First Friends: Developing Empathy & Building Peer Relationships in the Early Years

This virtual workshop focuses on providing early literacy resources, tools and strategies that
support the emerging social-emotional skills of children from birth to 6. Content includes:

– Supporting the building of respect and development of empathy in preschoolers.
– Sharing concepts of friendship in the early years: how to make a friend, having fun with friends,
including friends, playing with friends etc.
– Discussing how caregivers can nurture and model behaviors.

Presenter: This workshop will be presented by a Bookmates Facilitator. Bookmates is a non-profit
organization based in Winnipeg with over 39 years experience in supporting early learning
educators. Bookmates stays current with emerging research and themes related to healthy child
development and
uses a literacy lens to share strategies.