FAMILY Fun Pack Math 2nd Grade



|World at Your Feet |Ten-Frame Tiles: A Visual Experience |

|Castleman Creek Elementary |All Elementary Campuses |

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|World at Your Feet is an exercise program that focuses on stepping, climbing, and |Ten-Frame Tiles are the latest advance in base-ten manipulatives where students |

|cycling. By using the stationary pedals, aerobic steps, and stair steppers, |physically and visually experience the structure and applications of the base-10 |

|participants take virtual journeys across the globe without ever leaving the gym. |number system. Students explore the full range of base-ten concepts – from counting |

|Students of all ages are more active, energized, and empowered to lead healthy lives |to decimals. Ten-Frame Tiles bring physical representation to math concepts, |

|while climbing steps at Chimney Rock in North Carolina, cycling through California’s |including the properties of operations, relationships among operations, and |

|Napa Valley, and hiking the trails of Banff National Park in Canada, just to name a |applications of the base-ten system. This puts tiles in the hands of ALL Midway |

|few. |elementary mathematicians! |

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|Amount Funded: $4,720 |Amount Funded: $9,990 |

|Students Impacted: 600 |Students Impacted: 3,073 |

|Expenditure per student: $7.87 |Expenditure per student: $3.25 |

|Named Grant Sponsor: Col. & Mrs. Joe McKethan |Named Grant Sponsor: Lonestar Truck Group |

|Primary Grant Writers: Jalayne Rinewalt |Primary Grant Writer: Becky Kersh, Michele Kupiszewski, |

| |Carrie Losak, Neta Kaye Pension, |

| |Blaire Thornton, Lesley Swartz |

|“Start Spreading the News” |Paws for Peace |

|South Bosque Elementary |Speegleville Elementary |

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|This grant is for the “Teachers College Reading and Writing Project” at Columbia |With mental, behavioral or development disorders, students have the need to feel safe|

|University. The “Reading and Writing Project” is an institute founded by Lucy Calkins|to learn. With giving the students robotic pets that simulate breathing, purring and |

|who is the author/coauthor of over 40+ professional development books. For over 36 |realistic animation, this helps to soothe the children. When students are triggered, |

|years 170,000 educators have come together, to study methods and plan curricula, |they are able to find an animatronic pet to help them calm themselves enough to |

|revitalize their thinking, and most importantly, encourage their students to lead |return to the curriculum, thus increasing learning by all students in the class, |

|rich and literate lives. This institute will provide the opportunity for our teachers|raising grades and test scores and creating a calmer student population. |

|to learn how to develop a culture of literacy and mentor writing through the | |

|development of Lucy Calkins units of study. |Amount Funded: $1,000 |

| |Students Impacted: 300 |

|Amount Funded: $10,000 |Expenditure per student: $3.33 |

|Students Impacted: 662 |Named Grant Sponsor: MISD Education Foundation |

|Expenditure per student: $15.11 |Primary Grant Writers: Christe Hancock |

|Named Grant Sponsor: Camille Johnson Realtors | |

|Primary Grant Writers: Amber Pearson, Amber Brown, | |

|Lindsey Pick, Kristen Taylor | |

|No More Math Fact Frenzy |The 3 R’s: Reading, Riding, ‘Rithmetic |

|Woodway Elementary |Woodgate Intermediate |

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|Hand2Mind’s Daily Fluency kits include one hundred twenty number strings and sixty |“Reading, Riding and Rithmetic” provides six stationary bikes going full speed while |

|math talks as well as classroom manipulatives to help students visualize mathematics.|math and reading assignments are being completed! Kinesthetic learners are able to |

|A “Number String” is a set of related math problems designed to teach strategies to |work while moving. Many of our students work better when they are able to be active. |

|improve number sense. A “Number Talk” is a pedagogical strategy centered on |These bikes help students do both at the same time. They are designed with a |

|purposefully chosen math problems the students solve mentally and discuss the |desk-like top that enables students to actually do work while riding them. |

|strategies they implement to solve it. | |

| |Amount Funded: $1,815 |

| |Students Impacted: 730 |

|Amount Funded: $4,200 |Expenditure per student: $2.49 |

|Students Impacted: 550 |Named Grant Sponsor: Jim Turner Chevrolet |

|Expenditure per student: $7.64 |Primary Grant Writer: Gretchen Gibson, Audrey Carney |

|Named Grant Sponsor: Kumon Math and Reading Center | |

|of Waco | |

|Primary Grant Writers: Lesley Swartz | |

|Voices from Midway Middle | |

|Midway Middle School | |

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|Voices from Midway Middle School; Multimedia Literary and Visual Arts Publishing | |

|Studio provides eighth-grade students the opportunity to share their unique voices by| |

|participating in writing, illustrating, filming, and publishing a digital literary | |

|magazine. Digitally-aware students want to produce high-quality products in the | |

|electronic realm. Using a Mac-based publishing platform, students curate and publish | |

|creative elements into a multi-media book. The library will received a hardbound copy| |

|to create a legacy of student expression. | |

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|Amount Funded: $4,905 | |

|Students Impacted: 663 | |

|Expenditure per student: $7.40 | |

|Named Grant Sponsor: Michelle & Robert Johnson/WACOAN | |

|Primary Grant Writer: Jennifer German, Liz Hagins, | |

|Rose Johnson | |

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Summary of Grant Awards to

All Campuses

Round Thirty-Eight (Fall 2019)

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