Hawthorne Elementary and Pleasant Run Elementary:
Diane Buchannan received a $498 grant for a "Wedding Reception for Math and Reading" for each school. Kindergarten through fourth grade students and parents will attend evening demonstrations that connect math and reading. Books and learning materials will be supplied for station activities and will be sent home for continued learning. Guest readers will use math stories to address skills such as counting, adding and making change. Wedding cake and punch will be served at the end of the evening.
Liberty Park Elementary:
A $500 grant for Laura Bigoss's "Fun and Friendly Reading" request will supply a special reading area for students in the media center. Supplies include a fishing pond rug, a camping tent and hedgehog bean bags for relaxing reading time. Fifteen hand puppets and a storage stand will also be included for this relatively new media center.
Lowell Elementary:
Julie Perun received $500 for her "Classroom Library" non-fiction books for her kindergarten classes. This is designated as a Dessie Robinson Memorial Grant.
Moorhead Elementary:
A $500 grant for "Soprano Xylophone Project" funded Janet Anderson's request for the instrument to allow more students to participate in making their own music.
Pleasant Run Elementary:
Third grade students will have a "Talking Globe" through Amy Hartung's $400 grant.
Amy Hartung received $323 for 30 "Discovery Kids Learning" laptops containing more than 55 different educational programs.
Raymond Park Middle School:
Rae Bosio received $250 for supplies for "Retablos de Peru" for students to design and complete their retablos.
Tonya Martin will use her $240 "Crafting Our Future" grant for crochet needles, yarn and instruction books for 6th grade “at risk” students to learn the craft during a weekly lunch in the library. They will talk and learn to crochet items that will be donated to charities.
Tonya Martin received $250 for a "Careers in Math" distance learning connection with the National Science Center in Augusta, Georgia. Eighth grade students will hear professionals from various areas of math relate math to a variety of careers in an interactive program.
Becky Welch, Newman Montgomery and Tonya Martin have $490 for "Manipulating Math in Our Minds" to purchase a document camera and fraction tower for 6th grade special needs students.
Renaissance School's Tina Stephens-Ross has $500 for "Teddy Bears Earn Credits" to obtain fabric, stuffing and supplies for textile students to design, assemble and construct teddy bears for elective credits.
All elementary and middle schools will benefit from Lisa Darger's request for $430 to fund the "Making Magnets Move" kits to teach the basic concepts of magnetism and how they influence everyday lives, particularly in electricity. The kits will be reused multiple times.
