100 Ideas for 100^th Day*

100 days of school- Now that’s an accomplishment! Celebrate with your students 100 different ways. Got the bug? We’ve got the ideas. Make and take several items to use on this momentous day so your kids will shout Hip hip hooray for 100 days!

Art Smart

Set up an art center that invites children to imagine and create while they explore and discover concepts of science, math, language, and literacy. I’ll share lots of examples of children’s art work- many using materials that you already have in the classroom!

NEW! Bigger Bunches of Big Books: Themes Across the Year*

Need more big books for your early childhood class? Make your own predictable books for themes all year long! You will create 6 BRAND NEW big books including the themes Farm, Spiders, Gingerbread Man, Bears, Pets, and Ocean. I will have plenty of big books to share- don’t forget your camera!

NEW! BIGGER Bunches of Big Books: Fun For All Seasons

Need even more big books for your early childhood class? Make 4 BRAND NEW big books for the 4 Seasons: Winter, Spring, Summer, and Fall. I will have plenty of big books to share- don’t forget your camera!

Brown Bear Book Club

Brown bear, brown bear, what do you see? I see families working with me! Building the home-school connection is important in any early childhood program. I will share teacher tested ideas including family literacy and math nights, take home bags, and traveling buddies. Be ready to share your ideas for working with families.

Bunches of Big Books: Best Back to School (Make and Take)*

Need more big books for your early childhood class? Make your own predictable and interactive books for the best back to school! You will create 5 big books for emergent and early readers including the themes Colors, Shapes, Community, All About Me and Happy Birthday. I will bring plenty of big books- bring a camera!

Bunches of Big Books: Fabulous Fall (Make and Take)*

Need more big books for your early childhood class? Make your own predictable and interactive books for a fabulous fall! You will create 5 big books for emergent and early readers including the themes Leaves & Trees, Farm, Pumpkins, Monsters, and Turkeys. I will bring plenty of big books- bring a camera!

Bunches of Big Books: Wonderful Winter (Make and Take)*

Need more big books for your early childhood class? Make your own predictable and interactive books for a wonderful winter! You will create 5 big books for emergent and early readers including the themes Snowmen, Mittens, Gingerbread man, Valentine’s Day and Bears. I will bring plenty of big books- bring a camera!

Bunches of Big Books: Super Spring (Make and Take)*

Need more big books for your early childhood class? Make your own predictable and interactive books for a super spring! You will create 5 big books for emergent and early readers including the themes Pond Life, Bugs, Circus, Zoo, and Ocean. I will bring plenty of big books- bring a camera!

Bunches of Big Books: Sensational Summer (Make and Take)*

Need more big books for your early childhood class? Make your own predictable and interactive books for a sensational summer! You will create 5 big books for emergent and early readers including the themes Circus, Zoo, Oceans, Picnics, and Camping. I will bring plenty of big books- bring a camera!

NEW! Can we read it again?*

Learn to effectively use shared reading and read-alouds in a balanced literacy program, create/school connections, and choose/create resources. We’ll create props to extend your favorite children’s books.

NEW! Clownin' Around At the Circus*

Step right up! Join Jill for three rings of circus themed fun! These amazing teacher-tested ideas include centers, literacy, math, music, movement, science, cooking, and art. You’ll have the greatest class on earth! There will be plenty to see- don’t forget your camera.

NEW! Crazy about Carson Dellosa*

Love the cute stickers, borders, punch-outs, and notepads by Carson Dellosa and other publishing companies? Get great ideas for creating inexpensive books, centers, games, and other learning materials for your classroom.

Dollar Store Teaching*

How can you teach using a flyswatter, photo albums, and a shower curtain? This workshop will focus on creative ideas using materials that you can find at your local dollar store. This session will be packed with ideas for group times, centers, games, and organization! Bring your favorite dollar store find and I will give ways that you can use it in your classroom!

“Old Mrs. Davis had a farm, e-i-e-i-o!” C’mon down to the big red barn and get a hog trough full of home grown ideas for centers, language/literacy, math, science, cooking, and art. These classroom-tested ideas are “purrfect” for your farm theme. “Mooove” quick or you’ll miss out!

Discover exciting ways to introduce and use graphs with your early learners. We’ll explore a variety of graphs including picture graphs, object graphs, glyphs, and Venn diagrams. At this hands-on workshop, we’ll make and take graphs that you can use in your classroom.

Do you have great ideas to share with other early childhood teachers? Join Jill, freelance writer and frequent workshop presenter, as she gives tips on writing for Mailbox magazine and books, presenting at OECTA & other early childhood organizations, and other methods for getting your ideas heard.

Let your students have a snowball fight while they develop number sense. Use yummy Goldfish crackers to learn about shapes. Make “egg-citing” patterns with plastic eggs and hula hoops. This workshop features ideas based on PASS objectives for small groups, whole groups, and centers.

Want to start literacy centers but don’t know where to begin? Looking for new ideas to introduce literacy into your existing centers? We will share teacher-tested ideas to integrate literacy into your block, pretend, math, and science centers as well as ideas for self-contained literacy games and centers you can use in your classroom the next school day!

NEW! Lots of Literacy*

Create a print rich environment in your early childhood classroom. Learn to organize and manage literacy centers, integrate literacy into existing centers, and make literacy an integral part of your day!

NEW! Mad About Math*

Learn teacher-tested ideas to integrate math into small groups, whole groups, and centers. This course will focus on cheap and easy ideas, many using materials you already have in your classroom.

How can you teach math using paper plates, pom poms, and dice? This workshop will focus on creative ideas for math using materials that you can find at your local dollar store. This session will be packed with ideas for counting, recognizing numerals, graphing, and much more! Be ready to share your favorite “Dollar Store” ideas for math!

Do you know the muffin man? Neither do many of your students! Join Jill (sorry Jack) and discover how two kids falling down a hill, a flock of lost sheep, and mitten-loosing kittens can build phonemic awareness, fluency, vocabulary, and cultural literacy. Be sure to be nimble and sign up quick!

NEW! Ocean Commotion

Grab your sunglasses and splash into summer to explore the animals and plants of the ocean. Come “sea” the teacher-tested ideas for whole groups, small groups, and centers. There will be a school of ideas- literacy, math, music, movement, science, and art. Dive right in and you’ll have a “whale” of a good time! Don’t forget a camera.

Take your kids on a treasure hunt, grow vegetable soup, or solve a magnetic mystery with over 15 ideas for science tubs. Each tub has opportunities for discovery and exploration based on the Oklahoma PASS objective. A handout will be provided but a supplemental CD will be available for purchase.

Run, run, run as fast as you can to the make and take with the Gingerbread Man! We will make gingerbread cookie props for the Pretend Center, a number game and roll-a-graph game for the Math Center, and a yummy big book for the Reading Center. You will be “caught up” in all the fun!

NEW! Simple Science*

You don’t have to be Einstein to introduce your little ones to science! This workshop will focus on cheap and easy ways to integrate science into your classroom at centers, group times, and outdoors.

Don’t limit learning to the classroom- take it outside! Freshen up your teaching and learn new ways to explore science, math and literacy concepts outdoors. We’ll share pictures and material lists to inspire your outdoor classroom.

Moving to a full day program and wondering what to do with them all day? Experienced full day Kindergarten teachers will share ideas to help you organize your longer kindergarten day. Take a look at our daily schedule, organized using a balanced literacy approach. We’ll also show how we engage students and make learning meaningful with the use of a yearlong theme.

You’ll let the letters out! We will make an interactive book that will have your students singing letters and sounds. We will also develop phonemic awareness as we make letter-sound game cards that will have your learners out of their seats, singing to the beat! This workshop includes a handout with ideas for incorporating more phonemic awareness in your classroom.