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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April School Age Network Meeting

No registration required. This meeting will be a FREE workshop for school age & early childhood educators facilitated by Confederation Centre visual arts educator, Kate Sharplay.

Please note the change in location. This meeting will be held at the Schurman Family Studio (art bunker) at the Confederation Centre of the Arts. Enter the studio from the downward staircase across from the water fountain in front of Province House). Look for an orange banner that says ART CAMPS

Workshop summary
Workshop will include discussions on a range of materials for afterschool art and craft projects: mixed media; painting; sculpture; printing; and outdoor activities including pros and cons of their uses. There will be several hands-on activities during which the educators can experience easy to setup projects with examples. There will also be a chance at the end for any questions and discussions.

About Kate
Kate Sharpley is a visual arts educator, working at the Confederation Centre Art Gallery, she is also a multi skilled visual artist working in both fine art and digital media. Over the last few years Kate has led many art classes with youth and adults for the town of Stratford and worked with several local elementary schools on art projects. Kate has a Bachelor’s degree in Product Design from the University of Wolverhampton, UK and has worked as a freelance artist, created outdoor living sculptures, illustrated children’s books, and created many 3D models and animations for UK and PEI based video game companies.

About the School Age Network
Are you working with school aged children before or after school? Then this group is for you! This network of caregivers will discuss topics of interest to school aged care providers from new program ideas, activities, gudiance solutions, developing relationships with families or just asking questions and seeking others imput on the day to day challenges of this very valuable work. This meeting will also include time to identify priority discussion topics and workshop ideas for this year's meetings! We hope you join us!