First Baptist Church, Woodstock, GA

Let’s Pretend

See how the Dramatic Play area can be so much more than just a kitchen! It’s an airport and an animal clinic as well as a bakery and a baby nursery! Preschoolers love to pretend so why not mix in a literacy, math, and social skills while they play! In this workshop we’ll discuss what Dramatic Play is and why it’s so important in the early childhood classroom but we’ll also discover exciting transformations that will keep your students engaged, imagining, and learning!

Reading Essentials

Kindergarten readiness is often misunderstood as simply knowing letters and numbers—but true readiness is so much more. This engaging workshop is designed for teachers of four and five-year-olds who want to better understand and support the foundational skills children really need for success in kindergarten.

Participants will explore executive functioning skills and what it means to be “ready”—from listening and following directions to developing self-control, independence, and social-emotional confidence. You’ll leave with easy-to-implement strategies, practical classroom ideas, and meaningful activities that go beyond academics to build the whole child.

Put Down the Book

Storytelling is so much simpler than you think. You’ll be jumping right into the art of storytelling when you practice techniques like Felt boards, cut or draw stories, musical stories, story in a bag and more. Share your own anecdotes and life stories along with your favorites from literature to really engage your children and make them lifelong story lovers.

Count On Mother Goose

Mother Goose rhymes teach multiple skills across all different subject areas, math, literature, movement, even musical karaoke! Discover new ways to use our old favorite rhymes. This truly fun, hands-on workshop showcases dozens of easy to implement ideas.

Tech You Can Touch: Active EdTech for Young Learners

This session explores how to introduce foundational tech thinking without screens dominating the classroom. Participants will discover unplugged coding activities, collaborative tools, and simple ways to teach digital responsibility—leaving confident to help young learners build healthy, curious, and safe technology habits.

Playful Phonics Foundations: Engaging Activities for Infants and Preschooler

This session explores the role of early phonics in literacy development from infancy to age five. Participants will learn practical, developmentally appropriate strategies to build phonological awareness, letter–sound knowledge, and reading readiness through play, songs, shared reading, and multi-sensory experiences—creating phonics-rich environments that support long-term reading success.

Fine Motor and Pre-Handwriting Support for Young Learners

This course aims to help educators understand the progression of fine motor development from 0-5 and will include a brief overview of reflexes that impact development of grasp, the visual system as it relates to visual motor integration, and markers to alert professionals of deficits. Participants will learn hands-on and practical strategies for improving skills and supporting early writers.

Understanding and Effectively Supporting ‘the Wiggles’

The focus of this course is to help educators understand a child’s need for movement from a sensory, motor, and learning lens and how to identify when the need to ‘wiggle’ goes beyond typical child development. Participants will learn practical classroom strategies to support children who struggle with movement seeking, movement avoidance/ balance challenges, and ways to incorporate movement for optimal learning and engagement for all students.

Speech and Language Developmental Guidelines and Targeting Concerns – Birth to Three Years Old

From infancy to toddlerhood, parents and family members are perceptive to how a child interacts with their environment and highly anticipate the appearance of those first words. How a child understands, interacts and communicates with their environment is affected from the first day. Medical diagnoses, such as Autism, can impact key developmental steps that propel a child’s speech and language skills to fruition. This session will focus on speech and language guidelines from birth to the age of 3 and how Autism can possibly affect these areas of development. Signs of speech and language concerns and how to target these concerns will also be addressed.

Speech and Language Developmental Guidelines and Targeting Concerns – Four & Five Year Olds

At the ages of 4-5 years old, a child’s speech and language skills are continuing to develop within all of their environments including both home and school environments. Medical diagnoses, such as Autism, can impact the development of these skills and impact how a child communicates with the people in their environment. This session will focus on the continuum of speech and language development with children ages 4-5 years old. The possible effects of Autism on speech and language skills that can be noted within the home and school environments will be discussed.

Supporting Children with Special Needs

Preschool teachers often support children with developmental delays, autism, or ADHD alongside their peers. This workshop shares practical ways to adapt the environment, materials, and curriculum to foster inclusion while engaging the whole classroom.

Math Madness

Learn the stages of the “math learning cycle” and how to encourage logical thinking skills in children. Come away with ideas to enrich your math/manipulative lesson plans!

Understanding and Teaching to Preschool Learning Styles

Discover how preschoolers learn and explore engaging, hands-on teaching strategies that help every child thrive and grow in your classroom

Bringing the Bible to LIfe: Fun and Faith-Filled Moments for Kids

In this conference we will talk about how to have Bible conversation with children and the importance of being able to apply that story to their lives !

Building Bright Minds: A Journey into Early Childhood Brain Development

Join us for an engaging and informative workshop designed specifically for educators passionate about fostering optimal brain development in young children. In this workshop, we will delve into current research and the fascinating world of early childhood neurobiology and explore practical strategies to support the growth and enhancement of young minds

The Tiny Tots Toolkit: Responsive Teaching for Tiny Explorer

Toddlers are busy learners with big feelings and growing brains—and they need responsive, intentional teaching every step of the way. This hands-on workshop offers teachers a ready-to-use “toolkit” filled with practical strategies, activity ideas, and environmental tips designed specifically for toddlers and early threes. Whether you’re looking to spark curiosity, foster self-regulation, or turn mealtime into a moment for learning, this session is packed with tools to help you create a calm, connected, and developmentally appropriate classroom.

Effective Communication with Parents

Participants will explore the various types of communication necessary to build strong and positive relationships with preschool parents. We will discover ideas and methods to effectively and clearly communicate with parents so that you have their trust and confidence

Leading With Joy

Preschool Directors will discover ways to lead with joy even through challenges encountered in day-to-day operations. Topics include, staff development and encouragement, connecting with parents and children, sharing space with other organizations in the church, as well as other topics that may be brought up.