Past Workshops Still Offered

 

Reading/Language Arts: Enemy Pie!: 3rd- 8th Grade

This reading/language arts workshop focuses on the skills you’ve asked for! We target many basic reading skills such as vocabulary, context clues, synonyms, antonyms, multiple meaning words, cause and effect, fact and opinion, as well as prefixes and suffixes. We also offer writing activities in this workshop that include a capitalization, punctuation and spelling game. This day is packed with games and activities from the handout as well as the wonderful reading and language arts ready-made games. At the end of this very busy day, you will leave with ready-made games in your gift bag. This workshop is full of ingredients for success and friendship! No enemies at this workshop!

 

Reading/Language Arts: Flying High!: K-2nd Grade

This fun-filled day provides lots and lots of intervention and teaching strategies! This workshop focuses on activities that engage our young learners with vocabulary words and each other. Research shows that vocabulary development is critical for young learners, so this workshop is full of games that involve talking, sorting, identifying, defining, and ordering. We will target vocabulary, sequencing, plurals, compound words, sorting, characteristics, and much more. The activities and games in the handout are designed for differentiated instruction and are easily adaptable for grades K-2. The workshop ends with participants receiving games to take back to their classrooms for immediate use! Teachers will be flying high by the end of the day!

 

Writing: Tools for Student Success!: 3rd-7th Grade

This is a full day workshop for teachers in grades 3-7. The day will begin with a review of the writing objectives followed by fun and innovative games, techniques, and strategies aimed toward improving writing skills. This fast-paced day will end with each teacher receiving a gift bag full of language arts games.

 

Science: Mind Over Matter!: 3rd-8th Grade

Want to have fun learning new and exciting ways to teach science? We will focus on four major areas of science: Nature of Science, Earth Science, Life Science, and Physical Science. Our activities and games will help your students develop a greater understanding of basic facts, while building their science vocabulary. This workshop focuses on science equipment and its uses, ecosystems, life cycles, states of matter, simple machines, constructive and destructive forces, the rock cycle, and the solar system. We will target vocabulary in all of the areas that are tested. Come prepared to have a blast and leave with a gift bag full of our ready-made games. We will put mind over matter and have a ball!

 

Science: It Matters to Me!: K-2nd Grade

This fun, hands-on workshop explores the nature of science, life science, earth science, and physical science in a variety of ways that will leave teachers wanting more! This workshop includes interactive games and activities for skills such as scientific inquiry, patterns, living and non-living things, life cycles, food chains, matter, and weather. Vocabulary is the main focus for this workshop. After going through the handout and playing our games, teachers will receive ready-made games for their gift bags. This workshop will prove that science matters to us and so do teachers!

 

Math: Mathematics Round-Up!: K-2nd Grade

This fun-filled day provide lots and lots of intervention and teaching strategies for math! Teachers will love all of the hands-on games and activities included in the handout. Some of the skills this workshop presents includes number recognition, greater than/less than, addition/subtraction facts, problem solving, geometric shapes, sorting, time, and money. Saddle up for this stampede of fun, laughter, and great ideas! Teachers will leave with trail-blazing, ready-made games!

 

Math: Math Champions!: 3rd-8th Grade

You’ll feel like a champion after you attend this awesome math workshop! This hands-on workshop includes instructional and intervention strategies, application and questioning techniques, and pre-game and post-game activities. Some of the skills addressed in the handout are expanded, written, and standard forms of numbers, multiplication/division, decimal, fraction and percent, geometric shapes, number lines, and problem solving. Teachers will leave with a gift bag of our ready-made math games. Want to feel like a winner? Then, this workshop is for you!

 

Reading: Teamed Up for Success!

This workshop is for grades 3-6 and teachers of remedial students in grades 7 & 8. We will spend the day looking at vocabulary activities, cause & effect, multiple meaning words, literary elements and many more. Each teacher will leave with their own gift bag of ready-made games. Come be a part of this successful team!

 

Math: Let’s Rev It Up!

This workshop is for grades 3-6 and teachers of remedial students in grades 7 & 8. We will spend the day navigating our way through each of the math objectives. Teachers will leave at the end the day with a gift bag full of awesome ready-made games. Get ready to rev it up with us!

 

K-2: Little Learners, Big Beginnings!

This workshop is a day just for K-2 teachers! Half the day will be spent doing reading activities and half the day will be spent doing math. The day will end with each teacher receiving their own gift bag full of ready-made games. They may be little, but they pack a punch and so does this fun workshop!

 

Science: Let’s Rock and Roll!

This workshop is a full day session for teachers in grades 3-5. We will focus on the Nature of Science, Life Science, Physical Science, and Earth Science. Vocabulary and basic understanding ideas will be a large part of our day as we make science fun! Your students will love the ready-made games that you receive at the end of this workshop. Are you ready to rock and roll?!

 

Little Scientists

This workshop is for K-2 teachers. We will focus on scientific inquiry, living and nonliving things, patterns, scientific opposites, the water cycle, and much more! This is a fun day filled with lots of vocabulary building skills. At the end of this very busy day, teachers will receive gift bags full of our ready-made games. Can teaching science really be this much fun? Come see for yourself and be prepared to be amazed!