for parents and teachers of preschool aged children

A road map for developing pre-literacy skills is available at the Fundamental Learning Center. Using the curriculum units, In The Kitchen and On The Farm, you will learn to map lessons for preschool-aged children. These units provide a light script for 15 minute’s worth of activities that are easy to follow, build vocabulary, and provide materials. As you move from In The Kitchen to On The Farm, oral language expands as it relates to letters, sounds, numbers, print awareness and phonological awareness skills. You and your child will have fun as you experience the hands-on activities, songs, finger-plays, and stories.

Thursday: October 7, 2010

Thursday: November 4, 2010

TIME: 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.

COST: $310 (Includes Language Literacy Kit 1)

KDHE inservice hours included

for preschool, kindergarten and 1st grade teachers and parents.

In this two-day workshop, teachers learn strategies for teaching phonological awareness, oral language, letter identification, decoding, handwriting, and spelling development skills as well as how to establish the alphabetic principle. This course was recently expanded to include opportunities to explore the program, practice the concepts, and develop lesson planning. This allows you the confidence to apply the program Monday morning.

Thurs. & Fri.:  September 23-24, 2010

Mon. & Tues.:  November 8-9, 2010

Thurs. & Fri.:  January 13-14, 2011

Thurs. & Fri.: February 10-11, 2011

Thurs. & Fri.: April 11-15, 2011

TIME:  9:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.

COST: $180 (includes manual & materials)

“It is exactly what I need to help my struggling students.” Pat Poulter

6 hrs applied towards a unit of teacher recertification credit

for elementary regular and special education teachers, secondary special education teachers, educational therapists & parents.

Grammar is an essential skill for understanding written expression. In this all day workshop, participants learn sequential steps in teaching sentence construction. This approach incorporates a color coding multisensory method for teaching the eight basic parts of speech.

Monday: October 18, 2010

Friday: March 4, 2011

TIME: 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.

COST: $105 (includes manual & materials)

“The students will be able to grasp all parts of speech because of the innovative way it is presented to them.” Sydney Costello

6 hrs applied towards a unit of teacher recertification credit

for elementary through secondary regular and special education teachers, educational therapists and parents.

Too many times our children fall through the cracks of learning due to an inability to organize, prioritize, and structure assignments. This workshop provides useful strategies to keep a child “on-track” with homework assignments and projects. Study skill tools and activities will be presented in conjunction with organization strategies.

Friday:  June 2, 2011

TIME: 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.

COST: $135 (includes materials)

“PRACTICAL! I have strategies for every academic challenge.” Kristine Goossen.

^6 hrs applied towards a unit of teacher recertification credit.

for elementary regular and specialeducation teachers, secondary special education teachers, educational therapists and parents

Semple Math is an ungraded multisensory basic skills program designed to help students with committing basic facts to memory, number reversals, number alignment, money concepts, as well as the abstract language of math in word problems. Upon completion of this course, you will have all the skills and materials to begin with a student. Make-it-take-it projects will be included. Additional materials will be available for review.

Saturdays (2):  November 6 & 13, 2010

Saturdays (2):  February 2 & 12, 2011

TIME: 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.

COST: $255 (includes manual & materials) $100 deposit required.

“A new and exciting way to teach and encourage students who are struggling.” Cherie Davis