Above: Recipients of educator mini-grants from Corridor Nine (contributed)
Corridor Nine recently gave out 25 mini-grants to educators. Two went to teachers at Southborough schools.
I reached out to them for more details. Here’s what they shared.
Finn School – Pre-K wagons
Preschool teacher Elizabeth Tinglof explains:
I wrote a grant to purchase three wagons to be shared across the preschool classrooms. Each of the wagons have two seats so that social relationships can be fostered, as well as seat-belts to make sure that safety is maintained throughout the ride.
Having a wagon gives them the ability to participate in activities outside of the classroom and take any mobility challenges out of the equation and focus on the curriculum objective, be it a number walk across the school or a nature walk around the playground.
Having a two-seater wagon gives them the opportunity to bring a friend and build the social relationships that come with sharing a perspective.
Woodward School – Keeping the Green Team Clean
School Nurse Mary Ellen Duggan started an after school club for students this year – the Green Team.
The Green Team consists of two staff members and a group of second and third graders dedicated to projects that benefit the environment. Our activities focus on reducing waste, improving recycling, promoting sustainability and helping the whole Woodward community become more responsible consumers.
The business community’s grant funds will help keep them clean during dirty, smelly recycling work. As they pitched in their application:
We have been recycling milk cartons since the first day of school this year. It has been very successful so far and has resulted in about a 20% decrease in our cafeteria trash output. But, boy oh boy, does that recycling bin smell. Even though each student empties their milk carton, the smell of stale milk permeates the air surrounding the recycling bin; we are helping the environment but creating a stink. We need your help to keep us clean while we clean the milk cartons. In order to stay clean while we rinse the milk cartons, we need child-size vinyl gloves, rubber gloves and aprons.
To take a look at the Corridor Nine grant sponsors from local business, click the thumbnail to enlarge.
For more details, including the list with 23 other area school grants, click here.
