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Association centers in Fellsmere and Wabasso and will be bringing the program to Pre and Kindergarten classes at Indian River Academy this spring. 2nd Quarter - The Rocket delivered Literacy in Action to classes of 4 year olds in SDIRC's VPK schools, including Glendale, Dodgertown, Pelican Island, Fellsmere, Vero Beach Elementary, and Indian River Academy. We also provide this literacy program for children in three Redlands Christian Migrant Association centers in Fellsmere and Wabasso. Over 260 children have received this engaging literacy program this academic year. Unfortunately, due to the COVID-19 pandemic and school closings, Literacy in Action (as have so many programs) has had to take a different course in order to continue providing young children. and families educational and social -emotional support during this difficult time. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, we are producing storytime videos for children and families to access on-line. The videos support developmental milestones, social- emotional learning, and English Language Arts standards. Our videos are being distributed to families through the social media platforms of KRC, Childcare Resources, RCMA (throughout Florida), Moonshot Summer Academy, EOC Head Starts, and SDIRC VPKs. In addition to the videos, I am maintaining a "Video Description" document to share with the community partners that includes the targeted milestones, guiding question, and ELA standards for each video. In addition to the family videos, we are producing professional development videos for teachers using the Sonday and Fundations programs with children. We have also collaborated to create literature and curriculum based videos to support the Moonshot Academy summer programs and after-school programs. SDIRC's 2020/2021 school year kick-off campaign was called, "Learning is a Connection Project: Launching a Year of CommUNITY". We collaborated with the school district to create a video for teachers and children around the text "Just Like Me" by Vanessa Brantley -Newton. This video was used to help promote community and learning across all of the elementary and middle schools. The Learning Alliance's Puppet Project: In an effort to enhance engagement, promote social emotional learning, and increase literacy and language impact around the current on-line platform, the Rocket has been using the art and science of puppetry in the video engagements we've created. There has been an increased demand for "the puppets" — the two most popular being Moonshot and Bob — and so the Rocket has expanded the use of them to become "The Learning Alliance's Puppet Project". There are many ways to use the Puppet Project to collaborate with different agencies in reaching families in meaningful ways. For example, I have met with KRC's Nivea Torres to discuss how we can create a bi-lingual puppet character to support social -emotional, language, and literacy skills for our Hispanic families that KRC can use in their community outreach. Here is a link to a video TLA has created using the Puppet Project to support social -emotional learning and literacy: https://www.dropbox.com/s/kaihvnmoiohdim3/LookingLikeMe%20-%2ODraftl.mp4?dl=0 Literacy in Action: Adventures of the Moonshot Reading Rocket: In the 4th Quarter, I submitted two proposals to present the Literacy in Action book to share the work we are doing throughout Indian River County to reach our literacy goal. One proposal was submitted to the Florida Association for the Education of Young Children (FLAEYC), and the other proposal was submitted to the Florida Alliance for Arts Education (FAAE). Both proposals were accepted. Due to the present COVID-19 pandemic, the conferences went virtual so I submitted a video to share my presentation. Here is a link to the video I submitted:.https://voutu.be/TU5UmcaMei4 153