Rosebank Elementary School (619-422-8329)

  • "Shake, Rattle and Roll - A Celebration of World Music"

    • Tracy King - Kindergarten through Sixth Grade Teacher

    A grant of $840.00 provided financial support to purchase the following:

    • Treasury of Africa reference book
    • Sample gourd designs demonstration gourd
    • Electric and hand saws and blades
    • Technical books
    • Thumb piano
    • Dye and stain
    • Goat drum skins
    • Woodburner and tips and accompanying book
    • Scouring pads and notebooks

    Students learned the meaning of masks and the role that music plays in the African storytelling tradition. The participating students, kindergarten through sixth grade, immersed themselves in the African culture and designed and crafted a musical/theatrical performance with the use of handmade gourd instruments. Mr. King plans to grow and harvest, on campus, gourds to be crafted into vessels, masks, musical instruments, body adornment from various cultures and historical periods.

Anza Elementary School

  • "Kids of America"

    • Cindy Knight, Teacher

    A grant of $1,000 provided funding for purchase of books, costumes, building materials to create the backdrop, props for the production, fabric to make costumes, videotape and film.

    Students read historical fiction and then theatrically performed those stories through acting, song, and dance for the entire school and parents. By dressing in costumes and playing the role of historical figures, students learned more about times of long ago. Students were engaged and this facilitated learning about Colonial American history.

Bobier School (760-724-8501)

  • "Fifth Grade Legacy Project: A Community Service"

    • Joyce James, Fifth Grade Teacher

    A grant of $990.00 provided the following:

    • 40 Duncan glazes
    • Brushes and over glaze
    • Tile, group and waterproof mastic
    • Two kiln peep plugs
    • Five pounds kiln wash
    • Two tile racks
    • Three sheets of plywood
    • Tarps, sponges, tools, and miscellaneous fasteners and hangers

    This community service project designed and completed two tile murals in a collaboration of school personnel, community, volunteers, and professionals. Learning objectives were to demonstrate civic values and responsibilities and to use math, social studies and art as extensions of the literacy curriculum. Students had to facilitate receiving donations, writing reports, learning scale and measurement, and the chemistry of glazing and kiln firing. Ms. James reports a reduction in the rate of conflict by students.

Brooklyn Elementary (619-525-7410)

  • "Second Grade Genre Study"

    • Joseph Wainio, Second Grade Teacher

    A grant of $500.00 purchased 103 books-early and fluent level Discovery Links/Social Studies and early and fluent level Discovery Links/Science from Newbridge Educational Publishing.

    The study of non-fiction books from different genres in Spanish followed by second grade students reading the books to kindergarteners. Students learned about science and social studies in their primary language, which facilitated their learning of English and meeting the districts language arts performance standards.

Cardiff Elementary School (760-632-5892)

  • "Our Community Through the Eyes of the First Grade"

    • Barbara Hall, First Grade Teacher

    A grant of $849.00 purchased one digital camera, paper, printing expenses, and Color cartridges.

    The first grade class took photographs, interviewed business leaders and compiled a photo essay book about their community. Ms. Hall's objective was to have her students reading and writing for a real purpose. The students each received a bound book of this project at the end of the school year.

Carrillo Elementary School (760-290-2900)

  • "Creative Literacy"

    • Amy McGrath and Patricia Meeker, Kindergarten and First Grade Teachers

    A grant of $745.48 provided funds to purchase approximately 80 books, games, puzzles and other learning manipulatives.

    This learning project utilized a variety of learning modalities with games and hands-on manipulatives to increase students' phonemic awareness and decoding skills. Students used tiles with letters printed on them to blend sounds and read new words. Another game was played by matching the beginning letter sounds of pictures to letters on game boards in order to win. The activities were fun and reinforced each child's skill level.

Flora Vista Elementary School (760-944-4329)

  • "Integrating Literacy with Performance Art and Music"

    • Elin Evans, Kindergarten Teacher

    A grant of $860.00 purchased a SHURE wireless microphone system, body pack transmitters, and two portable CD players.

    By staging a performance of "The Goose is Loose," a collection of Mother Goose nursery rhymes, kindergartners learned to read, recite and memorize words. This promoted learning as described in Gardner's "Multiple Intelligences." Because Flora Vista Elementary does not have an auditorium the grant provided equipment to amplify the student actors for their performance.