FOR WOMEN
Untwisted Sisters: Pursuing Emotional Balance NEW! Have a Little Talk with Jesus NEW! Homeschool How-To 101 Ready, Get Set, Read! Inspiring Young Writers Motivation 101 WORKSHOPS FOR STUDENTS: AGE RECOMMENDATIONS LISTED NEW! Cookie Capers Teenagers Working with Children Poetry: Inspiration to Publication
Description: Do you ever feel like your life is spinning out of control? Do you feel overwhelmed with everyday tasks? Or, do you want to know how to better help friends who come to you for emotional help? Sharing candidly from her personal life experiences, Sherry offers solid answers with a dose of funny for busy women who need to exchange a roller coaster lifestyle for a faith that’s found its resting place.
Suggested Time: 30 minutes to 2 hours: This seminar can often be combined with a Bible teaching session that matches your event theme; just ask!
Christmas: Keeping It Real
Description: Your mom's or women’s group will love Sherry’s festive suggestions for keeping Christ in Christmas! Laugh as she describes life with a husband who starts listening to Christmas music in September and lights up their home like the
Suggested Time: 30 minutes to 1 hour
Description: "Amen...pass the ketchup!" Do you want to take your personal or your family's prayer time to a level beyond a 60-second meal-time ritual? Sherry offers ideas for helping your whole family enjoy a richer conversation with God. Hour-long sessions allow time for you to create a personal or family prayer journal and/or to enjoy a short prayer journey with Sherry. She doesn't consider herself an expert on the theology of prayer, just a soujourner seeking ways to pray without ceasing.
Suggested Time: 30 minutes to 1 hour
FOR PARENTS AND TEACHERS
Description: As a supervising teacher in Iowa for the past eight years, Sherry has helped dozens of families get started on their homeschooling journey. In this workshop, she'll share her top ten tips for beginning homeschool teachers, pre-school through high school, and will provide answers to the most frequently asked questions she's fielded through the years. Her simple ideas, organizational strategies, decision-making suggestions and humorous style will encourage you and keep you from feeling overwhelmed as you consider all that it takes to begin homeschooling. She'll also share her favorite on-line resources. One hour workshop sessions include time for extra Q&A.
Suggested Time: 30 minutes to 1 hour
NEW! Using Bloom's Taxonomy for your Blossoming Student
Description: We all want our kids to think higher and deeper. Learn to use educational principles from Bloom's Taxonomy to ask better questions and design more creative assignments.
Workshop participants are encouraged to bring a textbook and put their new skills into practice in time for tomorrow's lessons!
Suggested Time: 30 minutes to 1 hour
NEW! The B-I-B-L-E
Description: Sherry shares practical tips to help you make the Bible your kids' most treasured book. She'll also offer ways busy moms can carve out some guilt-free time alone with God. Hour-long sessions can include a take-home project; ask for details.
Suggested Time: 30 minutes to 1 hour
NEW! Have a Little Talk with Jesus
Description: "Amen...pass the ketchup!" Do you want to take your personal or your family's prayer time to a level beyond a 60-second meal-time ritual? Sherry offers ideas for helping your whole family enjoy a richer conversation with God. Hour-long sessions allow time for you to create a personal or family prayer journal and/or to enjoy a short prayer journey with Sherry. She doesn't consider herself an expert on the theology of prayer, just a soujourner seeking ways to pray without ceasing.
Suggested Time: 30 minutes to 1 hour
Entertaining Angels: Three Keys to Home School Success with Young Siblings
Description: How do you teach multiplication tables to one child, the alphabet to another and diaper a baby at the same time? Sherry offers three simple keys to making your home school run smoothly so even the youngest is engaged in meaningful activities.
Suggested Time: 30 minutes to 1 hour
The Confident
Description: Can you really teach a child to read if you don’t have a degree in education? Yes, you can! Learn the Thirteen Keys to Teaching Reading, and leave with tips for engaging the delayed or disinterested reader, as well as tips for challenging the advanced reader. Sherry also shares her favorite teaching resources.
Suggested Time: 3 hours, or choose individual segments at 30 minutes to 1.5 hours each: Thirteen Keys to Teaching Reading (1-1.5 hours), The Delayed and Disinterested Reader (30 minutes-1 hour), Challenging the Advanced Reader (30 minutes-1 hour)
Description: This workshop gives parents simple, inexpensive tips they can use to help their pre-schoolers and young elementary students race down the road of reading success. One take home project may be included upon request; ask for details.
Suggested Time: 1 hour
Description: How do you get kids to write? Sherry shares her favorite tips to get kids of all ages to put pen to paper (or fingers to keypad) and produce great writing.
Suggested Time: 1 hour or 30 minute mini-session
Description: What’s the difference between motivation and bribery? How can you get your kids to finish their work independently? What do you do with a kid who doesn’t like school? These questions and more are addressed from a biblical perspective. You’ll leave with loads of practical ideas that you can implement the next day.
Suggested Time: 1-3 hours, depending upon take-home projects requested
Sherry would love to teach a class or series of classes for children or teens during your next mom's meeting or homeschool retreat! Contact her early to schedule your event.
Description: Using cookie-themed literature, children will enjoy songs, fingerplays and games as they learn through play. They'll also find out that Jesus is the sweetest one of all!
Suggested Time: 1-4 hours; This is perfect "edutainment" for youngsters during a mom's meeting!
Suggested Ages: Ages three-seven
Blog On! Impact Your Culture through Writing
Description: Participants will learn the basics of blog development for the purpose of impacting the culture for Christ and His Kingdom. Internet safety is also a priority of this workshop.
Suggested Time: 1 hour introductory session, or 6 hours for the complete interactive workshop with assignments and on-line feedback to actually develop a blog during weekly courses over 4-6 weeks
Suggested Ages: High school through adult; middle school students if accompanied by a parent
Description: Teenagers often serve in the children’s departments of their churches. This workshop helps teens learn the basics of teaching and loving children so they can work safely and effectively. Sherry has taught this class in several churches where her husband served as a youth pastor or youth ministry consultant. Serving alongside her husband in youth and children's ministries, as well as her own experiences in summer missions and Christian school work, provide her with lots of practical ideas to share.
Suggested Time: 1 hour for basic session, or up to 4 hours, including interactive projects and activities if desired
Suggested Ages: Fifth grade through high school; adults who work with teenagers
Description: Students who have taken this course from Sherry have discovered a love for poetry they didn’t know they had. Boys included! Not only will students learn the elements of poetry, they will create a Poetry Portfolio to include works of the masters and 15 of their own original poems. Sherry helps students select one poem to submit for possible publication.
Suggested Time: 1 hour introductory workshop for students, and 1 hour “Teaching Poetry: Inspiration to Publication” workshop for teachers available; complete workshop takes 13 hours over the course of a weekend retreat or may be scheduled weekly throughout a semester
Suggested Ages: Sixth grade through adult
