Contemporary Social Skills
The social skills program is one that helps students learn skills necessary for making and keeping friends, managing feelings, and social problem solving. This grant will add a Wii, an interactive gaming system, to the program. The growth and learning part is that when playing with other people we are forced to use appropriate language, […]
Out on the Town
This community based learning project will provide the LLD students with improved self-esteem and self-confidence. The students will have mini-lessons throughout the unit pertaining to the experience scheduled for the month. The Lessons will be based on money, time management, communication, social, problem solving, and analytical skills that are used daily in a fourth through […]
Word Wizards
Students needs differ not only by reading level, but also by level of spelling development. This grant provides materials to assist teacher’s planning instruction at each developmental stage. Word Study includes hands-on manipulation of words and analysis of spelling patterns. This will then help the students analyze and think about words. The knowledge and skills […]
Trinocular Microscopes to Enhance 5th and 6th Grade Science
With this grant, the fifth and sixth grade science classes will each have two trinocular microscopes. This microscope allows the teacher to assist students in their observations of microscope samples. Students look through a binocular (double) eyepiece while the teacher can use a monocular eyepiece at the same time. These microscopes bring state of the […]
Using Mentor Texts to Facilitate Writer’s Workshop
This grant will assist with building a bank of writing models from which our teachers as well as our students would be able to access immediately. The Teacher’s College Writing Institute at Columbia University recommends that classrooms be equipped with texts that model various genres of writing as well as traits of writing. This bank […]