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PTA, in partnership with HP, is pleased to offer an exclusive showing of the newly released DreamWorks Animation’s film Kung Fu Panda nationwide to all registered PTA schools within days of its DVD release. This is an exciting, first-of-its kind opportunity available only to PTA schools.
Encourage your PTA to host this event now!
PTA Parents: Your PTA can host this fun family event! By registering today, schools will receive a FREE Kung Fu Panda DVD, performance license, event kit, and more!
Here’s what to do:
- Ask your PTA to go online and register your PTA’s participation at http://www.ptamovienightlive.com/— you can choose any date between November 13 and November 26
- Help spread the word by inviting friends, parents, and your community to attend the event
- Host PTA Movie Night Live at your school!
Schools must register no later than 12 midnight October 31 to participate.
To register and for more information, please visit: http://www.ptamovienightlive.com/.
PTA Movie Night is presented by PTA Video Store, your new online destination for family-friendly entertainment.
 Tutoring has become an increasingly common tool to assist in the education of children. Parents look to tutoring as a resource for a number of reasons. It is not solely for students with poor study habits. Simply put, tutoring is for students that need help, no matter the reason. How can you select the right tutor for your child? Follow these five guidelines suggested by James Mendelsohn, author of A Parent’s Guide to Tutors and Tutoring.
- Tutors should not simply teach a child a skill. They should help the child achieve intellectual independence. This is the ability of your children to face the necessary challenges of learning on their own and includes the belief that they can overcome learning challenges.
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- The tutor should gain the trust of the student, who will increasingly reveal what their experience of learning is like, including obstacles he or she faces. The personality and timing of the tutor can be important for establishing a connection with your child. As parents evaluate a tutor, they should observe whether the rapport between the student and the tutor seems to be developing.
- The student should not think of the tutor as either a parent or a teacher. Tutors need to avoid being directly associated with either parents or teachers. They should be more distinctly neutral in their response to a student (unless it involves some success).
- The tutor should help the student adjust to his or her school. This is done by encouraging specific habits and skills that improve the student’s ability to adapt to the challenges of particular subjects or the instruction style of a particular teacher. Tutors should strive to make students able to learn in spite of their difficulties with individual teachers.
Excerpted from A Parent's Guide to Tutors and Tutoring: How to Support the Unique Needs of Your Child, by James Mendelsohn, Ph.D. Copyright © 2008 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Excerpted with permission of the publisher, John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
“The first thing my daughter learned to share was the flu.”
 Vaccinating children is the best way to prevent the spread of influenza according to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). PTA has joined with Flu Busters and Novartis Vaccines for the " Let’s Fight Flu Together” program—setting up flu vaccination clinics at schools and other places in the community to help your family prevent the spread of this disease that keeps students out of school for about 38 million days and parents out of work for 10 million days a year. To find out if there is a PTA-hosted flu clinic in your area, go to www.pta.org/FluShotClinics. Don’t see one in your area? Talk to your PTA leader or school principal to schedule a flu clinic today!
This November, local farmers will showcase their fruits and vegetables; community partners will teach bike safety; students will plant school gardens, join walking clubs, take health hikes, and explore new, healthy foods; and families will come together to learn at health fairs and enjoy fitness nights. These are just a few of the events taking place at schools across the country as part of PTA Healthy Lifestyles Month.
What does your community have planned? Contact your PTA or school to find out.
2008 PTA Reflections Program Gallery Now Live
PTA is pleased to announce the unveiling of the 2008 PTA Reflections Program online gallery, displaying the national award–winning artwork from the 2007–2008 Reflections Program year. Nationwide, students in preschool through high school submitted more than 500,000 works of art based on the theme “I can make a difference by . . .”
The PTA Reflections Program offers students across the United States and in Department of Defense schools overseas the opportunity to explore their artistic talents in any of six arts areas: dance choreography, film production, literature, musical composition, photography, and the visual arts (which includes art forms such as drawing, painting, print making, and collage). Awards are given at the local, regional, state, and national levels.
Check out students’ inspiring photographs, dances, films, poems, stories, songs, paintings, drawings, collages, and more at http://pta.browsermedia.com/ and help us celebrate their incredible talents.
To learn how your child can participate in the Reflections Program, contact your local PTA. More details about the program can be found at www.pta.org/reflections.
By now, you and your family are likely settled into the school year routine. Have you made fulfilling your Three for Me promise part of that routine?
In the spirit of election season, here are a few ways to get involved and contribute toward your three-hour commitment while also educating your child about the electoral and democratic processes.
In the home: Hold a mock election, or vote on where to go for a family outing or what to have for dinner.
At the school: Talk to your child’s class about the first time you voted and how you felt.
In the community: Learn about the educational issues in your area; attend a school board meeting or write a letter or e-mail expressing your thoughts and opinions. Participate in the National Student/Parent Mock Election.
To learn more about PTA Three for Me, visit http://www.three4me.com/.
There are many ways that you can help your child succeed! A few small activities each week will pay huge dividends over the course of the year.
Here are a few that you can do this week:
- Share your family’s practices related to culture, values, and parenting with your child’s school.
Comparta las prácticas familiares en cuanto a la cultura, los valores y las actitudes de los padres con el personal de la escuela de su hijo.
- Communicate your perceptions of how parents are treated and, when necessary, work with school staff to improve perceptions and school climate.
Comunique sus percepciones en cuanto al trato hacia los padres y, cuando sea necesario, trabaje junto al personal de la escuela para mejorar las percepciones y el clima del ámbito escolar.
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Clorox and PTA are joining forces to help parents and teachers keep classrooms cleaner and healthier this year. Visit cloroxclassrooms.com for tools to get you started:
- Host a Clean-Up Night: Invite other parents and volunteers to get together to clean and disinfect classrooms.
- Sponsor a Classroom Wellness Drive: Have a drop-off where parents can donate tissues, disinfecting wipes, hand sanitizers, and health and wellness products that
 are needed in schools over the course of a year.*
- Check-In with Teachers: More than 56 percent of teachers report buying their own cleaning supplies. See if there are any supplies on their lists that you can donate.*
*Confirm school policy allows for use and/or donation of products. Adults must deliver donations to schools.
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