GrowSmart

What an extraordinary day of triumph, literacy, and contagious joy! Our local Read Across America Day unfolded with 90 participating sites. With great pride, we distributed over 8,031 books, to enrich the lives of children throughout our community. vbgrowsmart.com/

Check out our own, Barb Lito, on @Teachstone's Impacting the Classroom podcast where she discusses our @LENAEarlyTalk programs and the impact they have made on COVID-era babies.

WE'RE BACK!!! Join us Saturday, April 30 for our Celebrating Children event at Mount Trashmore. Join us for inflatables, games, activities, and a Fun Run around Mount Trashmore! We'll also be providing free resources for families too! Click the link in our bio for more info!

It's not too late to join our March LENA START classes! Orientations are this week and will be virtual. You can find out more information on our website vbgrowsmart.com/lena-start or call 385-0144

A #TalkingTip from @LENAearlytalk: Animate stories you read by pausing to make exaggerated facial expressions that show the different emotions in the book. Use big and small hand gestures to describe an item's size. #vbgrowsmart #nationalreadingmonth

We're kicking off Read Across America Day!! Click this link to hear a fantastic introduction from our very own City Manager, Patrick Duhaney! And be sure to tag us in your own posts on how you and your family are getting excited about reading! youtu.be/WekzJjThM3g

Celebrate Read Across America Day with us on March 4 as we highlight the importance of reading to children out loud. As classrooms participate in their own special way, look out for tips from our page on how to make reading more exciting at home too!📚

January is National Mentoring Month! GrowSmart would like to thank our FANTASTIC First Grade READS volunteers for working hard to ensure that students across Virginia Beach are learning the necessary skills for excellent literacy! Let's show them our thanks!👏❤️

Please help us in congratulating Our Lil Miracles! They achieved the highest Level in Virginia Quality – a Level 5. These distinctions demonstrate their commitment to providing high quality early education in VB. Give them a big round of applause!👏👏👏

Check out the new #JobOpening for Development Specialist #ECO-GrowSmart-Adm Econ Pgms Apply today: phg.tbe.taleo.net/phg02/ats/…

Please help us in congratulating Princess Anne ECE on achieving a Level 4 in Virginia Quality! This achievement distinguishes their commitment to quality early education. Let’s give these awesome educators a round of applause!👏👏👏

GrowSmart is now offering FREE LENA Start classes for the fall! These classes aim to make a difference in your baby’s life through early talk and interaction! If you are interested, please this link to fill out an interest form: vbgrowsmart.com/lena-start

Hello everyone! We have updated our First Grade READS Tutoring application. If you have not already applied, please use the following link. If you have already filled out the old application, don't worry! You can still submit that one instead. Thank you! vbgrowsmart.com/_assets/Docs…

First Grade READS is looking for awesome volunteers that can help guide and nurture our young readers! Does this sound like you? If so, click this link to apply now! vbgrowsmart.com/_assets/VB-R…

Let's give a big round of applause to our 11 GROW graduates!!👏👏👏 Our graduates are positively impacting children's healthy development by improving the quality of early education in Va Beach!!📚🏖️

We love having Isabella with us this summer!