George W. Carver Elementary

Moving, Transitions and Homelessness

The following newsletter gives advice, contacts, websites, and books to help students understand and cope with moving and homelessness and the transitions associated with them.
 
Check out these websites:
http://www.smcps.org/ss/military-families  
http://www.militaryimpactedschoolsassociation.org/  
http://www.ourmilitarykids.org/  
http://www.jhsph.edu/mci  
http://www.nasponline.org/resources/principals/Military_Families_Feb11_NASSP.PDF 
http://www.nasponline.org/resources/principals/nassp_homeless.aspx
http://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/os/homefront/homefront.pdf  


Check out these books:

The Moving Book: A Kid’s Survival Guide

by Gabriel Davis

We’re Moving

by Heather Maisner

Berenstain Bears’ Moving Day

by Stan Berenstain

I’m Not Moving, Mama

by Nancy White Carlstrom

Who Will Be My Friends

by Syd Hoff

Alexander Who's Not (Do You Hear Me? I Mean It!) Going to Move

by Judith Viorst

A Tiger Called Thomas

by Charlotte Zolotow