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SUMMER CLASSES 2013
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SUMMER CLASSES 2013
Common Core Literacy Centers
1-3 WS61213A
Wednesday, June 12 (9:00—11:30) Kathy Brison & Julie Baughman $25.00 Need some new ideas for your literacy centers? Bring empty Pringle’s and nut canisters, pop lids, and magazines. Kathy & Julie will show you how to use them and other discarded mate-rials to create center activities and manipulatives.
Common Core Math Centers
1-3 WS61213P
Wednesday, June 12 (1:00—3:30) Kathy Brison & Julie Baughman $25.00 Create math centers that meet Common Core standards without breaking the bank. We’ll use found objects, die cuts, worksheets, and inexpensive items to build your supply of center activities.
Sound Signs Make Reading Readiness Fun!
PreK 4, K, Sp. Ed. WS61313P
Thursday, June 13 (1:00—3:30) Kathleen Plumb & Adrienne Rogers $23.00 Sound signs are hand signs that represent English speech sounds. Participants will learn all 45 sound signs and how to use them with reading readiness activities which will involve phonemic awareness, letter names, letter sounds, and letter writing.
Dramatic Play PreK-K
WS61413A
Friday, June 14 (9:00—11:30) Kelly Stanley $19.00 We all know the importance of pretend play. The process of pretending builds skills in many essential developmental areas including language, thinking and social emotional develop-ment. Come find some new themes for your dramatic play area and maybe revisit a few old ones. We will discuss how to incorporate vocabulary, literature, and social studies in this must-have center.
Common Core 3rd Grade Math
WS61713A
Monday, June 17 (9:00—11:30) Tara Hollingshed $22.00 Common Core. Wow! What do they want us to teach? How do I do that this year with PASS, too? We will look at the Common Core Standards that are aligned to the PASS and are weighed heavy on the OCCT blueprint. You will leave having a true understanding of the Common Core and lots of make and take activities for your classroom.
Common Core 4th Grade Math
WS61713P
Monday, June 17 (1:00—3:30) Tara Hollingshed $22.00 Same details as “Common Core 3rd Grade Math,” but geared for 4th grade.
Common Core 5th Grade Math
WS61813A
Tuesday, June 18 (9:00—11:30) Tara Hollingshed $22.00 Same details as “Common Core 3rd Grade Math,” but geared for 5th grade.
Tuesday, June 18 (1:00—3:30) Tara Hollingshed $22.00 Same details as “Common Core 3rd Grade Math,” but geared for 6th grade.
Common Core 6th Grade Math
WS61813P
Core Training 101 PreK—K WS61913
Wednesday, June 19 (9:00—3:00) Sharon Curnutt & Debra Brown $39.00 Are you up to your eyeballs with Common Core? Come join Sharon & Debra as they share practical ideas to get daily Common Core into your Pre-K and Kindergarten classroom. Ideas presented will be for math and writing. Get your students thinking like the pros. Power up to Common Core.
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A Plethora of Pretend Centers
PreK—K WS62013A
Thursday, June 20 (9:00—11:30) Sara Smith & Lisa Williams $23.00 Tired of finding the same pretend center ideas? Are you looking for ways to spice up your dramatic play? Let Sara & Lisa share 30 ways to revitalize your dramatic play. These literacy-based ideas connect to themes and can be integrated into other centers such as blocks and sensory. Leave with a detailed list of items that will help get you started!
Weather (Art) Books K—2
WS62013P
Thursday, June 20 (1:30—4:00) Julia Banks $22.00 Join us as we read and discuss weather related books. Particular attention will be given to science and weather related vocabulary. We will then make torn paper illustrations accom-panied by our own text. We will include cloudy, stormy/rainy, snowy, windy, and sunny. The torn paper illustrations remove the frustration of drawing away from younger students.
Letters Everywhere! PreK—K
WS62113A
Friday, June 21 (9:00—11:30) Kerby Bunch $22.00 Letter here, letter there—letters, letters EVERYWHERE! Come and learn how it’s done and you will have lots of fun! Bring your magnifying glasses and you will see the fun ways to learn letters in centers, games, books, and much more! Leave with a bag full of wonderful ideas from A-Z!
Motor Activities for Young Children
PreK—K WS62113P
Friday, June 21 (1:30—4:00) Kelly Stanley $19.00 Normal motor development is unique for each child. Motor activities help children learn how to use their bodies, gain confidence as they master skills, and prepare them for school. Come learn how to enhance gross motor and fine motor development of preschool children in fun, new ways.
Love Me Some Literacy Centers
PreK—K WS62413A
Monday, June 24 (9:00—11:30) Julie Silva $22.00 Let Julie share MANY fun and meaningful activities to place in your literacy centers! Literacy Tubs, Pair Shares, “Choose Ones” activities and much, much more. You will be making several activities for your literacy tubs and leave with a booklet and CD full of templates and reproducibles!
Love Me Some Literacy Centers
1—2 WS62413P
Monday, June 24 (1:00—3:30) Julie Silva $22.00 Same details as above, but geared for 1st and 2nd grade and will include independent learning centers for spelling, poetry, parts of speech and much, much more!
Reading Ideas (Part 1) 2—6
WS62513
Tuesday, June 25 (9:00—3:00) Mary Legan, NBCT, M.Ed $29.00 Based on the researched English Language Literacy model, participants will learn to use Reading Ideas’ proven methods to increase reading comprehension: locating facts, main idea, sequence, context clues, cause/effect, and inference. A wealth of ideas to enrich curriculum guide ($20) and other educational materials may be purchased the day of the workshop. You’ll want to attend part 2 in order to implement this valuable information in your classroom.
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SUMMER CLASSES 2013
Reading Ideas (Part 2) 2—6
WS62613
Wednesday, June 26 (9:00—3:00) Mary Legan, NBCT, M.Ed. $34.00 Reading Ideas’ Follow-Up Workshop provides an extensive review of the curriculum. Partici-pants will also learn to use literacy boards, create their own comprehension and vocabulary assessment, and receive a scope and sequence for their particular grade level. The Reading Ideas’ curriculum guide ($20) and other educational materials may be purchased the day of the workshop.
Organizing & Designing the Perfect Learning
Environment All Ages WS62713
Thursday, June 27 (9:00—3:00) Mary Legan, NBCT, M.Ed. $29.00 This workshop will guide you in creating the perfect classroom design for optimum learning and improved behavior. You’ll learn numerous tips for organizing your learning materials and some great ideas for creating extra space for storage and for learning. Let Mary help you get organized, so you can make the most of every learning moment.
Pre-Writing Skills for Children Under 5
PreK WS62813A
Friday, June 28 (9:00—11:30) Kelly Stanley $19.00 Young children are often given writing tools before they are ready to use them. This workshop is for teachers to learn new activities to help 3-5 year olds prepare for writing. It will include fine and gross motor activities, eye-hand coordination activities, and writing with non-traditional writing tools such as sidewalk chalk, paint brushes, and chopsticks in sand.
Thinking Maps (Graphic Organizers)
K—2 WS62813P
Friday, June 28 (1:30—4:00) Julia Banks $19.00 Participants will learn the specific use for each Thinking Map organizer (brainstorming, describing, compare/contrast, classify, whole-part, sequence). Using current literature for a springboard, participants will be shown how to use Thinking Maps individually or combined to help students write better stories.
Super, Sensational, Superb, Learning Styles
Manipulatives 1—8
WS70113
Monday, July 1 (9:00—3:00) Dr. Linda Wilson $34.00 This action packed make and take session includes manipulatives that appeal to all learning styles. Participants will make flip chutes, task cards, dominos, and wrap arounds for any cur-ricular area. Teachers will take a short learning styles inventory and discover how they learn.
Comprehension Camp Out!
K—8 WS70213
Tuesday, July 2 (9:00—3:00) Amanda Wilson & Sarah Ramsey $39.00 Centered around a camping theme, participants will create various crafts and classroom tools built on research-based comprehension strategies. Make and take items will include: think clouds, reading notebooks, color block retelling, story retelling glove, and strategies poster. All comprehension strategies are tactile and easily implemented into any K—8 class-room.
Super Science & Social Studies
PreK—2 WS70813
Monday, July 8 (9:00—3:00) Julie Silva $34.00 With all the “push” in literacy and math, do you ever wonder, “Who has time for science and social studies?” Julie can show you fun and meaningful learning activities to bring your science and social studies curriculum back to life, using Common Core standards & chil-dren’s literature, too!
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Christmas Around The World
PreK—1 WS70913
Tuesday, July 9 (9:00—3:00) Teressa L. Blair $34.00 Turn those few weeks before Christmas Break into a pleasure rather than a “pain!” Learn how other children around the world celebrate the holidays by doing fun activities from other countries. We will make stops in Germany, Israel, Netherlands, England, Mexico, and Africa. See how we can pull all areas of the curriculum into these fun activities.
Books, Books, & More Books!
PreK—1 WS71013
Wednesday, July 10 (9:00—3:00) Sharon Curnutt & Debra Brown $39.00 One thing we have in common as Early Childhood teachers is that we have A LOT of books. Join Sharon & Debra as they present classroom ideas based upon popular children’s books. All areas of the curriculum will be covered—literacy, math, science, social studies, art, writing, and free play. Many of the ideas will have common core support. Come sit a spell & enjoy a good book!
How to Put Agriculture in the Classroom
K—3 WS71113P
Thursday, July 11 (1:30—4:00) Julia Banks $19.00 How was George Washington important to farming? Where do peanuts come from and how do they grow? Who was George Washington Carver and why is he important? What do seeds need to grow and how can children see it happen? Come and find out these answers and more. Participants will become familiar with lessons that include reading, language arts, math, science, and social studies from Ag in the Classroom (OSU). These include Common Core expectations.
Hey! That’s Me! PreK—1
WS71213A
Friday, July 12 (9:00—11:30) Jill Davis $22.00 What are the most important things to a young child? Themselves! Turn this self-interest into a motivating learning tool. Use photos and names to create meaningful connections across the curriculum at centers, group times, games, books, and more. Say “cheese” and smile at all of the new ideas you can use throughout the school year.
Shuffling, Dealing, and Rolling: Math Games in
Early Childhood PreK—2
WS71213P
Friday, July 12 (1:00—3:30) Jill Davis $19.00 Learn how to use cards, dice, and dominoes to engage young learners in math. This interac-tive workshop will include ideas on how to differentiate, to challenge, and involve ALL learners while meeting the standards.
Common Core 7th Grade Math
WS71513A
Monday, July 15 (9:00—11:30) Tara Hollingshed $22.00 Common Core. Wow! What do they want us to teach? How do I do that this year with PASS? We will look at the Common Core Standards that are aligned to the PASS and are weighed heavy on the OCCT blueprint. You will leave having a true understanding of the Common Core and lots of make and take activities for your classroom.
Common Core 8th Grade Math
WS71513P
Monday, July 15 (1:00—3:30) Tara Hollingshed $22.00 Same details as “Common Core 7th Grade Math,” but geared for 8th grade.
O-K-L-A-H-O-M-A! Our Amazing State
2—5 WS71613
Tuesday, July 16 (9:00—3:00) Dr. Linda Wilson $34.00 Want to raise your students’ enthusiasm level in studying their home state? Join us for a day of exciting and educational Social Studies activities that will actively engage your 21st centu-ry students in the learning process. This action packed day includes learning activities that appeal to all learning styles for all learners—all on the topic of Oklahoma.
SUMMER CLASSES 2013
From Chaos to Calm: Transitions for Toddlers &
Preschoolers WS72013A
Saturday, July 20 (9:00—11:30) Jill Davis, Kassina Pickering & ReShena Johnson $29.00 Transitions can be challenging, but they are a large part of the day in toddler and preschool classrooms. Come and learn tips and tricks, including fingerplays, songs, relationship build-ers, visual schedules, charts, and more to turn your class from chaos to calm!
Differentiated Instruction in the Classroom
K—2 WS72213A
Monday, July 22 (9:00—11:30) Becky Shelley $22.00 This workshop will feature ideas that will help differentiate instruction in language arts in the classroom. Ideas for small groups, workstations, cooperative learning projects, and much more that will help to enhance your curriculum in language arts.
Promoting Reading in the Classroom
K—2 WS72213P
Monday, July 22 (1:00—3:30) Becky Shelley $22.00 This workshop will feature ways to help encourage reading in the classroom. Ideas for units, take home projects, book ideas, and parental involvement will be features in this workshop. Participants will leave with ideas to help reinforce the reading objectives in his/her class-room by bringing in creative ideas.
Themes and Units for K—2 Common Core
Standards WS72313
Tuesday, July 23 (9:00—3:00) Becky Shelley $34.00 This workshop will give themes/units based on the Common Core standards. Becky will include ideas, worksheets, and assessments that will cover the standards for Kindergarten through 2nd grade.
Luminosity? What Is It? All Ages
WS72413P
Wednesday, July 24 (1:00—3:30) Judith Ticer $19.00 The quality of being brilliant, inspired, or enlightened. Wouldn’t we want all of our students to exhibit luminosity? Judith will lead this workshop on how to incorporate brain research to help any grade level educator learn how to reach every child. She will also share some ways to become a more effective teacher.
Rockin’ Reading Groups PreK—K
WS72913A
Monday, July 29 (9:00—11:30) Julie Silva $19.00 Reading groups in PreK and Kindergarten? Yes, yes you can! Julie will share some fun activi-ties for small group and one-on-one literacy instruction that will help your kids get ready to read. They will be rockin’ their rhyming words, their concept of the spoken word and their syllable skills in no time...all with a SMILE on their face!
Decadent Decade Days PreK—2
WS72913P
Monday, July 29 (1:00—3:30) Julie Silva $22.00 Travel back in time with Julie as she shares fun learning activities with you to celebrate every 10th day of school! 1950’s Sock Hop and Root Beer Floats? 1980’s Black Lights and Florescent Sight Words? Julie will share fun ways to get the whole school involved in these fun learning days! You’ll receive a CD full of pictures, templates, and activities for each of the decade days.
Wonderful World of Words
K—3 WS73013P
Tuesday, July 30 (1:30—4:00) Amanda Wilson & Sarah Ramsey $23.00 Centered on a world theme, participants will learn a variety of methods, techniques, and games for teaching phonics, phonemic awareness, and spelling. Each sensory activity is research-based and guaranteed to improve any child’s reading and writing.
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