{"id":12846,"date":"2019-04-18T08:37:16","date_gmt":"2019-04-18T13:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/?p=12846"},"modified":"2019-04-18T12:11:56","modified_gmt":"2019-04-18T17:11:56","slug":"participate-in-screen-free-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/2019\/04\/18\/participate-in-screen-free-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Participate In Screen-Free Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-responsive alignright wp-image-12847 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/nclhx5yj.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Screen-free-in-story-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Lower schooler playing outside\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/>This spring,<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>families around the nation will voluntarily turn off their TVs, computers, and other screens to rediscover that life can be more rewarding with less screen time. MPA is challenging Lower School students and their families to participate in Screen-Free Week\u00a0by leaving your screens off the week of April 29-May 5.<\/p>\n<p>In the course of a year, American children spend more time in front of the TV and other screens than in school. We think that Screen-Free Week 2019 is a great way to jumpstart our kids into more reading, learning, and active play. It\u2019s also a lot of fun!<\/p>\n<p>We encourage your child and family to participate in Screen-Free Week. We understand that technology is part of the educational and work process, but ask you set the goal to refrain from using screens for entertainment. If interested in participating, return your pledge card to the Lower School office by April 26!<\/p>\n<p>If 45 MPA students and families sign up and \u201csurvive\u201d the entire week with no TV, computers and other screens, Mr. Purdy has agreed to color his hair neon pink at the Lower School Monday Morning Meeting in May.<\/p>\n<p>If you have any questions or would like to receive additional information about Screen-Free Week,\u00a0contact Russ Purdy at <a href=\"mailto:rpurdy@moundsparkacademy.org\">rpurdy@moundsparkacademy.org<\/a> or 651-748-5571.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for making Screen-Free Week\u00a0a success!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This spring,\u00a0families around the nation will voluntarily turn off their TVs, computers, and other screens to rediscover that life can be more rewarding with less screen time. MPA is challenging Lower School students and their families to participate in Screen-Free Week\u00a0by leaving your screens off the week of April 29-May 5. In the course of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":12848,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,28,24,29,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-school","category-current-families","category-featured-posts","category-homepage","category-lower-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12846"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12852,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12846\/revisions\/12852"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}