GULF COAST COMMUNITY SERVICES ASSOCIATION Head Start/Early Head Start Support Services Monthly Narrative March 2025 LEADERSHIP ACTIVITIES •
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Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) The February 2025 Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) claim was completed and submitted to the Texas Department of Agriculture (TDA) for reimbursement. In February there were 19 food service days for the month. There were 17 eligible sites and 1,518 eligible children. The number of meals provided: 6,761 breakfasts; 6,898 lunches and 20,552 PM snacks served. Expected reimbursement for the month is $73,519.03. Focus Area 1 (FA1) March was a busy month preparing for the FA1 federal Review. Staff were excited to share the wonderful work we do for our children and families. GCCSA March 2025 Story Time – Professor Jason Fletcher, HISD Collaboration Teacher at Lockhart Elementary. He is also himself an author. He read “Chrysanthemum” by Kevin Henkes to the children and staff in March. The story Chrysanthemum is about a young mouse who loves her unique name, until she is teased about it by her classmates.
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Children’s Middle of the Year (MOY) Assessment meetings with Center Administrators coninued to review and analyze data to determine the needs of each individual child.
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TANS – The Department of Agriculture held its monthly update meeting on the new Texas Automated Nutrition System (TANS) to be implemented soon. In this update meeting it was reported that it will be a delay in its implementation timeline. HCC Early Childhood Advisory Board - the HS/EHS Assistant Director is a member of the advisory board and attended this month’s meeting. Spring Break was this month. Staff were given a week long spring break to rest and regenerate in March! Summer Professional Development Planning – planning meetings are underway for Summer Professional Development for the entire agency! Community Services/Head Start/Early Head Start Assistant Director Meeting – the two Assistant Directors held their monthly standing meeting to collaborate and share information about their perspective departments.
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Dr. Seuss Week was held during the month of March! Early Head Start, led by the Center Administrator Ms. Katheleen Trousdale hosted a Dr. Seuss storytelling each day that week. She reported they had a great week with various Dr. Seuss activities. Each classroom came up with one Dr. Seuss activity for all of EHS to participate in while children rotated throughout the classes. CB01-created a Dr. Seuss Hat; CB02- Green Eggs and Ham collage; CB03-Dr. Seuss Bowling; CB04-Thing 1 & Thing 2 handprint painting; CB05-Created Thing 1 & Thing 2 Popsicle Sticks; CB06-Make Cat in the Hat Mask; CB07- A Person’s a Person no Matter How Small Handprint Art; CB08-The Cat in the Hat Bowtie coloring; CB09-Red Fish Blue Fish Dot Painting; CB10- One Fish Two Fish sponge painting. One teacher would escort their children to each class while the other teachers stayed in the classroom to facilitate the activity with the children. Shout out to CB03, CB05, & CB06 to modify their activities to ensure each age group was able to participate.
Support Services Report March 2025
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