Since the beginning of the school year, the PTA Grants Committee has awarded 21 grants to our teachers. In September, they awarded 9 teacher’s grants totaling $1,844, and in November, the committee awarded 12 grants totaling $1,308. That’s a grand total of $3,152 to 15 teachers since August! Thank you to Kristen Borgmeyer, Jen Neuschafer, Chrissy Callison, Lauren Green, & Angela Faul who make up the Grants Committee, and thank you to all who support this fund by participating in the various PTA fundraisers. The PTA is excited to see what the next cycle of applications brings and to continue helping our teachers get the resources they need to keep the students learning & engaged! Great job everyone!

September Grant Cycle

• Alura Berry – Middle School
  • Books for Middle School ELA 

• Laura Wells – Middle School
  • National Council of History Educators conference registration. 

• Cory Shorter – Diversity K-8
  • Children’s books (preK-5th) that help with introducing the topics of race, differences, and being unique to my students on a level that is suitable for them. 

• Sarah Clark – 1^st Grade
  •  Full Grade set of Rekenrek math manipulatives (20 beaded stand that will help with math facts)

• Emily Chrostoski – Music
  • Early Childhood Music Tools: movement stretchy band, jingle bell set, otamatone 

• Megan Kean – Kindergarten (both classrooms)
  • Classroom manipulatives to support math, language arts, and fine motor skills 
  • Alphabet pop it, Number Pop it, Brain Flakes 

• Colleen Joyce – 4^th Grade
  • Puzzle Time/Representation Matters
  • Diverse Puzzles for classroom quiet time 

• Rita Harvatin – Kindergarten
  • Classroom activities 
  • Pencil bags for organization, sight word games, dice games, Uno Math centers, gift card for photo development 
  • Math manipulatives (both classrooms)

• Sr. Marie – Preschool
  • Nurturing the All Around Child 
  • Obstacle course ring set, wooden peg dolls (will be painted for bible stories), reusable tracing letter and number pages 

• Anjanette Gondzur – Reading Intervention
  • High Interest Phonic Books

November Grant Cycle 

• Katie Kirner – 2^nd Grade
  • Headphone adapters 

• Sarah Clark – 1^st Grade
  • Enrichment Book Club
  • 5 sets of the first Magic Tree House Books 

• Mindy Baker – 6-8^th Grade Science
  • Hydroponics growing system 
  • In bloom seed pods 
  • Replacement grow baskets
  • Hot glue sticks 

• Colleen Joyce – 4^th Grade
  • Among the Hidden Book study 
  • 25 copies of the book 

• Jesika Kasch – 6/7/8 – Middle School
  • Pride and Prejudice Elective (25 copies of the book) 

• Megan Keen – Kindergarten
  • Math Storage Centers 

• Anjanette Gondzur
  • Audio splitter/earphone jack for read alouds to hear and build reading fluency and vocab 

• Rita Harvatin – Kindergarten
  • Organization/Display materials, photo gift card 

• Adriyanna Salameh – 3^rd Grade
  • Kindness project – chart paper and kindness book (Have you Filled a bucket Today)