Basics Playground Paloozas
The Basics Cobb County is Cobb Collaborative’s Birth-Kindergarten programming that aims to provide fun, simple, and powerful strategies to help every child reach their full potential. Our Vision is a Cobb where all infants, toddlers, and preschoolers are on track to achieve their full potential–having benefited from early experiences that foster healthy brain development, learning, joy, and resilience.
We offer Playground Paloozas for children ages birth through five years old along with their parents/caregivers. These events are rooted in five evidence-based practices for promoting early childhood development into routine family engagement efforts:
- Maximize Love, Manage Stress – Staying emotionally present for your child increases their happiness, strengthens their emotional health, and builds self-control skills.
- Talk, Sing, and Point – Boost your child’s language skills and knowledge of the world.
- Count, Group, and Compare – Help your child make sense of numbers and categories all around them.
- Explore Through Movement and Play – Encourage curiosity, discovery, and a healthy body.
- Read and Discuss Stories – Build your child’s knowledge, reasoning, and early literacy skills.
Our Playground Paloozas offer a hands-on, engaging approach and encourage connection and healthy attachment between caregivers and their children. We offer these within various time frames or formats depending on organization preference and need. They can be hosted in a variety of settings including childcare facilities, libraries, bookstores, etc.All families can benefit from these insightful and engaging training opportunities.
In addition to hosting Basics Paloozas, we can also host Basics orientation sessions for organizations with child-serving staff and/or volunteers. Basics orientation sessions last approximately one hour and provide an introduction to The Basics, preparing participants to share The Basics with the families they serve.
View our current listing of upcoming Plaground Paloozas.
Interested in hosting a Palooza or orientation sessions? Contact Cobb Collaborative Literacy Coordinator, Leslie Danford, via email at LDanford@cobbcollaborative.org