Weymouth CFCE

Website :https://sites.google.com/weymouthps.org/weymouth-cfce/home

The Weymouth Child Family Community Center provides support to families from birth through school age. We provide access to comprehensive services, child development information, and educational opportunities to parents and caregivers. Our playgroups and programs are designed to raise awareness on the importance of family engagement while teaching important literacy, STEM and school readiness skills. As a parent or caregiver, you are your child's first and most important teacher! We are here to support you in this role!

Weymouth CFCE Strengthens Families:

1.Each family is unique and all families represent diverse structures.

2.Diversity is expressed and experienced at multiple levels.

3.Building a respectful, trusting, and reciprocal relationship is the shared responsibility.

4.Families are their child’s first and best advocate.

5. Family engagement must be equitable.

Upcoming Important Dates:

• December 17th Holiday Pajama Story Night
• December 24-31 No School Holiday Recess

Holidays: Strategies for Success

While the holiday season is filled with enjoyable activities,

events and traditions, it can also be a hectic and stressful

time. Travel, shopping, loud music, bright lights, unfamiliar

food, and busy schedules can turn typical routines upside

down! The disruption to routine can be particularly difficult for children who

depend on routine and predictability to engage in appropriate behavior.

The following tips will help ensure that the holiday season is enjoyable for you and your child.

Put on your comfy pajamas and grab your favorite stuffy, and head over to the library for our annual Holiday Story Night. Join us for a fun and magical story called, “Bear Stays Up For Christmas”, then create a holiday craft and do a little dancing.

See flyer for complete details.

What is Dialogic Reading?

How we read to preschoolers is as important as how frequently we read to them. The Stony Brook Reading and Language Project has developed a method of reading to preschoolers that we call dialogic reading.

When most adults share a book with a preschooler, they read and the child listens. In dialogic reading, the adult helps the child become the teller of the story. The adult becomes the listener, the questioner, the audience for the child. No one can learn to play the piano just by listening to someone else play. Likewise, no one can learn to read just by listening to someone else read. Children learn most from books when they are actively involved.

• Storytime has many benefits for children other than promoting early literacy and language development. It can help develop their concentration, social skills, communication skills, and encourages their imagination and creativity.

• Play based learning recognizes that children learn best through active engagement and exploration in meaningful and enjoyable content. As children play, they engage their imagination, take risks and learn problem solving to support their development.

• A music- rich experience for children of singing, listening and moving bring serious benefits to children as they progress to more formal learning.

Just play is a 45 minute parent and child playgroup. This playgroup will allow parents the opportunity to help develop their child’s social skills by engaging with their child in our various play centers. This program will also help with school readiness skills, expectations and classroom rules such as sharing, taking turns, choosing a toy or center and cleaning it up before moving on ect. All while having fun!

Both our Hop Skip & Jump program as well as our Just Play E.I. help your child to develop their large muscle groups and work on their balance and coordination.

Physical development

• Gross motor skills help children develop their posture, balance, and coordination. They also help children learn to move smoothly and efficiently from one position to another.

• Gross motor skills involve the large muscles in the arms, legs, and torso. Some examples of gross motor skills include:

• Standing

• Walking

• Running

• Sitting upright

• Jumping

• Twisting your torso

• Bending over

• Moving or twisting your neck

• Raising your arms and hands

• You can support your child's gross motor development with a mix of indoor and outdoor activities. For example, you can provide obstacle courses for crawling infants and sports for older children.

Have fun helping your child work their large muscle groups and develop fundamental physical skills. This program is full of fun movement activities such as stretching, jumping, running, playing ball and using hula hoops.

Hello WCFCC Families,

Are you looking for a fun indoor playgroup where you can spend time interacting with your child? If you are, we hope you will join us for our Just Play at E.I. The newly remodeled playroom is a bright cheery indoor play space for your littles to play and use their large muscle groups and to work on their social emotional development.

The Early Intervention play space has lots of fun ride-ons and active indoor structures for your littles to enjoy climbing on.

When we listen to, play, and create music or otherwise engage in the arts, our brains light up and respond in ways that allow us to better express ourselves, regulate our bodies, and strengthen many important non-musical skills.

Join us each month as we welcome SING*EXPLORE*CREATE board certified music therapists for two half hour sessions of music and fun. Each session will be geared to the specific age group and will explore movement and rhythm through song and dance!

Session 1: 3 and 4 year olds

Session 2: Birth to 24 Months

This program is a monthly sign-up

This program is limited to 10 families and sign-up is required!

STEM helps our preschoolers to get started with learning, science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). STEM helps children learn key skills including problem solving and creativity. This program will help you learn how to incorporate STEM into your infant, toddler, and preschoolers life while they play, explore, and create.

Outdoor programming will take place at various Weymouth Parks (Weather Permitting)

Indoor programming will take place at Abigail Adams

This program is limited to 6 families and sign-up is required.

Discover the power of play based learning! Play is more than just fun it's the foundation for future success. Imaginative play builds skills through curiosity, creativity and connections. Imagination Exploration will help your child use their imagination to create a magical world through various theme based play. This group will also help to develop your child's social emotional and communication skills.

Sensory play is an interactive playgroup that will engage your child’s senses through various activities. These activities will stimulate their senses - touch, sight, hearing and smell, as well as promote cognitive, social and emotional development.

These playgroups can include messy play so we encourage the use of play cloths.

The WCFCC primary entrance is at door # 24. If you are attending a program that takes place at Abigail Adams it is very important that you are on time as we meet all of our families as a group at Door #24. All families arriving late will need to enter through the main entrance at the office. If you are unable to attend a program we would appreciate it if you could remove your name from the sign up and send us a quick email. By removing your name it allows someone else the opportunity to attend the program.

This building also houses the following programs/offices.

• Weymouth Early Childhood Center

• Weymouth Child Family Community Center

• Family Engagement Center

• WPS Administration Offices.

Registration is underway for our 2025-2026 year. We want to remind all of our returning Weymouth families as well as any new community members who wish to join the WCFCC that everyone is required to complete a registration form each year.

You can find our registration form below or on our website under the Contact Tab.

If you are downloading your registration form from our website here is how you can submit your registration form.

• You can drop it off at the Family Engagement Center at the old Abigail Adams School Building 89 Middle St. East Weymouth, Mass 02189
• You can scan and email it to Donna Brodeur @ donna.brodeur@weymouthps.org
• Or you can turn it in at the first program that you choose to attend.

The WCFCC registration is a rolling registration and forms are available throughout the year at all of our programs. If you have any questions or are in need of any assistance contact: Donna Brodeur @ 781-335-1460 Ext. 28325 or donna.brodeur@weymouthps.org

Registration Form

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QO4vCIEhV7Ew8_ifZfRzQ_gTvdDrPbkT/view?usp=drive_link

The WCFCC is now part of the Weymouth Public Schools website and the following instructions will provide easier access to our website.

As we begin the start of the new school year we want to take a moment to review the importance of why you need to sign up for programs. The CFCE holds programming both at the WCFCE Center located at 89 Middle Street (Abigail Adams Building) ,Tufts Library and First Early Intervention. The space at these locations have limited occupancy capacity. If you are attending a program that takes place at Abigail Adams it is very important that you are on time as we meet all of our families as a group at Door #24. all families arriving late will need to enter through the main entrance at the office. If you are unable to attend a program we would appreciate it if you could remove your name from the sign up and send us a quick email. By removing your name it allows someone else the opportunity to attend the program.

WCFCC Website Access Instructions:

How to Access the WCFCC Website/Programs:

• Log into Weymouth Public Schools.

• Click the Students & Families tab.

• Then click the CFCE tab.

• Go directly to the website via the link below.

To Access all Programs:

• Click the Programs tab in the upper right hand corner.

• Once the Menu opens, choose the appropriate tab.

To Access Program Sign Ups:

• Click the Program Sign Up tab and choose the program you would like to sign up for. Be sure to read all of the details for the program. If you are unable to attend the program you selected we ask that you remove your name from the sign up to offer another family the opportunity to attend.

Website Link: https://sites.google.com/weymouthps.org/weymouth-cfce/home

The ASQ (Ages and Stages Questionnaire) is a free developmental screening tool that can identify strengths and catch delays early. Family Access Page. (Click here to access screening)

It is a parent completed questionnaire that is completed online and then reviewed with one of the CFCC staff. If you have any questions or are in need of assistance with completing the screening contact : Donna Brodeur at (781) 335-1460 Ext. 28325

Email : donna.brodeur@weymouthps.org

Location: 89 Middle Street, Weymouth, MA, USA

Phone: 781-335-1460 Ext. 28325