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Spring 2003 grant recipients:

Mr. Bones Science Program - Hathaway Elementary
The third grade teachers at Hathaway will use "Mr. Bones" (life size skeleton with moveable parts) for a team teaching, large group instruction unit. This will enable each third grader to extend the existing classroom study of the Human Body, by providing greater kinesthetic, visual, and hands-on learning. "Mr. Bones" will be used in ways that increase student thinking and social skills. The third grade student body will be divided into small groups in the gym and participate in activities such as relay races to take apart and reassemble the skeletal system. Or, students will get a sense of what it is like to be archaeologists when all the bones are put into a tub and they have to find the right bone to go into the correct space.
Author Day - Cape Horn-Skye Elementary and Canyon Creek Middle School
Noted children's author, Eric Kimmel, will be the guest speaker at two school assemblies where he will share several of his books. He will explain how he gets his ideas for writing, and the process of taking that idea to a finished book. He will illustrate his talk with actual manuscripts, galleys, and press sheets from his files so students can understand the steps of the writing process. The author will also meet with selected student writers in a mini workshop format.
Our Amazing Journey - Canyon Creek Middle School
Students will learn about our country: its landmarks, its cities, and its geographical wonders. The unit is modeled after the television show "The Amazing Race". Students will be given clues and guidelines to figure out where they need to visit. After they research and find a destination, they will have to figure out a way to get there and figure a budget along the way. Individual interests and creativity will guide each student's journey through the US. Also, students will gain life skills from new circumstances that arise.......what do you do if you lose your wallet and identification?
Math Daze - Hathaway Elementary
This project puts manipulatives, or "tools" in the students' hands to experience math more meaningfully. Skills in graphing, measurement, geometry, and fractions will be enhanced with a classroom set of manipulatives that supports and expands the fourth grade curriculum.
Literacy Centers - Hathaway Elementary
Funding will be used to create literacy centers in the first grade classrooms to promote various fundamental language skills. The literacy centers will help develop vocabulary, sight word recognition, and phonemic awareness, which will expand the students' ability to read. Students will rotate through these centers where they will be individually engaged and challenged.
Missoula Children's Theatre - Hathaway Elementary
Along with professional actors, fifty to sixty students will perform in a musical production under the guidance and direction of the Missoula Children's Theater Group. Additional students will also serve as assistant directors and technical assistants in sound and lighting. Also, The Missoula Children's Theater Group will conduct classroom workshops at Hathaway during school hours. This project will provide a unique enrichment opportunity for students K through 5, as well as benefit the community by staging a theater production for the entire community to enjoy.
Compose Music: I Can, I Can! - Cape Horn-Skye Elementary
Funding will be used to provide materials for music students to learn and eventually compose their own music. The student sized dry erase staff boards will allow all students to actively participate while expanding the curriculum of composition objectives.