On-Demand Family Involvement Workshops
EARLY LEARNING WEEK
Family Involvement Workshops
Your Early Learning Week registration includes two weeks of on-demand access—now through April 1—to three Family Involvement Workshops at a time that fits your schedule. These active, engaging workshops infuse dance, movement, music, and rhythm while exploring the world around us!
Let's Tap
with Quynn Johnson
This workshop engages children and families in ways to create music with their feet. Using elements of tap dance and basic tap steps, families will enjoy moving together and creating their own rhythms.
Nest
with Natasha Mirny
Learn about the life cycle of birds through movement and puppetry with teaching artist Natasha Mirny. We will explore different stages of the life of a bird – egg, chick, fledgling, bird – and their relation to the change of the seasons. We will create our own moves and dances, work on expanding our range of motions, and use our imagination and ordinary objects that everyone has at home to create simple puppets. It is time to learn and dance together!
Dancing Through the Day
with Laura Schandelmeier
Come dance and sing together! How can you jump like a rabbit? Can you “jump” with your hands? How can you use your body to jump on a low level? Learn how to make a dance phrase with your child based on a character from a book. Explore the setting of a story with Interactive Movement Experiences. Learn how to create an environment for movement exploration and vocabulary development through the Descriptive Language Strategy. Goal: Parents and Caregivers will learn how to bring a book to life with interactive movement-based experiences.
Enter A4LELweek2022 to access each video.
Let's Tap
with Quynn Johnson
This workshop engages children and families in ways to create music with their feet. Using elements of tap dance and basic tap steps, families will enjoy moving together and creating their own rhythms.
Enter A4LELweek2022 to access the video.
Nest
with Natasha Mirny
Learn about the life cycle of birds through movement and puppetry with teaching artist Natasha Mirny. We will explore different stages of the life of a bird – egg, chick, fledgling, bird – and their relation to the change of the seasons. We will create our own moves and dances, work on expanding our range of motions, and use our imagination and ordinary objects that everyone has at home to create simple puppets. It is time to learn and dance together!
Enter A4LELweek2022 to access the video.
Dancing Through the Day
with Laura Schandelmeier
Come dance and sing together! How can you jump like a rabbit? Can you “jump” with your hands? How can you use your body to jump on a low level? Learn how to make a dance phrase with your child based on a character from a book. Explore the setting of a story with Interactive Movement Experiences. Learn how to create an environment for movement exploration and vocabulary development through the Descriptive Language Strategy. Goal: Parents and Caregivers will learn how to bring a book to life with interactive movement-based experiences.
Enter A4LELweek2022 to access the video.
Interested in even more arts-integrated early learning experiences?
Look no further than our FREE Early Learning Video Portal! Thanks to support from the Maryland State Department of Education and partnership with Ready At Five, ALL Marylanders can access this library of 50+ artist-led educational experiences through June!