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Let's build our vocabulary. More than one quarter of our students are identified as below level in vocabulary according to our instructional data collection tools. While we plan to make vocabulary a focus all year, we hope to put word collecting in the spotlight during Literacy Week in February.

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Vocabulary Makes a Splash: Literacy Week

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School:
Tommie Barfield Elementary 
Subject:
Language Arts 
Teacher:
Molly Skudnig 
Students Impacted:
577 
Grade:
K-5 
Date:
August 1, 2018

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Suncoast Credit Union - $1,338.95

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Impact to My Classroom

# of Students Impacted: 577

This year, our entire school was able to embark on a vocabulary expedition! Vivid vocabulary has been shared throughout our school year. The highlight of our year was our Literacy Week and Literacy Night which revolved around vocabulary activities with a dino-mite theme. Students and family members dressed up as paleontologists and learned how to excavate the earth to unveil unknown classifications of extinct species. Students were delighted to find dinosaur eggs and vocabulary words throughout our campus during their scavenger hunt to find clues. As families worked together to gather words, they were all lead back to the Vocabulary Volcano which held all of the answers they needed. The parent involvement was key as they were able to help reinforce our vocabulary work both during the event and at home. The week was full of events that inspired literacy and brought great joy to students and teachers alike. We are so grateful for the generosity of Suncoast Credit Union for making this vocabulary quest possible. We look forward to reflecting on our end of year results and the boost we predict it will have on our students’ vocabulary domain.

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Literacy Night Walking with Dinosaurs- A Vocabular

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Each grade level transformed our hallways into one

 

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Thank you Suncoast Credit Union for funding this g

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Tommie Barfield students were beyond ecstatic abou

 

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The Vocabulary Volcano held the answers to the eve

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Another successful literacy week and night was com

 

Original Grant Overview

Goal

Let's build our vocabulary. More than one quarter of our students are identified as below level in vocabulary according to our instructional data collection tools. While we plan to make vocabulary a focus all year, we hope to put word collecting in the spotlight during Literacy Week in February.  

 

What will be done with my students

Our students will be engaged in a week long pep rally revolving around VOCABULARY. We will celebrate with a Vocabulary Parade Day which students will dress up as vocabulary words and we will play vocabulary games with our families on literacy night. The highlight of the night will be when families work together to CREATE an artistic representation of their chosen vocabulary word. Teachers and staff will act as walking thesauruses & dictionaries to ensure all vocabulary questions are answered. Together we will create a vocabulary masterpiece which will be hung in our cafeteria and hallways to raise our vocabulary ceiling.  

 

Benefits to my students

According to our iReady Data of our 2017-18 school year, the Vocabulary Domain was our weakest area. 27% of our students are below level in vocabulary and 4% of those students are two levels below. With a teamwork approach of getting all students, families and staff involved, we hope to deepen the vocabulary knowledge of all of our students and improve our proficiency results.  

 

Budget Narrative

Items purchased will come from Amazon and the Dollar Tree. Items purchased will allow students to see WORDS everywhere the look. The entire school will be decked out in vocabulary words in order to maximize our exposure to new words. 

 

Items

# Item Cost
1 Scavenger Hunt: Metal Hangers and Beach Buckets $109.68
2 The Word Collector Book x 3 $45.00
3 Max's Words Book x 3 $45.00
4 Vocabulary Activity Books: Word Ladders $52.84
5 White Cardstock x 2 $23.98
6 Word Splash Face Tattoos for Literacy Night $12.49
7 Word Splash Ceiling & Table Decorations $19.99
8 Wooden Toppling Tumbling Stacking Tower Board Games Building Blocks for Kids - 60 pieces for Vocabulary Game $59.95
9 Astrobrights Color Paper, 8.5” x 11”, 24 lb/89 gsm, “Brights” 5-Color Assortment, 500 Sheets x 3 $80.58
10 I Love to Write Rubber Bracelets- Oriental Trading x 15 $104.85
11 ArtKraft Duo-Finish Paper, Purple, 36" x 500', 1 Roll $66.24
12 Letter Stencils 12 Pack x 6 $44.95
13 Vocabulary Face Paint $38.00
14 Face Paint Sponges $25.98
15 Assorted Colors of Plastic Tablecloths x 30 $30.00
16 Electric Bright 7" Fun Font Letters x 5 $49.95
17 Cricut Explore Air 2 Bundle - 40 Sheets of Vinyl/Trasfer Tape and Basic Tool Kit $276.68
18 Cricut StandardGrip Cutting 12x12 3 Pack $13.71
19 Colorbok 71876B Cardstock Paper Pad Marble, 12" x 12" x 4 $20.00
20 ColorBok 75386 Spray Paint Cardstock Paper Pad 12" x 12" x 4 $20.00
21 ColorBok 73467A Smooth Cardstock Paper Pad Blue Promenade, 12" x 12" x 3 $15.00
22 Permanent Adhesive Backed Vinyl Sheets By PrimeCuts USA - 65 VINYL SHEETS 12" x 12" $21.49
23 Neenah Creative Collection Specialty Cardstock Starter Kit, 12" x 12", 65 lb, 18-Color Assortment, 72 Sheets x 2 $22.66
24 ColorBok 61241C Textured Cardstock Paper Pad Midnight Black, 12" x 12" x 10 $50.00
25 Pacon PAC8708 SunWorks Construction Paper, 12" x 18", Bright White, 100 Sheets x 4 $29.56
26 Elmer's All Purpose School Glue Sticks, Washable, 60 Pack, 0.24-ounce sticks x 2 $31.38
27 Miss Alaineus: A Vocabulary Disaster $7.00
28 A Word a Day, Grade 1 $21.99
  Total: $1,338.95

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