Distance Learning
Welcome to the Catalyst Kids Family Enrichment Zone! This is our one stop shop to support your family with distance learning/connections and beyond. You will find links to a wide variety of community services available in your area, along with helpful articles, activities, information, and tools to support your family’s needs.
Helpful Articles
Homework Anxiety: What It Looks Like and Why It Happens
Keeping Kids Motivated for Online Learning
Back-to-School Concerns About Your Child: How to Act on Them
Questions That Parents of English Language Learners Should Ask Schools This Fall
Managing Anxieties Around Distance Learning
Notes from the Backpack – a PTA Podcast
10 Tips for Helping Children Cope with Disaster
Books to Help Children Cope with Disasters
Distance Learning Tips for At Home
Activities/Enrichments
Welcome to the Activities/Enrichment Page! Here you will find developmentally appropriate at home activities for Infant/Toddler, Preschool, and School Age children as well as enrichments to support Distance Learning. There are also resources for materials to support and enhance your activities.
Activities
Infant/Toddler
Preschool
Preschool Activities for School Readiness
Scripted Stories for Social Situations
Helping Your Child During the Pandemic
How to Help Your Child Successfully Transition Back to School
School Age
Helping Your Child During the Pandemic
How to Help Your Child Successfully Transition Back to School
At Home Materials/Lists
Resources
Welcome to the Resources page! Here you will find helpful tools, articles, and information to help connect you to available community services and resources to support the needs of your family. Our goal for this page is to help support and empower our Catalyst Kids families all over California.
Health Resources
How to Get Your Child to Eat More Fruits & Veggies
Kids Need Fiber: Here’s Why and How
How Toxic Stress Affects Us, and What We Can Do About It – YouTube
Folleto para proveedor de servicios médicos
CalFresh
Child Development
Modifying an IEP or 504 for Distance or Hybrid Learning
Behavior Challenges: Conversation Starters to Use With Your Child’s Teacher
Developmental Monitoring and Screening/Control y Evaluación del Desarrollo
Handling Challenging Behaviors at All Ages
Manejo de Comportamientos Desafiantes en Todas Las Edades
10 Things Every Parent Should Know About Play
5 Essentials to Meaningful Play
How Every Child Can Thrive By Five
Play in Early Childhood: The Role of Play in Any Setting
Milestone Checklists Through the Ages:
Parent Education
Coping for Parents in Hard Times
Wide Open School – Recursos en español
Connect With Your Kids 0 – Teens
Conéctate con tus hijos 0-adolescentes
Celebrating Differences: Antiracist Parenting Right From the Start
Talking about Body/Personal Safety, ages 6-8
Talking about Body/Personal Safety, ages 9-10
Talking about Body/Personal Safety, ages 11+
Estableciendo rutinas para que los niños y niñas vayan al baño
Helping Your Child During the Pandemic
How to Help Your Child Successfully Transition Back to School
How California’s new universal transitional kindergarten program will be rolled out.
The Right Direction: Mixed Delivery Early Care and Education
Mental Health
Children’s Book About Mental Health
Healthy Expression of Emotions
Nurturing Children in Times of Stress
Social and Emotional Trouble in School: 7 Things to Ask Your Child’s Teachers