EVERYONE CAN DANCE: Strategies for Emergent Literacy Through Creative Movement
Presenter: Laurie Tarter, BFAThis interactive workshop will explore communicating through the language of the body as a powerful learning tool for early childhood education. Participants will learn to apply movement-based teaching strategies to support emergent literacy (focus book: Giraffes Can’t Danceby Giles Andreae) and reinforce motor, socio-emotional and cognitive development. Emphasis will be placed upon children’s individual abilities and facilitating creative expression through movement.
CBK Code: Knowledge Area 2, Competency Levels 1 and 2; Topic Codes 16,19
MATH IN MOTION
Presenter: Tracie Yorke, MSHarmony comes in many forms in the early childhood classroom and is often a prerequisite for learning. By applying principles and elements of movement and math, we can help children understand and structure their movement in ways that contribute to a harmonious environment. Participants will identify how to promote body awareness, self regulation and motor control by using rhyme, repetition, counting and fun movement experiences to explore number order, whole-part relationships and geometric principles.
CBK Code: Knowledge Area 2, Competency Levels 1 and 2; Topic Codes 17,19
MOVE-ABILITY: Nurturing Body, Brain and Spirit
Presenter: Laurie Tarter, BFAThis interactive workshop will demonstrate how incorporating developmentally appropriate loco-motor and axial (non-loco-motor) movement experiences can build upon individual abilities and learning styles and support children with special needs. Based upon The Brain Dance, developed by Anne Green Gilbert, participants will learn how to apply the eight movement patterns of early human development to jump-start the body and the brain. Participants will recognize how movement strategies accompanied by familiar nursery rhymes can be applied when working with children with special needs.
CBK Code: Knowledge Area 1 – Topic 4; Knowledge Area 2 - Topics 19, 22; Competency Levels: Levels 1 and 2