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Dateline: GCISD - Tuesday,  December 18, 2001 11:48 AM

Winter Holiday schedule

Winter Holidays begin Monday, December 24. School is dismissed for holidays on Friday, December 21 and campuses will observe early dismissal times as follows:

Cheryl Tucker, Heritage Elementary and all GCISD third-grade science teachers, $2070 for Understanding Vertebrates & Adaptations Through Investigation.  This program will provide all GCISD third graders with hands-on experiences, while they learn about living organisms and, specifically, frogs. This opportunity will allow students to conduct lab and field investigations while using scientific inquiry and critical thinking by observing the frog life cycle. Students will glean an understanding of this living organism’s need for food, water, light, air and a viable habitat in which to live.

Karen Kuykendall, Lisa Dunn, Krista Robb, Becky Spitzmueller, Silver Lake Elementary, $3,000 for E=MC2 Excellence = Math Curriculum Connections Research has proven that children learn most effectively when first manipulating concrete items, then moving to the more abstract. In light of this research, and to support the many math curriculum requirements, this grant will stock a math lab with multiple sets of math manipulatives.

Lorrie Butts, Laura Quintero, Kelly Thompson, Mary Teel, Pat Denny, Bennie Gilliam, Timberline Elementary, $1,200 for Tiger Mathematics Math manipulatives will be purchased to increase mathematical problem solving abilities among second-grade students. This grant will help equip six second-grade classes with the necessary manipulatives to bring them up to the recommended level.

Sheila Shimmick, Heritage Elementary, CeCe DeForest, Timberline Elementary, and Jean Gill, all GCISD fourth-grade classes, $2,380 for Changes in Ecosystems; Animals that Adapted or Became Extinct This grant will provide fourth-grade science teachers with resources, staff development and tools to enrich and enhance the science program, including student books, fossils, models and teacher staff development.

With the recently aligned science curriculum, resources about species that are now extinct in Texas are needed. Dr. Louis Jacobs, a professor at SMU, local author, and creator of the Lone Star Dinosaurs, will participate. P.J. Giamanco and Mary Gardom, Colleyville Heritage High, $2,935 for Math Technology Lab: Completion and Expansion into the 21st Century This grant will provide for additional software to accommodate multiple learning styles, especially students in need of visual and tactical representations of abstract concepts.

Kelley Carr, Heritage Middle, $400 for Math Transition Program.  This grant will provide support for the Transition Room, the new HMS tutorial program, which gives targeted at-risk students another hour of math with resource materials.

Angela Malone, Dove Elementary, $2,500 for Dove Elementary Initiative for Family Math Night Using Math Manipulatives Hands-on materials are essential for students in developing problem solving skills and building an understanding of mathematics. The money provided by this grant will purchase math manipulatives to support the third, fourth and fifth grades. The manipulatives will also be used during Family Math Night, which focuses on parents and children learning mathematics together.

Vicki Chasteen, Dove Elementary, $1,000 for Elementary Science Demonstration Lab Initiative/Phase I Effective learning of science occurs when students have direct interaction with materials and phenomena. With this as the guiding premise, GCISD has established Dove Elementary as the site for the district Science Demonstration Lab. The campus has designated appropriate classroom space and Grapevine Middle has donated laboratory tables and microscopes. This grant will purchase lab equipment to support the fourth- and fifth-grade curriculum.

Amy Dill, Suzannah Nielsen, Timberline Elementary, $3,500 for Me Gusta Ingles!  This grant will purchase support materials (literature, CD ROMS, audio tapes) for the non-English and limited English students, which will enhance student acquisition of the English language. 

Susan Green and Math Department of Colleyville Middle, $1,200 for Our Vision For Visual Mathematics Math teachers at Colleyville Middle aspire to engage all students in meaningful discussions and activities that promote maximum learning in the classroom. This grant will purchase quality resource videos that will support this instruction and match the various learning styles of our students.

Amy Montemayor and Jamie Wassberg, Silver Lake Elementary, $1,045 for Manipulatives for Enhancing Language Arts.  This grant will enrich language arts learning by providing manipulatives for teachers to incorporate into instruction. This will help at risk students and reach students who have varying learning styles. Teachers will utilize such hands-on manipulatives as reading rods and story magnets to increase student reading comprehension, phonics and sentence-building skills.

Beth Walkup, Grapevine High, $2,200 for Every 15 Minutes.  This grant will support the Students Against Destructive Decisions (SADD) sponsorship of the “Every 15 Minutes” program at Grapevine High on April 18 and 19, 2002. Through a collaborative effort between city, school, non-profit and private organizations, a dramatization of the effect of drinking and driving will be presented to the student body. 

Shauna Leonard, Timberline Elementary, $595 for The Science/Literacy Connection.  This grant will provide resources for teachers to help students make meaningful connections between quality non-fiction books and the new elementary science curriculum. Primary grade students will be able to check out the books; intermediate grade teachers will have access to book sets; and guides purchased with these funds will be available to all grade levels.

Eileen Dinneen and Phil Bingenheimer, Cross Timbers Middle, $1,500 for Electronic Sensors and Monitors This grant will purchase science hardware, sensors and monitors for the Vernier LabPro’s TI-83Plus calculators and Dell laptop computers. The hardware will include a Dual-Range Force Sensor, Exercise Heart Rate Monitor, Flow Rate Sensor, Photogate, Super Pulley Attachment, and Respiration Monitor Belt. These sensors will allow teachers to expand the use of the LabPro’s, data collection and analysis. 

Deb Matthews, Gina McIntire, Kim Haley, Lori Bess, Heritage Middle and all GCISD middle schools, $4,700 for Heart Rate Monitors, Kick it Up a Notch This grant will provide a set of 25 heart rate monitors and extra sets of bands to be used by students in physical education classes, grades six through eight. Through the use of heart rate monitors, students can see the effects of conditioning on physical fitness.

Sandy Guthrey, Kathy Houser, Susan Griggs, Catherine Hocutt, Cari Spence, Colleyville Elementary, $3,500 for Music Education through Keyboarding.  This grant will develop mathematics skills by teaching music basics through keyboard training to Kindergarten students. Research indicates that music education, especially keyboarding skills, improve students’ math skills. Keyboard training has a positive effect on the brain, which controls relational and math operations, spatial temporal reasoning and music recognition. The program will begin with Kindergarten students and then add a grade level each year through third grade. 

Sandy Baugher, Suzie Escobar, Susan Foster, and Lisa Neinast, Cannon Elementary, $1,000 for Cannon’s International Study Club.  Cannon’s international children are highly motivated to achieve academic success. Their parents help and support them; yet some parents express frustration and have requested help. This grant will provide additional assistance for the families through the Cannon’s International Study Club.  Other additional benefits of the program include: helping students make the transition from a foreign school to an American public school; raising student’s self-esteem; helping parents and students learn together; and developing the student’s social skills.

Valerie Hudson and Math Department of Grapevine High School, $430 for Access Computer Software.  Software to help students prepare for the new state mathematics tests in English and Spanish will be purchased. The Spanish version will be extremely beneficial to Hispanic students who are struggling with the English language, as well as with mathematics. AP Calculus and Probability/ Statistics/Data Analysis software will also be purchased to help prepare AP mathematics students for their AP tests.

The Grapevine-Colleyville ISD Education Foundation was created to support the educational programs of the GCISD. The Foundation provides funds beyond the normal operating budget for educational programs and activities for students and staff. Foundation funds are used to facilitate student achievement and skill development, recognize and encourage staff excellence and expand community involvement from individuals, businesses and civic organizations.

The Foundation is a non-profit, tax-exempt public corporation.  Tax-deductible contributions may be made payable to the GCISD Education Foundation and sent to: P.O. Box 292, Grapevine, TX 76099.

Other players making 1st and 2nd team doubles and singles are JM Jones, Matt Jesberg, Brandon Birth, Paul Doyle and JP Lasseron.

The Lady Panther wrestling team defeated Grapevine yesterday with a shut out performance. The boy’s team continued the dominance with a winning score of 54-21. All of the wrestlers will be traveling to Arlington Martin to wrestle in the Southern Assault Invitational.

The CHHS Oral Interpretation team will be holding a dance for all middle schools students next Saturday, Dec. 15th at 7 p.m. in the Panther Den. Middle school students must have ID or parent to enter.

Grapevine debate had great successes on December 8th and 9th at two separate tournaments. At the Trinity High School Tournament in Euless, Grapevine Debate took first place Debate Sweepstakes with ONLY 2 COMPETITORS. Stacey Yee and Jennifer Miller closed out the finals of Lincoln Douglas Debate. Stacey is now Qualified for TFA State and Jennifer is one point away.