PRE-K WORKSHOP
Workshop Objectives:
At the end of the HWT Pre-K Workshop, attendees will be able to:
- Plan new activities to teach body awareness and other school readiness skills
- Use music to prepare children for school
- Identify developmental stages in writing readiness
- Use multisensory, hands-on manipulatives to prepare children for handwriting
- Teach a correct and effective grip and other fine motor skills
- Teach counting, drawing, shape recognition and letter/number formation to children at the Pre-K level
- Get Set for School Pre-K workbook
- Pre-K Teacher’s Guide
- Get Set for School Sing Along CD™
- Roll-a Dough Letters™
- Stamp and See Screen™
- Mat for Wood Pieces
- Wood Pieces Set for Capital Letters
- Slate Chalkboard
- Canvas HWT Logo Bag
GET SET FOR SCHOOL™ Pre-K Workshop
Monday, April 11, 2011
1:00 p.m. Registration
1:30 p.m. Readiness in Preschools: Understanding the HWT Music Component for Readiness and Socialization/Organization Activities
2:00 p.m. Body Awareness: Song to Teach Body Parts
2:15 p.m. Introducing HWT Wood Pieces in Preschool: Size, Shape and Position Concepts, Wood Piece Activities for an Entire Class, Movement and Imitation with Big Lines, Using Capital Letter Cards for Wood Pieces
2:45 p.m. Body Awareness Continued: More songs to teach Body Parts, Mat Man™ Activity, Beginning Drawing Skills
3:00 p.m. Break: Snack and beverage served.
3:15 p.m. Letter Play and Crayon/Pencil Skills: Fine Motor Play using Multisensory Activities (Roll-A-Dough Letters™, Stamp and See Screen™), Developmental Stages in Handwriting Readiness, Educating Others, Handedness, Tool Use in Preschool, When and How to Teach Grip, Coloring Skills
3:45 p.m. Tracing Strokes, Shapes, Letters, and Numbers: Developmental Teaching Method and Sequence, Using More Multisensory activities, Strategies for Language Development, Lowercase Letter Recognition Using a Unique Crayon Stroke, Numbers: Singing and Counting
4:15 p.m. Check Readiness
5:00 p.m. Certificate of Attendance for 3.25 Contact Hours. Adjourn.
Kindergarten-5th Grade Workshop
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
8:00 a.m. Registration: Continental Breakfast.
8:30 a.m. The Handwriting Process: 8 Key Skills, Integration with Language Arts, Scope and Sequence of Printing, Stages of Learning, Instructional Approach
9:00 a.m. Readiness: Size, Shape and Position Concepts, Directionality, Building Capital Letters, Language for Letters, Forming Good Habits
10:00 a.m. Getting Started: Posture, Paper & Pencil Skills, Grasping Grip, Looking out for Lefties, Unique Workbook Features
10:30 a.m. Break
10:45 a.m. Multisensory Activities: Music and Movement, Wet-Dry-Try, Door Tracing, Imaginary Writing, Letter Sizes and Places, Mystery Letters
11:15 a.m. Printing Capitals and Numbers: Teaching Strategies, Learn and Check, Preventing or Correcting Reversals, Looking out for Lefties, Grasping Grip
12:00 p.m. Lunch on Your Own
1:00 p.m. Printing Lowercase Letters: Teaching Method and Sequence, Promoting Neatness, Size Considerations, Word and Sentence Skills, Line Generalization, Teaching Guidelines
2:30 p.m. Break: Snack and beverage
2:45 p.m. Cursive Writing: Cursive Style, Scope and Sequence, Workbook Designs, Understanding Connections, Multisensory lessons, Building Fluency with Review and Mastery, Intervention Strategies
4:45 p.m. Remediation Strategies, Teaching Guidelines, Q&A
5:00 p.m. Certificates of Attendance for 7 Contact Hours. Adjourn.
