Welcome back to MVVS  for school year 2011-2012 and to our learning community!

Classroom Guidance Time:

Classroom visits will start this week to support our cooperative learning community. We are reviewing our school resources, playground rules, and ways to make friends In the coming weeks, grades K-2 will practice bus safety, and upper grades will begin discussions on time management and study skills.  

  On-line resources 

PBS Parents: http://www.pbs.org/parents/talkingwithkids/ is a website with many links for parents with children of all ages offering advice on child development, gender differences, educational opportunities, television programming and other specific issues. 

Common Sense Media: http://www.commonsensemedia.org/ Our Mission: Common Sense Media is dedicated to improving the media and entertainment lives of kids and families. We exist because media and entertainment profoundly impact the social, emotional, and physical development of our nation's children. As a non-partisan, not-for-profit organization, we provide trustworthy information and tools, as well as an independent forum, so that families can have a choice and a voice about the media they consume.

Practical Parenting:  http://www.practicalparenting.com/ Vicki Lansky's Bio:Vicki Lansky's practical, common sense approach to parenting and household management is familiar to thousands throughout the world. Her books, audiotapes, newsletter, media appearances, magazine and newspaper articles and reviews, make her one of America's most popular and visible parenting figures. According to one parenting newspaper, "If you have young children and you don't use Vicki Lansky's books as a reference, you are working too hard!"

Please Stop the Rollercoaster!! http://www.pleasestoptherollercoaster.com/about/ Mission: Founded by Sue Blaney, ChangeWorks Publishing delivers programs and products that educate, empower and connect parents of teenagers and those who work with them. Sue Blaney is the author of the nationally acclaimed “Please Stop the Rollercoaster! How Parents of Teenagers Can Smooth Out the Ride,” a parent discussion group program in a book.