10/9/07--Parents -- Tricia Lynch (Guidance) and I attended training last week to facilitate parent workshops on 4 topics. Two of them we were really excited and anxious to present to our parents ASAP because they are very well done and present really good, rather great, information and tips.

We have decided to present HOMEWORK HELP for Families as our first workshop. In this workshop you will learn how to stop fighting with your kids about homework and how to help them to use homework to enhance what they are learning in the classroom.  

We are offering it on Thursday, Oct 18 at 9:05 AM in the cafeteria. We know this time is impossible for working parents, so we will offer it again in the evening at a later date (when fall sports wrap).

In terms of the other workshops, please take this survey http://www.mycentralpta.org/workshops.htm to let us know what times will work best for your family.

At the workshop, we will be giving away 5 free doorprizes of a homework organizing kit. This idea was presented to us at the workshop and it seemed like such a smart idea for keeping everything in one place that we decided to make a few as examples and then give them away courtesy of Central elementary PTA.

We hope you’ll come and we hope we are as good at putting this on as our facilitators were during training. It is really great info, and I can’t tell you how excited Mrs. Lynch and I are to do this to help our Central families.

Also, this is useful information even for parents whose children are going into middle years and beyond.

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