School Calendar

Our Program Goals

All FCHS Birth to Five staff, students, and families will receive support and growth opportunities in professional development and instruction in a physically and emotionally safe learning environment.

Education

Our goal is to provide high-quality educational services for all children, including children with disabilities.  Including:

• Assess each child's development, providing information to the parents along with goals

• Using a curriculum that follows each child's interest, focusing on how each child learns

• Ensuring that activities prepared for your child are engaging and challenging

• Building relationships with the family and child based on trust and respect

• Providing opportunities for children to problem solve

• Letting children learn through play

Below are some of the ways we work to Grow Little Minds:

Socially: To help children feel comfortable in school, trust their teachers, make friends, and feel they are a part of the group.

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Emotionally: To help children experience pride and self-confidence, develop independence and self-control, and have a positive attitude toward life.

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Cognitively: To help children become learners by letting them try out their ideas and experience success and by assisting them to learn to solve problems, ask questions, and use words to describe their thoughts, observations, and feelings.

Physically: To help children increase their large and small muscle skills and feel confident about what their bodies can do.

Family Services

Family Services provides extensive support opportunities for parents' development as their child’s first and primary teacher.  We collaborate with families to ensure they feel confident and capable of cultivating their child’s development, pursuing their dreams, and increasing self-reliance.

Family Advocates work with families to establish goals to promote family well-being, positive parent-child relationships, families as lifelong educators, families as learners, family engagement in transitions, family connections to peers and community, and families as advocates and leaders.

Parent Workshops

Floyd County Head Start Birth to Five offers Parent Workshops for our currently enrolled families providing additional parenting resources through an interactive curriculum. The workshops give parents a space to find support and encouragement among each other. The meetings occur every other month, and parents may share any topics important to them and their child and discuss current issues, special events, and information about their Head Start child. Workshops are an opportunity for parents to get involved in their child’s education and help determine the program's future and Parent Workshops. If you need transportation to a meeting, please get in touch with the Family Advocate Office.

Learning at Home

Staff will provide educational activities for parents/ guardians to work on with their child at home. Every student will receive a home learning box during their initial home visit, with all the materials needed to complete the home learning activities. The Home Learning Packet will be sent home on Mondays and returned to school on Thursdays.  Parents will need to fill out the sheet completely and return it to their child's teacher.