Kindergarten

Let’s Go Shopping!

Our kindergarteners can now earn tickets when they complete assignments both in class and at home.  These tickets can then be used to shop for (mostly educational) items.  Ranging in price from two to thirty tickets, children have the option to save for more expensive items. We hope that earning shopping tickets will inspire every […]

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Base Ten Blocks

These “base ten blocks” help our kindergarteners learn place value.  The children can manipulate the proportionally correct blocks to represent a two-digit number and visualize how many tens and ones are in a given group.  These blocks help our young students to understand the relationship between the different columns on a place value grid –

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Taking Care

Showing kindergarteners how to take care of things is an important classroom lesson.  That is why it is terrific our recent grant not only provided the math answer boards but also the storage racks. We thank the William & Helen Thomas Charitable Trust, Bank of America, N.A., Co-Trustee for the complete set-up!

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Mathseeds

Our kiddos now have a second exciting online math program!  Like Khan Academy Kids, Mathseeds is a highly interactive and personalized learning journey to build math skills at each child’s own pace. Once a child completes the Lil’ Mathematician level 2 in Khan Academy Kids, Mathseeds provides more addition and subtraction practice.  This learning software

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Thanks to the Glenn W. Bailey Foundation

Thanks to the Trustees of the Glenn W. Bailey Foundation for supporting our Lil’ Mathematician program.  All three program areas – Tutoring, Teaching Tools, and Kid-Sized Materials – will be improved with the funds we received from their substantial grant. We don’t only want the children to have a solid math foundation; we want them

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Topped 10,000 !

More than 10,000 assignments have been completed by kindergarteners and first graders in our after-school program!  And, the school year is not quite half over! In addition to in-school tutoring, the young students take iPads home to complete Khan Academy Kids lessons that have been assigned to them.  The iPads have cellular internet and, therefore,

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The Graduate

“David” started first grade not knowing all the letters of the alphabet. He was receiving all F-grades on reading comprehension. He took an iPad home every night and completed his assigned lessons. He quickly advanced through the kindergarten and first-grade learning paths. His classroom teacher reports he scored 100% on his latest reading comprehension test.

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  • Delta Education Weather Vane (4)
  • Delta Educational Barometer (4)
  • Classifying Clouds Photo Cards (4)
  • Didax Plastic Anemometer (2)
  • Delta Education Solar Hot Air Balloon (4)
  • NewPath Weather and Climate Learning Center (4)
  • Taylor Indoor/Outdoor Thermometer, Dual Scale (4)
  • V-Back Metal Thermometers, Dual Scale (60)