Mrs. Julie Yergler’s 4th grade class was the recipient of a mini-grant from the Cissna Park Education Foundation and 21 wordless picture books were purchased with grant money. Why wordless picture books? “Wordless picture books allow students to work on reading with expression and make inferences to determine what is happening in the pictures without the pressure of […]
Kindergarten Students are Learning Without Tears
The Cissna Park Education Foundation awarded a grant to Mrs. Redeker’s Kindergarten classroom. TheKindergarten students work on developing and mastering their letter formation during the year. Thestudents work each day utilizing Learning Without Tears curriculum to understand letter formation andproper development. The Education Foundation supported their learning through the purchase of theInteractive Teaching Tool software. […]
3rd Grade Students Enjoy New Book Sets
Mrs. Samantha Kidwell’s 3rd grade class will get to explore their love of reading with new book sets, thanks to the Cissna Park Education Foundation. Mrs. Kidwell was able to purchase 13 book sets. Each set contained 6 books, which totals to 78 new books! With these new book sets, Mrs. Kidwell cannot wait to […]
Cissna Park Education Foundation Funds Economics Class Project
The Economics Class at Cissna Park High School received a $500 mini-grant from the Cissna Park Education Foundation in the fall. All twelfth grade students at Cissna Park High School take an economics course where they spend a large portion of the class learning about the stock market. After covering the basics of the US […]
CP Education Foundation Helps Fund Book Room
The elementary teachers are grateful to be teaming up with the Education Foundation to fill our new “Book Room” at Cissna Park School. The teachers received funds to use toward sets of books that can be used with small groups of kids. The books we were able to purchase are a variety of reading levels […]
Spanish Classes Benefit from Grant
The Cissna Park Education Foundation helped the Spanish program at Cissna Park High School to pay for materials, projects, games, and activities to supplement the textbook. Materials included: Serpientes y escaleras (Chutes and Ladders), Rueda de Espanol (Wheel of Fortune), Bingo, and Entrevistas en Rotación (Rotating Interviews) along with many others. In this picture, Haelly Young and […]
Cissna Park Kindergarten Awarded Grant
The students in Mrs. Redeker’s Kindergarten class would like to thank the Cissna Park Education Foundation for their awarded grant. The grant has allowed the Kindergarten class to purchase an updated beginning of the year curriculum for learning and exploring colors. The grant has also allowed the purchase of an updated fine motor learning curriculum […]
CP Education Foundation Announces Scholarships
The Cissna Park Education Foundation has announced that four privately funded scholarships and awards are available for the 2022 graduating class. The Illinois Grain and Seed Equipment Scholarship is being funded by IGSE of Cissna Park. This $600 scholarship is available to any graduate who is pursuing higher education in the area of agriculture, including but not limited to business, sales, science, marketing, […]
Physics Students Explore Kinematics
The Cissna Park High School physics class is learning about kinematics, thanks to the Cissna Park Education Foundation and their donation of wireless kinematic sensors. “We are able to track the velocity and acceleration of different objects as well as determine the force acting upon certain objects in a variety of conditions,” said Hannah Allen, […]
ServSafe Books Prepare FACS Students
The Foods and Nutrition class received a set of eight ServSafe books with a Cissna Park Education Foundation grant. The ServSafe program will be used to study for the manager’s certification in food service. “Every restaurant must have a certified manager on duty, which makes any student who passes the exam more employable in any […]
