FAMILY STORY TIME Who's it for? Children, birth to age five, and their favorite grownups What will you do? Play, read, sing, and dance with your children in a fun, active program that builds reading skills. What is your child learning? Children who love books and stories become better readers. Support for early literacy programs is provided by a grant from First Things First, which partners with families and communities to give all Arizona children the opportunity to arrive at kindergarten healthy and ready to succeed. Learn more at FirstThingsFirst.org.

FINE MOTOR FUN Come join us in helping your child build those important fine motor skills through fun and engaging activities! Activities may include tracing, cutting, threading, and more! There will be some take away activities for you to further work with your child at home.

Jump like a frog and stomp around like a bear as we introduce yoga poses into our stories and songs! What is Kids Yoga? Kids Yoga is a form of yoga that is designed specifically for children. It includes poses to increase strength, flexibility, and coordination. Classes are intended to be fun and may include age-appropriate games, animal sounds, and creative names for poses. Children derive enormous benefits from yoga. Physically, it enhances their flexibility, strength, coordination, and body awareness. In addition, their concentration, sense of calmness, and relaxation improves.

PUZZLE POWER There are so many benefits of puzzles for children. Puzzles help build physical skills like fine and gross motor skills, emotional skills like patience, confidence, and self esteem, and social skills like teamwork and communication. Puzzles release stress, and can be a great way to calm an anxious child or increase patience and concentration. Puzzles also encourage shape recognition, spacial awareness, and spacial relations.