Elementary Grades Training
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Author Series
LT1580 Time for a Rhyme
Nancy Silva
Friday, 8/22 from 10:00-12:00, Stoneham
$40.00 2PDPs K-Grade 3
Join math specialist Nancy Silva for a workshop designed to help teach the concept of time elapsed through Mother Goose nursery rhymes. If you are tired and just as bored and confused as the kids with the repeated clock faces on a worksheet, then this workshop is just in time for you. Learn how Nancy created the concept of her book through her own childhood nursery rhyme memories and her practical classroom experience.
LT1586 I Am a Dancer Workshop
Wednesday, 9/24 from 6:00-8:00, Stoneham
Pat Lowery Collins
$40.00 2PDPs K-Grade 3
And whenever the beat of the world‘s heart moves into your fingers and toes until you leap and turn and take off, you are a dancer, too. This is the last line of the new book I am A Dancer. Join author/artist Pat Lowery Collins as she guides us through the world of words and images in this wonderful new children’s book. Help children create their own images through pictures, print, symbols, thoughts and movement with the expression needed to help children tell their own stories in this test-based environment. Pat is first an artist with deep sensitivity to the world around us and she brings that level of connection to her work and to children.
LT1587 See How They Run: Teaching the 2008 Election
Susan E. Goodman
Wednesday, 10/1 from 6:00-8:00, Stoneham
$40.00 2PDPs Grades 1-5
It’s that time again, when elections are on television and in our curriculum. This year kids, and adults, have countless questions about how our system of government works. Susan E. Goodman’s newest book,
See How They Run: Campaign Dreams, Election Schemes and the Race to the White House, answers many of these questions. In this workshop, Susan tells the story behind writing a book that gives children a realistic look at our political system. She discusses the power and problems of writing honestly for children (and teaching them, too). She also offers a teacher guide and other new ideas and activities for learning about elections in the classroom.
LT1588 How Gimble Gopher Found a New Home
Dr. Kay T. Bannon
Wednesday, 11/5 from 6:00-8:00, Stoneham
$40.00 2PDPs K-Grade 5
Help children learn about animal sensitivity and the environment and help them tell a story through words, puppetry and other props in this new story about an endangered tortoise. Join Kay on her journey about the natural habitat of a small creature who is being pushed out of its environment to make room for shopping malls and other development in the southeastern part of the U.S.
Multicultural Special
LT1603 African Textiles Workshop
Saturday 10/4 from 10:00-12:00, Stoneham
$40.00 2PDPs Grades 1-5
Molly Martin and Nancy Horrall
Explore the richness and beauty of African textiles with textile specialist Molly Martin and art educator Nancy Horrall. While the study of African textiles fits into a broad number of academic disciplines, the MA Arts Curriculum Framework is the primary application for this teacher training. Learn about the traditions and unique characteristics of these exquisite textiles as the fabrics will be draped on the walls of the classroom.
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