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.
One School, One Book Program
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Categories : Fairfield Elementary, Language Arts
Boxerwood Field Program
17 11 2011In 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.
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Categories : Central Elementary School, Fairfield Elementary, Mountain View Elementary, Natural Bridge Elementary School, Science
Boxerwood Field Program
13 10 2010In 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.
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Categories : Central Elementary School, Fairfield Elementary, Mountain View Elementary, Natural Bridge Elementary School
Trail Blazers
4 08 2008Fairfield 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.
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Categories : Fairfield Elementary, Science
Girl Power!
4 08 2007Fairfield 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.
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Categories : Fairfield Elementary, Personal Growth/Development
Leveled Literacy Library
4 08 2005Fairfield 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.
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Categories : Fairfield Elementary, Language Arts
