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Spring Grants 2007

Total $49226

Alder Creek M.S.
Total $6717

  • Dictionaries - Larson
    To purchase student friendly dictionaries and thesauruses for all 6th and 8th grade classrooms. - $3717
  • Renaissance Wooden Swords - Eppolito
    To fund up to $3,000 of reusable items for the Renaissance studies that run in conjunction with the annual Renaissance Faire. - $3000

Glenshire Elementary
Total $5200

  • Reading - Dion
    Increasing Fluency through Readers Theater. To purchase Reader’s Theater scripts for the Reading Intervention Program and for the English Language Learners who are intermediate or below on the CELDT. - $764
  • Science Readers - A Batie
    First Grade Science Readers. To purchase reading materials to enhance the science and language arts curriculum. The books provide a collection of readers at varied levels, using non-fiction themes, which align to California state standards. - $3704
  • Yoga Mats - J Fournier
    To purchase a class set of child yoga mats and teachers manual that could be used and shared by the whole school. - $732

North Tahoe M.S.
Total $8670

  • Traverse Wall - K Swarberg-Ogilvy
    To purchase a traverse wall, which is an indoor climbing wall without the height. The students received the benefits of climbing without the hazards of being more than three feet off the ground. - $5201
  • Lego - Keigley
    To purchase the materials needed to grow the popular Lego Robotics program from 24 students to 32. Grant additionally requests team registration and t-shirts for robotics competition. - $3469

Tahoe Lake Elementary
Total $20836

  • Reading - Verutti
    To purchase additional books to supplement and replace books used in the on-going Reading Circle Program, levels K-5. - $1837
  • Microscopes - D Groggin
    To purchase microscopes for enhancing “hands-on” science experience and curriculum. - $4582
  • Singing and acting - Bourke
    Singing and Acting Out the Core Curriculum. To purchase 28 musical plays and costumes, grades K-5, in order to enrich and enhance the core curriculum subjects being taught. - $985
  • Lego - D Groggin
    To purchase “Lego Robotics” for students to build, design, program and test Lego Mindstorm Robotics. - $3966
  • Sagehen - Old/Blesse/Echols
    Sagehen Outdoor Education Program - To purchase materials needed for the Sagehen outdoor education program including leveled readers, graphic aids and DVDs to “frontload” information to the students. The grant will also cover hardware that will help students carry out experiments in the field including bug jars, compasses, hand lenses and aerial nets. - $3382
  • Reading - Highfill
    Reading Games. To purchase a set of leveled Spanish Reader’s Theater. Using Reader’s Theater improves fluency and comprehension, as well as serving as an entertaining way of practicing the language. - $6084

Truckee Elementary
Total $1003

  • Reading - Paras
    Reading in Social Studies. To purchase books, specifically targeting students whose primary language is Spanish, which supplement the Our Nation Social Studies textbook. - $1003

Truckee HS
Total $6800

  • Reading - Gordon
    To purchase materials, including math manipulatives, books on CD and high interest, low-level reading materials for academic achievement in math and language arts for special education students. - $5315
  • Community Based Instruction - Marchi
    SDC Class. To purchase unique software (Edmark) to make computers easily accessible and user friendly for the Special Day Class. - $1485