2025 Pretzel Winter Institute: Full Schedule

Welcome to the 2025 Pretzel Winter Institute! Please select sessions appropriate to your role! Most sessions will be held at Freeport Middle School and Freeport High School while a few will be at Empire Elementary School and Lincoln-Douglas Elementary School. Remember to check session descriptions the night before the Institute to confirm times and locations. If you have any questions, please contact Alex T. Valencic, our Professional Learning Coordinator, at alex.valencic@fsd145.org. Thank you!

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9:30am CST

Make 'n Take Literacy Workshop for 4TH & 5TH GRADE TEACHERS

Wednesday January 22, 2025 9:30am - 10:30am CST

FMS Room 145 / Rahm

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

Speakers

Anna Nesbitt

MTSS Reading Support Specialist, Freeport School District #145

I have taught in the Freeport school district for 24 years. I have taught fifth grade, sixth grade, third grade, and I am currently a reading specialist at Blackhawk elementary.

Wednesday January 22, 2025 9:30am - 10:30am CST
FMS Room 145 / Rahm

Curriculum & Instruction

Company Internal
Audience In-Person
Subject Elementary, Intermediate

10:45am CST

Make 'n Take Literacy Workshop for 2ND & 3RD GRADE TEACHERS

Wednesday January 22, 2025 10:45am - 11:45am CST

FMS Room 145 / Rahm

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

Speakers

Anna Nesbitt

MTSS Reading Support Specialist, Freeport School District #145

I have taught in the Freeport school district for 24 years. I have taught fifth grade, sixth grade, third grade, and I am currently a reading specialist at Blackhawk elementary.

Wednesday January 22, 2025 10:45am - 11:45am CST
FMS Room 145 / Rahm

Curriculum & Instruction

Company Internal
Audience In-Person
Subject Elementary

1:00pm CST

Make 'n Take Literacy Workshop for 1ST GRADE TEACHERS

Wednesday January 22, 2025 1:00pm - 2:00pm CST

FMS Room 145 / Rahm

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

Speakers

Anna Nesbitt

MTSS Reading Support Specialist, Freeport School District #145

I have taught in the Freeport school district for 24 years. I have taught fifth grade, sixth grade, third grade, and I am currently a reading specialist at Blackhawk elementary.

Wednesday January 22, 2025 1:00pm - 2:00pm CST
FMS Room 145 / Rahm

Curriculum & Instruction

Company Internal
Audience In-Person
Subject Elementary

2:15pm CST

Make 'n Take Literacy Workshop for EARLY CHILDHOOD AND KINDERGARTEN TEACHERS

Wednesday January 22, 2025 2:15pm - 3:15pm CST

FMS Room 145 / Rahm

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

Speakers

Anna Nesbitt

MTSS Reading Support Specialist, Freeport School District #145

I have taught in the Freeport school district for 24 years. I have taught fifth grade, sixth grade, third grade, and I am currently a reading specialist at Blackhawk elementary.

Wednesday January 22, 2025 2:15pm - 3:15pm CST
FMS Room 145 / Rahm

Curriculum & Instruction

Company Internal
Audience In-Person
Subject Early Childhood, Elementary