Ridgeway Elementary School Media Center

Manchester Township Public Schools

Welcome to the Ridgeway Elementary School

Media Center

Geri Szoke, Media Specialist

Winner of a 2007 OceanFirst Foundation

$10,000 Grant

Grant funds will be used to purchase books and technology to support library research programs for grades

1-5 on the environment, conservation, animals, plants and insects. Ridgeway School students will become

more aware this year of the impact we all have on the balance of nature.

Thank You OceanFirst Foundation!

Here are some of the activities planned this year to implement the grant projects:

Cattus Island Park

v Naturalists from the park will visit with 4^th and 5^th graders on November 27^th and 28^th.

v Students in grades one and three will visit the Cooper Environmental Center in April.

Other activities:

§ First Grades will study plants and animals

§ Second Grades will do research on insects

§ Third Grades will study the Arctic, Desert and Rainforest ecosystems

§ Fourth Grades will develop research projects on oceanography

§ Fifth Grades will participate in the Endangered Species Contest sponsored by the Conserve Wildlife Foundation of NJ. The students will research an endangered animal, write an essay about this animal and draw a picture of it in its natural environment.

Fifth Grade Endangered Species Essay Contest

http://www.state.nj.us/dep/fgw/tandespp.htm

Check out these new books…… and more to come!

Kindergarten and First Grade