Fall Workshop Info Here

There's a chill in the morning air, and it's time to announce our fall workshops!    [Some workshop information has been changed due to a facilities conflict.  Please note the updated times and locations as of 10/17.  Pre-registration is required for some workshops.]

  

·        Creative Writing - registration now closed

Thursday, October 11 (No school in Williamson County public schools)

Thursday, November 15

5:00-6:30 pm

December Parent Showcase, TBD

Additional support available by phone appointment and from 6:30-7:00 on November 15.  We want your child to succeed!

$75 (comprehensive, includes snacks on 10/11 and 11/15)

Calling aspiring writers and reporters!  Select and complete a specific writing project that will be featured on our blog!  Choose from short stories, poems, news articles, interviews, and reviews.   Instruction and brainstorming on October 11.  Review and revision on November 15.    Finished product ready by December, and we will schedule a special reading for parents.   Some at-home work required.  Do a knock-out job, and you may be selected to write again for our blog.   Parents, this workshop will boost your child's writing skills and self-esteem, and it will encourage responsibility as kids complete a significant project over a period of months.   Recommended for grades 2-5. 

·        No Girls Allowed!  -  registration now closed

Monday, October 29:  Spooked

Thursday, November 8:   Boys, Beyblades, & Better Writing

6:30-8:00 pm at Firstlight Arts Academy

$35 for one, $60 for both (snacks included)
Just in time for Halloween, our popular all-boys group will meet for brain-building fun, Spook Style.  Costumes encouraged as we'll use our imaginations and Touch-If-You-Dare props to create stories by boys that boys want to read.   No blood and gore, but plenty of action and laughs.   On the second evening, we'll share our stories with one another.  We'll then use our Beyblade toys in a writing exercise.  Skeptical?  Test us!  We'll have some extra Beyblades on hand if you don't have your own.   Recommended for grades 1-5.

·        Sparkle (Girl Power)

Thursday, October 25:  Attitude of Gratitude
at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church [registration now closed]

Thursday, November 29:  Spirit of the Season [registration ongoing]
at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church

5:00-6:30 pm

$35 for one, $60 for both (snacks included)

With the holidays around the corner, our all-girls group will focus on the spirit of the season.  In October, each girl will complete a writing project perfect for  a grandparent or that special aunt or uncle – just in time for holiday gift-giving!   In November, we'll meet for a Sparkle Holiday Book Club Night focusing on Junie B., First Grader, Jingle Bells, Batman Smells!  (P.S.  So Does May.) and other girl-friendly holiday stories.  Recommended for grades 1-2.

• More Than A Book Club - [We're full!  Registration now closed]

Sundays, October 28, November 4, and November 11 

4:30-6:00 pm at the Starbucks on Highway 100 in Bellevue
$60

You asked and we listened!   We're meeting at Starbucks like we did in the summer of 2011.  There is a limit of 10 kids in this group.   No exceptions. 

Not ready for your kid to read The Hunger Games?  We offer a compromise.  We'll read the first book of The City of Ember series, a book that--like The Hunger Games--takes place in a post-apocalyptic world with teens as the main characters.  The Ember books are thought-provoking, great reads, and they are edgy enough for older kids but age-appropriate for high level readers in grades 3-5.  We'll read, write, analyze, and debate in this fun workshop that enhances reading comprehension, reasoning, composition, teamwork, and public speaking.  We'll encourage the group to read the second book over the holiday break.

Want to know more about More Than A Book Club?  Click here:
http://sparkreadiness.blogspot.com/2012/05/more-than-book-club.html

Check your calendars and see what works.  FALL into reading and writing with us!