Each and every kindergartener at Dinsmore Elementary now has his/her very own iPad to use in the classroom. This is quite an accomplishment as there are 78 kindergarteners! Now students can stay logged into their online learning accounts. Faster classroom transitions provide more time for learning! We thank our many donors over the years and […]
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Want to learn more about how we support literacy? We now have a single webpage detailing all we do. Our literacy support is broad and includes:: Tutoring UFLI Support Secret Stories CVC Words Literacy Furniture Click here to learn more.
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Do you know a teenager needing volunteer hours? Teens are a great help as teachers set up their classrooms. Our summer volunteer schedule is now available! Registration is required. Please help us get the word out.
Years ago, we made word-creation trays to support the newly adopted literacy program, UFLI. Built by teen volunteers, the trays took a lot of effort and even though we followed the online instructions provided by the University of Florida, our trays were, how shall we say it, simply functional. Now that UFLI has been in
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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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 –
Thanks to the Estate of George Mann, we now have a fantastic tutoring/learning environment. We have ten tutoring desks and one group table that seats five – all with matching chairs! The tutoring desks are small enough that we could place them in the hallway should we ever lose our classroom space due to
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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! Click here to
Thanks to a grant by the William & Helen Thomas Charitable Trust, Bank of America, N.A., Co-Trustee, all kindergarteners can now get a handle on math, literally! The ten-frame answer boards enable children to think of numbers in terms of their relationship to ten. Mental addition/subtraction calculations become more automatic. For example, “There’s eight because
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Want to learn more about our Lil’ Mathematician program? We now have a single webpage describing our math program. We don’t only want the children to have a solid math foundation; we want them to LOVE math! We want them to THINK math and not just memorize! We want them to see math all around
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