Mishawaka Education Foundation Grants 2011
| Grant Recipient | Building | Grant | Amount | Awarded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lee Ann Solberg | John Young Middle School | Up Up and Away: How does a hot air balloon float? How can the density of the air inside become less than the air outside? 8th grade science students will be able to answer these questions and a lot more while constructing and launching Hot Air Balloons. | $811.68 | Spring 2011 |
| David Bertoncini and Karen Nevorski | Twin Branch and Hums Schools | Lego Robotics Club: Students in grades 4, 5 and 6 learn about the technology behind robotics using a Lego robot created by the students. They will complete tasks through programming steps that the students write. | $400.00 | Spring 2011 |
| Nancy Thomas | Twin Branch and Battell Schools | How Far Can Wii Go? This is a novel approach to teaching physical education using a technology that is already present in most students’ lives today. This system will help to improve physical fitness, develop physical skills for exercise execution, motivate students, and positively reinforce exercise. | $1000.00 | Spring 2011 |
| Cara Patton | Emmons School | Board Games Are Back: Children can take a game home over the weekend and play with their families. This will help children to learn responsibility, to better problem solve and the life skills of learning how to take turns, rules, teamwork and sportsmanship. | $190.00 | Spring 2011 |
| Paula Meersman | LaSalle School | Spreading the Joy: Students write thank you notes throughout the school year for various projects. Students can now be creative with their designs. They will use math skills in measurement, estimation and patterns in making their cards. Also, this will be used for community outreach in making cards for nursing homes, shut ins and veterans. | $202.90 | Spring 2011 |
| Jenny Britt | Twin Branch | Grreat Reads! Students are introduced to different genres and authors throughout the school year. Now they will be able to scan the book cover into the digital frame along with a summary about the book. Other students will be able to look at the picture frame and read how the other students liked the book before checking it out. | $290.00 | Spring 2011 |
| Kristy Lichtenbarger, Lisa Custer, and Kate Nowak | LaSalle School | Young Adult Books Library: 6th graders will be able to pick out books to create a Young Adult section in the schools literacy library. These books will deal with issues that are of great importance to teens and their families such as: coming of age, dating, fitting in, friendships, self esteem and school. | $450.00 | Spring 2011 |
| Karla Daoust | Hums School | Spaghetti Book Club:This Website includes book reviews written by elementary students all over the country. Through this program students will develop critical reading and writing skills, make connections to their reading, compare literary works, and learn to write for an audience. | $200.00 | Fall 2011 |
| Lisa Custer & Pam Layson | LaSalle & Battell Schools | Journaling Across the Curriculum: Students are expected to journal their thoughts and ideas daily in their academic lives, including opportunities in reading, writing, social studies, science, and character development. Students must recognize and apply a variety of skills necessary to effectively communicate their learning in each of these areas. | $300.00 | Fall 2011 |
| Sara Hoover | Beiger School | Digi-Tales: Students will write stories utilizing the writer's workshop model of instruction. Students will publish one digital story per semester in the areas of personal narrative and non-fiction writing. | $50.00 | Fall 2011 |
| Tina Gruber & Gail Horein | Hums School | Reading is Fun(dations): Students will master the Common Core Standards specific to the six Fundations skills. This is a systematic phonis approach to reading and writing. | $351.00 | Fall 2011 |
| Dave Risner | MHS | MHS Education Center: Alternative program for 9-10 graders. | $1,000.00 | Fall 2011 |
| Elaine Garrett | LaSalle School | Enhancing Numeracy and Literacy Through Food Preparation: Each month there is a book along with a snack preparation. Teaches children nutirition, cooperation with peers, measuring, vocabulary building, and math. | $185.00 | Fall 2011 |
| Jeanie Prenkert | LaSalle School | Music for Learning: A listening library with music that promotes learning in math, language arts, social studies, science and reading. | $395.24 | Fall 2011 |
| Karen Landis | Liberty School | Digi-Tales: Students will write stories utilizing the writer's workshop model of instruction. Students will publish one digital story per semester in the areas of personal narrative and non-fiction writing. | $50.00 | Fall 2011 |
| Shelly Sparrow | Twin Branch School | Digi-Tales: Students will write stories utilizing the writer's workshop model of instruction. Students will publish one digital story per semester in the areas of personal narrative and non-fiction writing. | $350.00 | Fall 2011 |
| Jill Hassel | Twin Branch & Liberty Schools | Destination ImagiNation: Educational Program which student teams solve open-ended challenges. Six problem choices are: Technical, Scientific,Fine Arts, Improvisational, Structural, Outreach, Rising Star | $1,045.00 | Fall 2011 |
| Gina Marchi & Karen Landis | Twin Branch & Liberty Schools | Book Buddies: Parents go to the public library and get research books for students. Parents"buddies" and students will read these books together taking pictures and writing about the books they read together. They will make a scrapbook about their buddy reading time. | $350.00 | Fall 2011 |