Tahoe Truckee Excellence in Education Foundation

To purchase supplemental materials for the current Accelerated Reading Program used by the 1st through 5th grades.

To purchase items for an art cabinet for the popular Art Docent program which is re-starting. Items include art brushes, palettes for mixing paints, aprons, ink rollers and paper cutters

To purchase supplemental Hampton Brown Avenues English Language Development materials that help provide a systematic and sequential curricular program to carefully educate and assess academic progress.

To purchase supplement materials for the curriculum used to teach basic reading and math to special education students.

To fund book boxes, which create hands-on literacy experiences for children with disabilities. They create a thematic way for students to experience a story.

High Interest, Low Readability Books - To purchase high interest, low readability books for the school library and for classroom use in order to expand the collection appropriate to low-level readers

To Go Books -To purchase leveled books for students to take home for daily reading practice.

To purchase books on tape in both Spanish and English to support literacy at home in the target language. Books and tapes will be sent home weekly to help parents support students regardless of their own literacy level

To purchase large rock and mineral specimens for the 9th grade Earth Science course.

To purchase classroom sets of dictionaries for 3rd - 5th grade students

To purchase National Geographic emergent content readers with home support and audio in Science, Social Studies and Math

To purchase costumes and simple props to compliment the Readers? Theater books.

To purchase the video equipment needed for students to produce a quality daily video bulletin to be seen by the entire student body.

To purchase dictionaries and thesauruses for the 4th-5th grade classrooms.

To purchase ten digital cameras and 10 memory cards for the school site.

To fund the installation of an electronic projection screen previously purchased by Excellence in Education

To purchase a class set of the new (2007) Field Guide to the Fauna and Flora of the Sierra Nevada.

To purchase lab materials to support a new Forensic Science course offered at the High School. The materials include microscope adapters, forensic vacuums, fingerprint rollers, fuming hotbox and bone microscope slides.

To purchase GPS (Global Positioning System) units to be used in the exploratory class, ?Cartography, Topography and Meteorology,? as well as for curriculum activities that meet the content standards for 6th grade math and science.

To purchase equipment including pedometers, heart rate monitors, stethoscopes, and nutritional/health videos for students to learn how to monitor vitals and gain an understanding of their own health and healthy life style choices.

To purchase infant simulators to provide a hands-on experience for the new Child Development class offered at North Tahoe High. The infants cry at random and require 24-hour care.

To purchase books to enhance and support take home book bags.

To purchase tools for teachers including a laminator, paper folder and paper cutter.

To purchase reading comprehension games for use in 3rd-5th grades.

To purchase an LCD projector and projection screen for the entire school to use.