See following specific grants given for teacher comments and for examples of how grants were used.
Grants for 2020-2021
EDMONDS SCHOOL DISTRICT
Cedar Way Elementary
Kristi Pihl: A grant for $250 for leveled books for first grade students.
Hilltop Elementary
Matt Grover: A grant for $248 for nineteen copies of Brown Girl Dreaming for fifth grade students.
Lisa Reid: A grant for $190 for forty-one decodable readers for emergent readers from Flyleaf Publishing.
Lynndale Elementary
Kari Park: A grant for $234 for eighteen books from the “Little People, Big Dreams” biography series for second grade students.
Stacey Sateren: A $247 grant for art supplies, including watercolor paints, crayons, neon pencils, and black lights for her second-grade art and literature unit.
Jill Walzer: A grant for $231 for a set of books that reflect diversity for second grade students.
Lynnwood Elementary
Debra Comfort: A $250 grant for Capstone leveled readers (D-I) and Step Into Reading sets for second grade students.
Meadowdale Middle
Birgit Albiker-Osterhaug: A grant for $247 to purchase 35 copies of Ghost Boys to use with ELL students.
NORTHSHORE SCHOOL DISTRICT
Canyon Creek Elementary
Joanne Burkett: A $250 grant for historical fiction books to use with third grade students
SHORELINE SCHOOL DISTRICT
Briarcrest Elementary
Cindy Ebisu: A grant for $216 to buy jump ropes for third grade students.
Amy Pitts: A grant for $211 for subscriptions to Scholastic News and stress balls for second grade students.
Echo Lake Elementary
Jean Bolivar: A grant for $250 to purchase a selection of non-fiction books for intermediate students needing accessible texts
Kathryn Pihl: A grant for $250 to purchase leveled books for first grade students.
Allan Rand: A grant for $204 to purchase selected titles from the I Survived, the Who Was/Where Is, and the Track series for class genre studies by 5th grade students.
Lake Forest Park Elementary
Kimberly Clasen: A grant for $250 to purchase Rich Hartman’s online STEM experience on motion and design and the necessary student materials for 5th grade students
Frank Kleyn: A grant for $238 to purchase 11 titles from “Blastoff Readers (Level 2): World of Insects” series to supplement second student science curriculum.
Riley Kreutzer: A grant for $250 to purchase Rich Hartman’s online STEM experience on motion and design and the necessary student materials for 5th grade students.
Tamara Thompson: A grant for $250 to purchase rich Hartman’s online STEM experience on motion and design and the necessary student materials for 5th grade students.
Ridgecrest Elementary
Joanna Freeman: A grant for $224 for Thirty chapter books from Capstone Publishers for the library.
Syre Elementary
Maggie Dunleavy: A grant for $250 for subscriptions to Scholastic News and Scholastic Book Club prize books for fifth grade students.
Jenny Hodgen: A grant for $250 for subscriptions to Scholastic News and Scholastic Book Club prize books for fifth grade students.
Debbie Hubbell: A grant for $249 for subscriptions to Scholastic News and Scholastic Book Clubs prize books for fifth grade students.
EDMONDS SCHOOL DISTRICT
Cedar Way Elementary
Kristi Pihl: A grant for $250 for leveled books for first grade students.
Hilltop Elementary
Matt Grover: A grant for $248 for nineteen copies of Brown Girl Dreaming for fifth grade students.
Lisa Reid: A grant for $190 for forty-one decodable readers for emergent readers from Flyleaf Publishing.
Lynndale Elementary
Kari Park: A grant for $234 for eighteen books from the “Little People, Big Dreams” biography series for second grade students.
Stacey Sateren: A $247 grant for art supplies, including watercolor paints, crayons, neon pencils, and black lights for her second-grade art and literature unit.
Jill Walzer: A grant for $231 for a set of books that reflect diversity for second grade students.
Lynnwood Elementary
Debra Comfort: A $250 grant for Capstone leveled readers (D-I) and Step Into Reading sets for second grade students.
Meadowdale Middle
Birgit Albiker-Osterhaug: A grant for $247 to purchase 35 copies of Ghost Boys to use with ELL students.
NORTHSHORE SCHOOL DISTRICT
Canyon Creek Elementary
Joanne Burkett: A $250 grant for historical fiction books to use with third grade students
SHORELINE SCHOOL DISTRICT
Briarcrest Elementary
Cindy Ebisu: A grant for $216 to buy jump ropes for third grade students.
Amy Pitts: A grant for $211 for subscriptions to Scholastic News and stress balls for second grade students.
Echo Lake Elementary
Jean Bolivar: A grant for $250 to purchase a selection of non-fiction books for intermediate students needing accessible texts
Kathryn Pihl: A grant for $250 to purchase leveled books for first grade students.
Allan Rand: A grant for $204 to purchase selected titles from the I Survived, the Who Was/Where Is, and the Track series for class genre studies by 5th grade students.
Lake Forest Park Elementary
Kimberly Clasen: A grant for $250 to purchase Rich Hartman’s online STEM experience on motion and design and the necessary student materials for 5th grade students
Frank Kleyn: A grant for $238 to purchase 11 titles from “Blastoff Readers (Level 2): World of Insects” series to supplement second student science curriculum.
Riley Kreutzer: A grant for $250 to purchase Rich Hartman’s online STEM experience on motion and design and the necessary student materials for 5th grade students.
Tamara Thompson: A grant for $250 to purchase rich Hartman’s online STEM experience on motion and design and the necessary student materials for 5th grade students.
Ridgecrest Elementary
Joanna Freeman: A grant for $224 for Thirty chapter books from Capstone Publishers for the library.
Syre Elementary
Maggie Dunleavy: A grant for $250 for subscriptions to Scholastic News and Scholastic Book Club prize books for fifth grade students.
Jenny Hodgen: A grant for $250 for subscriptions to Scholastic News and Scholastic Book Club prize books for fifth grade students.
Debbie Hubbell: A grant for $249 for subscriptions to Scholastic News and Scholastic Book Clubs prize books for fifth grade students.
Comments from Grant Recipients
Kristi Pihl
1st grade teacher-Cedar Way Elementary
“Thank you so much for the $250 grant. It allowed me to add books so I have enough for kids to borrow at good fit levels with remote teaching. This has been critical since I can have kids borrow up to 20 books at a time while still allowing me to quarantine and have enough for the next pickup. My kids and families have been very grateful, since not all teachers have the needed books to offer this. My check out library is something I started with a previous SKSR Grant. I truly appreciate your help. It has allowed me to better support my kids and families for multiple years.
Jennifer Altena
Librarian-Syre
Thank you so much!
I am so happy to have won this grant! I can’t wait to order the books. I did a “diversity audit” of my books and found that the library needs more books to reflect the cultures of our students. I plan on ordering books that are from the Middle Eastern, Latinx, Asian, and First Nation cultures. With the awareness of diversity in our country today, there are finally more and more books for children that have characters from these places. The other crucial piece we look for in purchasing books is finding ones that are written by an author that is of that culture or race. This is another criteria I am examining when I make the book purchases. The books on the list I submitted will all fit these categories.
When I receive the books, I plan on sending a photo of them to you. I’m hoping to find a way to take photos of the kids holding the books as we come back on March 8th.
Thank you, again, for approving me for this grant. The kids and I are going to be thrilled to get these new books!
Birgit Albiker-Osterhaug
ELL Department-Meadowdale Middle School
Thank you very much! This is great news! This unit has grown into a multi-school collaboration effort and hopefully provides some much needed interaction between students. My classes will appreciate having a paper book in their hands again (well, most of them anyway).
Kristi Pihl
1st grade teacher-Cedar Way Elementary
“Thank you so much for the $250 grant. It allowed me to add books so I have enough for kids to borrow at good fit levels with remote teaching. This has been critical since I can have kids borrow up to 20 books at a time while still allowing me to quarantine and have enough for the next pickup. My kids and families have been very grateful, since not all teachers have the needed books to offer this. My check out library is something I started with a previous SKSR Grant. I truly appreciate your help. It has allowed me to better support my kids and families for multiple years.
Jennifer Altena
Librarian-Syre
Thank you so much!
I am so happy to have won this grant! I can’t wait to order the books. I did a “diversity audit” of my books and found that the library needs more books to reflect the cultures of our students. I plan on ordering books that are from the Middle Eastern, Latinx, Asian, and First Nation cultures. With the awareness of diversity in our country today, there are finally more and more books for children that have characters from these places. The other crucial piece we look for in purchasing books is finding ones that are written by an author that is of that culture or race. This is another criteria I am examining when I make the book purchases. The books on the list I submitted will all fit these categories.
When I receive the books, I plan on sending a photo of them to you. I’m hoping to find a way to take photos of the kids holding the books as we come back on March 8th.
Thank you, again, for approving me for this grant. The kids and I are going to be thrilled to get these new books!
Birgit Albiker-Osterhaug
ELL Department-Meadowdale Middle School
Thank you very much! This is great news! This unit has grown into a multi-school collaboration effort and hopefully provides some much needed interaction between students. My classes will appreciate having a paper book in their hands again (well, most of them anyway).
Kari Park, second grade teacher from Lynndale Elementary, received an SKSR grant last year to buy assorted titles from the biography series Little People Big Dreams. She wanted titles that would inspire her young readers. In addition, these books are written at a level “friendly” to second grade readers, including those not yet reading at level. As you can see from the titles, the selected subjects represented men and women of various ethnicities and fields of endeavor, including civil rights, the arts, and sciences. Kari wrote: “Here are a few pictures of my class enjoying our biographies! Thank you so much for your generosity. We will get years of use out of these wonderful books and will share them with other classrooms as well.
Stacey Sataren, first-grade teacher at Lynndale Elementary, used her grant to purchase art materials to enhance a science/non-fiction/art unit, which she based on Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris’s’s The Lost Words. The children used the art supplies to paint flowers and encase them in greenhouses drawn with sharpies. They shared their creations by displaying them under black light for a “wow” factor. Stacy said, “They loved seeing the paintings under black light. Thank you again!” At the end of the year, the class had a Glow Day celebration, using some of the neon art supplies and black light. They set up socially distanced stations: a photo booth, an art station, and a ping pong ball toss/dice game.
Frank Kleyn, Lake Forest Park teacher-librarian, used his grant to purchase insect research books from Follett’s World of Insect series. He chose insects found in Washington State for second graders to use. The books supplemented their understanding of insect life cycles. Frank and two LFP second-grade teachers, taught the students how to use text features of the books to research appearance, behavior, habitat, food, and other aspects of insects. Then students orally presented their findings to their classmates.
Information Gathering Caption: After learning how to use text features, students record their findings.
Life Cycle Caption: After learning the life cycle of butterflies as a class, each student researches the life cycle of their insect.
Aphid Poster Caption: Each student creates a poster for presenting their insect to classmates.
Information Gathering Caption: After learning how to use text features, students record their findings.
Life Cycle Caption: After learning the life cycle of butterflies as a class, each student researches the life cycle of their insect.
Aphid Poster Caption: Each student creates a poster for presenting their insect to classmates.
