Date: Spring 2010 Amount: $3540 Kennebunk Elementary School 1st Graders/Multiage students will use Movin’ Sits in their classrooms. The wedge-shaped seats sit on students’ chairs and allow them to have better posture and focus in the classroom.
Date: Spring 2010 Amount: $1200 Elementary students who excel in math will have an accelerated on-line math program to challenge them in mathematical concepts, abstract reasoning and computations.
Date: Winter 2010 Amount: $1,260.00 K–5 Macintosh computer labs received software that helps children learn keyboarding in a fun way; the software allows the tracking of student progress as well.
Date: Winter 2010 Amount: $6,075.00 Third-grade students identified as being at risk of not meeting New England Comprehensive Assessment Program standards attended school for ten half-days in August to work on math and literacy.
Date: Winter 2010 Sponsor: Tracy Mason Amount: $5,613.20 The EFKA supported this program last year for K – 1 classes. In this second phase, the program is expanded to include second grade teachers, RTI tutors, Title 1 and special education staff. As part of this project, a Handwriting Without Tears representative would come to our Read the full article…
Date: Spring 2009 Sponsor: Stacey Schatzabel Amount: $2,250.00 Based on research indicating that active sitting contributes to active learning, this grant provided stability balls for experimental use in multiple classrooms to replace traditional chairs.
Date: Spring 2009 Sponsor: Kevin Crowley, Sara Zito Amount: $4,800.00 A collaboration with the Kennebunk Land Trust and the Kennebunk Free Library to enable students to experience the natural environment and introduce them to the beauty, history, and ecology that surrounds us.
Date: Spring 2009 Sponsor: L KES AR Committee Amount: $1,800.00 Comprehensive, standards-based, online mathematics games and activities that support differentiation and 21st-century skills.