Kennebunk Elementary School
School Year 2009-2010
Program: Handwriting Without Tears
Date: Winter 2010
Sponsor: Tracy Mason
Amount: $5,613.20
The EFKA supported this program last year for K - 1 classes. In this second phase, the program is expanded to include second grade teachers, RTI tutors, Title 1 and special education staff. As part of this project, a Handwriting Without Tears representative would come to our district to present to our teaching staff (approx. 96) about the HWT program and how they could best implement their strategies into the classroom to ensure successful handwriting instruction and remediation. The grant also requests to purchase classroom tools and materials for each teacher.
School Year 2008-2009
Program: Stability Balls Evaluation
Date: Spring 2009
Sponsor: Stacey Schatzabel
Amount: $2,250.00
Based on research indicating that active sitting contributes to active learning, this grant provided stability balls for experimental use in multiple classrooms to replace traditional chairs.
Program: Trust in our Children
Date: Spring 2009
Sponsor: Kevin Crowley, Sara Zito
Amount: $4,800.00
A collaboration with the Kennebunk Land Trust and the Kennebunk Free Library to enable students to experience the natural environment and introduce them to the beauty, history, and ecology that surrounds us.
Program: IXL Math
Date: Spring 2009
SponsorL KES AR Committee
Amount: $1,800.00
Comprehensive, standards-based, online mathematics games and activities that support differentiation and 21st-century skills.
Program: Junior Great Books
Date: Winter 2009
Amount: $41,000.00
Piloting of language arts curriculum centered on discussion and close reading of classic texts. This program expands opportunities for differentiated instruction in reading, literary analysis, and critical thinking.
Program: Handwriting Without Tears
Date: Winter 2009
Sponsor: Tracy Mason
Amount: $4,146.00
A developmentally-based curriculum to develop print and cursive writing readiness, which incorporates multi-sensory tools and materials that address visual, auditory, tactile, and kinesthetic learning styles.
School Year 2006-2007
Program: Accelerated Reader
Date: Spring 2007
Amount: $6,000.00
This computer-based program personalizes instructional activities to each student's current level in order to make reading practice more effective and fun.
Program: Internet Workshop Software
Date: Fall 2006
Amount: $4,000.00
Software for creating multimedia presentations. Third-grade students develop presentation skills using a variety of media formats to chronicle their progress and accomplishments.
