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Granted: Funding for new books, for approximately 80 classrooms, to be used by community members to read on Community Reading Day. Summary Description: Northborough Reads Together – Community Reading Day 2013, will bring all of our students pre-K through 8th grade together to celebrate literacy in a distinctive manner as guest readers from the town,[…]

Granted: Funding to purchase complete sets of language and vocabulary materials to be borrowed by students and families. Summary Description: The materials will be used as a meaningful home/school activity to build communication skills in reading, writing and speaking.

Granted: Funding to purchase headphones and splitters to be used in the U.S. History II classes. Summary Description: Students will enhance their interaction with primary sources in U.S. History II through the purchase of 30 headphone sets and six multi-headphone splitters. These items will allow students to listen to songs, watch clips of historical films,[…]

Granted: Funding to purchase jumbo sized magnetic math manipulatives which all grades could use during instruction time. Summary Description: Manipulating Math will provide supplementary math materials to enhance the new math program, Think Math. The jumbo sized magnetic manipulatives will be available to assist teachers with instruction at all grade levels.

Granted: Funding for books and hardware. Summary Description: This project will promote literacy as well as health and fitness. Children’s books will be chosen that are in the subject area of eating healthy, or physical fitness. The library teacher will separate the pages, laminate and mount them onto a board. The boards will be attached[…]

Granted: Funding for 6 i-Pads, adapters and cases to be used by the music department across all four elementary schools. Summary Description: Northborough students, K-5, will use the iPads to reinforce existing music curriculum and to promote creative composition, which will prepare students with necessary skills to be competent consumers and producers of music in[…]

Granted: Funding to host a session and purchase 48 books and CDs to be checked out and used by students and families. Summary Description: The English Language Learners Committee will sponsor Listen While You Read sessions at each of the four Northborough Public Schools. Families will be invited to attend a session at their neighborhood[…]

Granted: Funding for the purchase of 5 i-pod touches to be used by the Zeh School’s third grade classrooms. Summary Description: The third grade team will be utilizing the iPod Touches during the Daily Five reading and writing blocks. For the reading, the teachers will be using these devices to improve students’ fluency by letting[…]

Granted: Funding for 78 French specific accounts for the i-Pads to enhance level 1 and level 2 French. Summary Description: Differentiated, individualized instruction through activities targeting vocabulary and grammar learned in levels 1 and 2 of French.

Granted: Funding for 25 virtual books. Summary Description: E-books are E-lectric is designed to meet the needs of the digital generation by enriching the public school library collections with electronic books. This content can be downloaded to desktop and laptop computers as well as mobile devices. It will enhance student achievement by providing differentiated instruction[…]