Chamber gives $10K to 29 area teachers
By Staff Reports
Published in News on February 12, 2012 1:50 AM
The annual "Prize Patrol" from Wayne County Chamber of Commerce has made its rounds to area schools, distributing more than $10,000 in mini-grants to teachers for creative and innovative classroom projects.
The funds, generated from the 2011 Dancing Stars of Wayne County event last spring, provided 27 grants to 29 teachers in 15 different schools.
Among the projects being made possible by the mini-grants are a butterfly nursery at Grantham School where teacher Susan Long intends to demonstrate how the different stages a caterpillar goes through before becoming a butterfly; lessons on recycling and gardening in Donna Countryman's class at Carver Heights Elementary School; and a schoolwide mural project on character at North Drive Elementary School.
The following are the winning teachers and their projects:
*Christy House, Grantham School, "Get Moving with Speedminton"
*Richard Wingate, Grantham School, "Just Dance for Healthier Children"
*Susan Long and the Grantham School kindergarten, "Fly Away With Me!!"
*Barbara Graham, Carver Heights Elementary School, "Champion Handwashers for Life"
*Donna Countryman, Carver Heights Elementary School, "Teacher, the worm ate my garbage!"
*Amy Kennedy, North Drive Elementary School, "Mural of Character"
*Nadia Jones, Southern Wayne High School, "Center Stage"
*Pam Taylor, Eastern Wayne Elementary School, "Pottery: Hand Building the Whole Child"
*Tammy Derksen, Fremont STARS Elementary School, "Why Should I Read that Book?"
*Emily Girard, Fremont STARS Elementary School, "We Love Calling N.C. Home"
*Lauren Wooten, Fremont STARS Elementary School, "Eager for an Easel to Make Instruction Easier"
*Cathy Gurley, Fremont STARS Elementary School, "Dancing with the STARS"
*Camille Frederick, Fremont STARS Elementary School, "Wild About Words"
*Joy Vinson, Fremont STARS Elementary School, "J-I-N-G-O In the Art Class"
*Tara Murrow & Wendy Flowers, Tommy's Road Elementary School, "Tiger Reading Club"
*Karri Jernigan, Tommy's Road Elementary School, "Leaping to Learn Literacy"
*Bernitia Kea & Tamica Garvin, Brogden Middle School, "Learning 'Win-Win!' Solutions to Student Conflict!"
*Kristi Luckenbaugh, Meadow Lane Elementary, "A Life Cycle Comparison Study of Ladybugs & Meal Worms"
*Steven Thorne, Charles B. Aycock High School, "Project HoverCraft"
*Shelly Pinkowski, Charles B. Aycock High School, "Reading, Writing, & Scrapping"
*Leesa Henricksen, Wayne Montessori School, "Puppeteers' Playhouse"
*Dawn Frantantuono, Wayne Montessori School, "Goodness Grows Organic"
*Emily Best, Eastern Wayne High School, "Mucho Mexico Mosaics & Stained Glass"
*Lorrie Kester, Norwayne Middle School, "Real World Math Under Construction!"
*Andrew Bass, Norwayne Middle School, "A Differentiated Approach for Students with Kinesthetic & Visual Learning Styles"
*Benny Hood, Rosewood Middle School, "Modern Art Collaborations"
*John Shirley, Greenwood Middle School, "Wind --It Blows-- Creating Electricity from the Wind."