• We provide various information sessions or workshops throughout the school year for families. We offer a wide range of topics such as how to help your child with homework, organizational skills for those with weak executive functioning skills, behavioral expectations, internet safety, mental health, and bullying.
• We provide free consultative services for families who may be experiencing problems with their child at home or at school. We sit with families and listen carefully to their concerns, and offer recommendations on how to best work with your child at home, or with your child's teacher or school to address school concerns. We work closely with families of children with special needs through the special education process so they can be an informed and active member of their child's special education team.
• We maintain a free lending library full of learning resources that reinforce elementary literacy and math skills, social skills, and early childhood education skills. We provide books, DVDs and brochures for parents and caretakers about behavior, emotions, special education topics, and various parenting topics. We also provide information on various community agencies that assist with financial needs, mental health, and the care of adults with disabilities.

Our library is open from 8-4pm, Monday through Friday. Parents are welcome to come in to check out resources, or contact us to send requested resources to your child's school. Visit our library catalog to see our growing collection of resources, books, and eBooks! https://search.follettsoftware.com/metasearch/ui/43326

If an interpreter is needed, please contact us at least a week before the event so we can secure one for you. Email us in your preferred language at prc@spotsylvania.k12.va.us to make this request. Thank you.

To celebrate National Reading Month, the PRC Library is giving out free Scholastic books, while supplies last! Stop by any time during the month of March and pick out a book for each child in your household. Books are being provided through the Spotsylvania County Public Schools Title I program.

The We Both Read books are so highly effective because they engage both children and parents in reading—and make it easy for them to be successful. The concept of the series is simple: each book is specially formatted for a parent and child to take turns reading aloud alternate pages. The parent’s pages feature higher-level text (at about a 5th-grade reading level), while the child’s pages feature text that matches the child’s reading level.

• Particularly effective with reluctant and struggling readers
• Significantly improves reading scores
• Dramatically increases family engagement in reading
• Used by over 10,000 schools and over 4,000 Title I programs
• Titles in fiction and nonfiction for grades Pre-K through 4
• Bilingual editions also available for English/Spanish

Do you have any old books you're not interested in keeping? Consider dropping them off at one of these Free Little Libraries, maintained by Spotsylvania Parks & Recreation. While you're there, pick up a book that you haven't read before. Have fun, get outside, and enjoy reading!

Visit any CRRL branch on March 2 for grab-and-go bags, DIY activities, games, puzzles and pop-up stories for families. Visit the CRRL website event page for more details! https://librarypoint.bibliocommons.com/events/63c83ad4bdd26c41009e8695

Bright Night at The Mount, is an unforgettable experience for people with special needs that celebrates the joy and beauty of every person. The special guests will drive up in a car parade and then exit to strut down the red carpet inside of The Mount. There, they’ll be cheered on by volunteers and also have a chance to be photographed by paparazzi.

SHINE BRIGHT from 5-7 pm on March 3, 2023 at The Mount Stafford.

More information: themount.org/brightnight/

Register for this free webinar on building executive function and independent-living skills in students on Wednesday, March 8 at 1pm ET. Sign up and you will receive the free webinar replay link as well!

Register here: https://goto.webcasts.com/starthere.jsp?ei=1595479&tp_key=492169532a

This month's activity, Park Play Time, is on March 10! Register at http://virginiadsa.org/events/. Direct questions to dzedd@virginiaadsa.org.

The Rappahannock Area YMCA’s Special Needs program gives individuals with an intellectual and/or developmental disability access to classes and activities that encourage self-sufficiency, socialization and staying active—all qualities that help them learn, grow, and thrive. Open gym, swimming, tennis, rhythm and drumming, and sensory-friendly classes and activities are offered both in-person and virtually at various locations.

Learn more at https://family-ymca.org/programs/special-needs/.

Are you a sibling of a brother or sister of someone with a disability? Then come join the fun with the Well Sibling Squad. Volunteers are needed!

The WSS is a social support group for children ages 10-16 who have a sibling(s) with physical or mental health issues.

Contact Jocelyn Price for more information at sibsquad2018@gmail.com about this month's meeting and activities.

The goal of transition planning is to support students with disabilities as they progress through school and prepare for life as an adult. This includes planning for college, work, transportation, living arrangements, health care, and daily living.

The Fredericksburg Area Council on Transition (FACT) has developed a comprehensive transition guide that helps break down transition in an easy to understand format, and gives families, staff and community members access to various local community and state agencies that assist individuals with transition.

SCPS participates in an ongoing process of identifying and evaluating children ages birth to twenty-one who are suspected of having a disability.

Any child who is identified as having a disability and qualifies as in need of special education is entitled to a free, appropriate public education designed to meet his/her needs. Early identification assists parents, students and schools in the design of appropriate educational services. Referrals can be made by anyone concerned with the child's educational performance including the parent, child's teacher, community agency or a school official.

For additional information, contact:

Birth - age 2: PEID (Parent Education Infant Development)

(540)371-2712

Age 2 - 5 prior to entrance to kindergarten: Early Childhood Special Education Office

(540)582-7020

For school age children: Call your neighborhood school or

Office of Student Support Services (540)834-2500, extension 1005

To register: Visit page 6 of the Spotsylvania Parks & Recreation Winter Play-by-Play booklet: https://www.spotsylvania.va.us/DocumentCenter/View/23182/2023-Winter-Play-by-Play---Website?bidId=

Visit www.spotsylvania.va.us/parksandrec to learn more.

To register, contact Lizzie Shores at eshores@spotsylvania.va.us or Visit page 6 of the Spotsylvania Parks & Recreation Winter Play-by-Play booklet: https://www.spotsylvania.va.us/DocumentCenter/View/23182/2023-Winter-Play-by-Play---Website?bidId=

To register: Visit page 6 of the Spotsylvania Parks & Recreation Winter Play-by-Play booklet: https://www.spotsylvania.va.us/DocumentCenter/View/23182/2023-Winter-Play-by-Play---Website?bidId=

Fredericksburg's Largest Kid's Consignment Sale is happening on March 24-26!

Shop more than 85,000 quality brand name items and save up to 80% off retail prices at Weecycled Wardrobe.

More information: weecycledwardrobe.com

Come tap into your cyber potential! All SCPS middle schoolers are invited to register for a FREE Cyber Camp at Spotsylvania High School! Explore coding, forensics, and cryptography through hands-on, interactive activities. Students will also get the chance to compete for prizes!

The FREE camp takes place Saturday, April 15 from 9am-1pm.

Lunch and snacks are provided.

Click here to register: https://bit.ly/3Zdwc4P

Mental Health America of Fredericksburg has started a Support Group for Parents and Primary Caregivers of Children Impacted by Mental Health Diagnoses.

This is a support group for Parents and Caregivers, not for children. It is not a therapeutic group.

The group will meet at the disAbility Resource Center at 409 Progress Street in downtown Fredericksburg. Dates and Registration Forms can be found at mhafred.org/support-services/support-groups/ as well as on the attached flyer via the QR codes.

Visit https://family-ymca.org/ to register or call 540-371-9622 for assistance.

Have you seen the latest issue of the Fredericksburg Parent & Family magazine? Their "Best Camps Around" section is growing! Click on the pictures above to go directly to their latest issue and see what amazing Spring Break and Summer camps are around the Fredericksburg area.

Did you know that the PRC maintains a Tutor List for area tutors? Click on the document above to visit our 2022-2023 Tutor List, which you can find on the PRC website at www.spotsylvania.k12.va.us/prc.

Lee Hill Elementary School finished “One School One Book” the end of February and each Teacherand their students are celebrating in various ways “Read Across America Day” within their classrooms during the month of March.

Battlefield Elementary School families are invited for Jedi Math Night! on March 23,

2023. Dinner will be served from 5:30 to 6 PM. Math activities to follow from 6-7 PM: K-2

Geometry activity, and 3-5 SOL review. Students will be presented with their own bubble wand

light saber and work to complete math tasks. As they complete their tasks, they will earn their

Jedi stripes and level up as a Jedi. Come join the Rebel Alliance and battle against the Dark Side!

Salem Elementary School will host a Multicultural Night for their families on March 23.

5:00 – 5:15 Pizza in the cafeteria & passport distribution

5:15 - 5:30 Students will perform 2 dances (Mrs. Lauver)

5:30 – 6:30 Families will experience different countries.

Livingston Elementary School kicked off our One School, One Book event! This year students will be reading Friendship According to Humphrey by Betty G. Birney. Each student will have an opportunity to take home a Humphrey finger puppet for the night and write about their adventures! To culminate One School, One Book, we will have a Book Bingo Night on Wednesday, March 8th from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. (picture below)

In February, Virginia Department of Education encouraged school staff and students to

participate in “VA Kindness Challenge” to recognize that simple day-to-day acts of

kindness enable our schools, communities, and state to be a kinder, safer, healthier and

more inclusive place to live, work, learn and play. Salem Elementary School planned a full week of fun ways for their students to practice kindness. Check it out!

Hours:

Monday-Friday

8am-4pm

Courtney Seely, Teacher Facilitator

Sandy Sprague, Parent Facilitator

Jordana Neylon, Administrative Assistant

Email: prc@spotsylvania.k12.va.us
Website: https://www.spotsylvania.k12.va.us/prc
Location: 7409 Brock Rd, Spotsylvania Courthouse, VA 22553, USA
Phone: 540-582-7060
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/spotsyprc
Twitter: @SCSPRC