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Framingham Public Schools
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2004-2005 Mini-grant Recipients Big Bugs Applicant: Gloria Geller, Brophy School, all K-5 art teachers Combining science and art, Big Bugs would enable all Framingham second-graders to view giant wooden sculptures of insects at Garden in the Woods in order to learn more about the interrelationships of plants and insects and the connection between art and science. Includes science, literary, and writing activities. Award: $2800 100% Homework Club Applicant: Linda Schiffman, Fuller Middle School, guidance counselor In an effort to interact with middle-school students who "fall below the guidance office radar," the 100% Homework Club was founded in January for all seventh-graders who have completed their homework for the week. Meeting in their own space during the school day, Ms. Schiffman works with the students on peer mentoring, such guidance foci as diversity and inclusion, and such art activities as making designing/printing brochures to introduce new kids to the club. Award: $1000 Museum in a Box Applicant: Helen Higgins, second-grade teacher, Wilson Elementary School This program brings into the classroom multimedia, interdisciplinary teaching kits from the Children's Museum in Boston that explore science, social studies, language arts, the arts, and multicultural education. The hands-on, object-based kits will be available to all teachers including specials and SAGE teachers and will include a copy of a matrix that aligns the kits with the State Frameworks. Award: $590 Take-Home Math Packs Applicant: Joan Vodoklys, principal, McCarthy Elementary School The project will engage parents as partners in the work of improving mathematics teaching and learning for all students. Each teacher will prepare several kits of take-home math activities that include a list of key math concepts. Students will take home kits on a rotating basis, and the contents of the kits will change throughout the year. Award: $1000 Snappy Dance Theatre Applicants: Dana Malloy & Chris Del Olio, gym and music teachers, McCarthy Elementary School The theatre company will perform Moving Beyond Balance, a combination of dance, circus skills, and athleticism, for all Framingham elementary and middle school students to encourage wellness and physical activity. The program will complement physical and health education as well as goals of music and visual arts curricula. Award: $1000 Book Bag Literacy Program Applicant: Patricia Gentes, second-grade teacher, Potter Road School This program expands the Book Bag Literacy Program to include both sheltered English and standard second-grade students (75 total). The goals remain: to encourage development of daily reading habits outside the classroom; to promote home-school literacy opportunities; and to instill in the children a sense of responsibility for school property. Award: $1000 Earth Keepers: Worms & Ecosystem Applicant: Kristen Croci, kindergarten teacher, Stapleton School The Audubon Ark Outreach Program will visit all Stapleton kindergartens to further their education about worms and their part in the ecosystem. Kids will raise their own worms as well. Award: $320 Oh, Now I Get It: Math Tool Kit Applicants: Amy Brady & Melissa Rich, second-grade teachers, Stapleton School A math tool kit will be assembled for each of 75 second-graders to have at home to complement work with manipulatives. All activities will be geared toward adult-child use to help develop consistency of methodologies used at home and at school. Award: $1000 Potter Road Math Club Applicant: Tracy Manousaridis, fifth-grade teacher, Potter Road School The before-school math club for kids in grade 3-5 would like to expand its resources so that kids can take the skills from Math Club directly back into the classrooms, and can take games and activities home to share with families. Parents and colleagues will also participate in workshops, held two mornings each month and focusing on a different topic (i.e., graphing and estimating). Award: $730 Geography Home Kit Applicants: Pam Goldman & Helen Higgins, second-grade teachers, Wilson School Using new atlases, students in second- through fifth-grades will increase geography awareness, will be provided a valuable resource for use at home, and will involve their families in the learning process. Activities will be designed to bolster the home-school connection in conjunction with the school's focus on global studies. Award: $885 The Sleep Imperative Applicant: Tamara Watson, second-grade teacher, Dunning School The program will teach second- and third-graders the importance and impact of sleep on their well-being and health. Through questionnaires, assemblies, and speakers, students will gain the information that will enable them to make healthy sleep choices for life, and the school culture will be one that supports early bedtimes. Award: $801 Traveling Investigations Math Bags Applicant: Peggy Olegario, third-grade sheltered English teacher, Potter Road School This project would create 40 canvas Investigations Math Literacy Bags to enhance the third-grade curriculum, enhance the family/school connection and improve students' competency, confidence, and enjoyment of math. Award: $860 Theatrics Across the Curriculum Applicant: Nicholas Botelho, fifth-grade teacher, Dunning School Fifth-graders will use multiple intelligences to produce interdisciplinary, musical theater that focuses on various aspects of the curriculum and connects art, music, speech, and movement with all subject areas. Every student will see a grade-appropriate play. Award: $897 Adding to Your Summer Applicant: Carol Berlin, third-grade teacher, Dunning School This program, initiated through a FEF grant in summer of 2003, has been reworked and expanded. It will continue to expose incoming third-graders to math during the summer through a series of activities geared toward helping the students retain competencies achieved during second grade. On the last day of school, students will receive the first summer packet containing activities, math tools, and a return envelope. Additional kits will be sent throughout the summer. Award: $685 Mock Caldecott Award Applicant: Molly Perkins, third-grade teacher, Dunning School All third-graders will be exposed to thirty Caldecott books and learn about the making of a picture book. Working in committees, students will learn how to analyze art and text and will write essays about the books before voting for their favorites. Award: $539 Cameron Watershed/Floating Classroom Applicant: Rebecca Pettengill, seventh-grade science teacher, Cameron Middle School Introduces all 160 seventh-graders to river ecology through an inter-active trifold program: 1) hands-on project (building and manipulating a model drainage basin or watershed); 2) floating classroom (gaining an appreciation of the river while canoeing); 3) time for reflection about personal stewardship of rivers and wildlife. Award: $1000 Girls Night Out Applicants: Ames and Ellen Makynen, Framingham High School The project will bring together high-school students in the Women's Health course and eighth-grade girls from Fuller, Walsh and Cameron Middle Schools for an evening of activities and fun designed to empower young women to understand their strengths and the power of hard work. Award: $500 Celebration of Writing Through Poetry and Song Applicant: Carol Bearse, Fuller Middle School This project will support Fuller's annual Writing Conference, a culmination of writing across the curriculum during the year, in which 100 students participate in a day-long series of activities that include writing, performing, and publishing poetry and music. Award: $1000 Real Books for Real Authors Applicant: Jae Goodwin, Dunning School Students experience the process of writing, editing, and publishing their own hardbound books by choosing a topic, developing a story, editing the story, and illustrating the book. Award: $480 NUMBER OF GRANTS AWARDED: 19 TOTAL FUNDS ALLOCATED: $17,087 |
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