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Southern Early Childhood
Association Donates Math Kits for Child Care Programs in
Mississippi Katrina Region
OCT. 2, 2006 | The
Southern Early
Childhood Association (SECA) went to the coast last
weekend to deliver teaching kits to child care providers who
attended a workshop on early childhood learning.
Thirty child care programs that are part
of the
Rebuilding After Katrina Initiative of the Mississippi
State University Early Childhood Institute (ECI) received the
kits.
SECA donated copies of Mathematics for Young Children
(SECA, 2005) and combined them with custom kits of teaching
materials from
Lakeshore Learning Materials, Inc. SECA purchased the
materials with $11,000 in donations to SECA’s Katrina relief
program, Hand to Hand and Heart to Heart. Lakeshore will donate
a portion of the proceeds of future sales of the SECA Preschool
Math Kit to a SECA disaster relief fund.
Jean Shaw, Ph.D., of Oxford, Miss., the author of Mathematics
for Young Children, conducted the math session of the
workshop and Annjo Lemons of ECI conducted a second session,
“Going to School.” Connie Clay, director of ECI’s Rebuilding
After Katrina Initiative, coordinated attendance by child care
providers. The Jefferson Davis Campus of
Mississippi Gulf Coast Community
College at Gulfport provided classrooms for the
workshop.
46 Blackjack Rd. / P.O. Box 6013
/ Mississippi State, MS / 39762 / tel. 662-325-4836 / fax 662-325-5436
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