Tahoe Truckee Excellence in Education Foundation

To purchase materials for speech improvement groups to use in remediating single sound errors. This project provides speech therapy services to general education students who do not qualify for services under the special education umbrella.

To purchase animal books that would supplement animal science and “life sciences” standards.

To purchase P.E. equipment for active learning of P.E. standards and connections with language arts, math and other subjects.  Fully Fund $679

To purchase transparent plant science labs which allow students to watch plants grow above and below ground.

To purchase magnifying glasses, thermometers, and wind meters for first and second grade weather and insect standards. 

To purchase manipulatives that address and help develop the eight multiple intelligences. The eight multiple intelligences are musical, artistic, naturalistic, spatial, bodily kinesthetic, mathematical-logical, interpersonal and intrapersonal.  

To purchase science kits which supplement the study of light and matter with physics, astronomy and the eye. 

To purchase historical non-fiction at varying reading levels and topics for small group instruction to go along with the fourth grade social studies standards.

To purchase the Write Source, a supplementary program to teach the writing process.

To purchase books, at varying levels, for second grade reading.