PTO Family Fun Night is this Friday Night, January 27, 2012. Pizza Supper and Silent Auction 5:30 - 6:30 p.m. Basketball fun 6:00 p.m. |
- PTO Board Meeting
Students at J.R. Ingram, Jr. Elementary together with Communities In Schools recently partnered with Lowe's Food to help with their Friends Feeding Friends food drive. Lowe's offered a pizza party to the class who collected the most food. For one week all classes competed to collect as many non-perishable food items as they could to donate to this cause. The winner was Ms. Young's 3rd grade class. They collected 101 pounds of food. Marci Townsend, Communities In Schools Site Coordinator for Ingram Elementary, is very proud of all of the students, families and staff members. Even in tight times, the school as a whole managed to collect 1,303.5 pounds of food. This is going to a good cause that will help the people in our community. This is the true spirit of Christmas.
Pictured with the truck load of food are the students from Ms. Young's third grade class. Adults on the back row are Principal Gary Moore, Teacher Kristen Young and Communities in School Site Coordinator, Marci Townsend.
There’s something exciting happening these days at West Lee Middle School and
Ingram Elementary. It’s an after-school program called Learning Together which
follows the old adage, “If you can teach it, you definitely know it”. Facilitated by
the two schools’ ESL teachers, Mary Sening and Eilem Arellano, Learning Together
places middle school students in the role of reading teachers and the elementary
students in the role of tutees. If you visit Room 106 at West Lee on any given
Monday between 3 and 5 o’clock you will find these young “teachers” encouraging
and praising their young tutees and asking just the right questions to help them
become better readers.
Brittnay and Elizabeth Madalyn and Roxana Joselyn and Anthony
Mrs. Collazo's fifth grade class recently conducted an erosion survey of our school. The erosion project was incorporated into their science curriculum. Students were divided up into seven groups. Each group had to create their own website, identify erosion problems at the school, share their research and a
plan to fix the erosion problems.
Pictured are the students waiting to give their presentation.
The class presented their findings to the Lee County Schools Facility and Technology Departments on Tuesday evening, November 29, 2011. Below is a link to their websites. Great job Mrs. Collazo's Class!
collazocove1112.wikispaces.com/Cove+Erosion+Project+Wikis
Sophie's watercolor rainbow fish won Best in Show for all K-2 art entries this fall at the Lee Regional Fair. She is a first grade student at Ingram Elementary. Sophie's art teacher is Mrs. Brower and her homeroom teacher is Mrs. Mariano.
Kim Collazo Ingram's Teacher of the Year
Kim Collazo has been selected as Ingram’s Teacher of the Year for the 2011/2012 school year.
Last spring Kim’s class of fourth grade students at J.R. Ingram accepted a challengeposed by Windstream. They created a video which demonstrated their school’s need for technology to enhance student education. On October 22, 2010, J.R. Ingram, Jr. Elementary School was awarded a check for $5000 for capturing enough votes to win Windstream’s Spirit Award!
Kim recently was awarded the Outstanding Teacher Award. This award is granted for an individual who makes a positive impact on technology use in education, community involvement and business partnerships, planning and incorporating the use of technology to improve the educational setting and implementing a model program that others can use.
She has received grants and honors across the state of North Carolina for her expertise in computer technology and the use of computers in the classroom.
J.R. Ingram is proud to have Kim as their school’s Teacher of the Year.
Members of the armed forces were honored at Ingram Elementary School's recent PTO program. The first graders sang, "We Are Proud of Our Veterans".
They also celebrated the Thanksgiving season and expressed their jubilation over Thanksgiving in the song "I Like Thanksgiving". They played their jingles during the "Navaho Happy Song", a song to honor all Native Amercan Indians as the students learned about Thanksgiving traditions.
We are so proud of our students.
Teachers Win Bright Ideas Grant
Pictured left to right; Janet Trevino (CEMC), Gary Moore (Principal), Kim Collazo (Teacher) and Nancy Gust (CEMC)
Collazo Cove, fifth grade class of Kim Collazo, won a $1985.00 Central Electric Membership Corp. Bright Ideas Grant that will allow the class to create an ongoing program called BISKits (Buddies in Science Kits). Fifth graders will be building hands-on science kits for 2nd graders, whose science curriculum is similar to theirs in 2 strands (animals/ecosystems and weather). The kits will include a non-fiction science book, an iPod (with a recording of a 5th grader reading the book), and materials for 3 small hands-on activities created by the 5th graderthat the 2nd grader can work on. The project will culminate each year with the 2nd and 5th grade science buddies creating an online science book of their own, which will be purchased in hard-back to place in the kit for the next students to enjoy.
Mrs. Collazo does a great job in pursuing avenues to enrich the students in her classroom. Last year she won a grant from Windstream. For more information on her endeavors please visit this link at the Fayetteville Observer to read a recent article that was written about her classroom. http://fayobserver.com/articles/2011/10/09/1128177?sac=Lee
Pictured left to right; Janet Trevino (CEMC)
Kim Himes, Crystal Colwell (Teachers)
Dolores Brown and Donna Drum-Thomas (Teachers and Grant Co-Writers)
Krissy Houston (Teacher), Nancy Gust (CEMC)
BackRow; Gary Moore, Principal
Mrs. Dolores Brown and Mrs. Donna Drum-Thomas, second grade teachers, won the Bright Ideas Grant for a project called “No Child Left Indoors”. Their project will stimulate and enhance the students’ awareness of our schoolyard’s natural elements. Through careful observations, data collections, writing and sketching lessons, the students will create their own field guides throughout the school year. The lessons will correlate with the North Carolina Standard Course of Study for second graders. Their grant was in the amount of $1,823.72.
Janet Trevino and Nancy Gust, from Central Electric Membership Corp., made a surprise visit to the school to present the teachers with their checks.
Ms. Young's class turned in the most "Box Tops for Education" during the first quarter of the 2011/2012 school year. The classes was rewarded with snacks for the entire class. "Box Tops for Education" is one of the ways that our PTO earns money for our school. Families clip the coupon off of participating boxed food items and turn them into the school. The PTO then sends them in to reap the rewards.
The PTO would like to proudly announce that they were awarded the "2011 Wells Fargo Community Grant" awarded by the local Wachovia Bank. The grant is in the amount of $2,000 for the "Making Physical Fitness Fun Project". Our school previously won a grant from Lowes Home Builders in the amount of $5,000.
Pictured above is the playground equipment that our PTO recieved the grant for.
Anyone can also make donations for the playground equipment. All support will be greatly appreciated. We would like to thank you in advance for your continued support and participation as we begin our "Making Physical Fitness Fun Project"!
