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Spring Conference 2023
MKA is excited to announce our 2023 conference will feature Mary Amoson of Sharing Kindergarten!
REGISTRATION:
Registration is now open!
*Important* Please mail payment along with this form.
Registration is due by April 14, 2023.
COST:
$150, Includes complimentary MKA membership
LOCATION:
Community Room - Rogers, MN
21201 Memorial Drive, Rogers, MN 55374
PRESENTER:
Mary Amoson of Sharing Kindergarten
Mary is an enthusiastic and passionate Kindergarten teacher from Georgia with 18 years of experience. She holds a Master’s Degree in Early Childhood Education and an Educational Specialist Degree in Instructional Technology. In addition to teaching full-time, Mary finds joy in presenting to educators across the country for more than 14 years. She loves sharing engaging ideas, hands-on activities, and rigorous content that has worked with her own kindergartners through her website. Mary is committed to instilling passion in teachers because she believes that passion is truly the secret to increasing learning and achievement.
SESSIONS:
Making Math Hands-On!
Start using the very best high-quality, hands-on skill games and activities in your whole groups and small groups and with partners to promote cross-curricular learning in fun ways. You won’t believe how many examples Mary shares. And, get leveled learning activities to help with remediation, skill-building, and accelerated learning. This session also has hands-on games to try and fall in LOVE with! (This session has hands-on math games for attendees to play to learn with.)
Making Science Meaningful
Replenish your supply of fresh ideas and hands-on activities for making science content topics meaningful to little learners. Attend this session to see how to integrate multiple content areas into science while making learning fun for your class. STEM activities, art projects, and games will help your students learn like never before! We are adding components to make this session more hands-on and interactive.
Calendar Time
Fill your teacher toolbox with inexpensive, new ideas for teaching and re-teaching the requirements across all content areas during your calendar time. Discover Mary’s fresh activities and games in action videos from her classroom and find how easily you can incorporate higher order thinking skills, listening and speaking skills, and daily informal assessments as your kindergartners beg for more!
SOAR with Sight Words
Replenish your supply of fresh, new ideas for sight word games and activities kids LOVE to play! Learning sight words has never been so much fun! Mary sends you home with kid tested and teacher approved sight word games to try tomorrow. This session includes a digital make-and-take download.
LUNCH:
Enjoy one of the many restaurants nearby!
Arby’s
Broadway Bar & Pizza
Caribou Coffee
China Kitchen
Chipotle
Clive’s Roadhouse
Culver’s
Dairy Queen Grill & Chill
Denny’s
Domino’s Pizza
El Loro Mexican Restaurant
Freddy’s Frozen Custard & Steakburger
Green Avocado
Guadalajara
Hong Thai
Jersey Mike’s
Jimmy John’s
Linda’s Cafe
Maynard’s
McDonald’s
Noodles & Co.
Short and Tall
Starbucks
Subway
Taco Bell
Wendy’s
HOTELS:
*We have a block of rooms with the Hampton Inn and Suites.
Hampton Inn and Suites Rogers, MN
13550 Commerce Boulevard, Rogers , MN, 55374
(866) 238-4218
$164, Includes hot breakfast buffet, free WiFi, free parking
Other options:
Holiday Inn Express and Suites
20930 135th Avenue North, Rogers, MN 55374
(888) 465 4329
AmericInn
21800 Industria Blvd, Rogers, Minnesota 55374-9575
(763) 428-4346
Unable to attend our conference but are interested in MKA? Become a member!
If you have any questions, please email: mkateachers@gmail.com
Past Conferences:
MKA is proud to have provided a variety of high-quality presenters at our annual conference. Some highlights (in no particular order) include:
Dr. Jean Feldman
Kim Adsit
Adam Peterson
Jen Jones of Hello Literacy
Mr. Greg of The Kindergarten Smorgasboard
Kayla Dornfeld
Deanna Jump
Katy Smith
Deedee Wills
Mary Casanova, Author
Nancy Carlson, Author
Jim Gill, Children's Singer/Songwriter
Shari Sloane
Heidi Butkis of HeidiSongs
...and so many more!
Who are some of your favorites from our past conferences?
Spring Conference 2022: Back in the Swing of Things
Featuring: Deedee Wills of Mrs. Wills Kindergarten
Do you have a great photo from one of our past events?
Email it to mkateachers@gmail.com