Pickleball Upgrade
Free & Voluntary Reading Library
Saline Middle School German Library
Let’s Play! Teaching our Youngest Learners Cooperation & Communication Through Games
Open Window Reading
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.
We “OWL” meet together!
All students deserve the opportunity to interact, communicate, listen, and learn with and from their peers and their teacher. The OWL camera & speaker allows both hybrid and virtual students the ability to speak freely with everyone in the class without distraction such as a teacher repeating student responses into a speaker. The OWL has the capacity to show the teacher and my screen, the class as a whole, and follows the speaker to allow for a fully immersed learning experience.
Building DEI in the classroom; Using Chapter Books as Mirrors and Windows
In alignment with the Districts DEI initiative, we are proposing this project to help build our diverse chapter book collection across the 2nd grade level at Woodland Meadows Elementary School. We believe that putting quality books in the hands of our young readers will not only provide a window into lives of characters who may be different than theirs, but also to provide mirrors for those students who are looking for characters to identify with. We feel that providing additional chapter books in sets will create small and large group conversations that are inclusive for all of our learners.
A Way to Wellness
A Way to Wellness is designed to fund a proactive, differentiated approach to supporting student wellness during the pandemic and beyond. Funds awarded to this grant would be used to purchase 400 student licenses for MyLife, an online application that meets students where they are in their wellness journey using a series of reflections prompts and then differentiated exercises to walk students through mindfulness techniques and meditation practices.
