Dear YAAEYC Members, The year is flying by and early childhood programs are facing many funding challenges. We need to remain strong and make our voices heard. Early childhood Ac- tion Day is May 1, 2012 in Harrisburg. If you have neverattended this event please consider doing so. It is a chance to deliver the message that early childhood edu- cation is important to state legislators. The event runs from 8 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. with a rally in the Capitol Ro- tunda at 2:30. You can register yourself or your program. Contact LaTosha Stoney at [email protected]. There will be professional development opportunities as well as scheduled legislative visits. Don’t forget the Week of the Young Child, April 22-28, 2012. Many great events are being planned! Sue Yohe YAAEYC President Letter From The President Insidethisissue: TheWhiteRose TheWhiteRose Winter 2012 Page 1 Letter from the President 1 Market Basket 2 Healthy Eating 3 White Rose Award Nominations 4 Outstanding Early Childhood Professional Parent Nomination 5 Week of the Young Child Updates 6 York County Early Childhood Education Professional Award 7 YAAEYC Conference 7 New & Renewing Memberships 8 One Book 8 YAAEYC Contacts 9 Library Reminder 9
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By now most of you have heard there is a new food symbol to guide healthy eating. Gone isMyPyramid and in its place is ChooseMyPlate. Most nutrition experts agree that the new shape isbetter because it shows us what a healthy meal looks like. MyPlate is piled with fruits and vegeta-bles and shows they should be the main focus of every meal. What can be easier than telling your preschoolers half their plate should be full of fruits and veggies at every meal?
By going to the MyPlate website, http://choosemyplate.gov you will see great free materials you canuse in your healthy eating lesson plans, family newsletters, and/or learning tips for your own eatingplan. WellSpan Health also coordinates a Market Basket of the Month campaign. Below is thismonth’s newsletter. Monthly newsletters highlight a special fruit or vegetable and provide you withsimple serving ideas. The newsletters can be found at www.wellspan.org/marketbasket. Please feelfree to copy and share with your staff and parents.
Build a healthy plateBefore you eat, think about what goes on your plate or in your cup or bowl. Foods like vegetables,fruits, whole grains, low-fat dairy products, and lean protein foods contain the nutrients you needwithout too many calories. Follow these tips to build a healthier plate. Make half your plate fruits and vegetables. Switch to skim or 1% milk. Make at least half your grains whole. Vary your protein food choices. Choose foods and drinks with little or no added sugars. Look out for salt (sodium) in foods you buy - it all adds up. Eat fewer foods that are high in solid fats
Eat the right amount of calories for you
Everyone has a personal calorie limit. Staying within yourscan help you get to or maintain a healthy weight. Peoplewho are successful at managing their weight have foundways to keep track of how much they eat in a day, even if they don't count every calorie.
Enjoy your food, but eat less.
Cook more often at home, where you are in control of what's in your food.
When eating out, choose lower calorie menu options.
Write down what you eat to keep track of how muchyou eat.
If you drink alcoholic beverages, do so sensibly - limitto 1 drink a day for women or to 2 drinks a day for men.
There are a lot of wonderful things happening on the Week of the Young Child Committee! WOYCwill be from April 22nd-28th. The banquet is scheduled to be held at the fabulous Valencia Ballroomon Wednesday, April 25th. Check your email and be on the lookout for more information.
As you may know, we tie the Week of the Young Child into Pennsylvania’s One Book Every YoungChild selection. This year’s selection is Stop Snoring Bernard by Zachariah O’Hora. Start thinkingof some things you can do at your center to support Week of the Young Child. Some ideas are host-ing a pajama party, conducting a pajama drive for those less fortunate, or attending an evening storytime at your local library. The sky is the limit when it comes to promoting the importance of earlychildhood education!
The Week of the Young Child Committee is once
again asking for your help.
We would like to extend an invitation for parentsto help create theme related gift baskets to beutilized as door prizes during the recognition ban-quet at the Valencia Ballroom. Theme sugges-tions include: spa, sweets, international foods,coffee, tea, gardening, games, puzzles and sta-tionary. A sample parent letter that you can dis-tribute will be available on the YAAEYC websitein the Week of the Young Child section. Parents
are asked to submit their contribution by March30.
Baskets can then be brought to the United Wayor Children First Learning Center (215 St.Charles Way, York) by April 5th. Should youneed to make arrangements to have your basketpicked up, please contact Vickie Wooditch atCFLC, 741-5426 ext 21. Who knows, you or your staff just may be the recipient of one of thesespectacular gifts.
Baskets Needed
Join us for the 4th Annual YAAEYC Network-
ing Night!
This spring we will once again offer York andAdams county early childhood professionalsthe opportunity to spend an evening touringlocal programs and networking with others inour field! Look for more details about thisprofessional development event comingsoon!
If your center or program is interested in be-ing featured on this year’s Networking Nighttour, please contact Lisa Young at
The Conference Committee has new co-chairs this year. We welcome Wendy Latshaw and AshleyZurawski.
There will be a meeting to begin planning the 2012 YAAEYC Conference on Wednesday, February22 at 3 PM in the United Way Conference Room. Anyone interested in helping with this conference
is encouraged to join us. If you would like to help, but are unable to attend the meeting, please emailWendy Latshaw at [email protected] or Ashley Zurawski at [email protected].
York County Early Childhood Education
Professional Award
Focus On Our Future is pleased to announce the opportunity for early child-hood educators to apply for a York County Early Childhood Education Profes-
sional Award and win $1,000.
Purpose of the Award: This award recognizes the importance of consistent,positive relationships between early childhood educators and children in high
quality early childhood education.
Description of the Award: Winners will receive $500 to implement a devel-opmentally appropriate project in their classroom and a stipend of $500.
The winners will be recognized at the Week of the Young Child Awards Re-ception on April 25, 2012.
Thank You For Joining Or Renewing Your MembershipAlicia M Aldr ich Danielle M Anstine Kathy Arnold Leslie A Arter Beth Bar bato Amy Barshinger-Lori Bar shinger
Natosha BondKim BouldingSar a Bradley Gay BridgettAntonio Briley, Jr .Ladawn Br own Kyla Burg Jamie Buser Sar a CainKitisha CurrieChelsea Cutacker Michelle Dellinger Lor elei Delp
Elizabeth EdkinLynn-Mar ie Ehrhar tAngie Eikenberg
Tammy GoldenJane W. GrimesChantrez HearnDea HermanRoberta Jane HinesLois Jean HinsonJennifer Holder Angeline Houser Heather HughesVanesa JimenezAngela KannEllen KayStacey A Keller
Kevin KennedyJess Koppenhauer Wendy Latshaw
Jamie ReppAlicia RodriguezNancy Joy Rosenbaum-HardyMegan RunkAna SantanaMary ScottDee Searle
Megan SheelyBarbara Ann ShorbKallie A ShutzNancy SlatteryCara L Slusser Sherry M SmithMehgan E StilesJennifer StoughLaura E Trimmer Karen TroneYoungjin UmKatherine M VernonStephen Vernon
Kathleen A VraneyJen WesterholdDeborah WilliamsBarbara Zellman
One Book
Every Young Child
The 2012 selection for One Book Every Young
Child is Zachariah Ohora’s Stop Snoring, Ber-
nard ! Bernard loves curling up to go tosleep. But there is one little problem. Bernard
snores…LOUDLY! So loudly that he keeps all of
the otters awake during naptime. So loudly
that Grumpy Giles tells Bernard to move his
snoring somewhere else!
Kickoff event is March 27, 2012 in Harrisburg.
Look for this book coming to you in early
Sara Lauer Christie M. LookingbillSheri LucichCarroll LuckenbaughCarly LyonBarbara MalehornRuby Martin
Whitney MatthewsJamie McFarlandTamara McMillanTammi Meador Jolene Melott-LeikHeather Miller Mikki Miller Barry Muser Deborah MyersJulie MyersKristen NowakCarrie Oliver Iris Perez
Sherlyn Potter Betty Jo QueenEvelyn QuinterosTracy Raab
ReminderWhose Shoes traveling trunk, along with Inside Mouse Out-side Mouse, A Special Friend Indeed, Up Down And Around,If You Were A Penguin, and What A Treasure are availablefor weekly borrowing through Martin Library.
The materials in the trunk are based on the PA Pre-Schoolstandards and include activities, crafts, songs and rhymesfor use in the classroom.
Please call Peggy Gardner at 846-5300 X280 to reserve atime for you. Trunks may be picked up from and returned toyour closest local library.