Are you interested in opening your own child care centre and not sure where to start? Join our CCRR consultants for a 1 hour information session that will provide you the beginning steps of starting and opening your in-home or commercial setting child care centre. *NO PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT CERTIFICATE IS GIVEN FOR THIS INFORMATION SESSION

This workshop focuses on how we can support children’s language development in the early years. Included will be practical, interactive strategies to help children engage and communicate with their caregivers. Some of the topics covered will be: • Children’s conversational styles • The role caregivers play • Knowing how and why children communicate and how […]

The beginning of a new school sets the tone for the months ahead and plays a significant role in children’s academic and social/emotional success. After-school care programs play a vital role in supporting the social, emotional, and academic development of school age children. This workshop supports educators in building strong affective relationships with the children […]

In these hands on, in person, small group workshops we will be exploring a variety of materials at the Abbotsford CCRR. Creatively engage with many different materials in open-ended ways. Different materials will be explored every month. Spending time experimenting with a variety of materials will help educators build confidence in presenting materials to children. […]

Join us to explore tips and ideas to incorporate diversity into circle time, to reflect the increase diversity in the early years program. Learn new ways to enhance circle time, increase cultural awareness and connect children of diverse background, using different storybooks, songs and rhymes that celebrate families from diverse cultural background.

This fun and interactive 8 hour course trains people how to react and improvise when dealing with life threatening emergencies. This course includes initial assessment, disease prevention, secondary survey, airway obstruction, adult, child and infant CPR and AED (level C). Recognition and first-aid treatment for head and spine injuries, shock, burns, bleeding, seizures, broken bones, […]

Whether you teach indoors or outside, loose parts play is an integral part of early childhood learning. Loose parts can help children imagine anything they wish! A leaf can become a boat, a hat, or a tiny world for a bug. This workshop will focus on natural loose parts in the outdoor classroom, introducing loose […]

Discover meaningful ways to bring Indigenous culture into your classroom through story time. Join CCRR consultants Christine Kopp & Brenda Herrera for an engaging workshop where they will share songs, stories, and games using Indigenous toys, books and materials for CCRR’s borrowing library. Participants will join in circle time and hands on activities and leave […]