Name: Kelly Eickleberry

School: New Bethel Elementary

Amount: $918.00

Project Title: From Germs to Wings: A Hands-On Science Journey Through Growth, Change, and Discovery

Project Summary: The journey begins with Glo Germs, where students use a special glowing lotion and black lights to see how germs spread and why handwashing matters.  This experiment connects directly to daily routines, helping students understand healthy habits in a vivid and memorable way.  Next, we move to Pumpkin Jack, a long-term decomposition studeny where a carved pumpkin is observed as it breaks down, teaching students about cycles in nature, soil health, and environmental change. Finally, the experience culminates with the Butterfly Life Cycle.  With live caterpillar refill kits, students observe metamorphosis in real time–from crawling caterpillars to chrsalides to emerging butterflies–then release them, celebrating growth and transformation.

Name: Paige Huber

School: Acton Elementary

Amount: $1,675

Project Title: K-3 PE Age Appropriate Equipment

Project Summary: This project will provide updated resources that foster healthy lifestyles, motor skill development, and a love of movement in our youngest learners. Our Acton Tigers will remember having the right tools that allowed them to play, explore, and succeed in physical education. These positive early experiences will build their confidence, encourage teamwork, and foster a love for movement. By using developmentally appropriate equipment, students will see that physical activity can be enjoyable and accessible for everyone. This foundation will inspire them to continue seeking out healthy activities throughout their school years and beyond. They will carry forward lessons of perseverance, cooperation, and self-confidence—skills that extend far beyond the gym and contribute to lifelong success in academics, relationships, and personal well-being.

Name: Caitlin Melson

School: Acton

Amount: $850.00

Project Title: Acton Sensory Motor Room

Project Summary: The grant funds would be utilized to purchase sensory-motor integration equipment including a sensory swing with stand, crash pad and wedge, balance/yoga balls, scooters, stepping stones and a sensory tunnel. These items would enable the OT/PT team as well as Resource and classroom teachers to utilize the space for sensory integration needs and movement breaks for children. This would be especially beneficial for many of my students recieving OT services as it would allow them to better regulate and meet their sensory needs in order to better thrive in the classroom.

Name: Jenny Monday

School: All FTCSC Elementary Libraries

Amount: $3,702.60

Project Title: Library of Awesome Animals

Project Summary: The vision of this project is to spark curiosity, build knowledge, and foster a love of reading through a fresh and engaging collection of nonfiction animal books in the school library. Students are naturally drawn to animals, and high-interest nonfiction provides a powerful gateway into reading for both pleasure and learning. By updating and expanding our animal book collection, we will give students access to accurate, age-appropriate, and visually engaging resources that support classroom learning and independent exploration.

Names: Jenelle Holt

School: Bunker Hill Elementary

Amount: $1,895

Project Title: Oh, The Places You’ll Orbit!

Project Summary: Our goal is to bring the Skydome Planetarium to our school, giving students the chance to experience the awe of space without leaving the gym. Inside the dome, students will feel as though they are truly “in space,” exploring the moon, stars, and planets up close. This experience will directly connect to CKLA (reading curriculum) units and literacy-based science content, reinforcing comprehension, vocabulary, and critical thinking skills in a way that is both meaningful and memorable.

Name: Leslie Beck

School: New Bethel Elementary

Amount: $567

Project Title: News in a Flash – Student Led Morning Announcements

Project Summary: This project brings student voice to life each morning through “News in a Flash,” a student-led morning announcements program at New Bethel Elementary. Third grade student council members take on leadership roles by planning, recording, and sharing daily announcements with the entire school community, reaching students and staff in pre-K through 3rd grade. With grant funding, we hope to purchase an iPad, protective case, adjustable iPad stand, microphone, and accessories to enhance the quality and ease of our production.

Name: Kristin Lipinski

School: Edgewood Intermediate

Amount: $405

Project Title: Everybody Reads

Project Summary: My goal, with a 3-year subscription to Reading A-Z, is to engage students by bringing meaningful, hands on learing into the classroom at each child’s level. This project would be implemented through classroom-based activities that connect to the curriculum and the science of reading while encouraging students to want to read. The students would also be able to take the books home with them to continue practice reading at their levels. This would also allow parents to see at what level their child is reading. The parents would also see the growth of their child as the books coming home would increase in difficulty throughout the year.

Name: Kory Ferree

School: Edgewood Intermediate

Amount: $1050.00

Project Title: Lego-Powered Math: Building Math Fluency One Brick at a Time

Project Summary: Physical engagement through LEGO can help make abstract concepts tangible and fun. Our goal and objective would be to develop automatic math fact recall with fractions, decimals, and various operations. Engage students through collaborative, hands-on problem solving. Align lessons with both the Indiana Academic Standards and Everyday Mathematics units.

Name: Kelly Eickleberry

School: New Bethel Elementary

Amount: $1011.83

Project Title: Little Learners, Big Knowledge: Enriching CKLA with Interactive Materials

Project Summary: Kindergarten is the foundation for a chlld’s entire educational journey. The Amplify CKLA Knowledge curriculum provides rich content in literacy, science, and history but to fully realize its potential, students need concrete, hands-on experiences that bring abstract ideas to life.  Our vision is to enrich CKLA instruction with supplemental materials that make knowledge tangible, engaging, and memorable for all kindergarten students this year and many more in the future.

Name: Carol Torres

School: Edgewood Intermediate

Amount: $124.00

Project Title: Racing Toward Language and Literacy: 6th Grade Multilingual Learners Read Stone Fox

Project Summary: This novel study will provide a full class set of Stone Fox by John Reynolds Gardiner for my 6th-grade multilingual learners ELL lab. Stone Fox tells a powerful story of perseverance, loyalty, and kindness, which are themes that connect across cultures and languages. It’s clear structure, accessible language, and fast-paced plot make it a perfect choice for students who are building English proficiency. Over a three-week unit, the project will come to life through interactive Read-Alouds with language supports, teacher modeling of fluency and expression, targeted vocabulary instruction such as pre-teaching key words, idioms, and cultural references so students can understand and confidently use them in speech and writing

Name: Megan Smith

School: FCJH

Amount: $77.04

Project Title: Organized for Success: Storage Solutions for Essential Skills Workstations

Project Summary: Our Essential Skills students thrive with structure, yet lack organized spaces for materials. Grant funds will provide three-drawer bins at each workstation, labeled and color-coded for independent task completion. This simple, low-cost solution promotes life skills, reduces anxiety, and fosters independence—helping students succeed now and in the future.

Name: Rebecca Holland

School: New Bethel Elementary

Amount: $300.00

Project Title: ELL Hands On Activities

Project Summary: I would like hands on learning activities and puzzles for my English Learners to use. ELL students need extra practice and support to learn numbers, letters, reading, and math (literacy). The traditional worksheets can become boring and the students are not engaged in learning. I would like to use these during extension times or for struggling students to use as needed.

Name: Toni Godsey

School: New Bethel Elementary

Amount: $930.00

Project Title: Amplify Knowledge Experience Kits

Project Summary: We want to make Amplify-aligned Experience Kits that will bring the Knowledge Strand units to life through hands-on & interactive learning. Each kit will support one of the core content domains in the Amplify curriculum and will include engaging resources that help deepen understanding of core concepts & vocabulary. These kits will rotate among all five kindergarten classrooms. Materials will be selected to enhance student engagement, support English Language Learners, and make abstract concepts more concrete through exploration and play.

Name: Sonya James

School: New Bethel Elementary

Amount: $405.96

Project Title: CKLA Culminating Days

Project Summary: The culminating activities are some of the most engaging and memorable parts of our lessons! At the end of each Knowledge unit, we have a culminating activity day that brings the learning to life in a hands-on, memorable way. These activities often require materials and supplies, which teachers typically provide out of their own pockets. With grant funding, I will be able to secure the necessary resources to ensure that each of these culminating activities throughout the year is engaging for students. All the supplies included in my grant will be reused annually in my classroom, allowing them to enrich student learning year after year.

Name: Sarah Eads

School: South Creek Elementary

Amount: $25616.81

Project Title: United by the Net: Expanding Opportunities for Every Student to Play, Learn, and Grow

Project Summary: My project seeks funding for a portable two-court volleyball net system that can be adapted for volleyball, tennis, pickleball, and other net-based games. This system will transform our school gymnasium into a multi-use court system that will encourage movement, teamwork, and inclusion for all kindergarten through third grade students.

Name: Debra Reid

School: WELC

Amount: $900.00

Project Title: Diverse Play, Inclusive Hearts

Project Summary: Our project, Diverse Play, Inclusive Hearts, seeks to bring representation, empathy, and inclusion into the daily lives of our youngest learners. This will be accomplished by adding diversity-focused toys and learning materials to three preschool classrooms. The vision is simple yet powerful: when children see themselves reflected in the dolls, figurines, puzzles, and dramatic play materials around them—and also see others who look different—they begin to internalize the values of acceptance, belonging, and compassion. These early experiences lay the foundation for lifelong empathy, curiosity, and respect for others.In each classroom, these inclusive materials will be integrated into learning centers, imaginative play areas, and daily classroom routines.

Name: Chad Koke

School: Arlington Elementary

Amount: $1,675.00

Project Title: Building Character Through Play: PE Equipment Upgrade for Teamwork and Sportsmanship

Project Summary: At Arlington Elementary, we believe that Physical Education is about more than exercise—it is a foundation for lifelong health, teamwork, and character development. Our gym is one of the few places in the school day where every student can come together to play, cooperate, and learn valuable life skills that extend far beyond the walls of the school. When students have access to appropriate and engaging equipment, the benefits go well beyond physical fitness. New resources create opportunities for students to practice cooperation—whether it’s working together to achieve a common goal, encouraging classmates during a challenge, or taking turns fairly.

Name: Kimberly Houston

School: Acton Elementary

Amount: $1,895.00

Project Title: “Seatbelts, Everyone!” – Miss Frizzle

Project Summary: One special experience, the portable planetarium, will be offered to the entire school. This in-school program will transform our gym into a night sky, immersing all students in the constellations and myths they’ve read about and inspiring wonder across all grade levels. Students will not just read about the world, they will experience it in ways that inspire curiosity, deepen understanding, and spark a lifelong love of learning.

Name: New Bethel 3rd Grade

School: New Bethel Elementary

Amount: $1,000.00

Project Title: Anatomy of Co-Regulation

Project Summary: Our science project is to educate the students on a horse’s nervous system which is five times larger than a human nervous system as part of our animal unit. The students will also learn how a horse herd functions as a unit then culminate with actually getting to brush, touch and listen to a horse’s heartbeat meanwhile feeling how the horse is able to co-regulate the student’s own nervous system.  Teachers will help students compare and contrast the horse’s and human nervous systems and how this all relates to the individual student’s reactions to others.

Name: Paul Osterman

School: FCHS

Amount: $1,000.00

Project Title: Putting Theory Into Practice: Activation of Neural Networks Through Sound Bathing and Guided Meditation

Project Summary: This is the fifth year of a one-semester Biology of Happiness course at Franklin Central. During the course, students learn about the fundamentals of scientific study and research, foundational operational principles of biological systems, the structure and function of components of the nervous and endocrine systems, and the application of this knowledge for the promotion of mental and physical well-being. As an extension of the opportunities students have to experience well-being practices, we would like to offer four sessions of sound-bathing with guided meditation offered by a professional practitioner.

Name: Victoria Sayler

School: Edgewood Intermediate

Amount: $4,994

Project Title: Drums Unite Cultures & Connect Students

Project Summary: Learning to drum, using a class set of tubanos would greatly impact my classroom and learning for all students. Drumming ensemble celebrates diversity and inclusiveness while reinforcing that all are welcome in our ensemble. Specific pieces we would learn would be from West Africa, Liberia and Latin America. This project would allow me to purchase 5 drums each of the low, medium and high categories as well as some two sets of Orff mallets so that we can combine the drums to make ensemble pieces with instruments we currently have.

Name: Amanda Kammer

School: FCJH

Amount: $3,665

Project Title: 8th Grade PE Activities for HS Credit

Project Summary: Every student coming thru FCJH has the ability to earn 2 FCHS PE credits by the time they complete 8th grade. Part of the 8th grade curriculum is leisure activities. With nearly 900 students coming thru during the year, we need more equipment to accommodate the growth and to replace some of our aging equipment. Some of this equipment will also allow us to take the activities outside as well.

Name: Becky Krug

School: Edgewood Intermediate

Amount: $2,990

Project Title: Ozobots Replenishment

Project Summary: Ozobots, small programmable robots, play a crucial role in developing students’ programming, engineering, and logical thinking skills. However, a significant number of our Ozobots are broken or malfunctioning, which limits the students’ ability to fully engage with the technology and hampers the effectiveness of our robotics program. The purpose of this grant is to continue the class goals of: Enhance Coding Skills, Promote Engineering Design Process, and Foster Collaboration & Problem Solving.

Names: Shannon Bresko & Kristina Burns

School: FTCSC

Amount: $1,600

Project Title: Ready Bodies, Learning Minds

Project Summary: The vision of this project is to bring the Ready Bodies, Learning Minds (RBLM) program into our FTCSC buildings. The Ready Bodies, Learning Minds program is a nationally recognized, evidence based program that has been shown to not only help our neurodivergent students but also typically developing students as well. Ready Bodies, Learning Minds is designed to improve motor skills which will then allow children to obtain the movements needed to express what they have learned. The Ready Bodies, Learning Minds program has also been proven to not only increase academic performance but to also improve behaviors within the classroom.

Name: Brian Rees

School: Edgewood Intermediate

Amount: $1,400

Project Title: Hummingbird Robotics Power Supply

Project Summary: In 6th Grade Computer Science we utilize the Hummingbird Robotics Kits to build 6 different robots during the semester. This teaches STEM in a really fun, memorable, and hands-on experience for the students. The kit manufacturers recently came out with rechargeable battery packs for these kits which would eliminate all the waste and environmental impact of throwing away approximately 200 AA batteries every semester. This would also allow me to focus funds from the parents to additional supplies to help build the robots each semester.

Name: Melanie Shiflet

School: FCJH

Amount: $1,004

Project Title: 3D Print Fun

Project Summary: In the PLTW classroom we create fun projects in TinkerCAD and the students would love to print out their designs to take home. I am asking for two 3D printers and filament to enhance the authenticity, culture, and opportunities of my STEM classroom for students. 3D printing has become an integral tool in STEM classrooms, providing numerous benefits that enhance learning experiences. 3D printing enhances creativity, collaboration, inclusivity, and practical skills in STEM education, making it an invaluable resource in preparing students for future challenges and opportunities.

Name: Katie Pemberton

School: Kitley Intermediate

Amount: $750.00

Project Title: Sensory Closet

Project Summary: My project is to building a supply of sensory tools and items for our special education teachers to use with students at Kitley Intermediate. This would allow for our resource teachers to have sensory items for our current students and any future students that we could use. This would help prevent our resource teachers from buying these sensory items with their own money. The grant money would be used to buy these sensory items and keep them in one central place in our building where all of our resource teachers, essential skills teachers, and behavior support room teachers could access whenever a student presented the need.

Name: Kelly Eickleberry

School: New Bethel Elementary

Amount: $725.00

Project Title: I’m Done! What Can I Do Now?

Project Summary: In a classroom of 21 five-year-olds, there is always a wide variety of skills and the time it takes for each student to complete a task. My vision is to make STEM Bins and hands-on activities readily available for students who have completed their assignments, providing them with educational opportunities to enrich and extend their learning experience. This approach serves a dual purpose: it enables me to continue providing targeted instruction and support for students who need it, while also empowering other students to build independence in their learning. By fostering curiosity and a love for learning at an early age, these resources will set a strong foundation for future academic success. With this funding, we can create a classroom environment that not only meets each child where they are but also encourages them to grow through meaningful, engaging, and age-appropriate STEM exploration.

Name: Adrienne Haynes

School: Edgewood Intermediate

Amount: $500.00

Project Title: Task Boxes for Special Education

Project Summary: I would like to create task boxes to help students that struggle, academically, behaviorally, and emotionally. The task boxes will help students feel success independently with minimal frustration. The task boxes will be directly used in the resource setting. The activities that the task boxes will contain will include ELA, math, hands on learning, functional skills, and socially emotional learning. This will be a great grant to fulfill because it will benefit fourth, fifth, and sixth grade resource students that receive special education support.

Name: Jessica Youmans

School: FCHS

Amount: $500.00

Project Title: Building the World

Project Summary: I teach our PACE students Geography. I’d like to have world map puzzles that they can put together as we learn about each continent. Puzzles are relaxing to our kids and are a great way to help their brains relax after taking in loads of information about different countries and people groups while also giving them a much-needed, concrete way of viewing where they’re learning about.

Name: Kristin Burmeister

School: New Bethel Elementary

Amount: $500.00

Project Title: Safe Place Essentials

Project Summary: In our classrooms, all teachers create a “Safe Place”, which is a place where students may go if they are needing to calm down or needing somewhere to process their emotions. Through this grant, I would like all teachers to have some common items, so across settings, students can use items that can calm and reregulate their emotions so they are ready to continue learning. I would create a basket with items for each classroom, specials, resource room and counseling office for students to access in the “Safe Place”.

Name: Kylie Palmer

School: FCJH

Amount: $435.00

Project Title: Sometimes You Need a Break

Project Summary: I would like to create a safe space in my classroom for students to go when they need a break to recharge. I would use the funds to purchase sensory wall tiles, sensory fidgets, an organizer for the fidgets, and a diffuser. These items would help students get through the rest of the school day successfully.

Name: Amy Steinhofer

School: WELC

Amount: $400.00

Project Title: Partnering with Families for Kindergarten Success

Project Summary: I would like to begin building a take-home and more hands-on resource library for parents and students to learn and explore together at home which will help reinforce skills introduced in speech therapy to help best prepare them for kindergarten. I also will be able to introduce novel games and activities during our speech therapy sessions, which students can then take home to practice further and help extend their learning. With extensive research showing play-based learning is optimal for our youngest students, these home activities also help create ties between students and their parents as they work and play together to learn skills and also have fun doing the activities.

Name: Kelli Link

School: FTCSC

Amount: $250.oo

Project Title: From Boring to Building

Project Summary: As a teacher for the deaf and hard of hearing, many times I see students to talk about how they’re hearing in the classroom and different environments during their school day. This can be a very boring part of their day and I am always looking for ways to make it more fun and exciting. I would like to receive a grant where I can purchase stem kits to build with students while we are talking so they have something to look forward to while they are mindlessly answering questions. I would love for these kits to also be related to hearing so some stem kits will be building small speakers or radios.

Name: Dan Lyng

School: FCHS

Amount: $194.25

Project Title: Adaptive Music Supplies

Project Summary: I currently teach the adaptive music class at the HS, which has no dedicated budget, and therefore no dedicated classroom equipment or manipulatives for students to use. This project will allow me to engage students with musical kinesthetically.

Name: Amanda Eads

School: Arlington Elementary

Amount: $95.00

Project Title: Interactive Social Stories for All

Project Summary: This project will provide 48+ interactive social stories that can be modified and utilized with any student who is having difficulty with social interactions or procedures throughout the entire school building. I only service 14 students as a teacher of record, but I help create materials to help students throughout the entire building with the help of our school counselor. These resources can be used for any of our kindergarten-3rd grade students for all years to come.

Name: Julie Hippleheuser

School: Franklin Central Junior High

Amount: $775.42

Project Title: Sheep Eye Dissection Lab

Project Summary: With our body system and metabolism unit we would love to give the students a first hand experiment with dissecting a sheep eye. It allows the students to see first hand what an organ is and how it works. The sheep eye is very similar to the human eye so that is why it is used. We have done them for years with the students here in franklin township and the opportunity is amazing.

Name: Jennifer Tetrick

School: Franklin Central High School

Amount: $7,500

Project Title: Digi-Mic

Project Summary: Access to modern technology appeals more to the student population. When students utilize outdated equipment, they are less interested because the equipment does not meet their current needs as a learner. Use of digital microscopes will grant access to real-life science exploration. Digital microscopes provide equal access to students with disabilities and visual impairments as well.

Name: Jayne Adams

School: Acton Elementary

Amount: $6,877.44

Project Title: Rock Wall for Acton

Project Summary:  Climbing rock walls enhance problem solving and sequencing skills, build strength and flexibility, expand range of motion, improve fine and gross motor skills, build self confidence, and increase each student’s level of physical fitness. As a PE Teacher, I am continually working on integrating the Indiana State Standards for Physical Education into my lessons and activities. Rock wall climbing aligns with all of the state standards. The addition of a rock wall at Acton Elementary provides a unique and exciting opportunity for ALL students that we have not been able to offer in the past.

Name: Leanne Robson

School: Franklin Central Junior High

Amount: $1,620

Project Title: ES Shredding Company

Project Summary: The Essential Skills classroom would like to start a shredding business. The shredding business will benefit the teachers and our students. The teachers will be able to count on the Essential Skills students to collect the papers that need shredding and then the Essential Skills students will have the responsibility of shredding the papers every morning during their work skills unit. The students will learn accountability and become life long employees.

Name: Hannah O’Friel

School: Kitley Intermediate

Amount: $1,350

Project Title: Ukuleles for Kitley

Project Summary: My vision for my students is that every student would get to practice on their own ukulele while in the classroom. The ukuleles are so essential for the development of theory, (fretboards are chromatic), and playing the ukulele develops muscles that allow students to successfully play orchestral instruments. The alternate notation, (tablature and chord charts), develop music literacy skills and give students accessible music they can succeed in playing. The chord shapes translate easily into guitar as well, which is an instrument most people will have access to at some point in life. These funds would put instruments in the hand of every 5th graders, allowing them to have more time to develop skills, more opportunities to play and compose, and better develop music literacy and muscle development.

Name: Crystal Livesay

School: Thompson Crossing Elementary

Amount: $1,000

Project Title: Bilingual Bookshelves

Project Summary: Our proposed project is centered around building bilingual classroom libraries to offer our students in our Dual Language Immersion Program more opportunities to engage in reading in both Spanish and English. If we can provide additional bilingual books that vary in reading levels in the classroom, students and teachers would have more immediate access to appropriate materials and this would further support their growth in both languages. Both Spanish and English speaking students would benefit from the additional vocabulary they would gain. In addition to strengthening student language skills, some of the books we would like to purchase would be written by authentic Spanish authors as this would further immerse them in the cultures about which they are learning.

Name: Kelly Eickleberry

School: Acton Elementary

Amount: $560

Project Title: Literacy for Kinders

Project Summary: By creating various centers for the classroom to meet the needs of the students and of the district, there is a need to purchase various literacy centers and manipulatives to foster the learning environment required to teach today’s kindergarteners. My students will have the opportunities to work on letter naming, sound fluency, beginning, middle, and ending sounds, as well as syllable counting and letter swapping to create a new word through the use of these materials. I know it will inspire all students to be independent workers whom ask questions when their learning does not make sense to them.

Names: Alyssa Beasley & Daniella Harvey

School: Thompson Crossing Elementary

Amount: $525.36

Project Title: Dual Language Classroom Library

Project Summary: We would like to purchase bilingual books to be used as mentor texts in our first grade dual language program, as well as for students to select during their independent reading time (separate from checking books out at the library.) Students will be able to self select books to improve both their English and Spanish reading. They will also be exposed to culturally authentic texts, titles, and authors. It will grow their cultural awareness, as well as improve their reading in both languages.

Name: Maribeth Gossard

School: Arlington Elementary

Amount: $500

Project Title: Learning Through Games

Project Summary: When learning is fun, the students are engaged and excited to learn. The games can be used at all levels of proficiency from newcomers to nearly fluent. So many of my students do not have access to board games so this provides an opportunity to engage in activities they do not have otherwise. It also teaches skills like team work and taking turns. These games will be a wonderful addition to the EL classroom supplies and can be used for all students for many years to come.

Names: Theresa Andis

School: Franklin Central Junior High

Amount: $400

Project Title: Job Skill Task Boxes

Project Summary: The hands on experiences that these job skill boxes are essential in providing our population of students with the individual learning opportunities that they need to be successful for their futures. The funds will be utilized to create different job skill boxes that will help promote our student’s ability to transition to live as independent in futures as possible.

Name: Cherie Whitaker

School: Franklin Central Junior High

Amount: $300

Project Title: Adaptive PE Certification

Project Summary: I would like to become certified, through Special Strong, as an Adaptive Fitness Instructor. As an Adaptive Physical Education teacher, I am always looking for ways to improve my students’ fitness level and overall health. Through this program, I will learn innovative ways to work with our physically and cognitively challenged students. I will be certified to work with them individually, in a group setting, or virtually. I hope my students and their families remember the variety of activities bring to them, and how it helps their overall health and wellbeing.

Names: Amanda Eads

School: Arlington Elementary

Amount: $125

Project Title: Fluency & Fitness

Project Summary: Fluency and Fitness ties movement breaks to academic content related to English Language Arts and Math. The movement breaks allow students to practice curriculum by answering questions and then completing movements to music on slides in between. The Fluency Find It game allows students hands-on academic practice with a worksheet or whiteboard. The Task Cards can be completed individually or as a class. These hands-on movement activities make learning memorable and help create connections to long-term memory because in their mind, they are simply playing a game and having fun.

Name: Maggie Bunch

School: Edgewood Intermediate

Amount: $125

Project Title: Word Work Manipulatives

Project Summary: One of the main skill areas where students struggle in guided reading is on phonetics. My vision is to provide different manipulatives to help students learn blends, cvc words, etc. Students will be able to manipulate these words and visually see the patterns the words make. They will use these tiles to manipulate words. It allows them to physically move the letters while creating different words based on their specific learning needs.