Workshops / Presentations / Inservices / Conferences

Rhythm, Rhyme and Repetition: A Workshop for Pre-school and Early Elementary Classroom Teachers

Cathy’s workshops show how to use a musical approach to teach children phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, social skills, and everyday concepts like days of the week and opposites. Teachers will come away with games, movements, and visual aids that they can immediately use in their classrooms. Cathy performs for pre-K -1st grade classrooms as well as larger school assemblies. She is also available to lead fun and educational songwriting workshops with elementary school kids. Songs can be tailored to meet SOL requirements Special Teacher’s discount offered.

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“I came away from Cathy’s workshop with actual musical tools that I could begin using right away with my students”
— S. Fink Petaluma CA

“The workshop is a very creative, interactive, motivating one for educators! Definitely worth repeating!”
—B. Charlton, Preschool Special Education Coordinator

Past Workshops/Inservices include Core Knowledge Foundation: National Conference, NY City Public Library, PACE Parents Organization of NJ, Albemarle County Title I Programs, Shining Stars Early Education Conference, WY State Dept. of Education

Suggested packages:

• Teacher workshop with a CD for each teacher (special teacher’s discount offered)
• Summer school package (for Title One Children and others)
• Workshop and School Performance

Download the Workshop Brochure (PDF)

Lyrics to “We’re Going to the Playground”
(written during The Promise Center Workshop)

We’re going to the playground, playground, playground
We’re going to the playground, so we can run around.

We’re letting out our energy, energy, energy.
We’re letting out our energy, so come and play

Chorus:
We’re going to use our feet to walk
We’re going to use our feet to stomp
We’re going to jump, we’re going to climb
We’re going to have a good time. It’s playground time!

Lyrics to “All My Friends are Here Today”
(written during The Promise Center Workshop)

All my friends are here today.
I wonder what we’re going to play.

Let’s jump and run and shout “HURRAY”!
I hope my friends will stay ALL DAY!

All my friends are here today.
I wonder what we’re going to play.