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Supplemetal Curriculum

One strategy we recommend using when working on your lesson plan is pulling from your Curriculum. Now, if you have a self-created curriculum where you’ve aligned your lesson plan with the Early Childhood Standards, you may be asking, “What am I pulling from?” This is where we can explore the work of Supplemental Curriculum.

Supplemental Curriculum is content that assists in teaching the lesson, additional activities that just help solidify concepts in the young minds. There are a great number of fantastic Supplemental Curriculums out there, but here are just a few free Supplemental Curriculums we recommend:

GoNoodle: GoNoodle is a fun website more meant to be the activity that encourages learning through movement. They recommend the program for Preschool ages and up, and the subject areas cover a multitude of topics.

https://www.gonoodle.com/

GoNAPSACC: GoNAPSACC is a website more meant for the teacher as it provides trainings and activities to be worked into lesson plans. GoNAPSACC focuses on Child Nutrition, Oral Health, Physical Activity, and more!

https://gonapsacc.org/

PBS Learning Media: PBS Learning Media is the website that pulled the educational pieces from the individual episodes of our favorite PBS Shows! There are many activities, lesson plans, and resources available at this site!

https://thinktv.pbslearningmedia.org/

KY COLT

The Division of Child Care is working hard to get KY COLT live. As of now, you are still able to use your KY TRIS account as usual, however, expect to see a few changes here in the next few months.

Check out the link for more information on KY COLT:

https://www.childcareawareky.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/EKUTRIS_FAQ.pdf

In addition, the WKU Family Child Care Network is still offering by request training. If you contact our main office, we can set you up with one of our trainers to help get a training that suits your and your programs needs.

Kids Corner

Did you know that Local Libraries are a fantastic resource for Family Child Care Programs?

You don’t even need to have a field trip to be able to enjoy it!

Most libraries have a service where you can contact them to come out and have a librarian read to the children on a regular basis, or even bring a selection of books for the children to check out under your program name. And, even if your area does not have that service, having the option to check out books each week or two and being able to rotate what books are in your collection can greatly influence your children’s early literacy skills! Libraries around the state offer many different services as well.

Check out what your local library can help you with today!

The Local Hotspot

Please get ready to Save the Date for our Annual Family Child Care Conference! This is our conference that we host JUST for Family Child Care Programs across the state of Kentucky. If you want to network with other Family Child Care Programs, complete some training hours, and attend a Fantastic Awards Ceremony, save the date and check back in for when Registration goes live! See you in Covington!

Also, we have a new training series on the horizon! Be on the lookout for when the Little Lunch Learners series goes live! This will be a series of individual trainings that will spend an hour focusing on practical, hands on, classroom ready strategies and resources you can easily apply to your child care program. More information to come soon!

Regulation Reminder

Have you completed your Monthly Fire Drill? What about your Quarterly Earthquake, Tornado, Shelter-In-Place, or Lockdown Drills?

It can be so easy to forget to complete these routine emergency drills, but all it takes is one emergency when you’re unprepared for everything to go haywire. In order to help remember when to complete your Emergency Drills, we recommend adding the drills to your phone calendar so that you will receive an alert when it is time to practice them once more!

270-745-2216

fccnkyinfo@wku.edu