The Cissna Park Education Foundation awarded a grant to Mrs. Redeker’s Kindergarten classroom. The students in Kindergarten are all coming into their first year of school at Cissna Park Elementary with varying abilities with writing and reading. Some students come in reading simple sentences and sounding out words while others come knowing how to write their name and name a few letters. The variety of student abilities provides a positive challenge each year. Reaching the students of different levels often requires a wide variety of resources. A resource that works for one student does not work for all students.

“The Education Foundation has helped to provide the Kindergarten classroom with resources to use in order to meet students at their level,” said Redeker. 

The grant provided reading materials such as decodable texts, “cvc” word books, and nonfiction readers. The grant provided writing materials to implement an oral language unit. The unit will allow beginning Kindergarten students the skill set to develop and share, verbally, stories that they could write in the future. The grant also provided additional name practicing activities that can be used for whole name learning during the Kindergarten year.