Date: Spring 2013 Amount: $3,876 Literacy Kits purchased and distributed to kindergarteners at KES, MLD, and KCS. The Kennebunk, Kennebunkport, Arundel Literacy for ME Collaborative, made up of librarians and educators along with the United Way, designed the kits as a tool to enrich language development and learning in the home. Each kit came with Read the full article…
Date: Fall 2012 Amount: $4,000.00 All RSU 21 5th graders will attend Julia Robinson Math Festival at University of New England with help from Mathematical Sciences Research Institute professionals. The festival is a non-competitive event featuring math challenges and puzzles that require creativity and persistence to solve. 5th grade teachers, math teachers from MSK and Read the full article…
Schools: All elementary schools in RSU21 Date: Fall 2011 Amount: $15,825.00 Twenty-five classrooms in the elementary schools in RSU21 are getting stability balls, which are proven to improve posture and focus of children in the classroom.
Schools: Kennebunkport Consolidated School, Kennebunk Elementary School, Mildred L. Day School, Sea Road School Date: Spring 2011 Total: $3,200 Mobile carts outfitted with supplies allow students to cook in their classrooms. Students grow produce in school gardens and can enjoy healthy foods while learning math, reading, geography and life skills. This program aligns with Read the full article…
Date: Winter 2011 Amount: $5,249 Software packages for Math IXL and Accelerated Reader are purchased for Kennebunkport Consolidated School. Current users and teachers at Kennebunk Elementary School and Sea Road School highly recommend Math IXL and Accelerated Reader.
Date: Winter 2011 Amount: $952.50 Two classrooms at Consolidated School get stability balls. Stability balls have been a great success at Kennebunk Elementary School.
Date: Fall 2010 Amount: $$6,197.31 A Pilot Program will be developed to teach Metacognitive Higher Order Thinking Skills in third grade. Today’s students must be able to read and process large amounts of material; the program will put together a curriculum that will teach critical thinking skills at an earlier age.
Date: Spring 2010 Amount: $2,097 K through 5 students will learn Spanish phrases through signs in classrooms paired with recorded messages that provide correct pronunciation.
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: $11,900.00 Fifth graders from RSU #21 went to Heartwood College of Art to receive training in varied art media ranging from photography and pastels to jewelry and paper making.
Date: Winter 2010 Amount: $900.00 Fourth– and fifth-grade instructors received the digital component of the “Science Companion” curriculum kits, allowing them to integrate six units of study with existing interactive whiteboards.
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: Go Green Committee Amount: $10,000.00 A comprehensive plan involving the entire student body to “green up” the school in practice and throughout the curriculum. Themes include reduce, reuse, and recycle; alternative energy sources; and vermiculture and composting. The project also constructed a greenhouse, an outdoor classroom, and solar panels to produce Read the full article…
Date: Spring 2009 Amount: $10,000.00 A comprehensive plan involving the entire student body to “green up” the school in practice and throughout the curriculum. Themes include reduce, reuse, and recycle; alternative energy sources; and vermiculture and composting. The project also constructed a greenhouse, an outdoor classroom, and solar panels to produce electricty for the school.