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Magical Reading Unicorns of the Galaxy Project

I am requesting books and carpeting for our afterschool reading program, The Magical Reading Unicorns of the Galaxy and our Reading is Magic summer camp.

24 hard working 2nd and 3rd grade students at Sweeney attend our afterschool reading club every Tuesday and Thursday. These students are all receiving intensive reading tutoring with tutors from Reading Quest and the May Center. The room we are using is mostly empty and the echoes make the room very noisy. We will use this same room to serve 40 students this summer in our magical Reading is Magic camp program for struggling readers. Carpeting will drastically reduce the noise and echoes and will allow our students to focus even more on the progress they are all making in reading!

New Mexico Animals

School: Atalaya Elementary School

I am an Art Teacher at Atalaya Elementary School, and I am requesting funds for a project in my art class. I will work with students to discuss the variety of animals in the Santa Fe habitat. Animals and insects are an integral part of the ecosystem.

It is important to study the interaction between the land, animals and the atmosphere to create a healthy environment. Students will draw pictures of the animals they want to create. They will plan, sketch and revise drawing. Then they will create an animal bowl out of clay with visiting clay artist Pamela Messer.

Pamela Messer is a Studio Potter and a visiting Clay Artist in the Santa Fe Public Schools. Besides her many public school clay projects, she has also completed three large mural programs for the City of Santa Fe Arts Commission and installed fifty tile murals in the Santa Public Schools. She sells her work at many galleries and shops including the Museum of New Mexico Gift shop and La Mesa Gallery.

Early Readers Program

School: Nina Otero Community School

I am requesting $300 to support a reading program for primary students who are close to reading at grade level.

Robotics

School: Wood Gormley Elementary School

I have been so very appreciative in years past of the support Dollars4Schools Donors have provided to support the Robotic Program in my Enrichment classes. Now I am asking you to help build the program to a new whole new level, which will benefit even more children. We would like to start an after school program which will be available to all students at Wood Gormley Elementary who are interested in robotics, computer programming and engineering.

I am hoping to be granted $2050.00.

Thank you so much for providing the opportunity for our students of New Mexico public schools to achieve the computer skills needed to be competitive when they enter the workforce.

Lobo Howler School Magazine

School: Gonzales Community School

We create and print a school wide school news magazine. Our 25 enrichment students 5th thru 8th grade do most of it but it is open to school-wide submissions of work and stories. We distribute 350 free copies printed by the Santa Fe New Mexican. They charge $400. per 16 page issue. Our "Lobo Howler" is fully student created although as a teacher I do coach them on the publisher software use and help with the final layout. We have already published our first Autumn issue and we will do one more Holiday issue for December and a spring issue in May.

We need to print two more issues of our News Magazine for this year at a cost of $800 total.

Model Legislature Youth and Government

School: Capital High School

We teach students to actively engage in democracy. Twelve students participate by researching, writing and debating bills with students from all over New Mexico. This takes place at the Roundhouse--our state capitol. Capital high students learn all aspects of policy making. They learn to think on their feet, and address issues from all over the state: gun control, green energy, film making incentives, economic development, safety and DWI prevention etc..There is also a judiciary where students learn to argue both sides of a brief regarding a contemporary legal case. Other students act as justices, like in an appellate court. A fourth branch in which students are involved is the press. They can do print media through a newspaper or video media.

The cost per student is $200. This includes overnight at a local hotel, meals and miscellaneous supplies.

Books!

School: Nina Otero Community School

This school is lacking class sets of books. I would really like to be able to purchase two classroom sets of books. We currently have an F grade and are trying to turn the school around by increasing opportunity and rigor. Increasing access to literature would help our students increase their literacy and would help me to be able to show them how to access this literature and really make it a worthwhile endeavor.

Atalaya 6th Grade Green Team

School: Atalaya Elementary School

Our 6th Grade Green Team would like to have water bottles made for all the students in our school to eliminate the use of plastic water bottles and cups. Any money left over we would like to use towards having Green Team t-shirts made for all the 6th graders.

This year we have started a 6th Grade Green Team at Atalaya in order to help make our school more sustainable. Our job as the Green Team is to educate the younger students to be more sustainable, take care of recycling at our school, build a school compost for our scraps from lunch, and to create a more sustainable school.

Our first mission was to ask the district to install a filtered water fountain with a water bottle filler in our cafeteria to help eliminate the use of a water jug and plastic cups. Last week we were pleasantly surprised to see the water fountain arrive.

Dancing in the Big Apple

School: Santa Fe High School

SFHS Dancers are returning to New York City for our third trip (2015, 2017, 2019) to take dance classes. These classes at professional studios, Broadway Dance Center and StepsNYC, are $20/each. We are seeking funding to allow each of the 15 students to take a full schedule of four classes each. They will take classes alongside professional Broadway and ballet dancers.

This trip brings Santa Fe High dance students to the heart of the American Theatre to experience training at the highest level.

BREATHE, MOVE, AND THRIVE: Mindfulness and Yoga

School: Atalaya Elementary School

I will be attending the Next Generation Yoga for Kids Certification (95 hour training) to be used when working with PK-6th grade students at Atalaya Elementary this summer in the SummerCAMP (17-18), Enrichment and aftercare, starting fully, next school year 918-19) in the classroom and in aftercare programs. Additionally, I will support teachers with training of toga poses, breathing, and mindfulness strategies to implement in their own practice.

Funding will help to reimburse for yoga and mindfulness materials (mats, books, blocks, cds, etc) and assist with the teacher training expenses.ppropriate environment and need help to do so. Thank you!

Set-up A Science Room

School: Nina Otero Community School

Two volunteers are being paid to set up a resource room that will make science materials available to middle school science teachers for hands on explorations. We have a number of units that were replaced in the elementary grades that contain basics that can be used in the middle school classes. These classes have new teachers who are relying on text books and basic materials purchased with their own funds. This program will help enhance their lessons with hands on explorations for students.

I am requesting $500 to pay 2 volunteers who are sorting through various donated materials, Some funds will also be used to fill in gaps for additional materials.

Accelerated Book Program

School: Acequia Madre Elementary School

I am requesting $1,000 to use toward my library. I do not have any level books, which make it hard to determine the exact reading levels per individual. These funds will help our students became less frustrated because they will have books at their level. It will also help our higher students by engaging them in interesting and advanced books. Please help our students set the foundation for a lifelong love for reading!!!
Many Thanks ~ Ms. Kat

Piano Performance Mastery

School: El Camino Real Academy

I request a funding for El Camino Real Academy (former Agua Fria Elementary school) piano students.

El Camino Real piano students are very talented group of students. They work hard and play the piano very well. So many of them dream of being students of New Mexico School for the Arts. However they do not have funds for a piano tutor. I help them as much as I can after dismissal of school, but they need a professional piano teacher who would help them to prepare for audition for NM School for the Arts. Audition for the School of the Arts are usually held at the beginning of February. It would in the best interest of my students if they could receive financial help as soon as it is possible, so they can get ready. Please, help my piano students.

Volunteer Background Check Assistance

School: Multiple Santa Fe Public Schools

As the SFPS Volunteer Coordinator, and in an effort to encourage a more diverse volunteer population, I would like to offer paid background fees for up to 50 volunteer applicants to distributed throughout 5 different schools within the Santa Fe Public School District. Certain demographic criteria, including a residence radius of applicants who live within 6 blocks of the schools' attendance area will be required to be eligible for usage of the background check funds.

Hands-on History of Photography at Monte Del Sol Charter School

School: Monte Del Sol Charter School

Please support photography students participating in a hands-on/experiential 19th century photographic history project - Hands on History of Photography.

This project will directly deal with the 1851 discovery of the collodion wet plate process. Students will read historical texts, view historical images and make in-camera renditions of modern day collodion photographs.

The funding is needed for all consumable materials including silver nitrate (fairly expensive), metal and glass plates for making the images, and all of the various chemicals needed for processing

Science at the Bradbury in Los Alamos

School: El Camino Real Academy

Several years ago, Dollars4Schools funded my request to pay for buses to take my students to the Bradbury Science Museum. It was so valuable. I want to take the students I have now. We'll need two 44-student buses,

8th grade science is physical science, including physics and chemistry, and the Bradbury is the best place in the state for this. My students have never been. At the Bradbury they will learn about cryogenics and liquid nitrogen, which is critical to a deep understanding phase change and chemical versus physical interactions; about radioactivity and the atom; about our history; and about rockets and forces, motion and gravitation. The museum visit will anchor conversations and activities in class for the entire spring semester. At this dual language school I teach my classes in Spanish, but the kids are bilingual.

Friday Service Projects at The MASTERS Program

School: The MASTERS Program Early College Charter High School

The MASTERS Program is an early college charter school on the campus of SFCC, serving a diversity of students, many of whom are the first generation in their families to go to college. The program allows students to move at their own pace and integrates high school classes with college classes based on each individual. We also provide a strong supportive community and service to the greater Santa Fe community.

Friday Projects are service-learning based and take our students in faculty-led groups out into the Santa Fe community every Friday. From the Humane Society, to The Horse Shelter, to Habitat for Humanity to Pinon Elementary School and to working with the county on trails, and more, we are building character and giving teens a sense of value with this program. Our request is for support running a bus that can take students to these projects. As a charter school, we cannot afford our own buses and the cost of renting each Friday is approximately $400/day.