USEFUL LINKS Framingham Public Schools	MINI-GRANT RECIPIENTS 2006-2007         2005-2006         2004-2005         2003-2004         2002-2003 2002-2003 Mini-grant Recipients Book Bag Literacy Program Potter Road School - Mary Critchlow, Project Director - $700.00 To encourage development of daily reading habits for kindergartners; books grouped by theme go home with students. Family Math Workshop Woodrow Wilson School - Janet Dumas, Project Director - $1,000.00 Workshops for 4th- and 5th-graders and their families to assist in practice and strengthening of math skills for both students and their parents. Integrating Technology and Curriculum Through Visual Learning Stapleton School - Patricia Granchelli, Project Director - $900.00 With the resources in Kidspiration software, emerging readers in grades K-3 learn lessons customized to curriculum with graphic and audio components. Learning about Massachusetts Through Cartography Potter Road School - Donna O’Brien, Project Director - $525.00 For 4th-graders studying Massachusetts, a professional cartographer will present a workshop demonstrating use and art of mapmaking, supporting math and social studies curriculum. Literacy Bags to Go Stapleton School - Donna Skinnion and Rosanne Kates, Project Directors - $725 This project will provide a canvas bag of reading and writing materials that will be sent home with kindergarten students throughout the school year. The literacy bag creates a link between home and school, reinforces a child’s early literacy skills, and guides parents/guardians in appropriate literacy activities. Luncheon/Fashion Show for Callahan Senior Citizens Framingham High School - Denise Gallagher, Project Director - $400.00 At the Callahan Senior Center, students in the Food and Clothing programs will prepare and serve a luncheon and stage a fashion show of items they have created during the school year. Massachusetts Children's Book Award Program Barbieri School -Margaret Fawley and Monica Matthews, Project Directors - $800.00 5th-graders develop better interest in literature by reading Massachusetts Children's Book Award selections and nominating their favorites in activities designed to increase enthusiasm. Math and Literature Resources Charlotte Dunning School - Jennifer DiBara and Tamara Macko, Project Directors - $350.00 Books will be purchased to support 2nd-grade math curriculum so that students will enhance literacy as well as math knowledge by reading about topics they have just studied. Patterns in Nature Mural Woodrow Wilson School - Margie Sisitsky, Project Director - $475.00 3rd-graders studying patterns in nature and art will create a permanent installation of ceramic tiles in the school art room. Read Along Puppet Program Charlotte Dunning School - Suzanne Chlapowski and Linda Bebeau, Project Directors - $700.00 An artist will visit 1st-graders to read a story and help the students create a puppet of the main character for use in extension activities, which bring the book to life. Readers' Theater Charlotte Dunning School - Tamara Macko and Jennifer DiBara, Project Directors - $400.00 Using creative dramatics, 2nd-graders learn and perform plays in language arts, social studies, and science and finish the year with the performance of a student-written play. Recorded Books to Support Literacy Woodrow Wilson School - Jane B. Jackson, Project Director - $600.00 This project will enlarge the scope of the pilot Listening Library of recorded books, which dramatically increased the number and quality of books students read. The expansion will lead to greater gains in reading comprehension and fluency, vocabulary knowledge, and oral language development. Resiliency for Life Framingham High School - Omari Walker, Project Director - $200.00 High school students in the Resiliency for Life program will tutor middle-school youth at Framingham Boys and Girls Club as a community service learning project. Science and Social Studies Beginning Books Charlotte Dunning School - Laurel P. Martin, Project Director - $500.00 Provides students with appropriate non-fiction texts in support of science and social studies, allowing concentration on those topics while introducing literacy skills. Special Needs Library Barbieri School - Anne Blake, Project Director - $500.00 Special educators and librarian aides will develop a section of materials in the school library that are sensory-rich, tactilely receptive, concept-driven books for students with significant developmental delays. Materials will also be available to be taken home by parents. Summer Lending Library en Espanol Barbieri School - Margaret Fawley and Rebecca Center, Project Directors - $750.00 To reinforce literacy skills developed during the school year, a lending library for 1st-graders will expand to include Spanish and English texts for use at home. Traveling Math Bags Woodrow Wilson School - Carolyn Rafferty, Project Director - $430.00 3rd-graders will have use of materials grouped in bags for enrichment of correlated math units. These resources will be taken home on a rotating basis so that families will take part. Voices of History: Handel & Haydn Society Vocal Quartet Framingham High School - Dan Moore, Project Director - $980.00 This program introduces students to a broad range of music while relating it to the historical, political, scientific, social, and technological context in which it was created. World Travel Integration Project Potter Road - Lisa Bairos and Elaine Baer, Project Directors - $500.00 Students in standard and bilingual first-grade classrooms will travel together to Kenya, Africa and Brazil three times each week during the school year. Audiovisual materials, artifacts, literature, music, and maps will immerse students in the cultures of their destination. NUMBER OF GRANT APPLICATIONS SUBMITTED: 30 NUMBER OF GRANTS AWARDED: 19 TOTAL FUNDS ALLOCATED: $11,400 All material on this site is copyright 2003-2005 by Framingham Education Foundation. All rights reserved. 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