2009 Workshop Schedule
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Choose from Educating the Gifted Child, Homeschooling Special Needs, Making Learning Fun with Hands-On Activities, Homeschooling Dads Panel Discussion, and over 100 more! The Southeast Homeschool Expo is committed to bringing you the most enjoyable and informative homeschool and parenting workshops ever – all under one roof!
Most workshops are one hour in length, attendance is FIRST COME – FIRST SERVED basis. Tapes of most workshops may be purchased just inside the exhibit hall doors at the Rhino Technologies Booth. Recordings of the previous Southeast Expo Workshops may be purchased online from Rhino Technologies.
Friday, July 31st – 10:00 AM
Addressing ADD/ADHD (Dr. Peter Scire/Brain Balance Achievement Center) – Learn how the Brain Balance Approach can help your child with developmental delays such as ADD/ADHD, Dyslexia, Aspergers, Autism, Tourettes, Learning Disabilities, as well as other neurobehavioral disorders. Using the techniques of Hemispheric Integration, the Brain Balance Program addresses Functional Disconnection Syndrome which is the root cause of the above mentioned disorders. (Room 102 – 10:00 AM)
Walk in the Shoes of a Struggling Reader (Jennifer Hasser/Syllables Reading Center) –
Experience what it feels like to learn to read through a hands-on simulation. You will learn the skills necessary for every child to become a proficient independent reader. (Room 103 – 10:00 AM)
Let’s Play With Math (Wendy Braswell/Right Start Math) – Is your goal in teaching math to help your child add, subtract, multiply, and divide fluently? If so, come find out how you can accomplish that and so much more through games, puzzles, and fun. Learn how you can help your children become lifelong lovers of Mathematical thinking. (Room 104 – 10:00 AM)
How Playful Evidence-Based Strategies Overcome Learning Delays (Handwriting Without Tears/Susan Hermes) – This interactive session demonstrates fun, developmentally appropriate activities to increase the abilities of struggling learners using whole classroom instruction. Participants will learn playful teaching strategies for children with poor fine motor skills, visual perceptual deficiencies and expressive written communication delays that can enhance their academic performance. (Room 105 – 10:00 AM)
Occupying Preschoolers while Teaching Older Children (David Hazell/My Father’s World) – Our children are precious gifts from the Lord but sometimes they can interfere with our human plans. These little ones seem to seek attention at the wrong time. What can we do at these times to creatively involve them in the learning process? My Father’s World shares many suggestions on how to educate and occupy little ones. (Room 106 – 10:00 AM)
Integrating Biblical History Across Your Curriculum (Polly Brown/Answers in Genesis) – Do your children see that the Bible is relevant to all of life? The Seven C’s of History is a framework that can be used to integrate biblical history with all subjects, such as math, science, history, art, etc. Come hear how you can help your children develop a truly biblical worldview. (Room 110 – 10:00 AM)
Teach Your Child Music (Eden Vaning/Ebaru Publishing) – A Music Education is a special blessing that enriches a child’s life by building self-esteem; develops leadership; improves math, reading and academic skills; encourages creativity; enhances communication skills, lifts the heart, and is a wonderful way to give back to the community. Even a parent with little or no musical background can effectively teach his child music. This workshop introduces a fun and easy approach to incorporate music into your curriculum. (Room 112 – 10:00 AM)
Reading Made Easy (Valerie Bendt/Homeschool Mom and Author) – Valerie offers key information to help demystify reading instruction. She covers simple steps that can be immediately put into practice to help you effectively teach your child to read. Valerie takes instruction one step further as she offers ideas to help your child not only learn to read – but learn to love to read. For it’s when our children learn to love to read that they become lifelong learners! The ideas presented in this workshop are based on Valerie’s phonics instruction book, Reading Made Easy, but can be used to enhance any reading program. (Friday 10:00 AM Room 113/114)
Rosetta Stone Homeschool (Jen Igarashi/Rosetta Stone) – Experience firsthand the power of Rosetta Stone® Homeschool Version 3. We’ll explore how this program provides students with a rich, interactive, and engaging language-learning experience, while giving parents the tools and resources needed to track and manage student progress. Find out why Rosetta Stone is Homeschool’s #1 foreign language curriculum. Come join us for this interactive language learning experience! (Room 115/116 – 10:00 AM)
Nutrition 101: Choose Life! (Karen Hopkins/Growing Healthy Homes) – “Because I SAID so!” should be reason enough for our children to make healthy food choices. Unfortunately in our “fast food’ culture, that reasoning often doesn’t stick for a lifetime of healthy choices. Learn about a fun and exciting way to teach your family all the why’s of what God designed for us to eat and create a legacy of abundant health for your family.” (Room 117/118 – 10:00 AM)






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