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Fourth Grade Smart Board
2024 Grant Recipients
January 31, 2025
We have been loving our new Interactive Whiteboard.
I appreciate the very generous support and donation, this class will continue growing academically because of you all!
Sincerely,
Miss Sperl and the rest of class 303
We have been loving our new Interactive Whiteboard.
I appreciate the very generous support and donation, this class will continue growing academically because of you all!
Sincerely,
Miss Sperl and the rest of class 303
2023 Grant Recipients
CPR for AHS Students
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March 28, 2024
Meagan Shrewsbury came to Mrs. Hiemstra's Health classes last week and CPR-certified over 53 students; bringing this year's total to 94 students certified. We appreciate her and her mom (Kim Galyen) volunteering their time to give our students this life-saving training! Mrs. Hiemstra would also like to thank the APS Foundation for their grant funding to purchase the certification cards and classroom training materials. We could not have done it without them!!
Meagan Shrewsbury came to Mrs. Hiemstra's Health classes last week and CPR-certified over 53 students; bringing this year's total to 94 students certified. We appreciate her and her mom (Kim Galyen) volunteering their time to give our students this life-saving training! Mrs. Hiemstra would also like to thank the APS Foundation for their grant funding to purchase the certification cards and classroom training materials. We could not have done it without them!!
Literature Circle Project
A graphic novel literature circle project was put into place in Weatherford ISD in 2019. This project brought curriculum-aligned graphic novels into the English classrooms as a means to encourage reluctant readers and create life-long learners. I witnessed reluctant readers try the graphic novels and finish the graphic novels. Not only did these readers try and finish the novels, but they also asked to read other graphic novels.
Here is just one piece of the literature I used for a project to help encourage the use of graphic novels and literature circles in general:
“Introducing graphic novels into the classroom provides a unique opportunity to teach a different type of literacy: visual literacy. Students can be taught to “read” and analyze not only text, but color, shape, texture, layout, and more. This skill is going to become increasingly important in their world of digital media. It can also be transferred to text-based novels” (Przybylski, 2019).
Essentially, I brought some of those same graphic novels from Weatherford ISD to AHS and added literature circle novels to the mix, also. I use the graphic novels between Thanksgiving and Christmas after writing the big MLA research paper, and I use the literature circle novels in the spring after our big APA research paper. They are all stories of literary merit, but are also extremely high interest.
-Mrs. Cathy Fingar
Here is just one piece of the literature I used for a project to help encourage the use of graphic novels and literature circles in general:
“Introducing graphic novels into the classroom provides a unique opportunity to teach a different type of literacy: visual literacy. Students can be taught to “read” and analyze not only text, but color, shape, texture, layout, and more. This skill is going to become increasingly important in their world of digital media. It can also be transferred to text-based novels” (Przybylski, 2019).
Essentially, I brought some of those same graphic novels from Weatherford ISD to AHS and added literature circle novels to the mix, also. I use the graphic novels between Thanksgiving and Christmas after writing the big MLA research paper, and I use the literature circle novels in the spring after our big APA research paper. They are all stories of literary merit, but are also extremely high interest.
-Mrs. Cathy Fingar
2022 Grant Recipients
Ukeleles for Joy
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Alliance Public Schools Grandview Elementary students have “ukuleles” to add to their musical instruments thanks to funding by the Alliance Public Schools Excellence in Education Grants. Mrs. Sara Behrends, elementary music instructor, wrote a grant for a class set of ukuleles to further enrich the curriculum of the upper elementary students by providing another means by which to make music. Playing the ukulele improves coordination, provides an outlet for stress, promotes social/emotional growth, and assists in the development of reading and comprehension skills. Funding was awarded in the amount of $1008 to provide 24 ukuleles. The Foundation is proud to be able to enhance the music program with this award enriching over 250 students this year.
