18th Annual Embracing Early Childhood Conference Held in Wenatchee
The 18th Annual Embracing Early Childhood Conference was held in Wenatchee again this year. The title of the conference this year was The Collaborative Journey. The conference sponsored two special key-note presentations with Dr. Sal Severe, who has written the books How to Behave So Your Children Will, Too! and How to Behave So Your Preschooler Will, Too! and Scott Liebler, who developed his unique Funsical program to provide curriculum to develop children’s motor skills.
Linda Tyler Murray, a WEEL Organizer from Yakima, presented the Transitioning To Kindergarten: A Toolkit for Early Childhood at the Wenatchee conference. There were 37 participants in her workshop, who were all delighted to receive the clear, consise simple to use Toolkit. After her workshop there was a lot of positive provider feedback. One provider shared that she had been looking for something like this for a long time. Several others stated they could not wait to get back and use the tools. Another woman commented about how simple it looked to use, yet provided everything a preschool teacher would want to pass on to a kindergarten teacher about the readiness of each child for kindergarten. Three librarians from Wenatchee attended the workshop and were very excited to take the activity cards back and make them available to parents to use with their young children. All in all it was a great workshop with 37 additional toolkits in the hands of people who work with young children.
