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Cognex Honor Grants
Orff Instrumentarium
Kris Hill
Orff methodology is an integrated approach to music education that links listening, performing, singing, instrumental music, improvisation and composition. The purchase of larger lower pitched Orff instruments will expand the variety and range of instruments currently available at Lilja. All students will increase their understanding of a much wider range of musical sounds.
Solar Voltaics
Patricia Rowan, Russell Rylko and Elizabeth Haight
This first-ever collaboration between the Wilson and Kennedy Middle School science departments will support the purchase of 60 solar voltaic kits to be shared by both science departments. Using simple instruments, each student will conduct a wide variety of solar energy experiments
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Library Honor Award
The Launching Young Readers Program
Lois DiLorenzo, Celia Biagetti, JoAnn O’Brien
This program will provide parents of children at Lilja with a circulating collection of books specially designed to support young readers in kindergarten and first grade. Bookbags containing 3 to 5 books, a pamphlet for parents, a notebook for comments, a library card application and a treasure hunt card will be available to all children throughout the school year. |
Jacqueline Searle Honor Award
Ichi, Ni, San! Let’s Study Japan
Lisa Char-Smith, Lisa Hayes, Sandra Levy and Irene Mancuso, Ben Hem
Third grade teachers at Ben-Hem currently teach a unit on Japan. They plan to incorporate hands-on activities with purchased materials for a “Japanese Culture Box” including various Japanese household items, art supplies, clothing and books that reflect Japanese culture.
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Foundation Technology Grants
Assisted Living Center Intergenerational Partnership
Peter Alderman and Sara Lane, Wilson
This grant will support the institution of a formal partnership between Wilson Middle School and the newly constructed Whitney Assisted Living Center, through the purchase of computer hardware.
Every Day Heroes: Promoting Equality
Rosa Sterk, Jennifer Parson, Jane Marsh
This grant will support the purchase of a computer and software: Decisions, Decisions: Prejudice, a program designed to introduce students to important issues surrounding prejudice and discrimination. |
Foundation Grants
Creating a Nature Neighborhood
Lucia Frenkel, Karen Cotter, Margaret Donohoe, Kerry MacIsaac, Debbie Mandino, Johnson School
Johnson parents, teachers and interested community members have plans to create an outdoor extension of the classroom by creating a habitat that will attract wildlife and invite observation . Students will keep observational journals and engage in interdisciplinary activities supported by the project that. All students will participate in this project.
The Kindergarten Hand Development Kit in a Pizza Box
Marty Guild
Each of the eighteen kindergarten classrooms in Natick will receive a kit of manipulatives designed to condition hand muscles as a preparation for learning to write. Marty will train all kindergarten teachers in the use of these materials, and will follow up with monthly visits to the classroom.
Electronic Portfolio
Lynn Blumer, Denise Young, Michael Albert, Jed Stefanowicz, Brown School
Using existing hardware, third grade teachers at Brown plan to pilot an electronic portfolio system. This grant will support the purchase of software and storage media that will allow all students to create a multimedia portfolio. Sound clips, scanned artwork and videos will be combined with traditional portfolio elements to create a unique record of their accomplishments.
On the Road Again
Mary Cunniff, Lois Hochberg, Elizabeth Lang, and Kathleen Montgomery, Ben Hem
Second grade teachers at Ben-Hem plan to have students produce a video tape of Natick and their school. One of 50 copies will be sent to a second grade class in a school in each state. The second grades will ask each school to return a video of their school and community and use e-mail to communicate with those schools that send tapes.
Musical Beginnings - An Autoharp in the Hand is Worth Three Violas in the Closet
Claudia Price, Debbie Kuhlman-Hussey, Lisa Sisoian, Anne Danieson, Kris Hill, Ben Hem
The Hand in Hand and Special Beginnings preschool programs housed at Ben Hem will purchase and use autoharps. Kindergarten guidelines will be used to institute a formal music curriculum at the preschool level.
Salt Water Aquarium Program
Jim C. Brown and Lisa Bacon
Fifth and seventh grade science teachers at Kennedy plan to contract for a salt water aquarium to be installed at school. Each week, for a month, BIOMES Inc. will install a different collection of live animals. Learning activities will reflect the theme of each week.
Pictorial Library for the Open Door Program
Karen Fennelly, Wilson
This grant will provide a pictorial library to be used in a reading program for developmentally delayed non-readers in the “Open Door Program” at Wilson Middle School. Through a multi-method approach students will develop new reading skills and a desire to read.
Technology Software
Ken Henderson and Pat Rowan, Wilson
The seventh grade science teachers at Wilson will purchase software to be used in an interactive science classroom. This grant will support the institution of an ITS Learning Matrix, similar to the successful ITS program at Natick High School.
Radio Station: WLSN
Rosa Sterk and Sara Lane, Wilson
Wilson Middle School is in the process of installing a student run radio station. NEF is pleased to contribute to the establishment of a student centered activity that supports many areas of the curriculum. Climbing New Heights: YMCA Challenge Program
John Lauzon, Natick High School
In September approximately 50 students from the East Alternative school, and the High School’s Target and Omega programs will be united under the new North Star program at Natick High. In the fall and spring, these students will participate in low- and high ropes challenge courses at the YMCA outdoor center in Hopkinton. The program is designed to foster trust, self-awareness, and teamwork. It is sponsored by NEF and other grant sources in the community. |
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