of sight! Caregivers and babies/toddlers discovered how to make binoculars with recycled items from home....lots of discovery learning!  Building a zoo with big blocks! |
 Walking and balancing on the 'lily pad' path!  Crawling under the waterfall.  Taking turns crawling through the 'bear' tunnel.  Taking turns 'climbing up the mountain' then sliding down! |
 Mommy and daddy discovering with their son how to make binoculars!  A little explorer sharing the final product! |
 Babies and toddlers were invited to explore and manipulate the items used to make the binoculars!  Identifying the sense of sight by looking through binoculars! |
DWM! Playgroup goes outdoors!
DWM! playgroup took the discovery, exploration and play outdoors.
Discover With Me! + North Channel Public Library + The Veggie Pals + The Houston Children's Museum's Para Los Ninos = LOTS OF LITERACY FUN!
Here are some pictures of Discover With Me! supporting the North Channel Library's program Para Los Ninos. We had fun discovering the topic Healthy Mind/Healthy Body! We read The Carrot Seed aloud and then the toddlers acted it out with props in Spanish. We then "dug" up real carrots from the dirt! Dolly the Banana, a healthy fruit, visited us (courtesy of Veggie Pals). The toddlers learned how to use their sense of touch, sight and smell to identify fruits. We also exercised our body by "reaching up for apples and bananas from the tallest branches." The children identified their favorite fruits and discriminated between long and short carrots as they made a "healthy drink" with a juicer machine. The kids picked the veggies and fruits of their choice, placed them in the juicer, turned it on and watched the juice pour out in their cup - the exiciting part was watching them drink it and LIKING IT!
Discover With Me! Playgroup: "Planting a Rainbow"
So far we've met about 8 times. Each session has had it's on theme! Last Friday's theme was based on the story "Planting a Rainbow." We discovered the primary colors red, blue, yellow; the ASL signs for the words red, blue, yellow, & flower; we planted and watered seeds; we raked dirt in the sandbox; crawled through a "flower tunnel," discovered how to make tissue paper flowers with recycled materials such as used gift tissue paper and empty paper towel rolls; their was tummy time on a mat decorated with flowers and butterflies for the babies; we also discovered how to turn our painted handprints into "flowers," we played with (and identified) real vs fake flowers, we tossed a flower in the air with the parachute while singing ring around the rosies; we sang "the flowers on the bus go round and round" as we gave the children a "ride" on the parachute; we closed with catching "floating flowers" (bubbles)! Until next time!
 Under the Parachute! Learning prepositions. |
 Taking children for a 'ride' on the parachute! The 'flowers' on the bus go round and round... |
 Handprint Art! Handprints are turned into 'floral artworks.' |
 Bubble Time! Children 'catching' the floating 'flowers.' Bubbles support tracking with the eyes and paying attention skills! |
 Digging in the dirt! Planting 'roses' and 'seeds.' Promoting sharing and tactile fun - while manipulating gardening tools. |
 Crawling through the tunnel of flowers! Crawling supports the connection between the left and right brain! Playgroup: Discovering Our 5 SensesMay 2010: During this playgroup we "discovered" our 5 senses with the story The 5 Senses by Aliki! Marcie Chapa, world renowned percussionist, joined me by drumming along while I read the story aloud. Marcie has performed around the world and has recorded and toured with Beyonce. She gives back to her community by sharing her talent-inspiring young children and young adults to reach their goals. Ms. Marcie and I met when we were members of a local "rock" band where she played the timbales and I was a back-up singer!
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