Celebration Station
- School:
- Parkside Elementary
- Subject:
- Language Arts
- Teacher:
- Tiffany Wind
- Marlene Ashley, Dr. Tricia Cunningham
- Students Impacted:
- 550
- Grade:
- Pre K - 5
- Date:
- September 13, 2021
Investor
Thank you to the following investor for funding this grant.
Yasmin Saad and Matthew Doyle - $322.00
Original Grant Overview
Goal
Our goal is to support our students in developing a lifelong love for reading and developing reading habits that promote reading for enjoyment, choice, and interest. Research shows that students engaged in reading texts that they enjoy will apply more effort, display more stamina and engage in more decoding strategies when given choice in reading material and motivation to read. The goal is to enhance our student’s independent reading of books through hosting three annual Academic Carnivals to incentivize individual independent reading.
What will be done with my students
Throughout the year students take part in independent reading using our school library on campus. When completing a book, students are able to earn points through the Reading Counts Platform online. The school will host three academic celebrations, for each grade level for students to come at specific times, socially distanced. Before each carnival students will be able to earn tickets to the carnival based upon their points accumulated through Reading Counts. Our younger students will earn tickets for learning their letters, sounds, and sight words as emerging readers. At the carnival students may spend their tickets on different small games as a school wide event that celebrates student success and improvement in reading, participation in reading for enjoyment and the development of a passion for reading.
Benefits to my students
Reading for enjoyment and engaging in reading provides students to develop and broaden their vocabulary, and understand the world around them. Empowering students and encouraging independent reading fosters students to continue to apply reading strategies to build their comprehension and students will work harder and put forth more effort when given choice, picking books of interest, and reading materials self-chosen. Celebrating students’ independent reading in elementary school helps to increase student language acquisition, vocabulary development, and set students up for future academic success. Engaging in a building wide culture that celebrates and values a love of reading will influence individual students through social events and celebrations as well.
Budget Narrative
Budget narrative includes specific small prize bundles available to order through Amazon. This will provide enough small prizes for students to earn throughout the day.
Items
| # | Item | Cost |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 160 pc Party Favors | $18.00 |
| 2 | 200 pc carnival prizes | $23.00 |
| 3 | Nicnack Pinata Filler | $20.00 |
| 4 | Party Favor Assortmentx3 | $65.00 |
| 5 | 200 Piece Party Favor Assortment | $22.00 |
| 6 | 120 piece prize assortmentx2 | $36.00 |
| 7 | 300 piece Glow Stick Bundle x2 | $35.00 |
| 8 | 44 piece party favor pack x2 | $35.00 |
| 9 | 268 Party Favor Pack x 3 | $68.00 |
| Total: | $322.00 |
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