2025 Pretzel Winter Institute

Create hands-on literacy resources tailored to the needs of your grade level, 4th and 5th grade, to engage and empower young readers.
Activities will include :
Roll and write Vocabulary
Common and Proper Nouns
Inference Riddles
Prefix/Suffix - Build a word
Add an Adjective 

How do we stop academically trapping our students...QUIT using the word 'smart'! Growth Mindset, Resilience, Perseverance, Grit: These are all words we keep hearing, but how do we, as educators, put into practice strategies that will help cultivate a Growth Mindset for our students, which in turn, fosters a development of Grit, Resilience, & Perseverance? In this session, you will learn practical classroom tools you can use with your students to enhance how you teach in a way that is equitable for all students; no matter their grade level or ability.

Create hands-on literacy resources tailored to the needs of your grade level, 2nd to 3rd grade , to engage and empower young readers.
Activities will include :
Roll and Read sentences
Contraction Match Game
Add and adjective
Roll and Write vocabulary
Common and Proper Noun puzzles 

Create hands-on literacy resources tailored to the needs of 1st graders to engage and empower young readers.
Activities will include:
Write the Room- Spring Theme
Roll and Read
Fidget spinner challenge 

Create hands-on literacy resources tailored to the needs of your grade level, from Early Childhood and Kindergarten , to engage and empower young readers.
Activities will include :
Write the Room - Spring Theme
ABC popsicle sticks
Fidget Spinner Challenge
Match the Beginning sound