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Free Parenting Workshops in Naracoorte - SPELD SA

SPELD SA is presenting free workshops in Naracoorte, suitable for parents of children in Preschool, Junior, Primary and Secondary School on Friday 13th March and Saturday 14th March 2020. These workshops may also be beneficial for SSOs who are welcome to attend.

SPELD SA is a non profit organisation that provides advice and services to children and adults with specific learning difficulties and those who care for, teach, and work with them. 

Numbers are limited so book early. 

1. Dyslexia: What it is and how to help at home - Presenter: Sandy Russo

Friday 13 March 2020: 9:00 am – 11:00 am ACDT

Saturday 14 March 2020: 11:30 am – 1:30 pm ACDT

This session looks at the problems encountered by students with Dyslexia and the ways in which they can be assisted. Each family attending will receive a copy of the AUSPELD Understanding Learning Difficulties Guide to take home as a reference guide.

2. Hearing Sounds in Words (Phonemic Awareness) – a key literacy skill - Presenter: Sandy Russo

Saturday 14 March 2020: 9:00 am – 11:00 pm ACDT

This hands-on workshop will investigate the relationship between ‘hearing sounds in words’ and the development of literacy – reading, writing and spelling. Participants will leave equipped with:

•    An insight into the numerous phonemic (sound) aspects of literacy 

•    Strategies to support your child’s literacy development

•    Games and activities to nurture your child’s literacy development

Suitable for parents of students struggling to spell and read.

3. Technology that helps - Presenter: Sandy Russo

Saturday 14 March 2020: 2:00 pm

Come and look at some of the best assistive and remedial software for students (all ages) who have difficulties in literacy and numeracy. We will explore what works and how to use it.

4. Using a six box in planning – all genres – all year levels –

paper based or PowerPoint – Presenter: Sandy Russo

Friday 13 March 2020: 2:30 pm – 4:30 pm ACDT

Writing involves many processes and by the time pen touches paper and the challenge of working out how to spell the first word or even which word to use is reached by a struggling writer, the rest of their ideas have disappeared from their memory.

This session focuses on how a six box structure can be used when planning any writing task in a paper based form and in PowerPoint. The six box structure is also easily used in a PowerPoint platform which helps students with working memory issues. You will leave the session with the knowledge of how to use a six box and the different strategies and programs that Sandy finds useful with the students she works with.

5. Developing their Vocabulary – Presenter: Sandy Russo

Friday 13 March 2020: 11:30 am – 1:30 pm ACDT

Reading and talking with children plays an important role in developing their vocabulary. The more you read to children and then discuss what you have read, the more understanding students get about words and their world. This session will look at how you can help your child(ren) develop stronger vocabularies, from pre-schoolers to high schoolers using books, playing games, watching film clips and having discussions on a daily basis. We will also look at shades of meanings of words and idioms and sayings your child may find hard to understand.

6. Number Sense Fun! Pattern work! - Presenter: Jan Daly

Friday 13 March 2020: 2:30pm – 4:30pm ACDT

Saturday 14 March 2020: 11:30am – 1:30pm ACDT

Number sense is the basis for mathematical understanding and development. Numbers follow patterns!

Patterns are fun! Through hands-on activities, use of concrete materials, and considering the many ways we use and apply number in our daily activities, participants will investigate and develop a resource of simple fun ways (including strategies, activities and games) they apply or use at home and in the community to assist their child master a solid understanding of number. Suitable for parents of Preschool to Year 4.

STAR Forum

Yin Yoga

A Yin yoga class usually consists of a series of long-held, passive floor poses that mainly work the lower part of the body - the hips, pelvis, inner thighs, lower spine. These areas are especially rich in connective tissues. The poses are held for up to five minutes, sometimes longer.

Yin is about finding stillness and cooling the body. When you commit to Yin and make time to sit, to just be still, you will notice what your mind and body has to say.

Research shows that as well as having a positive impact on the mind and reducing feelings of stress and anxiety, the practice increases circulation, improves flexibility, releases fascia and improves joint mobility, and balances our internal organs – improving the flow of chi or prana (energy) in the body.

Karate

Auskick

Horsham District Football Netball League Representative Teams 2020

Harrow Balmoral Football Netball Club

Little Desert Nature Lodge - Kids Retreat

Edenhope Library

RHYME TIME for ages 0-3 years will be held at 12.00pm weekly on Tuesdays during Term 1 from 4 February to 24 March. Session runs for approximately 30 minutes. Bookings not necessary, and all activity materials will be supplied. We look forward to seeing you soon!

AUTHOR VISIT: ROBERT GOTT

Robert Gott will be visiting Wimmera libraries to talk about life on the road promoting your work when you are a published author, and sharing tales from a recent trip he took to the United States, with three other Australian authors. Robert was born in the small Queensland town of Maryborough in 1957, and lives in Melbourne. He has published many books for children, and created a newspaper cartoon; he is the author of The Holiday Murders and its sequels, The Port Fairy Murders and The Autumn Murders, and of the William Power series of crime-caper novels set in 1940s Australia: Good Murder, A Thing of Blood, Amongst the Dead, and The Serpent’s Sting.

FLORAL ART DEMONSTRATIONS will return for 2020 on Saturday, 14 March at 10.30 at the library, please join us for a relaxed demonstration run by qualified floral art judge and demonstrator, Heather Casey.

STORY BOX LIBRARY is an engaging educational resource that inspires reading in kids of all ages, improving language and literacy skills along the way – and it’s free for families via participating public libraries! See and hear your favourite stories come to life, read by Nick Cave, Justine Clarke, Eddie Perfect, Kate Ritchie, Andrew Hansen, Missy Higgins, Shane Jacobson and many more. Go to www.wrlc.org.au – click on eBooks & eAudiobooks link at left hand side, then find the Story Box Library icon to get started with your library card number.

WHO SAID LIBRARIES MATTER?

I have very happy memories of fairy tales. My mother used to take me to the library in Toronto to check out the fairy tales. And she was an actress, so she used to act out for me the different characters in all these fairy tales. Mike Myers 

EDENHOPE LIBRARY OPENING HOURS

Tuesday 10:30am - 1.30pm

Wednesday 10:30am - 12:30pm & 2 - 5pm

Friday 10:30am-12:30pm & 2 - 5pm

Saturday 10am - 12noon

Melanie Y’lang | Branch Manager

P: 03 5585 9916

E:edenhope.library@wrlc.org.au | W: www.wrlc.org.au

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