Saline Area School Multilingual Grant
Let’s Play! Teaching our Youngest Learners Cooperation & Communication Through Games
Little Collaborators
Where in the World?! Using Augmented Reality Globes for Research
Diverse Books and Ethnic Play Foods for our Youngest Learners
Young children learn best through play, and they also learn many things from books that are read to them. If this grant is funded, the Young 5’s students will get a hands-on opportunity with a variety of pretend foods from around the world that will increase their exposure and awareness of different cultures. To further this exploration of cultures, the grant will also help Y5 students hear stories from books that will either reflect their own lives, the lives of those they know, or teach them more about people who are different from them. Together, these experiences will enrich the current Young 5’s curriculum, specifically our social emotional units and select themed units of study.
Hornet Homeroom
Hornet Homeroom is designed to supplement school-based virtual learning, with no teachers or lessons provided onsite. Hornet Homeroom is designed to provide a safe and socially distanced setting for students in grades K-5 to access their online instruction while parents are at work. Homeroom staff will oversee the learning environment and ensure students are engaged in their online lessons
Leveraging Literature to Build Inclusive Classrooms
The goal of Leveraging Literature to Build Inclusive Classrooms and Empower Students is to infuse classroom communities with more diverse, equitable, and inclusive texts. The focus learning communities for this grant will be 8th-12th grade students, 9th-12th English Language learners, the 6th-26 Life Skills/Young Adult students, and the ECSE participants. The facilitators of these learning communities will have the opportunity to select texts that celebrate and honor diverse perspectives in which students can see themselves and others in a positive light, that act as springboards for deeper dialogue around social justice, and/or are conduits for access to topics, ideas, and understandings that may be otherwise unavailable.
Flexible Outdoor Seating
Due to the Covid-19 Pandemic, our instructional staff has been seeking ways to conduct class outdoors when feasible. Therefore, we are looking for funding in the amount of $5000 for 400 FSAS branded beach towels and 100 FSAS branded camping chairs. The intention is for classroom use during the day, small group meetings, and outside organizational groups.
Freedom Riders Exhibit
We are looking to bring in an exhibit from the Gilder Lehrman Institute. The exhibit is a 12 panel display that chronicles the journey of the Freedom Riders during the civil rights movement of the 1960’s. It will be displayed in the large Hornet Hub and open to the entire district to view. We are even planning on opening it up on some nights to the community to come view. Here is a link to a more in depth description of the exhibit. https://www.gilderlehrman.org/programs-and-events/traveling-exhibitions/freedom-riders
