The East Haven Early Childhood Collaborative
Presents East Haven Kids
funded by
The William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund
EHECC GOAL
Every child in East Haven will be healthy and ready to learn by
age 5 and achieve developmental and school success by age 9.
EHECC, founded in 1998, supports children, families and workers in the field of early care and education.
Celebrate the Week of the Young Child
Join Us at the Fifth Annual Children’s Fair
Presented by the East Haven Early Childhood Collaborative, with funding from the William Casper Graustein Memorial Fund.
• Date: Saturday, April 27th, 2013 for Kids ages Birth – 8.
• Hours: 10AM till 1PM, Rain or Shine at Overbrook Early Learning Center 60 Gerrish Ave.
• The Children’s Fair is free to the public and features crafts, games, Touch–a–Truck, a roving magician, Curious Creatures, Amber Alert Cards sponsored by East Haven Rotary Club, and interactive musical entertainment by the acclaimed multicultural music group, Sirius Coyote.
• Information and representatives will be available from many local agencies and departments who support early childhood.
• Please support our community by bringing nonperishable canned cooks and food items for the Food Pantry, or dog food for the Animal Shelter.
• Watch a slideshow about the
2010 CHILDREN’s FAIR.
East Haven Kids News
2013 KINDER PREP SERIES INFORMATION
Please join us for the 2013 Kinder Prep Series starting February 27, 2013. The Kinder prep series is designed to help families understand the skills that help children enter kindergarten ready to learn. Topics include math, health and fitness, science, literacy and music and movement. Participants will receive resources and activities to do with their children at home. Individuals who attend all six sessions will receive a $20 gift card to Stop & Shop.
The East Haven Kinder Prep program is designed to increase parent’s knowledge of important developmental milestones of their children allowing them to enter school developmentally on track and ready to learn. For more information and to register please contact Marissa Velazquez at 203–468–3898 or MVelazquez@mail.east-haven.k12.ct.us.
Print / view the 2013 Kinder Prep flyer with registration form in
English or
en Español.
YOUR RESOURCES
The EHECC has created an exciting new web site providing information and resources for parents of young children.
• New information About our organization has been added including a printable brochure, organization chart and our accomplishments.
• Check our calendar in the main menu for information on future events and meetings.
• ¿Hablas español? Is your primary language not English?
Use Google Translator in our main menu to convert pages to your language.
• Visit the William Casper Graustein Memorial Fund.
• View 2009 Week of the Young Child photo albums Children’s Fair 2009 Photo Album.
•Mayor Almon presented members of the East Haven Early Childhood Collaborative with a proclamation in recognition of The Week of the Young Child.
View proclamation photo album 2009.
EHECC Monthly Meetings
Please check back for our next meeting date.
Read our meeting notes:
• October 13, 2009
• January 13, 2010
EHECC/East Haven Kids takes no responsibility and gives no guarantees, warranties or representations, implied or otherwise, for the content or accuracy of web site links.
* Links to external pages are provided as a courtesy and do not constitute an endorsement.
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Created by Frances C. Foley & Noisemakers Productions.
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Updated 4/5/13.
