10 Reasons to Choose Quality Early Learning and Child Care

Expert knowledge Early childhood educators are experts in child development and are trained to create inspiring learning environments!

Intentionality Early childhood educators provide your child the gift of time and attention. They will stop and explore the new flowers or jump in the mud puddles with your child.

Young at heart Early childhood educators know how to have fun! They’re not afraid to be silly and laugh with your child; all while nurturing your child’s creativity and helping to build their self-confidence.

Setting limits Every child needs reasonable boundaries, such as no playing ball inside. Early childhood educators set limits and support families in doing the same.

Love of literacy Early childhood educators read and tell stories, sing songs, and do puppet shows to inspire a love of language and to build early literacy skills.

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Confidence boost Early childhood educators provide safe opportunities for your child to be independent and to become confident in their personality and decision making skills.

Inspired learning Early childhood educators ask open-ended questions to inspire creative thought and curiosity, to encourage children to explore, and to make learning fun.

Life skills Early childhood educators use their expertise to develop programs that use play as a tool for teaching math, literacy, science and essential life skills that last for life!

Making friends Early childhood educators are educated to appropriately support children to gain social skills, which are so important in making friends and developing positive relationships!

Helping hand Everyone gets stumped by parenting from time to time - juggling schedules, demands, and behaviours. When it gets tough and you need someone to talk to, reach out to your child’s early childhood educator!

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This event has been approved by the Early Learning and Child Care Board for 2.00 professional development training hours.

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Bouncing Back!: The Importance Of Active Outdoor Play & Learning As We Recover From A Pandemic

This workshop focuses on providing early literacy resources, tools and strategies that encourage young children and their caregivers to get active outdoors. Using children’s picture books as a framework, we will look at how we can extend concepts in a natural setting, focusing on inquiry-based learning while enhancing children’s early literacy skills and overall healthy development. Content includes:

• Exploring how active play and nature support healthy child development

• Sharing research detailing how outdoor active play reduces stress and improves health and well-being

• Discussing a variety of inter-generational active play and outdoor activities that can be readily replicated in existing programs or services and shared with families

Facilitator Biography:

Bookmates is a Manitoba based not-for-profit organization, established in 1984 with a mission to develop and deliver early years programs and training to build and support the foundations of literacy and learning. We are regularly invited to present at conferences and workshops to share our expertise. Our history of developing and delivering accessible, relevant early years literacy training and programs enables us to successfully address emerging needs and topics with our services.

Nancy Tovell is the Program Coordinator at Bookmates. She has a wide range of experience in facilitating workshops with a focus on sharing strategies, tools and resources to support those working with families and young children. She graduated from the University of Manitoba with a Bachelor of Commerce (Honours) degree and has been at Bookmates since 2014.

Please note: Participants will be given the link to the video and are required to participate in one of two ways-- with a microphone/built in speaker or through the chat. In addition there will be a log tracking which members contribute and which do not, and those that do not contribute will not receive PD hours. We ask that you leave your camera on for the session.

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10 Reasons to Choose Quality Early Learning and Child Care

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Bouncing Back!: The Importance Of Active Outdoor Play & Learning As We Recover From A Pandemic