| | Accredited Workshops All workshops are created to beinformative, interactive and fun. Materials and information will be provided andused as a resource in the classroom. Series I: Introductory Level Workshops | S.O.S. (Save Our Sanity): Having one of those days? Learn how to WASH the stress away with techniques that can be incorporated into your lessons and daily routines. | | Creative Critters: Enhance any theme or lesson with an open ended art activity that will excite your creative critters while enhancing their ability to use their imagination and problem solving skills. | | Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval: Are cobwebs hanging on your dramatic play area? Enhance your students imagination with new and exciting ideas for the dramatic play corner. Create a generic faade to be used for any theme. | | Space, the Final Frontier: Have a classroom that allows for freedom of choice and freedom of movement while discouraging traffic jams and speeding violations. Learn room arrangement techniques that will make better use of your spaces while enhancing the flow of your routines. Properly placed centers can make the difference. | | Math-asaurus: Its not as scary as it looks. Teach children pre-math skills with a fun, developmentally appropriate program that can be incorporated into any theme. Measurement, sorting, classification, time, graphing, statistics, prediction, basic addition / subtraction/ multiplying/ dividing, and probability are just a few of the skills you will learn to utilize in your lessons. | | Theme-asaurus: A plethora of useful information for the creative classroom teacher. Turn your classroom into a new world filled with things to see, touch, smell, and explore. | | What Did You Say?: Teach your students sign language. Its a great fine motor skill and allows children to feel that they have a secret language. This may be especially useful if a child with hearing impairments becomes a student in your classroom. | | The Peoples Court- Learn to teach children to work out their problems in a positive way through listening activities, perception games, and mediation. Children who are taught to solve their own problems have better social skills, develop higher level thinking skills, and learn to use words and compromise instead of guns and fists. | SeriesII: Intermediate Level Workshops | The Ink is Black, the Page is White: Journal writing and language experiences for children of all ages. These techniques can be used with any lesson or theme to promote creative writing using sight words, phonics, "picture writing" and creative use of the written language. | | Weve Got the Whole World: Have you ever taken a trip around the world? Heres your ticket to the most exciting trip your students will take without ever leaving the classroom. Smell the smells, taste the food, and like they say, when in Rome. | | Dr. Jekyl, I Presume?: A great way to allow all of your mad scientists to express their interest in the unknown. Science teaches children prediction, problem solving, high-level thinking, and experimentation. These lessons will help you encourage children to discover their world. | | Whats That I smell?: Creative activities that will teach children to use their senses to discover the world around them. This is a make and take workshop that will allow you to create resources that teach children about their senses. | | Kinderchefs: Our version of the cooking network. Teach children measurement, textures, science, senses, direction following, fractions, and numerous self help skills through enticing recipes that can be used in any classroom. These cooking lessons are designed to incorporate a number of possible themes. Look out Emeril, here come the kinderchefs! | | To the Moon, Alice!: Age appropriate activities to encourage children to explore the universe. Create a telescope, a replica of the solar system, and experiment with liquids, solids, and gases. | Materials Included: Lesson plans for all activities, appropriate literature, and extending activities. | We Be Illin: Dealing with infectious disease control and learning about the causes, spread, and cure of many communicable disease. Myths will be dispelled, facts will be offered, and interesting experiments will be attempted. | Material Included: Literature will be provided as a resource. | Lights, Camera, Action: Turn your classroom into a sound stage, a stage production, a T.V. newsroom or a puppet show. Use basic household materials to give children the opportunity to experience dramatic arts. These lessons promote creativity, positive self-esteem, and dealing with emotions. | SeriesIII: Advanced Workshops | Story Streeetttchers: Make every story count. Learn to use information provided in popular childrens literature to create themes in your classroom. | | The Hills Are Alive: Music and movement has never been so much fun, and so educational. Create instruments from basic household materials. Teach children math skills, rhythm, music appreciation, and reading basic script using graphics, literature, art, and home made percussion instruments. | | Who Are the People in Your Neighborhood?: Explore techniques to teach community helpers to your preschooler that are new and exciting. Learn to expand the theme throughout your activity centers and you curriculum. Exploration of community helpers entices young children to explore future career possibilities as well as understand the role of the people who work in their community. | | Under the Sea: Turn your classroom into an ocean wonderland. Teach children about the many different life forms residing in this mysterious world and how each effects the other. Sorting, classification, evolution, the food chain, and mammals vs. fish are just a few topics to explore. | | Just Throw It Away!: Uh, oh! Dont just throw it away! Use it againfor art, math, science, ecology, horticulture, the sky is the limit. Teach your children waste notinstead do something cool!!! | | The Giving Tree: This unit is a most important one. Learn to teach children about community service and how their actions effect others. Empathy towards others and pride in your environment are often overlooked as a necessary lesson to teach. Teaching these lessons to young children are the building blocks to creating an adult who is an important and productive member of the community and society. As they say "It is much better to give" | | I Feel Pretty: Good self-esteem can mean the difference between a productive, mature adult and a troubled life. Teach your children to be proud of whom they are through art, movement, writing, language experience, literature, and dramatic play. | |