Digital Video Camera and Digital Camera to upgrade Glenshires television news project. This project provides learning in writing, organization, oral communication, technology, creativity, decision making and social interaction. Equipment needed is to keep up with changing technology. Equipment will enhance the production of the news show. Excel. In Ed helped start this program several years ago
Create and install a watershed mural at KBE. Request is for Tiles and Material. Total Project cost is $3,025.00. Many collaborating partners in this project include Local Artists, Arts for the Schools, USFWS and SWEP
Purchase of Non Fiction books for guided reading. Books will be aligned with CA State Standards in Science, Math and Social Studies. Books help prepare students for standardized testing, district testing and reading to learn after they graduate.
Audio books and equipment to enrich the established Accelerated Reading Program. Will help those Oral learners in standard reading instruction. Students will strengthen their fluency rate and build vocabulary by using the audio book versions in unison with a text copy of the book.
Purchase of LCP Video Projector (used in computer lab for class presentations, 2 digital cameras (to be used by all teachers on a check out basis) and 5 Alpha Smarts and Connectors. (to increase current number. Currently site has 60 Alpha Smarts for 350 students.)
Main Entrance Mural depicting the four seasons of the year. Purchase of Tiles and Material to be used in the project. Students directly engaged in project by sketching scenes and borders to prepare for under glazing
Upgrade the Adobe PageMaker program at Glenshire Elementary and purchase the Adobe PageMaker program for Truckee Elementary. This will enhance the bimonthly newsletter that goes home to every student. Students are included in the process through editing and rewriting for print ready articles
Accelerated Reader Program Supplementary Quizzes and Star Assessment Program. Additional Quizzes for books already designated as part of the Accelerated Reader Program. The Star Assessment will support the ability to maintain leveled reading and promote student motivation to read self-selected books and quizzes at the appropriate reading level
Casio Hand held calculators to support life skills and to support the current math curriculum and supplemental math materials. They provide practical application to problem solving and stimulate student interest in problem solving, thus creating an attitude that inspires success.
