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Professional Development Workshops

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WOLF TRAP Professional Development Workshops Wolf Trap Institute for Early Learning Through the Arts embraces active learning for children through customized, hands-on, arts-integrated professional development for early childhood educators. Wolf Trap’s professional development workshops use dance, music, drama, and puppetry as teaching tools for arts integration. Wolf Trap Master Teaching Artists provide workshop participants with arts techniques to achieve goals in specific areas, such as literacy and language development, science, math, problemsolving, and classroom management. Professional development workshops are available in both in-person and virtual formats across a variety of arts disciplines and content areas and are designed for adults working with infant/toddler, preschool, and early elementary-aged children. To schedule a professional development workshop, email education@wolftrap.org. For more information on Wolf Trap’s education programs, visit wolftrap.org/education.

Arts Integration Leads to Deeper, More Meaningful Learning Through: Strong Teacher-Child Interactions Opportunities for SocialEmotional Learning

Extra Math Learning

Increased Language Development

Improved Teacher Practice

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New for Fall 2025

Multidisciplinary Arts

Dance/Movement

Drama

Music

Puppetry

Storytelling

For Infant and Toddler Educators

Virtual Early Arts Learning Workshops

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NEW FOR FALL 2025 DANCING ENGINEERS: Building Social and Emotional Skills with Dance and STEM Early STEM/Arts In-Person Pre-K, Kindergarten Sarah Council, Wolf Trap Master Teaching Artist Teaching artist and dancer Sarah Council shares novel, participatory approaches to working with young children, that combine fundamental elements of dance with opportunities to highlight creative thinking, prediction, and problem-solving.

Collaborate, create unique experiences, and explore their specific application to the areas of social emotional learning and STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math). BRINGING DANCE AND THEATER TO YOUR STORYTIME In-Person Pre-K, Kindergarten Natasha Mirny, DC/MD/VA Wolf Trap Master Teaching Artist Multi-disciplinary teaching artist Natasha Mirny shares a variety of strategies that leverage key elements of dance, drama, and music to the area of early language and literacy development.

Discover and try out artful experiences that bring children and adults together to explore children’s stories, bringing language and literacy to life. DRAMATIC ADVENTURES: Creating Original Stories with Children In-Person Pre-K, Kindergarten Ali Oliver-Krueger, DC/MD/VA Wolf Trap Master Teaching Artist Creating original stories, whether inspired by literary text or informational content, can provide opportunities for children to acquire and demonstrate knowledge, build key language literacy and socialemotional skills, and use their imaginations as they engage in a fun, creative process. Learn and try new techniques and strategies for collaboratively creating or “devising” stories, drawing from content across the curriculum. No prior theatre experience is needed! Just a willingness to explore, imagine, and try something different!

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MULTIDISCIPLINARY ARTS ARTFUL ENGINEERING: Exploring Simple Machines through Drama, Movement, and Music Early STEM/Arts In-Person Pre-K, Kindergarten Jeanne Wall, DC/MD/VA Wolf Trap Master Teaching Artist Through drama, puppetry, music, and creative movement, explore how simple machines make our work easier by moving objects, lifting heavy loads, and building solutions to problems! We’ll combine arts strategies with engineering’s six steps, learning about wheel and axle, inclined plane and pulley, and provide creative opportunities for learning in STEM and language and literacy. THE BEAT OF YOUR OWN DRUM: Music and Drama Strategies for Children With Special Learning Needs In-Person, Virtual Pre-K, Kindergarten Valerie Bayne Carroll, DC/MD/VA Wolf Trap Master Teaching Artist Learn performing arts strategies designed to enhance the development of socialemotional skills for children with special learning needs.

Steady beat, guided dramatic play, and the exploration of books through music are effective with arts strategies such as call-and-response singing, creative movement with children with many learning styles, and inspire enthusiastic interaction. Explore life skills like listening and turn-taking and how to be independent while also being part of a group. Participate in and analyze a lesson, with step-by-step examination of structure, transitions, and easy solutions for common class challenges. Participants will create and enhance strategies with their own personal flair, culture, and expertise! EXTENDING THE STORY: Integrating the Performing Arts and Learning In-Person Pre-K, Kindergarten Jeanne Wall, DC/MD/VA Wolf Trap Master Teaching Artist Explore how drama, imagination, creative movement, puppetry, and music can prepare early learners to experience a new book! Using children’s literature as a source of inspiration, we will practice arts-integrated strategies to enhance learning about natural science and math, while fostering social-emotional learning and early literacy skills.

KEEP IT MOVING: Using the Arts and Personal Touches for Smooth Transitions and Smart Classroom Management In-Person Pre-K, Kindergarten Paige Hernandez, DC/MD/VA Wolf Trap Master Teaching Artist Explore creative ways to facilitate transitions, establish routines, and enhance daily practices using arts strategies that include dance, poetry, hip hop, and sign language!

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MOVERS AND SHAKERS: Discovering STEM Through Dance and Drama Early STEM/Arts In-Person Pre-K, Kindergarten Terlene Terry-Todd, DC/MD/VA Wolf Trap Master Teaching Artist Looking for new ideas and creative experiences to enhance STEM learning? Use arts strategies to explore physical science (the sun, moon, Earth’s rotations), Earth science (clouds, atmosphere), recycling, and engineering practice, while making strong connections to literacy and the scientific method.

This hands-on, interactive movement workshop will get your creative juices flowing as you become the next STEM movers and shakers! SPECTACULAR VERNACULAR: Enriching Vocabulary with Arts Strategies In-Person Pre-K, Kindergarten Paige Hernandez, DC/MD/VA Wolf Trap Master Teaching Artist Discover engaging ways to enhance your students’ vocabulary! Participants will get first-hand experience using arts strategies that include hip hop, sign language, and theater games!

Creating rich vocabulary learning opportunities doesn’t have to be a daunting task when you rediscover language and literacy skills and give them an interesting twist. Use slang, #hashtags, technology, and more! STORY BOXES: Looking Beyond the Book, Thinking Inside the Box In-Person Pre-K, Kindergarten Amanda Whiteman, DC/MD/VA Wolf Trap Master Teaching Artist Discover how story boxes can facilitate exploration of the early childhood developmental domains and enhance children’s learning. A box full of found objects and a little imagination can provide opportunities for dance, theatrical, and creative experiences! In this workshop, educators explore tools to enrich and extend children’s literature using a form of Wolf Trap Coffee Can Theater bringing books to life!

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WHY ARE WE STANDING STILL? The Power of Tableau in the Early Childhood Classroom In-Person Pre-K, Kindergarten Melissa Richardson and Amanda Whiteman, DC/MD/VA Wolf Trap Master Teaching Artists

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Experience the power of tableau as children embody concepts in literacy, math, science, and social studies with elements of dance and drama. By making still pictures with their bodies to represent a scene, using tableau develops children’s focus, selfregulation, spatial awareness, and self-expression. This workshop will scaffold a progression of skills for tableau from concrete representation to more abstract thinking and learning.

Turn everyday moments into opportunities for assessment! Explore practical approaches designed for the early childhood classroom using drama and music.

ARTS-BASED ASSESSMENT: Serious Fun and Games In-Person Pre-K, Kindergarten Laura Schandelmeier, DC/MD/VA Wolf Trap Master Teaching Artist

Through this workshop, you will develop your own arts-based assessment experience and expand the imaginative, movement-filled, and musical environment of your classroom. ARTS IN APPLICATION: Dance in Kindergarten Math Early STEM/Arts In-Person Pre-K, Kindergarten Rachel Knudson, DC/MD/VA Wolf Trap Master Teaching Artist Get inspired by the natural connection between math and dance to ignite your imagination, as you create multisensory experiences for the kindergarten classroom. Participants will explore math and dance using movement, props, stories, and music that align with kindergarten math.

ARTS IN THE NATURAL WORLD: Exploring Science through Dance Early STEM/Arts In-Person, Virtual Pre-K, Kindergarten Amanda Whiteman, DC/MD/VA Wolf Trap Master Teaching Artist Ignite children’s imagination and understanding of the environment, nature, and scientific inquiry! Learn how props, children’s literature, and the elements of dance can be used together to facilitate creative and sensory experiences that enhance STEM learning. COMMUNITY OF MOVERS: Encouraging and Managing Thoughtful Movement in the Classroom In-Person, Virtual Pre-K to Grade 1 Valerie Branch, DC/MD/VA Wolf Trap Master Teaching Artist Explore the elements of dance and learn new strategies to facilitate movement-led teaching and learning. Experience how creative movement can foster community-building and engagement, set classroom expectations, and create a rich learning environment connected to your curricular goals.

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CREATING DANCE EXPERIENCES IN THE EARLY CHILDHOOD CLASSROOM In-Person Pre-K, Kindergarten Rachel Knudson, DC/MD/VA Wolf Trap Master Teaching Artist Children move naturally! When movement becomes consciously structured and happens with awareness, it becomes dance. Learn how dance and movement experiences help children develop an awareness of their body in space and provide opportunities for flexibility, balance, and coordination. Create experiences that facilitate social interaction, cooperation, self-regulation, and promote emotional well-being. CRUISING THE CARIBBEAN In-Person Pre-K, Kindergarten Terlene D. Terry-Todd, DC/MD/VA Wolf Trap Master Teaching Artist Ms. T will lead us on an imaginary journey to the sunny West Indies with music, dance, and storytelling. Together, we will use movement, songs, chants, props, and costumes to bring learning to life!

DANCING LIKE A SCIENTIST Early STEM/Arts In-Person Pre-K, Kindergarten Amanda Whiteman, DC/MD/VA Wolf Trap Master Teaching Artist Dancers use many of the same skills to explore the world that scientists do, observing, classifying, predicting, experimenting, and communicating! By connecting the creative and kinesthetic sides of children’s learning to the analytical, we can help children develop a deeper understanding of the world around them. Discover new ways to engage children, encouraging them to look at the world through the eyes of a scientist and a dancer. They aren't as different as you may think! THE EARTH SPINS AND SO CAN I: The Dance of Living Communities

In-Person Early STEM/Arts Pre-K to Grade 1 Roberta Lucas, Detroit Wolf Trap Master Teaching Artist From the backyard to the schoolyard, park, forest, and beyond, learn how to create habitats found in stories, nonfiction texts, and STEM curriculum, using imagination and dance.

Deepen children’s movement vocabulary by observing and interpreting the actions and movements of living things and their environments. Creating movement sequences as a class ensemble allows children to experience the interdependence within an environment. Simple props, music, and sounds bring the earth’s many dances to life in the preschool through firstgrade classrooms. LET THE PICTURES MOVE YOU: Using Books With Few Words to Inspire Movement and Language in Children In-Person Pre-K, Kindergarten Maria Tripodi, DC/MD/VA Wolf Trap Master Teaching Artist Learn how to use picture books as inspiration for creative movement for everyone! Incorporating basic dance concepts, music, and literature, teachers will be introduced to movementbased experiences that foster language and literacy development in the classroom.

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POETRY IN MOTION: Communicating the Meaning of Poetry through Dance In-Person Pre-K, Kindergarten Rachel Knudson, DC/MD/VA Wolf Trap Master Teaching Artist Explore how language inspires movement, and how poems can be used to create a dance. Participants will learn strategies to inspire children to create their own dances based on their interpretations of poetry, providing new opportunities to support the development of language and literacy.

PUTTING YOUR BEST FOOT FORWARD: Using Movement Strategies to Teach Across the Curriculum In-Person, Virtual Kindergarten to Grade 2 Kimberli Boyd, Detroit Wolf Trap Master Teaching Artist Experience the power of applying movement fundamentals in the classroom to engage learners across curricular areas. By integrating the “BEST” movement elements of “body,” “energy,” “space,” and “time” into your lessons, you can explore strategies that bring learning to life!

MATH IN MOTION: Using Creative Movement to Explore Math Fundamentals! Early STEM/Arts In-Person, Virtual Pre-K, Kindergarten Rachel Knudson, DC/MD/VA Wolf Trap Master Teaching Artist

TAKING CHANCES MAKING DANCES: Strategies for Math and Literacy through Stories and Movement In-Person, Virtual Pre-K, Kindergarten Laura Schandelmeier, DC/MD/VA Wolf Trap Master Teaching Artist

Kinesthetic experiences can enhance math, language, and social-emotional learning. Movement is one of the first ways children express themselves and explore their environments. Learn how creative movement and dance provide an opportunity for young children to develop and explore math skills like number sense, classification, geometry, measurement, and mathematical reasoning.

Dance your way through any book! Engage children in physical activity while developing and growing math and literacy skills. Use dance to facilitate social-emotional learning and create experiences that can be shared immediately in your classroom.

DRAMA COUNT ME IN! Teacher-InRole Strategies for STEM Exploration Early STEM/Arts In-Person Pre-K, Kindergarten Christina Farrell, Wolf Trap Master Teaching Artist This highly interactive workshop provides an opportunity to learn how to tap into young children’s love of imaginative play to spark meaningful explorations of STEM content. Identify strategies for assuming dramatic play roles, adapting informational text into dramatic scenarios, and asking open-ended questions to empower children to apply critical thinking skills while providing opportunities to assess their learning. FINDING DRAMA EVERYWHERE: Bringing Nonfiction to Life In-Person, Virtual Pre-K, Kindergarten Melissa Richardson, DC/MD/VA Wolf Trap Master Teaching Artist Every nonfiction topic is an exciting story waiting to happen. Children gather research every day through books, media, and sensory observations.

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Discover strategies for collecting, sharing, and celebrating this research as a classroom community. Telling and acting out stories encourages teamwork, fosters creative thinking, reinforces vocabulary, and helps children make connections in their learning. Engage in drama games that connect the concepts of character, setting, activity, and plot to virtually any curriculum topic. LET’S TELL A STORY! Creating, Imagining, and Dramatizing Original Stories In-Person Pre-K, Kindergarten Kim Baran, Georgia Wolf Trap Master Teaching Artist Create an original story with young children using story creation strategies and drama techniques designed to deepen children’s creativity, critical thinking, communication, and collaboration. Practice guiding children to create and dramatize an original story using props, chants, and songs; ask guided questions and use the elements of drama to transform into story characters and visualize story settings.

MATH DETECTIVES – WHERE’S THE MATH? Discovering the Math Hidden in Books Early STEM/Arts In-Person Pre-K, Kindergarten Katherine Lyons, DC/MD/VA Wolf Trap Master Teaching Artist Math is everywhere if you know how to find it! Let’s look at children’s literature to discover the math that is already there; hidden in books you love. We’ll uncover math concepts and create active, arts-based experiences that support the curriculum, and engage children in creating and performing as a means of developing math skills. MOVIES, MUSIC, AND MATH: Creating Memorable Math Experiences Early STEM/Arts In-Person Pre-K, Kindergarten Michele Valeri, DC/MD/VA Wolf Trap Master Teaching Artist “Camera’s rolling! We have sound and action!” You’re the director and the children are learning math concepts like patterns, shapes, and comparative sizes through guided play as performers in a make-believe movie.

Learn how to use guided play in the classroom, specifically imaginary travel, story-can theater, ‘making-a-movie,’ and simple song/chant writing, to engage the children in interactive learning of basic math concepts. SHARE, CARE, AND PLAY FAIR: Using Drama to Enhance Children’s Social-Emotional Development In-Person Pre-K, Kindergarten Katherine Lyons, DC/MD/VA Wolf Trap Master Teaching Artist Explore children’s literature to uncover messages that support children’s socialemotional growth. Learn drama strategies that promote the social skills of empathy, respect, self-control, kindness, cooperation, problem solving, and self-confidence for our youngest learners. Looking at literature through a new lens, we can connect to children’s socialemotional learning with the arts!

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WAKE UP YOUR WISHES: Introduction to Wolf Trap Drama In-Person Pre-K, Kindergarten Michele Valeri or Valerie Bayne Carroll, DC/MD/VA Wolf Trap Master Teaching Artists Explore practical and creative drama strategies including coffee can theater, role play, imaginary travel, and story dramatization. Actively involving children in storytelling and dramatization will support language and literacy skills, listening, sequencing, and socialemotional skills like following directions and collaborative problem-solving!

MUSIC “AHA!” READING: Developing Artful Strategies to Create Prior Knowledge In-Person Pre-K, Kindergarten Sue Trainor, DC/MD/VA Wolf Trap Master Teaching Artist Explore and create multi-sensory music opportunities designed to develop children’s prior knowledge about story vocabulary, characters, setting, problem-solving! Learn strategies that help children experience the “aha!” feeling that comes from a deeper connection with story content and new learning.

AGOO AMEE: Engaging Young Children With “Call and Response” In-Person Pre-K, Kindergarten Kofi Dennis, DC/MD/VA Wolf Trap Master Teaching Artist “Call and response” experiences are found in many traditions. In West African cultures, call and response is commonly used as a way of participation in public gatherings, as well as for vocal and instrumental musical expression. This workshop offers an opportunity to explore how call and response experiences enhance literacy, language, and math learning, and foster memory, concentration, and listening skills.

CREATING SONGS FOR THE EARLY CHILDHOOD CLASSROOM, NO EXPERIENCE NECESSARY! In-Person Pre-K, Kindergarten Aaron Fowler, Kansas Wolf Trap Master Teaching Artist The power of music surrounds us every day! It can also be used as a dynamic tool to enhance classroom management, adding novelty and fun to routines and transitions. Discover how to create simple songs and chants that will engage children while enhancing the flow of your days together.

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DEVELOPMENTALLY APPROPRIATE EARLY CHILDHOOD SONG AND CHANT REPERTOIRE: It’s What You Do With It That Counts In-Person Pre-K, Kindergarten Sue Trainor, DC/MD/VA Wolf Trap Master Teaching Artist How you present a song or a chant is as important as which song you choose! Participants will identify and explore considerations for preparing to use music with children at different ages and stages. Create an original song/chant/strategy that meets a classroom objective in a developmentally appropriate way! DID YOU HEAR THAT? Learning to Listen through Sound Play, Soundscapes, and Stories In-Person Pre-K, Kindergarten Mary Gresock, DC/MD/VA Wolf Trap Master Teaching Artist

Practice language and literacy skills and identify the shared common vocabulary of music and science.

Learn how beat, melody, and lyrics create focus, improve motivation, affect mood, and foster literacy skills.

GREAT MUSICAL ADAPTATIONS: Songs for Memorable Teaching and Smooth Transitions In-Person, Virtual Pre-K, Kindergarten Sue Trainor, DC/MD/VA Wolf Trap Master Teaching Artist

GROWING GREEN Early STEM/Arts In-Person Pre-K, Kindergarten Terry Leonino and Greg Artzner, DC/MD/VA Wolf Trap Master Teaching Artists

Music has a powerful presence in our lives and can be used as a means to accomplish many goals. Identify areas where musical tools can enhance classroom practices and activities and explore how to create and use music strategies to support learning objectives. and motor skills.

Celebrate the wonder of the natural world around us and encourage the protection of wildlife and habitat through the use of music, creative drama and movement. Explore our connection to the families of plants and animals while sharing ideas and choices children can make to become environmental caregivers while enhancing curriculum goals such as cognition and identification, listening, and verbalization.

What was that sound? Creative sound exploration can become an effective way to strengthen critical listening skills, concentration, and self-regulation with young children. Engage in sound games and experiment with playful creations in sound science designed to motivate little ears to open up, listen, and learn.

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IF BOOKS COULD SING (EVEN IF YOU DON’T!) In-Person Pre-K, Kindergarten Terry Leonino and Greg Artzner, DC/MD/VA Wolf Trap Master Teaching Artists

LOOKING FOR MUSICAL CLUES: Uncovering the Hidden Music in Favorite Stories In-Person, Virtual Pre-K, Kindergarten Christina Farrell, Wolf Trap Master Teaching Artist

Developed for teachers and educators with little or no musical background, this workshop will assist participants to become familiar with the various ways songs can enhance the content and themes of children’s books. Participants will take part in individual, large and small group work designed to provide opportunities to help you develop and practice music and song techniques that foster literacy skills and support curricular goals.

Learn to uncover the hidden music in favorite stories! Explore arts strategies for adapting text from a book to include musical elements; practice simple techniques for using rhythm and melody to engage young children in storytelling. Create a child-led musical experience based on favorite story!

MAKING MUSIC WITH ALL CHILDREN In-Person Pre-K, Kindergarten Sue Trainor, DC/MD/VA Wolf Trap Master Teaching Artist In this hands-on workshop, participants will gain an understanding of how to adapt songs and singing games to address a variety of physical, cognitive, and learning needs. Principles of Universal Design will be discussed as they relate to planning music experiences for children. participants will have the opportunity to develop creative new strategies for "music time" to individualize approaches for the children in their care. MUSIC MAKES THE WORLD GO ‘ROUND In-Person Pre-K, Kindergarten Michele Valeri, DC/MD/VA Wolf Trap Master Teaching Artist Explore how songs, simple instruments, and sound effects can be used to reinforce curricular content, enhance creative play and imagination, enliven language and literacy experiences, and foster positive transitions during their day. Learn and share songs designed for the early childhood classroom.

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MUSICAL MOMENTS: Using Music to Explore Math in Children’s Literature Early STEM/Arts In-Person, Virtual Pre-K, Kindergarten Wincey Terry-Bryant, New Jersey Wolf Trap Master Teaching Artist Tap into young children’s love of music and stories to spark meaningful exploration of math concepts. Learn ways to identify math opportunities in children’s books and stories and create catchy songs, chants, to enhance math learning. Explore the use of music as a classroom management and assessment tool. WILD ABOUT WORDS In-Person, Virtual Pre-K, Kindergarten Mary Gresock, DC/MD/VA Wolf Trap Master Teaching Artist Explore performing arts strategies designed to teach new vocabulary and empower children to communicate with confidence and clarity. Learn how to bring new descriptive, sensory, and action-packed vocabulary words to life through engaging experiences that link chants, poems, and stories to music, movement, and drama. Discover how your children can become motivated and excited about learning and building new vocabulary, a literacy skill critical to their academic success.

PUPPETRY OUTSIDE YOUR DOOR: Exploring the Arts in Nature Early STEM/Arts In-Person, Virtual Pre-K, Kindergarten Penny Russell, DC/MD/VA Wolf Trap Master Teaching Artist Expand opportunities for STEM learning by using arts strategies to investigate the world around you. Explore earth, life, and physical sciences through drama, music, and puppetry. Discover how the arts can enhance children’s understanding of weather and seasonal changes, and the natural world. EXPLORING SCIENCE THROUGH THE ARTS Early STEM/Arts In-Person, Virtual Pre-K, Kindergarten Jeanne Wall, DC/MD/VA Wolf Trap Master Teaching Artist

Create arts-integrated learning experiences that align with early childhood curriculum standards and foster scientific discovery and early STEM skills and practice. FROM THE PICTURE BOOK PAGE TO THE PUPPET STAGE In-Person Pre-K, Kindergarten Ingrid Crepeau, DC/MD/VA Wolf Trap Master Teaching Artist Puppet play generates interest and excitement about books and encourages auditory, visual, and kinesthetic learning. Use books to create puppet lessons to promote literacy and language development. Participants will increase their knowledge of foundational puppetry skills, explore ideas for using books to create puppet lessons, and learn methods for making and using simple puppet stages.

Try arts-integrated strategies using drama, creative movement, and puppetry to expand a child’s knowledge of the world, while developing key STEM learning skills like observation, description, and problem solving.

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IMAGINE THAT! Creative Problem Solving through Engineering and Puppetry Early STEM/Arts In-Person Pre-K, Kindergarten Penny Russell, DC/MD/VA Wolf Trap Master Teaching Artist Discover how the connections between the engineering method and puppetry can enhance your teaching! Educators will learn to enhance curriculum through projectbased experiences using drama, music, and puppetry. The engineering method will serve as our guide as we problem-solve our way through the school year. PUPPET POWER: Effective Techniques for Using Puppets in the Classroom In-Person Pre-K, Kindergarten Joe Pipik, DC/MD/VA Wolf Trap Master Teaching Artist Puppets have the power to pique children’s curiosity, focus attention, and foster enthusiasm for learning. Discover how to use puppets to introduce new curricular content, and support literacy, language development, and social-emotional learning.

STORYTELLING “TELL ME A STORY, PLEASE!” Stress-Free Storytelling for the Early Childhood Classroom In-Person Pre-K, Kindergarten Ingrid Crepeau, DC/MD/VA Wolf Trap Master Teaching Artist Through the ages, storytellers have been keepers of histories, social customs, and norms. Storytelling was one of the earliest forms of the performing arts. Explore using storytelling as a teaching tool for solving problems, creative thinking, and fostering imagination. This workshop is divided into three parts: 1. A Storyteller’s Toolbox: Choosing a story, using expressive speech, employing facial expressions, accenting humor, and encouraging audience participation; 2. Six styles of storytelling that are age-appropriate for preschoolers; 3. Opportunities to practice the story basics and styles of storytelling presented.

FOR INFANTS/ TODDLERS EDUCATORS ARTS IN THE NATURAL WORLD: Exploring STEM through Dance and Movement with Infants and Young Children Early STEM/Arts In-Person, Virtual 0-3 Years Amanda Whiteman, DC/MD/VA Wolf Trap Master Teaching Artist Explore STEM and movement experiences that draw from the natural world surrounding our youngest learners. Learn and try arts-integrated experiences designed to jump start early STEM learning while encouraging creative movement that promotes healthy growth and development. BABY ARTSPLAY: Music with Infants and Toddlers In-Person 0-3 Years Valerie Bayne Carroll, DC/MD/VA Wolf Trap Master Teaching Artist Learn how songs and music can be woven into the experiences and routines of the day with infants and young children to foster learning and development.

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Participants will actively engage in music, songs, and movement experiences designed for infants and very young children to provide support across the developmental domains. BABY BEAT, BABY FEET! In-Person 0-3 Years Presented by two of the following DC/MD/VA Wolf Trap Teaching Artists: Valerie Bayne Carroll, Kofi Dennis, Sue Trainor, Maria Tripodi, Sylvia Zwi The naturally stimulating combination of music and movement experiences positively impact physical, emotional, social, cognitive, and language development for infants and young children. Participants in this highly interactive workshop will learn and practice arts-based content that can be infused into daily routines in home and group settings. Developed by Wolf Trap Institute for Early Learning Through the Arts as part of Little Voices For Healthy Choices, an Office of Head Start national initiative promoting healthy nutrition, brain development, movement, and sleep for infants, young children, their families, and communities.

BABY BOOKS, TODDLER TALES: The Story Experience In-Person 0-3 Years Katherine Lyons, DC/MD/VA Wolf Trap Master Teaching Artist This highly interactive workshop shared how the use of props, movement, music, and drama can reinforce language and literacy development. Participants will be introduced to a variety of books for infants and young children, and learn multisensory approaches to enhancing children’s literature with music, movement, gestures, chants, and props. BABIES SIMPLY KNOW: Exploring Movement Patterns with Infants and Very Young Children In-Person, Virtual 0-3 Years Anne Sidney, DC/MD/VA Wolf Trap Master Teaching Artist

GREAT MUSICAL ADAPTATIONS FOR INFANTS AND TODDLERS! Songs for Memorable Experiences, Transitions, and Routines In-Person, Virtual 0-3 Years Sue Trainor, DC/MD/VA Wolf Trap Master Teaching Artist Harness the power of music to enhance learning and engagement with infants and young children! Experience and try out music strategies developed by Wolf Trap Teaching Artists to promote exploration across developmental domains using beat, melody, and lyrics.

Promote learning, build trust, and cultivate a secure attachment through song and dance! Explore developmental movement patterns within the first year of life, and learn how dance can facilitate babies’ physical and social development.

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LEARNING THROUGH MOVEMENT FOR INFANTS AND TODDLERS: Baby Beat, Baby Feet In-Person, Virtual 0-3 Years Krissie Marty, Wolf Trap Master Teaching Artist Explore arts-integrated motor experiences that can be adapted for families and children from the prenatal period through young childhood. Try out movement strategies that support the healthy growth and development of children of all abilities and comfort levels and the adults around them! MOVING AND LEARNING: Creative Movement Experiences for the Infant/Toddler Classroom In-Person 0-3 Years Maria Tripodi, DC/MD/VA Wolf Trap Master Teaching Artist Combining music, movement, children’s literature, and imagination, teachers will be introduced to and encouraged to create movement-based experiences for infants and young children, and the adults around them. Incorporate basic dance concepts into daily routines and activities, to enhance learning across the developmental domains!

OUTSIDE YOUR DOOR: Exploring the Arts in Nature with Infants and Toddlers Early STEM/Arts In-Person, Virtual 0-3 Years Penny Russell, DC/MD/VA Wolf Trap Master Teaching Artist Explore earth, life, and physical sciences through drama, music, and puppetry. Discover how the arts can enhance understanding of the world around us – and our place in it!

SING A SONG OF STORIES! In-Person, Virtual 0-3 Years Valerie Bayne Carroll, DC/MD/VA Wolf Trap Master Teaching Artist Learn how to link stories with music and movement. Explore the beat and rhythm of language from books through chanting, call-and-response, and rhythm instruments. Use props and hand gestures to bring illustrations to life. Engage young children through sight, sound, touch, and movement to make literature a multi-sensory experience!

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EARLY ARTS LEARNING (EAL) WORKSHOPS Early Arts Learning (EAL) workshops provide a customized experience - exploring arts-integrated learning across the curriculum, and digging into the fundamentals of individual arts disciplines. The EAL workshops are tailored to meet your group’s needs and interests and can share content in music, dance/movement, drama, and/or puppetry. Wolf Trap Master Teaching Artists will create a workshop for your group, spotlighting the age range of children you work with, and the art forms you are most interested in exploring. The EAL can be developed specifically for adults working with infants and toddlers, preschoolers, and early elementary students. Join in for a highly interactive arts learning experience!

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WOLF TRAP Family Involvement Workshops Wolf Trap Institute for Early Learning Through the Arts embraces active learning for young children, educators, and families in and through the arts. Wolf Trap’s family involvement workshops provide children and their parents/caregivers with an opportunity to share a stimulating and interactive live arts experience, led by a Wolf Trap Teaching Artist. Parents will leave with arts-integrated activities they can use at home. Family involvement workshops are available in both in-person and virtual formats across a variety of arts disciplines and content areas, including multidisciplinary arts, dance/movement, drama, music, puppetry, and storytelling. Offerings are also available for infants/toddlers. To schedule a family involvement workshop, email education@wolftrap.org. For more information on Wolf Trap’s education programs, visit wolftrap.org/education.

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NEW FOR FALL 2025 MUSIC ALL AROUND US In-Person Lisa Matthews, DC/MD/VA Wolf Trap Master Teaching Artist Sounds from natural environments can create the building blocks of music! Join musician Lisa Mathews to create lively environmental soundscapes and explore how musical elements like beat and pitch can be found all around us.

Singing Sunshine Early STEM/Arts In-Person Alden Phelp, DC/MD/VA Wolf Trap Master Teaching Artist What do plants need to grow? How do people, animals, and their environments help? Join musician Mr. Alden for an interactive, imagination-filled exploration of art and STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) learning. This workshop provides lots of opportunities for young children and adults to move and learn together!

Yes . . . And! In-Person Kevin Brown, DC/MD/VA Wolf Trap Teaching Artist Get ready to improvise with actor Kevin Brown! In this workshop, adults and children will explore how drama and improvisation strategies can be used to craft exciting stories, create child-led dramatic experiences, explore social and emotional connections, and connect learning across the curriculum.

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AN EPIC STORY ADVENTURE In-Person, Virtual Ali Oliver-Krueger, DC/MD/VA Wolf Trap Master Teaching Artist Create a play of your own -- no prior playwriting or theatre experience needed! Adults and children will apply their imaginations and acting tools to create a drama adventure from anywhere. Use guided imagery, sensory exploration, and imaginary travel to jumpstart fun with epic stories. “ARRRR” IS FOR RECYCLE! A PLAYFUL PIRATE PUPPET ADVENTURE In-Person Joe Pipik and Jeanne Wall, DC/MD/VA Wolf Trap Master Teaching Artists Take a trip to the recycling station with Joe Pipik, Jeanne Wall, and their puppet friends!

Blending music, drama, and creative storytelling with STEM and language arts, children and adults will explore recycling’s four “Rs” (recycle, reuse, reduce, repurpose).

BRINGING LEARNING TO LIFE WITH STORIES: THE LITTLE RED HEN In-Person, Virtual Kim Baran, Georgia Wolf Trap Master Teaching Artist

ARTSPLAY FAMILY SING In-Person Valerie Carroll, DC/MD/VA Wolf Trap Master Teaching Artist

Join Master Teaching Artist Kim Baran, the Little Red Hen and her friends, on an imaginary journey. Explore how characters and story animation can bring a classic tale to life with opportunities for learning that reinforce early literacy skills.

This interactive session includes songs that babies and young children can enjoy with their families and friends. Songs and chants featuring calland-response, imaginative movement, hand signs, and puppets that will engage and energize adults and children. Explore how to sing a story, act out a song, and learn new tunes that may be humming the whole way home!

A CROCODILE’S TALE Early STEM/Arts In-Person Katherine Lyons, DC/MD/VA Wolf Trap Master Teaching Artist Katherine uses movement, props, chants, character voices, and audience interaction to tell the delightful story of the relationship between humans and nature. A Crocodile’s Tale is a wonderful story for all children and adults to enjoy together!

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CRUISING THE CARIBBEAN In-Person, Virtual Terlene D. Terry-Todd, DC/MD/VA Wolf Trap Master Teaching Artist Ms. T will lead us on an imaginary journey to the sunny West Indies with music, dance, and storytelling. Together, we will use movement, songs, chants, props, and costumes to bring learning to life! DANCING STEM Early STEM/Arts In-Person Laura Schandelmeier, DC/MD/VA Wolf Trap Master Teaching Artist Dance the life cycle of a seed to a plant, create a dance to learn the “Six Steps of Engineering”, and count sets of dancers on an imaginary stage. Learn how adults and children can engage in active play together, while exploring science, engineering, and math! DANCING THROUGH THE DAY In-Person, Virtual Laura Schandelmeier, DC/MD/VA Wolf Trap Master Teaching Artist

Come dance and sing together! How can you move in different ways? Learn how to create movement and dance opportunities using inspiration from characters from a favorite book.

THE DRAGON SHOW In-Person Katherine Lyons, DC/MD/VA Wolf Trap Master Teaching Artist, Elias Schutzman, DC/MD/VA Wolf Trap Teaching Artist Fly across the sky to Dragonland and meet a lazy, greedy dragon who refuses to share, care, or play fair with his family and friends. When he flies to a new town and threatens to eat all the food, the townspeople must work together to find a way to make him leave peacefully. Use drama, rhythm, chants, instruments, and imaginary travel to become different community helpers. THE ENORMOUS TURNIP: BRINGING SCIENCE AND LITERATURE TO LIFE In-Person Lenore Blank Kelner, DC/MD/VA Wolf Trap Teaching Artist Through the lens of Alexei Tolstoy’s The Enormous Turnip, this workshop examines the plant life cycle, growing process, and the concepts of size and comparison. Use sequencing and patterns to reenact a classic Russian folktale tale, while exploring the power of cooperation.

EVERYBODY COMES FROM A DIFFERENT PLACE In-Person Slim Harrison, DC/MD/VA Wolf Trap Master Teaching Artist Explore the diverse roots of our American folk music and dance heritage while having “a good old time!” Join in the “jugband” with washboards, spoons, washtub bass, jugs, stumpffiddles, limberjacks, whammydiddles & skiffleboards! Learn simple folk dances that adults and children can do together, and join in reels and circle and square dances. EVERYDAY ADVENTURES: EXPLORING SIGNS AND SYMBOLS In-Person, Virtual Morgan Sendek, DC/MD/VA Wolf Trap Teaching Artist Take an imaginary journey full of creative movement and dramatic elements; identifying and interpreting signs and symbols you might encounter in daily life!

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EVERYONE’S AN ACTOR! In-Person Melissa Richardson, DC/MD/VA Wolf Trap Master Teaching Artist Wouldn’t you love to step inside a favorite story? That’s what actors do! Work on vocabulary, concentration, following instructions, and literacy skills through exciting drama games that explore teamwork, imagination, voice, and body; and work together to act out a story. EXPRESS YOURSELF In-Person, Virtual (Kindergarten – Grade 2) Valerie Branch, DC/MD/VA Wolf Trap Master Teaching Artist Join Valerie Branch in an interactive movement experience – creating dances and exploring choreography that reflect elements that make you unique! GALLOPING, FLAPPING, STOMPING THROUGH THE ZOO! In-Person Valerie Carroll, DC/MD/VA Wolf Trap Master Teaching Artist Take an imaginary musical journey through a zoo, dramatizing animal families; learning about what makes them different, and what they share! Adults and children will discover how to sing a story, act out a song, and learn new tunes to share easily!

GOOD VIBRATIONS EVERYWHERE! In-Person Sue Trainor, DC/MD/VA Wolf Trap Master Teaching Artist

HAVANA HOP! In-Person Paige Hernandez, DC/MD/VA Wolf Trap Master Teaching Artist

Singing together creates good vibrations, here and everywhere you go. Take some home! Adults and children are sure to enjoy playing with these imaginative songs, singing games, and chants while practicing early literacy skills and reinforcing socialemotional learning.

In this hip-hop theater arts performance workshop, Paige presents an original work based loosely on her experience as a performer with African American roots and a Latina soul. Her story encourages us to be creative and unique, using our heritage and family values as inspiration. Learn the basics of hip hop, salsa, and partner dance with adults and children together!

GOING BUGGY! In-Person Jeanne Wall, DC/MD/VA Wolf Trap Master Teaching Artist Interactive storytelling, puppetry, and music bring tales about insects from different parts of the world to life. Jeanne uses imaginative props to share stories from Africa, Mexico, and Native American communities. GROWING GREEN Early STEM/Arts In-Person, Virtual Terry Leonino and Greg Artzner, DC/MD/VA Wolf Trap Master Teaching Artists Celebrate the wonder of the natural world through songs of nature that encourage environmental stewardship in young children. Join Terry and Greg for a musical exploration of the plants and animals all around us!

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HOW WE GROW! EARLY ARTS FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES Early STEM/Arts In-Person, Virtual Maria Tripodi, DC/MD/VA Wolf Trap Master Teaching Artist Let’s take an imaginary journey to see what’s growing in the garden! Maria guides children and families through movement experiences that provide an interactive opportunity to experience children’s literature, and the world around them. (English, Spanish, and bilingual versions available) I LIKE TO BE ME! In-Person, Virtual Kofi Dennis, DC/MD/VA Wolf Trap Master Teaching Artist Join Kofi to bring books, rhymes, and songs to life with movement, instruments, scarves, and streamers -singing and dancing together while exploring what makes each of us special!

INTERACTIVE READING FOR ACTIVE LEARNERS In-Person Amanda Whiteman, DC/MD/VA Wolf Trap Master Teaching Artist Simple dance, drama, and music strategies can deepen children’s love for and interest in books! Let’s get our youngest learners moving, imagining, and exploring their creative selves. I’VE GOT A FEELING In-Person, Virtual Elias Schutzman, DC/MD/VA Wolf Trap Teaching Artist Everyone has lots of feelings inside – and it can be helpful to share them with trusted friends and family. Play and sing along with Mr. Elias in an exploration of emotions we all have, through music and puppetry.

JOURNEY TO AFRICA: Sharing Experiences Together In-Person Kofi Dennis, DC/MD/VA Wolf Trap Master Teaching Artist Participants will take an imaginary journey to share in the movements, sounds, and instruments of West African traditions, discovering exciting ways to incorporate songs and activities from other cultures into children’s daily routines.

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MAKING SHAPES, DANCING SHAPES! In-Person Anne Sidney, DC/MD/VA Wolf Trap Master Teaching Artist

MOVEMENT MATTERS In-Person Rachel Knudson, DC/MD/VA Wolf Trap Master Teaching Artist

Come enjoy singing and dancing together! Adults and children will work together to learn to create basic shapes through movement, while participating in a story about “Tommy the Triangle”!

Come explore the magic of dance with props, rhythm instruments, and a wide variety of music. Learn how to support and encourage children’s growth through movement activities that engage all types of learners. This workshop focuses on fun and appropriate movements for building the body and the brain.

LET’S TAP! In-Person, Virtual (Kindergarten – Grade 2) Quynn Johnson, DC/MD/VA Wolf Trap Teaching Artist Join tap artist, Ms. Quynn, in a fun-filled exploration of early math and language concepts through movement, beat, and music. This workshop gets everyone moving in a shared experience of active learning. LIFE IS A DRUM, SO BEAT IT! Virtual Devin Walker, DC/MD/VA Wolf Trap Teaching Artist Dive into the world of percussion with “Uncle” Devin Walker, as he explores math and literacy concepts using beat and rhythm patterns. Create music together using everyday objects, learn about instruments from around the globe, and experience percussion with your own two hands.

MUSIC, WORDS, ACTION! In-Person Mary Gresock, DC/MD/VA Wolf Trap Master Teaching Artist

MOVING AND LEARNING THROUGH THE RAINFOREST Early STEM/Arts In-Person, Virtual Natasha Mirny, DC/MD/VA Wolf Trap Teaching Artist Take an imaginary journey to the rainforest to explore a variety of animals and natural elements and learn about the importance of protecting and preserving this unique environment and other ecosystems.

Discover how to tell a story with a unique blending of music and drama while reinforcing early literacy skills and trying out make-believe! Mary presents an original opera based on the nursery rhyme Little Miss Muffet; complete with a friendly spider, soft tuffet, and a big bowl of curds and whey. A twist in the story leads to a creative exploration of sharing and making friends.

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PUPPET POWER In-Person Joe Pipik, DC/MD/VA Wolf Trap Master Teaching Artist Explore the power of puppets with Joe’s original stories! Puppets have the power to pique children’s curiosity and focus attention for creating enthusiasm for learning. READY, SET, IMAGINE! In-Person, Virtual Michele Valeri, DC/MD/VA Wolf Trap Master Teaching Artist Discover how the world of imagination can make learning fun everywhere and every day. Michele shares music, puppetry, and storytelling techniques that will help open the door to more reading, exploring language, and problem-solving. RHYTHM, CHANTS, AND SPACE GAMES: MOVEMENT FOR MEMORY In-Person Dillon “Kindertwin” Clarke, DC/MD/VA Wolf Trap Teaching Artist A highly energetic workshop that integrates rhythms, movements, simple chants, and games to build literacy, motor, cognitive, and social emotional learning skills. Explore colors, shapes, numbers, community relationships, and modes of transportation.

SING, DANCE, AND PLAY ACROSS THE USA In-Person, Virtual Wincey Terry-Bryant, New Jersey Wolf Trap Master Teaching Artist

STEADY BEAT, ALL AROUND In-Person Aaron Fowler, Kansas Wolf Trap Teaching Artist

We can find rhythm in the earth’s vibrations, the calls Take an imaginary journey with of animals and birds, the Wincey over land, water and hum of machines, and even through the air, as she uses our own heartbeats! Explore music and movement to explore a very special rhythm; steady sites across the United States! beat, using it in different Enjoy learning together as you ways together. share an active experience of singing, moving, and makebelieve.

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STORIES AND SONGS FROM THE TREE Early STEM/Arts In-Person, Virtual Penny Russell, DC/MD/VA Wolf Trap Master Teaching Artist Join Ms. Penny and her puppet friends as they sing songs and tell stories about the animals found in and around the great, big tree. An interactive STEM and literacy adventure for everyone! THE THREE PROBLEM-SOLVING PIGS Early STEM/Arts In-Person, Virtual Joe Pipik and Jeanne Wall, DC/MD/VA Wolf Trap Master Teaching Artists In this STEM-oriented retelling of the classic tale of “The Three Little Pigs,” adults and children explore a six-step engineering process to help the pigs overcome the threat of the Big Bad Wolf! When foiled, the wolf uses the six problem-solving steps to creatively resolve a challenge w

WEST AFRICAN HERITAGE: LANGUAGE & MATH THROUGH MUSIC & ORAL TRADITION Early STEM/Arts Virtual Amadou Kouyate, DC/MD/VA Wolf Trap Teaching Artist Using storytelling, music, drumming, and instrumentation, Baba Amadou shares arts and learning experiences that build early math and language skills, while exploring the richness of West African history and traditions with children and adults. WHERE IS THE BEAR? Early STEM/Arts In-Person Katherine Lyons, DC/MD/VA Wolf Trap Master Teaching Artist Let’s go on a bear hunt and solve a problem! Journey together in this story dramatization of Ask Mr. Bear. We’ll use body movements, props, and chants to explore ordinal numbers, counting, sorting, sequencing, and problem solving and meet farm animals and the gifts they give us.

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WILD ANIMALS DANCE PARTY In-Person Curtis “Mr. Blues” Mailloux, DC/MD/VA Wolf Trap Teaching Artist All age groups come together to participate in the joy of moving and making music together! Multi- instrumentalist Curtis “Mr. Blues” Mailloux performs with instruments from all over the world. He leads the group in singing songs and using body percussion to connect with music. Children learn about the world's diverse animal kingdom, as well as the many parts of a band.

WORDS IN THE WILD In-Person, Virtual Christina Farrell, Wolf Trap Master Teaching Artist Discover new words on adventures with favorite wild creatures! Christina shares songs and stories about animals in the natural world. Discover how to use music, creative movement, and storytelling techniques to explore new vocabulary together.

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WOLF TRAP Virtual Workshops Wolf Trap Institute for Early Learning Through the Arts embraces active learning for children through customized, hands-on professional development for early childhood educators. Wolf Trap’s virtual workshops use dance, music, drama, and puppetry as teaching tools for arts integration. Teaching artists provide workshop participants with arts techniques to achieve goals in specific areas, such as literacy and language development, science, math, problem-solving, and classroom management. Virtual workshops cover a variety of arts disciplines and content areas, including multidisciplinary arts, dance/movement, drama, music, puppetry, and storytelling. To schedule a virtual workshop, email education@wolftrap.org. For more information on Wolf Trap’s education programs, visit wolftrap.org/education.

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PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOPS DANCE ARTS IN THE NATURAL WORLD: Exploring Science through Dance Early STEM/Arts Pre-K, Kindergarten Amanda Whiteman, DC/MD/VA Wolf Trap Master Teaching Artist Learn how props, children’s literature, and the elements of dance can be used together to facilitate creative and sensory experiences that ignite children’s imagination and understanding of the environment, nature, and scientific inquiry. COMMUNITY OF MOVERS: Encouraging and Managing Thoughtful Movement in the Classroom Pre-K to Grade 2 Valerie Branch, DC/MD/VA Wolf Trap Master Teaching Artist Explore the elements of dance and new strategies to facilitate movement-led teaching and learning. Experience how creative movement can foster community-building and engagement; setting classroom expectations and creating a rich learning environment connected to your curricular goals.

MATH IN MOTION: Using Creative Movement to Explore Math Fundamentals! Early STEM/Arts Pre-K, Kindergarten Rachel Knudson, DC/MD/VA Wolf Trap Master Teaching Artist Kinesthetic experiences can enhance math, language, and social-emotional learning. Movement is one of the first ways children express themselves and explore their environments. Learn how creative movement and dance provide unique opportunities for young children to develop and explore math skills like number sense, classification, geometry, measurement, and mathematical reasoning.

PUTTING YOUR BEST FOOT FORWARD: Using Movement Strategies to Teach Across the Curriculum Kindergarten to Grade 2 Kimberli Boyd, Detroit Wolf Trap Master Teaching Artist Experience the power of applying movement fundamentals in the classroom to engage learners across curricular areas. By integrating the “BEST” movement elements of “body,” “energy,” “space,” and “time” into your lessons, you can explore accessible strategies to bring learning to life!

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TAKING CHANCES MAKING DANCES: Strategies for Math and Literacy through Stories and Movement Pre-K, Kindergarten Laura Schandelmeier, DC/MD/VA Wolf Trap Master Teaching Artist

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FINDING DRAMA EVERYWHERE: Bringing Nonfiction to Life Pre-K, Kindergarten Melissa Richardson, DC/MD/VA Wolf Trap Master Teaching Artist

Dance your way through any book! Engage children in physical activity while developing and growing math and literacy skills. Use dance strategies to facilitate social-emotional learning and create experiences that can be shared immediately in your classroom.

Every nonfiction topic is an exciting story waiting to happen. Children are gathering research every day through books, media, and observations. Telling and acting out stories encourages teamwork, fosters creative thinking, reinforces vocabulary, and helps children make connections in their learning. Engage in drama games that connect the concepts of character, setting, activity, and plot to virtually any curriculum topic. Investigate techniques for using children’s prior knowledge to create nonfiction-inspired stories and bring them to life through movement and drama.

THE BEAT OF YOUR OWN DRUM: Music and Drama Strategies for Children with Special Learning Needs Pre-K, Kindergarten Valerie Bayne Carroll, DC/MD/VA Wolf Trap Master Teaching Artist Learn performing arts strategies designed to enhance the development of social-emotional skills with children with special needs. Arts strategies such as calland-response singing, creative movement with steady beat, guided dramatic play, and the exploration of books through music are effective with children with multiple learning styles, and inspire enthusiastic interaction. In addition, children can explore life skills such as listening and turntaking, and how to be independent while also forming part of a group.

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GREAT MUSICAL ADAPTATIONS: Songs for Memorable Teaching and Smooth Transitions Pre-K, Kindergarten Sue Trainor, DC/MD/VA Wolf Trap Master Teaching Artist

MUSICAL MOMENTS: Using Music to Explore Math in Children’s Literature Early STEM/Arts Pre-K, Kindergarten Wincey Terry-Bryant, New Jersey Master Teaching Artist

Music has a powerful presence in our lives and can be used as a means to accomplish many goals. Identify areas where musical tools can enhance classroom practices and activities, and explore how to create and use music strategies to support learning objectives. Learn how beat, melody, and lyrics create focus, improve motivation, affect mood, and foster literacy skills.

Tap into young children’s love of music and stories to spark meaningful exploration of math concepts. Learn ways to identify math opportunities in children’s books and stories, and create catchy songs, chants, to enhance math learning. Explore the use of music as a classroom management and assessment tool.

LOOKING FOR MUSICAL CLUES: Uncovering the Hidden Music in Favorite Stories Pre-K, Kindergarten Christina Farrell, DC/MD/VA Wolf Trap Master Teaching Artist

OUTSIDE YOUR DOOR: Exploring the Arts in Nature Early STEM/Arts Pre-K, Kindergarten Penny Russell, DC/MD/VA Wolf Trap Master Teaching Artist

Learn to uncover the hidden music in favorite stories! Explore arts strategies for adapting text from a book to include musical elements, and practice simple techniques for using rhythm and melody to engage young children in storytelling. Create a child-led musical experience based on a favorite story!

PUPPETRY

Expand opportunities for STEM learning by using arts strategies to investigate the world around you. Explore earth, life, and physical sciences through drama, music, and puppetry. Discover how the arts can enhance children’s understanding of weather and seasonal changes, and the natural world outside your door.

EXPLORING SCIENCE THROUGH THE ARTS Early STEM/Arts Pre-K, Kindergarten Jeanne Wall, DC/MD/VA Wolf Trap Master Teaching Artist Try out arts-integrated strategies using drama, creative movement and puppetry to expand a child’s knowledge of the world, while developing key STEM learning skills such as observation, description, and problem-solving. Create artsintegrated learning experiences that align with early childhood curriculum standards and foster scientific discovery and early STEM skills and practice.

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FOR INFANTS & TODDLERS ARTS IN THE NATURAL WORLD: Exploring STEM through Dance and Movement with Infants and Young Children Early STEM/Arts 0-3 Years Amanda Whiteman, DC/MD/VA Wolf Trap Master Teaching Artist Explore STEM and movement experiences that draw from the natural world surrounding our youngest learners. Learn and try arts-integrated experiences designed to jump start early STEM learning while encouraging creative movement that promotes healthy growth and development. BABIES SIMPLY KNOW: Exploring Movement Patterns with Infants and Very Young Children 0-3 Years Anne Sidney, DC/MD/VA Wolf Trap Master Teaching Artist Promote learning, build trust, and cultivate a secure attachment through song and dance! Explore developmental movement patterns within the first year of life, and learn how dance can facilitate babies’ physical and social development.

GREAT MUSICAL ADAPTATIONS FOR INFANTS AND TODDLERS! Songs for Memorable Experiences, Transitions and Routines 0-3 Years Sue Trainor, DC/MD/VA Wolf Trap Master Teaching Artist Harness the power of music to enhance learning and engagement with infants and young children! Experience and try out music strategies and promote exploration across developmental domains using beat, melody, and lyrics. LEARNING THROUGH MOVEMENT FOR INFANTS AND TODDLERS: Baby Beat, Baby Feet 0-3 Years Krissie Marty, DC/MD/VA Wolf Trap Master Teaching Artist

Explore arts integrated motor experiences that can beadapted for families and children from the prenatal period through young childhood. Try out movement strategies that support the healthy growth and development of children of all abilities and comfort levels and the adults around them! SING A SONG OF STORIES! 0-3 Years Valerie Bayne Carroll, DC/MD/VA Wolf Trap Master Teaching Artist Learn how to link stories with music and movement. Explore the beat and rhythm of language from books through chanting, call-andresponse, and rhythm instruments. Use props and hand gestures to bring illustrations to life. Engage very young children through sight, sound, touch, and movement to make literature a multi-sensory experience!

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OUTSIDE YOUR DOOR: Exploring the Arts in Nature with Infants and Toddlers Early STEM/Arts 0-3 Years Penny Russell, DC/MD/VA Wolf Trap Master Teaching Artist Explore earth, life, and physical sciences through drama, music, and puppetry. Discover how the arts can enhance understanding of the world around us – and our place in it.

VIRTUAL EARLY ARTS LEARNING (EAL) WORKSHOPS The Early Arts Learning workshops, or EALs, are introductory guided experiences in music, drama and dance. Participants will work with a Wolf Trap Master Teaching Artist to break down an art form into its fundamental elements, and apply those elements to strategies for learning in all domains -- in virtual, hybrid, and in-person early childhood spaces.

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FAMILY INVOLVEMENT WORKSHOPS AN EPIC STORY ADVENTURE Ali Oliver-Kruger, DC/MD/VA Wolf Trap Teaching Artist

DANCING THROUGH THE DAY Laura Schandelmeier, DC/MD/VA Wolf Trap Master Teaching Artist

Create a play of your own -- no prior playwriting or theatre experience needed! Adults and children will apply their imaginations and acting tools, to create a drama adventure from anywhere! Use guided imagery, sensory exploration, and imaginary travel to jumpstart fun with epic stories!

Come dance and sing together! How can you use your whole body to move in different ways? Learn how to create movement and dance opportunities together using inspiration from characters from a favorite book.

BRINGING LEARNING TO LIFE WITH STORIES: THE LITTLE RED HEN Kim Baran, Georgia Wolf Trap Master Teaching Artist Join Master Teaching Artist Kim Baran, the Little Red Hen and her friends, on an imaginary journey. Explore how characters and story animation can bring a classic tale to life with new opportunities for learning! CRUISING THE CARIBBEAN Terlene D. Terry-Todd, DC/MD/VA Wolf Trap Master Teaching Artist Ms. T will lead us on an imaginary journey to the sunny West Indies with music, dance, and storytelling. Together, we will use movement, songs, chants, props, and costumes to bring learning to life!

GROWING GREEN Early STEM/Arts Terry Leonino and Greg Artzner, DC/MD/VA Wolf Trap Master Teaching Artists

Celebrate the wonder of the natural world through songs of nature that facilitate and encourage responsible environmental habits in young children. Join Terry and Greg for a musical exploration of the plants EVERYDAY ADVENTURES: EXPLORING SIGNS AND SYMBOLS and animals all around us! Morgan Sendek, DC/MD/VA Wolf HOW WE GROW! EARLY ARTS Trap Teaching Artist FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES Take an imaginary journey full of Early STEM/Arts creative movement and dramatic Maria Tripodi, DC/MD/VA Wolf elements; identifying and Trap Master Teaching Artist interpreting signs and symbols you might encounter in daily life! Let’s take an imaginary journey to see what’s growing in the garden! Maria will guide children and EXPRESS YOURSELF families through movement Valerie Branch, DC/MD/VA Wolf Trap Master Teaching Artist experiences that provide an interactive opportunity to Join Master Teaching Artist experience children’s literature Valerie Branch in an interactive and the world around them. movement experience – creating (Available in English, Spanish, dances and exploring and bilingual formats) choreography that reflects your individual characteristics and the things that make you unique!

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I LIKE TO BE ME! Kofi Dennis, DC/MD/VA Wolf Trap Master Teaching Artist

MOVING AND LEARNING THROUGH THE RAINFOREST Early STEM/Arts Natasha Mirny, DC/MD/VA Wolf Trap Master Teaching Artist

Join Kofi to bring books, rhymes, and songs to life with movement, instruments, scarves, and streamers -singing and dancing together exploring what makes each of us special!

LET’S TAP! Quynn Johnson, DC/MD/VA Wolf Trap Teaching Artist

Take an imaginary journey to the rainforest to explore a variety of animals and natural elements, and learn about the importance of protecting and preserving this unique environment and other ecosystems.

Join tap artist, Ms. Quynn, in a funfilled exploration of early math and language concepts through movement, beat, and music. This workshop gets everyone moving in a shared experience of active learning.

I’VE GOT A FEELING Elias Schutzman, DC/MD/VA Wolf Trap Teaching Artist Everyone has lots of feelings inside – and it can be helpful to share them with trusted friends and family. Play and sing along with Mr. Elias in an exploration of feelings and emotions we all have, through music and puppetry.

LIFE IS A DRUM, SO BEAT IT! Devin Walker, DC/MD/VA Wolf Trap Teaching Artist Dive into the world of percussion with “Uncle” Devin Walker, as he explores math and literacy concepts using beat, rhythm, and patterns. Create music together using everyday objects – learn about instruments from around the globe, and experience percussion with your own two hands.

READY, SET, IMAGINE! Michele Valeri, DC/MD/VA Wolf Trap Master Teaching Artist Discover how the world of imagination can make learning fun everywhere and every day. Michele shares music, puppetry, and storytelling techniques that will help open the door to more reading, exploring language, and problemsolving.

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SING, DANCE, AND PLAY ACROSS THE USA Wincey Terry-Bryant, New Jersey Wolf Trap Master Teaching Artist Take an imaginary journey over land, water and through the air with Wincey as she uses music and movement to explore sites across the United States! Enjoy learning together as you share an active experience of singing, moving, and make-believe. STORIES AND SONGS FROM THE TREE Early STEM/Arts Penny Russell, DC/MD/VA Wolf Trap Master Teaching Artist Join Ms. Penny and her puppet friends as they sing songs and tell stories about the animals found in and around the great, big tree. An interactive STEM and literacy adventure for everyone!

THE THREE PROBLEM-SOLVING PIGS Early STEM/Arts Joe Pipik and Jeanne Wall, DC/MD/VA Wolf Trap Master Teaching Artists In this STEM-oriented retelling of the classic tale of The Three Pigs, adults and children are introduced to a simple six-step engineering process to help the pigs overcome the threat of the Big Bad Wolf. When foiled, the wolf uses the six problem-solving steps to creatively resolve an ongoing challenge with the three pigs! WEST AFRICAN HERITAGE: LANGUAGE & MATH THROUGH MUSIC & ORAL TRADITION Early STEM/Arts Amadou Kouyate, DC/MD/VA Wolf Trap Teaching Artist Using storytelling, music, drumming, and instrumentation, Baba Amadou shares arts and learning experiences that build early math and language skills, while exploring the richness of West African history and traditions with children and adults.

WORDS IN THE WILD Christina Farrell, Wolf Trap Master Teaching Artist Discover new words on adventures with favorite wild creatures! Christina shares songs and stories about animals in the natural world. Discover how to use music, creative movement, and storytelling techniques to explore new vocabulary together.

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