Honey Bear Preschool and Childcare Center

This is long, to me reassuring, but worth reading - from a NPR website: The Y says that during the lockdowns it cared for up to 40,000 children between the ages of 1 and 14 at 1,100 separate sites, often in partnership with local and state governments. And in New York City, the pandemic's national epicenter in March and April, the city's Department of Education reports that it cared for more than 10,000 children at 170 sites. Working in early days, and on very short notice, ...these two organizations followed safety guidance that closely resembles what's now been officially put out by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The Y says a few staff members and parents at sites around the country did test positive, but there are no records of having more than one case at a site. This, among a population of essential workers. In a separate, unscientific survey of child care centers, Brown University economist Emily Oster found that, as of Tuesday afternoon, among 916 centers serving more than 20,000 children, just over 1% of staff and 0.16% of children were confirmed infected with the coronavirus. The Y emphasized to NPR that its data is not comprehensive, and the availability of testing has varied across the country. But experts say it's worth taking these low numbers into account.

From Ed Source: Vaccination rates have dropped by 40% in the last 8 weeks. Let's encourage friends and neighbors to setback on track now that we can make appointments with doctors again... https://edsource.org//california-immunization-rate/633594

Our young students are glad to be back at Honey Bear Preschool and so are their parents! Currently our hours are 8:00 - 4:00 but as our enrollment grows we plan to expand them on each end of the day! Thank your your continued support through a very difficult spring.

Pediatricians recommend one hour maximum of screen use by preschoolers. More than one hour is associated with lower measures of the brain white matter which supports language and emergent literacy skills and lower cognitive assessments. A good rule of thumb: The brain that learns comes from the body that moves... At Honey Bear Children are too busy with great educational activities and outside play time to even be interested in "screens".

Once a week our Little Bear Cubs and Big Bear Cubs go to the YMCA in the morning to play sports.

Our four and five year olds are learning Spanish. We hope they continue in grade school.

We want to thank Fireman Jamie and his crew for coming to Honey Bear yesterday and giving the children a presentation on fire safety and showing us all the gear firefighters wear. They even came in their fire truck!

This week we are saying goodby to summer swim lessons at the YMCA and looking forward to Thursday morning sports class taught by the YMCA for our Little Bear Cubs and Big Bear Cubs.

Shanon Kobe is a new teacher at Honey Bear Preschool and Child Care Center. With a degree in early Childhood Education from Vanguard University she is highly qualified to educate our children. Amy our director is on the left. Shannon is on the right.

National Institute of Health - Guidelines for Safe Sleep of infants: Baby sleep area has NO BUMPERS, NO PILLOWS, NO BLANKETS and NO TOYS and IS NEXT TO WHERE PARENTS SLEEP. PLEASE SHARE WITH ALL YOUR FRIENDS WHO HAVE AN INFANT. Let's eliminate SIDS.

Yesterday our Big Bear Cubs Graduated. We will miss you.

STEM Science in preschool. Our three, four and five year olds raised caterpillars into butterflies and released them yesterday. But not before wearing their own butterfly outfits.