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 […]
Gardening for better health in the High School
The Agriculture and Family & Consumer Sciences program at Cissna Park High School is growing – tomatoes, carrots, peppers and more in the new raised beds built by the Ag Construction students. Last year, a trial garden was started with three raised beds, which provided produce for Foods classes as well as Peace Meals. Because […]
2018 Scholarships
3 Scholarships were presented at the 2018 graduation ceremony by the Foundation. These scholarships were privately funded by their sponsors. Ayiana Marquez received the Ristow / Ziegenhorn Scholarship which was created to honor the ancestors of these 2 families who have lived in this community for over a hundred years. It is presented to a […]
What’s all the buzz about Math?
Where is everyone going? To the computer lab, of course! Mrs. Chrastka’s students immediately race into the nearby computer lab when a buzzMath lesson is assigned. buzzMath is a middle school math practice program that can be completed anywhere and anytime a computer or other electronic device is available. One of Mrs. Chrastka’s 8th grade […]
