Category - Funded Projects

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[…]

Granted: Funding for 40 sets of headphones. Summary Description: The grant will be used to purchase 40 durable headphones for students to use with the newly purchased i-Pad cart which contains a classroom set of i-Pads. Melican is a pilot school for this exciting cutting-edge technology as we explore the meaningful ways to integrate appropriate[…]

Granted: Funding to purchase 50 subscriptions of The New York Times Upfront which provides age appropriate informational text and lesson plans. Summary Description: Access to the The New York Times Upfront will enable Melican Middle School seventh graders to enhance their non-fiction reading comprehension skills while helping them to understand current events via world-class, age[…]

Granted: Funding for new books for a town wide reading contest. Summary: The Northborough/Southborough Children’s Book Award Program is a cooperative venture among the school and public libraries in Northborough and Southborough. The program is for children in grades 3-5. In late November, the librarians vote on a list of 10 books to include as[…]

This grant helped sponsor this first annual innovative program that reached out to culturally and linguistically diverse families in the Northborough community. Over eighty English Language Learners in grades K-8, and their families attended this program at Algonquin Regional High School to promote child literacy skills and teach methods to prevent language and academic regression[…]