Bellevue Schools Foundation: Classroom Grants - Winter Cycle 2006
Elementary Schools
School	# Kids	Year	Grant #	Cycle	Teacher	Amt Funded	Title	Description
Ardmore	284	2006	E85	Winter	Angela Dunavant	$620	Enhancement of Math Curriculum	Students will attend a 30-minute assembly, followed by hands-on exhibits and guided classroom lessons to promote the discovery of mathematical principles and their relationship to our daily lives.
Ardmore	45	2006	E87	Winter	Ginny Vale	$900	Fourth grade trip to Tillicum Village	All 4th grade students and chaperones will travel by boat to Blake Island and participate in Tillicum Village's activities including lunch and show of Early Northwest Coast dancing and legends.
Ardmore	50	2006	E88	Winter	Elizabeth Kappler	$493	Books for Literature Conversation Groups	To purchase 2 sets of books for literature conversation groups.
Ardmore	20	2006	E89	Winter	Ginny Vale	$423	Woodland Mystery Books	To purchase a set of Woodland Mysteries books, chapter books written at a 2nd grade reading level & are intended for older readers who are struggling students
Bennett	75	2006	E90	Winter	Roger Hamlyn	$355	Mr. Bones Articulates the Skeletal System	A life-sized skeleton model (Mr. Bones) will provide hands-on learning to Bennett third grade students to enrich the BSD life science curriculum Human Body Foss kit.
Bennett	65	2006	E91	Winter	Jenni Eicher	$390	Kindergarten Toy Workshop	Rick Hartman will lead Bennett kindergartners in applying their science learning to the science, math, and art of wooden toy making during a 90-minute workshop.
Bennett	75	2006	E92	Winter	Roger Hamlyn	$730	Math Geocache	Math Geocache will challenge Bennett students to use their math skills to find GPS coordinates to lead them to treasure caches.
Bennett	68	2006	E93	Winter	Kris Young	$1,000	Onward, Ho! Down the Oregon Trail and Up to Mt. St. Helens	All Bennett 5th graders will participate in a two-day field experience reinforcing their study of the American Western Movement & the dramatic landforms resulting from past (& ongoing) eruptions of Mt. St. Helens.
Cherry Crest	50	2006	E94	Winter	Stephanie Escobar	$150	All About Recorders	A professional recorder consort will give a performance of music from the Middle Ages to the 20th century and an internationally know recorder maker will demonstrate his craft and perform on a wide range of recorders and discuss the history of the recorder.
Clyde Hill	81	2006	E96	Winter	Christy Lindquist	$600	Toymaker Workshop	Rick Hartman's workshop is a direct extension of the 2nd grade FOSS science Kits, Balance and Motion
Clyde Hill	90	2006	E97	Winter	Jo Richardson	$750	Fourth Grade Washington State History According to Salmon	Peter Donaldson will collaborate with the 4th grade teaching team to deliver a dynamic unit on Washington State history through the eyes of salmon, integrating science, social studies and language arts with drama, map-making and storytelling.
Eastgate	76	2006	E99	Winter	Pamela Moffatt	$380	Visit to Washington State History Museum	Fourth grade students will visit the Washington State History Museum with the purpose of further enhancing the BSD social studies curriculum by exploring exhibits and being involved with activities at the museum.
Enatai	440	2006	E101	Winter	Karin Klein	$570	Hip Hop Dance Week at Enatai	Howie McOmber to come to Enatai & teach a week-long hip-hop dance class.
Enatai	65	2006	E103	Winter	Monica Chun	$1,300	Tillicum Village	Fourth Grade students will travel to Tillicum Village. This interactive experience will reinforce their learning in 2 key areas: Native American history and culture as well as geography of the Puget Sound region.
Lake Hills		2006	E105	Winter	Judy Buckmaster	$199	Books in Spanish for New Students	To purchase books in Spanish appropriate for intermediate grade-level students so that when new Spanish speaking students arrive, text can be provided in their native language thus allowing them to immediately be a part of the classroom experience.
Lake Hills	95	2006	E106	Winter	Margo Peacocki	$619	Seattle Aquarium Field Trip	A tour of the Seattle Aquarium, including a class on seashore animals, which will be the centerpiece of our Oceanography introduction and research unit.
Lake Hills	85	2006	E107	Winter	Sarah Holthaus	$1,700	An Excursion Into a Native American World	Fourth Grade students will travel to Tillicum Village as a culmination of Washington State Social Studies.
Newport Heights	116	2006	E108	Winter	Marian Peiffer	$580	Exploring Washington State History at the Museum	Fourth graders, teachers, and chaperones will visit the Washington State History Museum in Tacoma for a "hands on" experience that brings to life the BSD Washington State History curriculum.
Newport Heights	571	2006	E109	Winter	Sue Bradley	$1,200	Every Student's a Poet, and It's Time They Know It	Poet Janet Wong will lead two assemblies & three workshops designed to help children see poetry as an important element of everyone's literacy abilities, not just a special gift for a talented few.
Newport Heights	113	2006	E111	Winter	Susan Fronckowiak	$340	Muddy Hands: Experiencing the Magic of Life in Mercer Slough	Students will host a park ranger in their class then attend a free City of Bellevue environmental education presentation, including all-day hands-on experiments & experiences designed to complement, extend, & enrich the FOSS Environments & landforms Kits assigned to the 5th grade.
Newport Heights	350	2006	E112	Winter	Marian Peiffer	$800	You Can't Tell a Book by Its cover - a Lesson About Prejudice from Puppet Theatre	The K-3 students will read from the book "The Reluctant Dragon" by Kenneth Grahame, attend a live puppet theatre performance and workshops based on the book, engage in classroom project work related to the performance, and through that, learn the lesson from the story, which is to not be prejudiced.
Phantom Lake	100	2006	E113	Winter	Krista Dehn	$1,278	Augmentative & Alternative Communication (AAC) Devices for Nonverbal Students with Disabilities at Phantom Lake Preschool	To purchase augmentative and Alternative Communication devices and toys for preschool age students who are nonverbal at Phantom Lake elementary.
Sherwood Forest	128	2006	E114	Winter	LaDawn Ishman	$1,692	Characters Come Alive! The Book to Stage Connection	Second and Third grade students from five general education and two special education classrooms will read and discuss a book from the popular "Junie B. Jones" series by well know author Barbara Park, and then see a live production of the book "Junie B. Jones and Some Monkey Business" at the Seattle Children's Theater.
Sherwood Forest	87	2006	E115	Winter	Erin King	$1,070	Seattle Children's Theatre presents Honus and Me	The 4th and 5th grade students will see a performance of Honus and Me at the Seattle Children's Theatre as an extension of their class exploration in literacy.
Sherwood Forest	60	2006	E116	Winter	Julie Webb	$395	Reading for Life	Students will check out backpacks containing multiple literacy activities for use at home and in class.
Sherwood Forest	65	2006	E118	Winter	Janette Leahey	$585	Rumplestiltskin	Three kindergarten classes and one special education class will read several different versions of 'Rumplestiltskin' and culminate the unit by attending a live performance at the Kirkland Performance Center.
Sherwood Forest	94	2006	E119	Winter	Irene Smart	$900	Northwest Themes in Fused Glass	Students will create a beautiful art work in glass that reflects their knowledge of the Northwest in its landforms, life and history.
Somerset		2006	E120	Winter	Christine Jun	$300	Toymaker Workshop	Toymaker & educator, Rick Hartman, will present two (90 minute) hands-on workshops focused on science curriculum (FOSS Kit Wood-Paper)
Somerset	104	2006	E121	Winter	Robyn Wells	$525	Mr. Bones	To supplement our life science curriculum unit on the human body, five classes of students will explore the skeletal system and joints using life-size models of the human skeleton.
Somerset	88	2006	E122	Winter	Michelene McCarthy	$417	Balancing Math Scales	The Somerset kindergarten team wished to purchase a quantity of balance scales that would provide each class with 12 scales.
Somerset	21	2006	E123	Winter	Michelene McCarthy	$367	Big Ideas from Big Books	This project will provide Big Books to support and enhance literacy instruction and to integrate all subjects in the kindergarten curriculum.
Somerset	603	2006	E124	Winter	Betty Hannaford	$900	Young Scientist Week: Classroom Experiments	Young Scientist Week encourages students to see how science surrounds us while engaging their natural curiosity to explore, experience, & discover new things through guided research, interactive exhibits, & a variety of other programs including more than a dozen hands-on experiments.
Somerset	114	2006	E125	Winter	Kay Rice	$492	Toymaker Workshop	Rick Hartman, will present two 90-minute hands-on toy making workshops focused on balance and motion, the scientific principles that second grade students will be studying in the spring science curriculum.
Spiritridge	108	2006	E126	Winter	Jackie Thomas-Rask	$835	Spiritridge Garden Project	The Spiritridge School Garden Project (year 2) is a hands-on, curriculum-based unit in which our 2nd & 3rd grade students will initiate a sustainable school garden program through the preparation, planting & harvesting of four garden boxes, a visiting lecture series (featuring experts in the fields of farming, nutrition, & gardening) & a fieldtrip to a local farm.
Spiritridge	48	2006	E128	Winter	Patty Fotheringham	$273	Seattle Aquarium Field Trip	We would like to conduct a hands-on visit to the Seattle Aquarium as a culmination/extension of our seashore/oceanography unit.
Stevenson	48	2006	E129	Winter	Brem Stoner	$1,360	Science & Social Studies	A 2-day field trip to Mt. St. Helens as an extension of the 5th grade FOSS Science curriculum & the Washington State Social Studies framework.
Stevenson	520	2006	E130	Winter	Michele Carroll	$1,500	Opera Goes to School: Theft of the Gold	Opera Goes to School: Theft of the Gold is a 3-day residency by Seattle Opera that focuses on an integrated approach of connecting curricula in the arts, literature, & school citizenry for K-5 grade students.
Sunset	95	2006	E131	Winter	Ana Ganje	$450	Oceanography Adventure	Kindergarten students will enhance their study of oceanography with a visit to Alki Beach accompanied by marine biologists.
Sunset	95	2006	E133	Winter	Ana Ganje	$195	Writing Cultural Exchange	A writing project in Spanish to promote cultural exchange between our school and a kindergarten class in Mexico.
Sunset	23	2006	E135	Winter	Debbie Hinton	$580	Crossing the Generations: Creating Memory Books	Second grade students will create memory books with nursing home residents in a service learning project inspired by the children's book "Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge" by Mem Fox.
Woodridge	40	2006	E139	Winter	Meredith Barnas	$210	"Habitat Wanderers at Mercer Slough"	Second grade students will study living things in the natural environment of the Mercer Slough wetlands after studying soils and insects in the classroom science program.
Woodridge	70	2006	E140	Winter	Susan Kline	$500	Toymaker Worship with Rick Hartman	Students will participate in a presentation & hands-on toymaking workshop which focuses on & extends the principles & concepts students have learned in their 2nd trimester FOSS Balance & Motion Investigations.
Middle Schools
School	# Kids	Year	Grant #	Cycle	Teacher	Amt Funded	Title	Descript