Going Fishing!

School:: Dune Lakes Elementary School
Subject:: Teaching Quality
Teacher:: Andrew Farris
: Rebecca King
Students Impacted:: 450
Grade:: K-5
Date:: October 9, 2023

Investor

Thank you to the following investor for funding this grant.

The St. Joe Community Foundation - $1,413.72

Impact to My Classroom

# of Students Impacted: 450

First off, we would like to extend a huge thank you to those who fulfilled this grant. The impact that people like you make on these students is amazing. This grant was geared towards the lower grade levels at our school. We decided to utilize these fishing sets to enahnce their fine motor skills. It also allowed us to integrate the surrounding fishing that takes place in our local waters. We designed a game where all of the students were split into teams around the gym. Each team had a rod and a cooler (hula hoop) next to them. They went one at a time to catch a fish from the "water" and bring it back to their "cooler". We also were able to get a few cones in the gym. These are used everyday in a variety of ways like creating a track to run or a base for a game.

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Original Grant Overview

Goal

The goal of this grant is to help students learn patience, problem-solving, friendly competition, enhancing letter recognition. We want to be able to continue to develop motor skills with the younger students at our school. This also provides an opportunity to connect the amazing fishing that we have in this area to the classroom setting. This would also be of great benefit to the special needs friends that join the physical education setting. would like to purchase 14 sets to ensure adequate amount for physical education classes.

What will be done with my students

-Fishing games will be utilized to work on motor skill development and letter recognition for students from K-2.
-Giant fishing alphabet game suitable for indoor or outdoor use.
-Children hook the fish with their fishing rods.
-Suitable for whole group instruction.
-26 brightly colored, lettered fish and 2 plastic fishing rods.
-Complete with a net bag for storage.
-Fish are made from durable HDPE approximately 23cm long.
-Fishing Rods are 72cm long.
-Can be used in water.

Benefits to my students

-Improves motor skills and hand-eye coordination while learning letters.

-Perfect for phonic recognition.

-Correlation between local fishing.

Budget Narrative

-Set contains 26 brightly colored, lettered fish & 2 plastic fishing rods together with a net bag for storage.
-Fish are made from durable HDPE approximately 23cm long and fishing rods are 72cm long.
- Contents 26 giant fish, 2 fishing rods, storage bag.

Items

#	Item	Cost
1	Educational Advantage Kids Giant Polydron Fishing A - Z Alphabet Game with 26 Brightly Colored Lettered Fish & 2 Plastic Fishing Rods (Ordering 14 sets)	$1,413.72
	Total:	$1,413.72

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