Sold Out First Friends: Supporting Social-Emotional Skills in the Early Years

Have you noticed more and more young children needing additional social-emotional support? This virtual workshop focuses on providing early literacy resources, tools and strategies that support the emerging social-emotional skills of children from birth to six. Content includes:

• Defining social-emotional development in the early years and discussing how it contributes to healthy child development.
• Sharing early literacy strategies that support social-emotional skill development.
• Discussing how educators and other caregivers can nurture and model behaviours that will facilitate this learning.
• Providing social-emotional literacy extension activity ideas that can be easily integrated into current programs.

Presenter: Bookmates Facilitator

This workshop will be presented by a Bookmates Facilitator. Bookmates is a non-profit organization based in Winnipeg with over 40 years experience in supporting early learning educators. Bookmates stays current with emerging research and themes related to healthy child development and uses a literacy lens to share strategies, information, resources and practical experiences.

Zoom links will be sent on the day of the workshop; please contact our office at deltaccrr@options.bc.ca if you do not receive one.

If you have any further questions about this particular training, please contact the Delta CCRR by calling 604.547.3549 or emailing deltaccrr@options.bc.ca