Third Annual Early Care & Education Conference April 16

Lexington & Saluda County First Steps will host the third annual Early Care & Education Conference Saturday April 16 at Batesburg-Leesville High School. This very popular day-long training session will feature more than 40 workshops covering the gamut of early childhood education and allows instructors to earn continuing education credits.

The opening and closing sessions will feature Amy and Claire, singers and storytellers from Winston-Salem. The duo play the Wonderful Halloween Witches at Tanglewood Park. They have recorded a two CDs that have won Parent's Choixe Recommended Awards. In real life, Amy and Claire are preschool music teachers.

Other workshops will include:

• sessions on technology for early education classrooms.
• using play therapy for disruptive children.
• creating a great classroom on a tight budget.
• injury prevention.
• spurring parental involvement.
• encouraging fathers to be involved in their child's education.
• identifying developmental delays.

The cost to attend is just $35 and includes contiental breafast and a buffet lunch from Shealy's Bar-B-Q. Registration is due by April 1. For forms or more information, call Julie Starr Horne, Lexington County First Steps Program Coordinator at (803) 532-6861.