The Cissna Park Education Foundation provided books for students in English 3 and Advanced Literature classes taught by Ms. Denise Burns. English 3 students will enjoy the experience of reading The Book Thief by Markus Zusak as a part of their Holocaust unit for years to come. English 3 students enjoyed the experience of reading […]
Young Explorers of Technology
Kindergarten students in Miss Maggy Schmidt’s class at Cissna Park Grade School shared an iPad that provided them with resources they were able to use to further their reading and math skills, thanks to a mini-grant from the Cissna Park Education Foundation. “This iPad gave my students more opportunities to explore and discover new, fun […]
Making Math Fun
Mrs. Julie Yergler’s 4th grade classroom at Cissna Park Grade School has been enjoying a wide variety of math manipulatives purchased through a mini-grant from the Cissna Park Education Foundation. Fraction circles, dry erase number lines, mini protractors, dominoes, plastic money, and math concept sort cards are helping students in gaining a deeper understanding of […]
3rd Grade Books
Mrs. Maul 3rd grade class received new books last winter thanks to the Cissna Park Education Foundation. She explained that initially, her 3rd-grade class was very involved in this process. She had surveyed the students about their interests in different genres, authors, and topics. The kids were directly involved in creating lists of our class […]
Pure and Cool
The hotter the planet grows, the less children are learning. An article published in PBS News Hour states, “Extreme heat lowers a child’s ability to learn, according to an examination of 10 million American students that shows hotter school days reduce standardized test scores. Based on the analysis, every 1-degree-Fahrenheit increase in average outdoor temperature […]
5th Grade Still Using the Dictionary
What’s in a word? In the book Frindle by Andrew Clements, Nick’s fifth grade language arts teacher, Mrs. Granger, had a battle cry, “Look it up! That’s why we have the dictionary.” The fall 2019 grant through the Cissna Park Education Foundation allowed Mrs. Kollmann to upgrade the 1964 set of dictionaries on a shelf […]
Kindergarten STEAM learning funded
The Cissna Park Kindergarten now has Montessori type activities and STEAM ( Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math ) activities in order to help the students foster a more naturally interested type of learning. Their teacher, Mrs Redeker, purchased these items through a grant from the Cissna Park Education Foundation to help her students become […]
Reading Role Models
Mrs Redeker believes that an important part of Kindergarten is to fall in love with reading books! Audiobooks allow reading to come to life through sound effects, music, and voice inflection. This allows students to connect with a book! Listening to reading teaches children how to read more fluently and with expression, but it also […]
It All Adds Up!
The Cissna Park Education Foundation has provided the funding for a classroom set of calculators. Calculators enhance learning and allow for great discoveries when students aren’t bogged down with tedious calculations. Calculators are a valuable tool in the mathematics classroom and having a complete set of identical calculators makes instruction easier for Mrs. Chrastka. “When […]
Buzzmath Funded for 2019-20
The Cissna Park Education Foundation has funded Buzzmath for another school year. This online mathematics program, designed to promote digital learning of mathematics inside and outside the school community, provides Mrs. Chrastka’s mathematics students with a fun and user-friendly way to practice mathematics. Mrs. Chrastka has been using this program with her junior high students […]
