NEWS
Letter from the President
November 18, 2024
Dear PACT Members,
Thank you for your continued support of PACT! We hope that our play focused fall workshops reinforced the confidence with which you are able to focus on play in your programs, gave you a renewed energy to prioritize play, or perhaps challenged you to think of more and different ways to foster play in your classroom.
At the bottom of this email, you will find the list of books mentioned in Stacy Benge’s “The Whole Child Alphabet” workshop.
PACT is trying something new! On Thursday, February 6th, from 7:00pm-8:30pm, we will be hosting a Zoom forum to discuss how these fall workshops impacted (or did not impact) our programs in the weeks/months following the workshops.
Please remember that the PACT Devoted Service Award nominations are open. This award is a great way to recognize one of your co-workers or peers for their dedication and effort to foster the development of the children and families in their community. Nominations are due by February 27th.
I look forward to seeing you in person on March 27th at Providence Presbyterian Church in Fairfax.
James Scott Mitchell
PACT President
Stacy’s book list
Vision section:
Another by Christian Robinson
Hike by Peter Oswald
Flashlight by Lizi Boyd
Flora and the Flamingo by Molly Idle
Phonological awareness section:
I Got the Rhythm by Connie Schofield-Morrison
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom by Bill Martin, Jr. and John Archambault
Not a Box by Antoinette Portis
Must reads
The Whole Child Alphabet: How Young Children Actually Develop Literacy by Stacy Benge, M.S.
Not This, but That: No More Teaching a Letter a Week by Rebecca McKay and William H. Teale
What Comes Before Phonics? By Sally Neaum
Fine Motor Skills... Write out of the Box! by Marianne Gibbs, EdD, OTR
A Moving Child is a Learning Child by Gill Connell and Cheryl McCarthy
Balanced and Barefoot by Angela Hanscom
Free to Learn by Peter Gray
Member Groups
PACT members' email list: Registered PACT members receive periodic email updates from PACT. To add or update an email address, please contact vpmembershippact@gmail.com.
Directors' Google group: Share resources, ideas, and training opportunities by joining the PACT Directors listserv. PACT membership is not required. To join the Directors' Google group, send an e-mail to James Scott Mitchell