Don't forget, it's time to "fall back" this weekend, as Daylight Saving Time comes to an end. A helpful reminder is to check your smoke and carbon monoxide alarms when you check your clocks.

Our students and teachers love the Pen Pal program! In this photo some students in the blind department are working on writing letters to their Pen Pals.
This program helps make reading and writing fun! Huge thanks to the VSDB staff who volunteer to be Pen Pals with our students

Basketball season is starting soon! Save these dates to come out and cheer on our guys and ladies.
Tuesday 11/14 Home vs NCSD Both 4:00pm & 5:30 pm
Thursday 11/16 Away @ PSD Both 3:30 & 5:00 pm
Tuesday 12/5 Home vs ENCSD Boys 4:00 pm
Thursday 12/7 Away @ DSD Both 3:00 & 4:30 pm
Tuesday 12/12 Away @ NCSD Both 4:00 & 5:30 pm
Thursday 12/14 Home vs Homeschool Boys 7:00 pm
Friday & Saturday 1/5 & 1/6 Away @ Kentucky Classic, Both, time TBA
Tuesday 1/9 Home vs WVSD Both 4:00pm & 5:30pm
Thursday 1/11 Away @ ENCSD Boys 4:00pm
Tuesday 1/16 Away @ WVSD Both 4:00 & 5:30pm
Thursday 1/18 Home vs. DSD Both 3:00 & 4:30pm
Tuesday 1/23 Home vs WVSD Both 4:00 & 5:30 pm
Tuesday 1/30 Away @ WVSD Both 4:00 & 5:30 pm
Thursday 2/1 Home vs Homeschool Boys 7:00 pm
Tuesday 2/6 Home vs TSD Both 2:30 & 4:00pm

Our VSDB Goalball teams left this morning to fly to Texas for Nationals! The schedule for the Thursday and Friday games is below. Please know that due to the pace of Goalball games and back-to-back scheduling, some times maybe slightly later or earlier.
Thursday:
Girls- 4:00pm vs. Alabama
7:45pm vs. Texas
Boys- 7:00pm vs. Oklahoma
Friday:
Boys- 11:30am vs. Texas
2:30pm vs. Kentucky
Girls- 1:00pm vs. Atlanta
5:30pm vs. Oklahoma
Their rankings after the Thursday and Friday games will determine if they advance to the quarter finals on Saturday morning.
This is the link for the live stream for Thursday & Friday games. Saturday will be different.
https://www.facebook.com/TSBVI/


Mr. David Owens creates individual handshakes with each of his students and uses those to welcome them in each day. What a fun way to start class and a great way to build relationships with his students!! #VSDBproud #GrowDoBecome
https://youtu.be/Q1C8cvNF-hk?feature=shared
New at the school store: coffee mugs! They are campfire-style 15oz white mugs with blue specks, a blue rim, and red letters. The text reads "The Virginia School for the Deaf and the Blind" with fox ears above the words. They will be available next week at the store for $8 each!

After school yesterday,our residential program took the middle and high school Deaf Department boys on a trip to the blue ridge tunnel. So cool! #VSDBproud #GrowDoBecome





After school yesterday,our residential program took the middle and high school Deaf Department boys on a trip to the blue ridge tunnel. So cool! #VSDBproud #GrowDoBecome





We've said it before and we'll say it again - we are ✨obsessed✨ with these beautiful fall colors on our campus. All the 😍😍 for these! And thank you to one of our teachers for taking these photos 🍁



Enjoy some more pictures from the Goalball invitational, taken by one of our VSDB families. Family support is crucial to students' successes both in school and in athletics, and we are fortunate to have so many supportive families who traveled to Tennessee to cheer on our teams!










Enjoy some more pictures from the Goalball invitational, taken by one of our VSDB families. Family support is crucial to students' successes both in school and in athletics, and we are fortunate to have so many supportive families who traveled to Tennessee to cheer on our teams!










On the way back to Virginia, our Goalball teams took on a visit to Buc-ee's!

Our soccer team completed the tournament with their last game in constant rain and played a great game through it but were beat out 3-1 by Delaware. We are so #VSDBpoud of this team's hard work this season. They are bringing home the ESDAA Division 2 Sportsmanship Award. Jaxton was selected as an All-Star alongside only 9 other athletes.
Way to go, VSDB!





Sports schedules for today:
• Goalball teams are scheduled to play Georgia at 8:00 am (girls) and 8:30 am (boys) central time. (That would be 9:00 am and 9:30 am our time) We will share the live stream link from TSB when it is available
• Soccer is scheduled to play at 2:00 pm. RISD may not be able to live stream but we will share video clips again and try to keep you updated with the scores.

Here is the schedule for the Goalball invitational. Let's go VSDB!!
#VSDBproud #GrowDoBecome

Soccer tournament bracket - we will update this through the weekend. Let's go VSDB!!

It's a busy and exciting weekend for VSDB sports! Our Goalball team left before the sun came up this morning to head to Tennessee School for the Blind for a weekend Goalball tournament. #VSDBproud #GrowDoBecome


We are proud of our Deaf soccer team who completed their first season after many years of not having a soccer team at VSDB, ending with a record of 5 and 5. The athletes have learned and grown a lot! We are excited for them as they go to the ESDAA soccer tournament this weekend!

Our library is full of so many things to expand your thinking....including making a marble run to work on critical thinking! We love library time!

During a social emotional skill building session with Ms. Alysha, our High School students in the Deaf Department took to the kitchen to make pizza bagels. They look delicious! #VSDBproud #GrowDoBecome






