Your Dollars at Work.....
2005 District 205 Funding
School projects, programs and events funded by the
Foundation:
Cooke Elementary School:
Incentive Program – a new program to encourage and promote not only positive behavior, but a positive work ethic in the classroom thus encouraging finished assignments, better attendance and great test scores. Family Reading Night – purchase of a paperback book for each student attending the reading night.
Gale Elementary:
Jenny Whitehead – guest poet and author; students have participated in poetry contest and Whitehead will also be featured at a Gale Family Poetry Night.
MushHusky! Extreme Alaska Assembly – a presentation that gives the students a real sense of life in Alaska complete with study guides to use for classroom study and discussion.
King Elementary School:
Kindergarten – guided reading leveled books to be shared among classroom libraries; word building cards to use with letter cubes; both items will enable the students to develop and understanding of letter and sound recognition, decoding and sight word skills.
First Grade – listening center books on tape for classrooms
Second Grade – supplementary videos that work along with books and materials already being used that help develop a stronger Social Studies, Math and Science curriculums.
Third Grade – copies of the classroom library novel, Balto and the Great Race, bringing a non-fiction book into the library giving students an additional opportunity besides the regular basal readers. The students will be asked questions, extended responses and be introduced to new vocabulary while being exposed to geography and extreme weather conditions all with the goal of improving reading proficiency.
Fourth Grade – a new set of Accelerated Reading quizzes to go along with the new reading books which have interest level/lower reading levels to appeal to a wide range of readers – quizzes help hold the students accountable to what they are reading thus making them read more carefully.
Fifth Grade – copies of four different novels to add to the existing language art curriculum – a learning tool which helps fill the needs of all students as they learn through an integrated approach of language arts and social studies.
Lincoln Elementary School:
Purchasing books for both the classrooms and library
Silas Willard Elementary School:
Books, bundled in six packs of titles, for the students in 3rd, 4th and 5th grades to provide older readers with high interest supplemental reading materials.
Churchill Junior High School:
Scholastic Magazines – subscriptions for the science department students
“Bucking the Sarge” Books for the reading classes.
Galesburg High School:
Science Department – purchase of two new microscopes
Social Studies Department – three scanners that would help in the reproduction and computerization of student documents, charts and maps that are used in the courses
Foreign Language Department – a TV which would allow for student multimedia projects to be presented
Family & Consumer Science Department – a new sewing machine, one with the ability to disconnect the foot control so that it is accessible to wheelchair bound students
Math Department – an overhead view screen for the TI-84 Plus Silver calculator.
Business Department – Targus Wireless Presenters for use in the four computer labs which will allow the instructors to move around in the classroom as they display presentations and other instructional materials.
Driver Education Department – purchase of a new brake system for the classes vehicles.
Special Education Department – 4 videos and learning aides that benefit the learning disabled health program along with audiocassettes of the driver’s license manual which includes tests and answer sheets
Every tax-deductible gift, no matter the size, makes a difference.
