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The Queen Creek Schools Education Foundation partners with the community to promote excellence in education and encourages responsible citizenship by financially supporting growth and learning opportunities for teachers and students within the Queen Creek School DistrictNewsletter Signup
| Teacher Grant Winners - Spring 2009 |
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Each of the following teachers was awarded $300 for the Spring Semester. Kathy Olmstead, from Queen Creek Middle School, will help her students by buying books that will allow them to work on their own autobiography. The students will be able to compile information for their autobiography, put the information on the computer and then print out their own autobiography book.
Tom Bidlack: Kathy Olmstead, 8th grade Language-Arts Teacher;
Principal Julie Niven and Tom Lindsey, Director of Curriculum.
Linda Okonowski, from Queen Creek Elementary school will use her grant money for “Book Cooks.” Students will be introduced to different literature. They will do graphing, rhyming, punctuation, songs, and learning to follow directions and work together with the purpose of doing a recipe to cook with a theme that goes with a book and a lesson. Mrs. Okonowski said; “It will give the students a variety of ways to learn the curriculum. They also will learn different objectives in each lesson. Each lesson will have reading, writing, math, thinking, following directions, social studies, science, and learning to work together, which is an important life skill.” Kimberly Rutherford, also from Queen Creek Elementary, received her grant money for her students to learn “the life cycle of the chick.” During this project,... the students have a hands on learning experience of how an egg becomes a chick. With a real incubator in the classroom the students and can see the temperature of the eggs, see them rotate, and watch them hatch. Once the eggs are hatched the students will watch the changes the chicks go through. They will also learn about the responsibility it takes to feed and care for a chick.
from left to right Tom Bidlack, President of QCSEF; Kimberly Rutherford, |
