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Education>Legacy Education Foundation>Steamboat Springs School District>Strawberry Park Elementary School
Strawberry Park Elementary School Funded Projects
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Creating a Sense of Place through Literature and Art
The library and art programs at Soda Creek and Strawberry Park Elementary Schools collaborated to bring author-illustrator Harriet Peck Taylor to the schools to work with students on Creativity, Folklore, and the Art of Batik Illustration.
Extended Care Center Project
Fourth-grade students at Strawberry Park Elementary work with residents of the Doak Walker Extended Care Center on arts and crafts projects during the school year. Students develop compassion for and an understanding of the residents and learn to value community service.
Routt County History Reading Books
Three different book sets help third-grade students In Steamboat Springs integrate Routt County History and Ranch Days into the reading curriculum. The book sets purchased are Life on the Ranch, Bandannas, Chaps, and Ten-Gallon Hats, and The Railroad.
Yampa River Ecology Project
High school and primary students pair up as study buddies to each other for the academic year to study the ecology of the Yampa River Valley and implement a stewardship project to help our local natural environment.
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Critter Control
New GIS units support this Community Mapping project at Strawberry Park Elementary. Students collect and map data to help the Colorado Division of Wildlife and the Colorado Highway Patrol implement solutions to the problem of wildlife being killed along US Highway 40.
Extended Care Center Project
Fourth-grade students at Strawberry Park Elementary work with residents of the Doak Walker Extended Care Center on arts and crafts projects during the school year. Students develop compassion for and an understanding of the residents and learn to value community service.
Routt County ABCs
This is a multi-school book project for elementary students in Hayden, South Routt and Steamboat Springs. Students explore each local region to better appreciate its geography, wildlife, people and history and then share their findings with each other through books and murals. Author Sneed Collard III will present at each school and will guide students through a study of the genre of non-fiction using his ABC book about Montana as a model.
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Yampa River Ecology Project
The Yampa River Ecology Project serves 200-400 students from Soroco High School and Middle School, Steamboat Springs High School and Middle School plus first and second grade students from Soda Creek and Strawberry Park Elementary Schools in Steamboat Springs. Students learn about local natural areas including fish, wildlife, and vegetation. Routt County’s natural ecosystem will benefit from the stewardship projects.
Climbin-The Boat: Elementary Traverse Rock Climbing Wall and Traversing the Steep, A Rock Climbing Wall
Soda Creek Elementary and Strawberry Park Elementary Schools requested help to purchase rock climbing walls for the Physical Education programs.
Makoto Arena
Strawberry Park Elementary will purchase the Makoto Fitness Arena. The Makoto Fitness Arena is a fitness game that enters the new world of mental training. It uses visual, kinesthetic, and auditory stimulus. Improvements can be made in mental focus, concentration, eye-hand coordination, quickness and reaction time. The Makoto will be used for multiple purposes: 1. Students’ cognitive & kinesthetic processes can be monitored and assessed; 2. It is a great PE tool; 3. It could be a fundraising device.
Photo-Journal Project
Each student in this fourth grade Strawberry Park Elementary School class will have access to a disposable camera which will be used to document people, places, and events in their life in Routt County that are significant to them in some way. Students will write about the photographs. The writings and photos will be bound into a small photo journal.
Routt County Birdhouses
This project is part of the Steamboat Springs School District Routt County History curriculum, specifically the Ranch Days unit. Students study the relationship between the environment and agriculture. They specifically study northwest Colorado birds and how bird life is an indicator of environmental health. Students build birdhouses. The birdhouses are given to ranchers as thank-you gifts. The birdhouses are hung in appropriate locations. The birdhouses are a visible representation of the students’ studies.
Enhancing Science Curriculum through Technology
Through a Steamboat Springs School District technology grant, Strawberry Park Elementary School acquired five sets of science probes, explorer data monitors, and software for the 2004-05 school year and beyond. The probes will enhance instruction through hands-on instruction of the science and math curricula at all grade levels at Strawberry Park and Soda Creek Elementary School. Science students from Steamboat Springs High School will be an integral part of the training, mentoring, and instruction. Instruction on the use of the probes, data collectors, and software will be conducted using an outside instructor whose time will be paid for with this grant. Students will then be the mentors/facilitators to other students, classes, and teachers. The instructor will also assist students using the equipment on field trips.
Food Guide Pyramid Educational Reinforcement Program
In conjunction with the school lunch program, students will be provided with on-going, age-appropriate, and fun nutrition messages/education to supplement and reinforce the nutrition curriculum currently in place. Students will be given nutrition information items/incentives on a regular basis.
Photo Journal
The fourth grade students in Knezevich’s, Goodman’s, and Buelter’s rooms at Strawberry Park Elementary School will take photos of places in Routt County that are meaningful to them. They will then select photos to put in their photo journals. With each picture, the students will write about the place they selected. They will use various formats to convey their messages.
Cultural Celebrations and Connections
The Steamboat Springs Elementary School Spanish Program mini-grant to supports year-long cultural education through two avenues. The Cultural Celebrations and Connections program introduces cultural diversity by exploring important Latin American holidays and festivals and implementing a pen pal program with a school in Mexico
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Yampa River Walk Journal
Students will utilize the new Yampa River Boardwalk as an outdoor classroom. Author Kristin Joy Pratt-Serafini will spend two days working with students in this environment helping them learn to record their observations and investigations so that they can be published in a book by the end of the school year. Students will make at least four visits to the area to make observations throughout the year.
Yampa River Walk Journal I
The purpose of this grant is to facilitate the visit of the author-illustrator Kristin Joy Pratt-Serafini to Strawberry Park Elementary to introduce and inspire students to connect to our local environment through a journaling process modeled by this presenter. She will meet with K-2 students to explore non-fiction books on the environment and with 3-5 students to introduce journaling as a tool for observing the outdoors in our community and as a way to develop questions to research.
Extended Care Center Project
This is an intergenerational program in which all second grade students at Strawberry Park Elementary travel to Doak Walker Extended Care Center to work with residents on arts and crafts projects. One second grade class will visit each week.
Nutrition Services/Food Services Food Guide Pyramid Educational Reinforcement Program
In conjunction with the school lunch program, students in Routt County school districts (Steamboat Springs, Hayden, South Routt) will be provided with ongoing, age appropriate, and fun nutrition messages/education to supplement and reinforce the nutrition curriculum currently in place. Students will be given nutrition information items/incentives such as activity worksheets, lunch bags, erasers, puzzles, bookmarks, etc. on a regular basis.
Elementary Science Integration
A facilitator will utilize the Water Trailer from the Routt County Extension Service and the Water Conservation District to demonstrate a watershed in action. Fifth grade classes at Soda Creek and Strawberry Park Elementary Schools will also analyze the health of the Yampa River watershed through the study of temperature, pH, and presence of macroinvertebrates in the water. Second grade classes will utilize sound probes to measure the decibel, amplitude, and range of various sounds.
Food Services Physical Education Curriculum Support Project
In conjunction with the school lunch program, students in the three Routt County school districts will be provided with pedometers in the lunchroom to support the physical education curriculum and to reinforce the important link between healthy eating and exercise in meeting the goal of overall health and wellness for our students.
Photo Journal
Each student in the fourth grade at Strawberry Park Elementary School will have access to a disposable camera which will be used to document people, places, and events in their life in Routt County that are significant to them in some way. Students will write about the photographs. The writings and photos will be bound into a small photo journal.
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400 Facts Why We Care
Funds brought author Ann Whitehead Nagda to Strawberry Park Elementary School to inspire students to become good stewards of their home in the Yampa Valley. Students researched facts about the natural resources in their community and communicated their findings through a podcast that included photographs, illustrations, writing and mathematical examples.
Doak Walker Care Center Project
Every second grade student at Strawberry Park Elementary School works with residents of the Doak Walker Extended Care Center on arts and crafts projects. Funds provide transportation for the students.
Photo Journals
Second grade students create photo journals of people and places in Routt County that are important to them. Funds are used for disposable cameras and developing for each student. Each student publishes a book that includes photos and writing about the photos.
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Picture This: Community in Change
Grant funded cameras which students used to document changes in the school and within the larger community. Students recorded changes in various environments with cameras. At the end of the school year, students presented their vision of the changes they see in one of two ways, either a podcast or through the use of Voicethreads to share on-line with the community.
Yampa River Research Project
Four fourth grade classes at Strawberry Park Elementary will visit and explore the Yampa River walk boardwalk, learning about this riparian environment. Students will use a journal format to share their insights and observations about the river’s diversity, and some students will share work on the internet.
Photo Journals
Project involves 80 second grade students in the creation of photo journals of people and places in Routt County that are important to the them. Students take photos with disposable cameras purchased with the grant funds. They receive guidelines on the using cameras and photograph tips. After this they select photos to write about in their journals. Students choose the purpose of their writing (to describe, inform, entertain, or persuade).
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This page last updated on 4/12/2008.
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