KEVA Planks
I would like to obtain an educators set of KEVA planks to benefit student learning in several academic content areas as well as student attributes highlighted in our districts Learner Profile. Students will be presented with challenges and activities that will fit the needs and varying abilities of all. KEVA planks will serve to enhance educational and social/ emotional concepts through hands-on, authentic, and student led innovations, which also lends itself to kinesthetics and visual concepts of varying levels of complexity.
Red Glasses Movement 2.0
The Red Glasses Movement moved Woodland Meadows and the Saline community big time last year, and I would like to continue the momentum by purchasing more glasses for our school community. My goal this year is for these glasses to be passed on by our students and shared with someone else who is demonstrating Living Boldly and Loving Big. This year, I want the focus to be on Passing It On! I want to encourage the students to continue wearing their glasses and be inspired to do acts of kindness for others, and then to observe what others are doing to spread kindness regardless of typical boundaries.
The Leader in Me Year 2
This request is for year 2 of a 3-year rollover grant for $10,500 each year. Our grant request of $10,500 was approved last year, and will be followed by a subsequent 2020/21 to fund the implementation of The Leader in Me at Woodland Meadows Elementary School. The Leader in Me is Stephen Covey’s whole school transformation process. It teaches twenty-first century leadership and life skills to students and creates a culture of student empowerment based on the idea that every child can be a leader.
Vamos a la granja! Lets go to the farm!
Young Fives students and Kindergarteners will explore Spanish animal sounds and learn about the benefits of speaking two languages. Kids will learn how animals do not make the same noises in Spanish! Books, farm animal toys and magnetic letters will encourage young children to play with new sounds. The availability of the same resources in all three elementary schools will allow for greater alignment of the curriculum across the district. We also will occasionally reuse these same materials with First Grade students for reviewing key vocabulary.
Red Glasses Movement
Being inspired by The Red Glasses Movement, a living legacy of a little girl who was not defined by her disability, I would like to purchase a pair of red glasses for each student and staff member at Woodland Meadows. It is my hope that these red glasses will inspire the WM community to do more things for others, spark a good deed, reach out to someone who needs a friend, think about more than just ourselves and our close friends, and pass acts of kindness forward to those around us, even if they may not be people we are familiar with. The earlier that kids can learn and grasp this concept, the more likely it is to be ingrained within them, so that they are able to continue it into adulthood without having to think twice about it. If everyone in our society LIVED BOLDLY, LOVED BIG AND PASSED IT ON, it would make the world a kinder and better place and we will spread the love regardless of typical boundaries.
The Leader in Me
This request is for a 3-year rollover grant for $10,500 each year (followed by subsequent grant requests in 2019/20, and 2020/21) to fund the implementation of The Leader in Me at Woodland Meadows Elementary School. The Leader in Me is Stephen CoveyÛªs whole school transformation process. It teaches twenty-first century leadership and life skills to students and creates a culture of student empowerment based on the idea that every child can be a leader.
Winter Outdoor Fitness – Snowshoeing
The purchase of a class set of snowshoes would allow all 3 of our elementary schools to take turns providing an outdoor winter physical education unit for our students. This would expand our curriculum as well as connect with our heart rate monitors and our goal to make connections between lifelong activities and healthy lifestyles.
