Every student, grades pre-K-5, receives a copy of the novel Trumpet of the Swan by E.B White to take home. Every night parents are encouraged to listen to their children read the assigned number of pages or read to them. Follow-up at school throughout the month generates enthusiasm for reading, and a family night featuring art, discussion, and prizes is the culmination of this community-wide reading program.
This grant and program was reported on WSLS – check out the video to see the coverage!
In partnership with Rockbridge County Schools Central Office, Central School and its PTA, Dominion Power, and Washington and Lee University, funds have been provided to continue the sequential, hands-on environmental-based learning at Boxerwood for grades three-five.
In partnership with Boxerwood Nature Center, Rockbridge County Schools Central Office, all the schools and their PTA’s, funds have been provided to continue the sequential, hands-on environmental-based learning at Boxerwood for grades K-5.
Fairfield Elementary School – 2008-2009 – Funds to purchase ten backpacks, binoculars, thermometers, digital anemometers, field books, and pencils so that fourth graders, initially in an after-school program, can create interactive field trip interpretive guides for students in younger grades to use on Fairfield’s nature trail. With additional significant funding from a 21st Century Grant, students will use the above equipment, plus iPod Touch technology, to create, after doing Internet research, annotated video modules that focus on topics such as trees, signs of wildlife, and wildflowers.
Fairfield Elementary School – 2007-2008 – Materials and transportation costs are funded to implement, in collaboration with the Rockbridge Area Community Services Board Prevention Coordinator, this after-school program to help encourage and empower fifth grade girls to make the most of their lives through weekly meetings that emphasize self-esteem, nutrition, anger management, physical fitness, etc. and through monthly recreational and community service projects.
Fairfield Elementary – 2005-2006 – Sets of books were purchased to implement a leveled library so that classroom teachers could assign books to students according to their reading levels. This supplement to the basal reader provides vocabulary growth and reading comprehension acquisition for all students no matter what their reading level.
