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July 2010
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  Summer Fun: Take Your Classroom Outside
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  First Aid
  First Aid and Infant/Child & Adult CPR
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  Art, Movement and Thinking Skills
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  Keeping Kids Fit and Safe
  Planning for Success! Creating Opportunities to Grow and Learn
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  Making it Work for All: Exploring Special Needs
  Planting the Seed: Developing Connections with the World Around Us
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  From Baby to Bigger Steps: What Makes a Child Grow?
  Keeping it Real! Professional Practices for a Successful Program
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  How Children Learn
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  Strategies to Promote Communication Skills
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  Learning By Heart: Emotional Intelligence and School Readiness
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  Getting the Most Out of Play
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Jul 7th, 2010 (Wed)
6:30 PM - 9:30 PM
  Summer Fun: Take Your Classroom Outside
Curriculum/Child Development (Advanced)

It really is possible to take your learning environment outside!  Come get new ideas for your summer curriculum while ensuring that children are learning as well as having fun.

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Jul 10th, 2010 (Sat)
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
  First Aid and Infant/Child & Adult CPR
Health, Safety, and Nutrition (ALL LEVELS)

This training meeting meets OCC requirements for First Aid and CPR for childcare providers.  **Bring a bag lunch.  Class Size Limited.  No walk-ins.
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Jul 10th, 2010 (Sat)
9:00 AM - 12:30 PM
  First Aid
Health, Safety, and Nutrition (ALL LEVELS)

This training meets OCC requirements for First Aid and CPR for childcare providers.
Class size limited.  No Walk-ins.

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Jul 10th, 2010 (Sat)
12:30 PM - 5:00 PM
  Infant/Child and Adult CPR
Health, Safety, and Nutrition (ALL LEVELS)

This training meets OCC requirements for First Aid and CPR for child care providers.
Class size limited.  No Walk-ins.

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Jul 13th, 2010 (Tue)
6:30 PM - 9:30 PM
  Art, Movement and Thinking Skills
Curriculum (Intermediate)

Creativity can be taught - or caught!  See how to use an open-ended approach to presenting activities to increase children's brain power.  Dress for mess and movement!
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Jul 14th, 2010 (Wed)
8:30 AM - 12:30 PM
  Keeping Kids Fit and Safe
Health, Safety and Nutrition (All Levels)

This workshop includes emergency preparedness, menu planning and health and safety concerns for young children.

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Jul 14th, 2010 (Wed)
1:30 PM - 5:30 PM
  Planning for Success! Creating Opportunities to Grow and Learn

Curriculum (All Levels)

Participants will leave this session with a better understanding of the components of a family child care curriculum and how to design a family child care home.  Center staff will learn about room design and an appropriate curriculum for the young children they serve.

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Jul 15th, 2010 (Thu)
8:30 AM - 12:30 PM
  Making it Work for All: Exploring Special Needs

Special Needs (All Levels)

Come explore ADA requirements and inclusive child care settings as well as health, behavioral and developmental concerns.

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Jul 15th, 2010 (Thu)
1:30 PM - 5:30 PM
  Planting the Seed: Developing Connections with the World Around Us
Community (All Levels)

This workshop provides an overview of the importance of developing and maintaining relationships with children, families and the larger community.

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Jul 16th, 2010 (Fri)
8:30 AM - 12:30 PM
  From Baby to Bigger Steps: What Makes a Child Grow?

Child Development (All Levels)

This session includes professional business practices, policiies and procedures, record keeping, acc regulations, and appropriate guidance and supervision of young children.

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Jul 16th, 2010 (Fri)
1:30 PM - 5:30 PM
  Keeping it Real! Professional Practices for a Successful Program
Professionalism (All levels)

This session includes professional business practices, policies and procedures, record keeping, acc regulations, and appropriate guidance and supervision of young children.>
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Jul 17th, 2010 (Sat)
10:00 AM - 4:30 PM
  How Children Learn
Child Development (Intermediate)

This six hour seminar includes vital information about ages and stages of development in young children.  Participants can use the knowledge gained to plan a high quality learning environment.

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Jul 20th, 2010 (Tue)
6:30 PM - 9:30 PM
  Strategies to Promote Communication Skills
Child Development/Special Needs (Intermediate)

Learn simple techniques and strategies that can help children communication their needs and reduce frustration.  Discover creative ways to use picture schedules and other techniques to help children communicate.
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Jul 22nd, 2010 (Thu)
6:30 PM - 9:30 PM
  Learning By Heart: Emotional Intelligence and School Readiness
Curriculum(Intermediate)

Participants will leave this session with an awareness of how to integrate social/emotional development and learning into infant, toddler and preschool curriculum.
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Jul 31st, 2010 (Sat)
9:30 AM - 12:30 PM
  Getting the Most Out of Play
Curriculum (Intermediate)

Play really is a child's work!  Children learn new skills and develop socially, emotionally and physically through play.  This workshop will provide techniques for helping providers and children get the most out of play. 

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