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Wish List

"Thanks for what you are doing to constantly improve
education at Regina."
~Martha Hartwig, Math Teacher
If you are interested in providing any of the following Wish List items, please contact April Rouner at 319-354-5866 or april@icreginafoundation.com.

Facilities
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-podiums/lecturns
 (1 permanent location in Chapel, 1 permanent location in multi-purpose room for
 speakers or Mass, 1 to be used in elementary gym, high school gym, or any
 other 1st floor need)
-NCEA (National Catholic Education Association) license dues @ approx. $1,200/year

Regina Elementary


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5th Grade Classroom (Jan Rudolph, teacher)
-set of SMART Board speakers
-St. Francis statue (2 feet or more)
-student thesauruses
-30-holed wooden mailbox center
-The Phantom Tollboth in paperback
-DVD of The Phantom Tollboth
-DVD of Shiloh
-nonbreakable compasses
-Various Saints costumes (nuns, bishops, priests, monks, togas, soldiers, etc.)
-Books about various Saints

4th grade classroom (Jared Galpin, teacher)
-new, sturdy bookshelf

4th grade classroom (Diann Zirtzman, teacher)
-The Synonym Finder book by J.I. Rodale @$25 new (used copies are fine)
-any hardcover book about the 50 United States
-any hardcover poetry book for children, such as Moon, Have You Met My Mother?
 by Karla Kuskin, You Read to Me and I‛ll Read to You series by Mary Ann
 Hoberman, Falling Up by Shel Silverstein, A Foot in the Mouth: Poems to Speak, 
 Sing and Shout by Paul B. Janeczko
-unabridged audio CD of the novel Stone Fox by John Reynolds Gardiner
-new globe

3rd grade classroom (Gail Hensch, teacher)
-Smart Board interactive whiteboard
-Large mounted whiteboards for the rest of the writing surfaces in classroom
-laptop computers or 2 desktop computers for enrichment and access to 
 more information in the classroom
-large, sturdy bookshelf (wood or metal - approx. 4-5 feet wide by 4-5 feet tall)
-student chairs and desks for 3rd graders
-writing table (approx. 4 feet by 2 feet)
-Bibles (appropriate for 3rd graders)
-dictionaries (appropriate for 3rd graders)

3rd grade classroom (Mary Duffey, teacher)
-elementary student dictionaries
-elementary student Bibles
-Bunnicula books by James Howe
-Ramona Quimby Age 8 books by Beverly Cleary
-Henry Huggins books by Beverly Cleary
-new television

2nd Grade Classroom (Joan Ochoa, teacher)
-SMART Board @ approx. $2,000
-DVD player
-The Magic Treehouse Thanksgiving on Thursday books
-large timer (for kids to keep track of how they are doing on math fact timed
 sheets)
- children‛s Bibles
- posters with the new wording of prayers (The Apostles‛ Creed, etc.)

Kindergarten Classroom (Mary Rockafellow, teacher)
-Smart Board @approx. $2,000-$3,000
-Wikki Stix classroom pack @approx. $25
-classroom cubbie unit with 25-30 pigeon hole style spaces for student   
workbooks/supplies @approx. $250-$300

Kindergarten Classroom (Emily Poss, teacher)
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laptop stand/cart
-set of play food 
@ $30
 
K-6 Technology (Barb McGee, teacher)
-digital cameras for classroom use (Canon Powershot A1200 from Iowa
 Educator Consortium) 
@ $89/each

Regina Jr./Sr. High School
 
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English and Language Arts 7 (Allison Brown, teacher)
-packs of markers
-packs of crayons
-packs of colored pencils
- any new or used young adolescent books
-copies of The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare @ $6.99 each
-copies of Drums, Girls and Dangerous Pie by Jordan Sonnenblick @ $7.99 each
-basic school supplies (scissors, tape, erasers, note cards, highlighters, etc.)
- thesauruses
-DVD/VHS player
 
 




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English and Language Arts 8 (Katherine Sprengelmeyer, teacher)
-classroom supplies (colored pencils, white paper, index cards, post-it notes and post-it flags, rulers, yard stick, medium clip binders, wet wipes, Expo whiteboard markers, plain (primary colors) bulletin board trimmer, funds to purchase updated classroom posters on grammar, punctuation, and literary terms)
-permabound novels of The House on Mango Street (Sandra Cisneros)
- funds to purchase a small anthology of folklore from around the world or 
  classic/original fairy tales
- funds to purchase numerous paperback novels in fair to poor condition to 
  permabound
-copies of Hound of the Baskervilles (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
-copies of The Time Machine (H.G. Wells)

 
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High School Advanced Placement (Barb Reilly, teacher)
-headphones (noise blocking)
-keyboards
-mice
-TI 83/84 graphing calculators
 
 
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High School Math (Martha Hartwig, teacher)
-TI-Nspire Handheld Units
 
(Similar to a calculator with the capability to be programmed for specific teaching
 goals.) @ $125 each
Charging station
Wireless capability
 
The teacher can create a lesson, which enables students to follow directions interactively (seeing options as they progress through the steps).  With wireless capability, the teacher can send all students files at the same time and "grab" screen shots of their work.
 
 
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High School Business Lab (Patrick Moeller, teacher)
-rolling chairs
-new mice for computers
-new keyboards for computers
 
 
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High School Computer Lab (Joan Belknap, teacher)
-rolling armless chairs
-ceiling speaker
 
  High School Family & Consumer Sciences (Stacy Sueppel, teacher)
-sewing machines (preferably from Shields Sewing Center)
-fabric, hand sewing needles, seam rippers, bobbins, etc.
-any type of gently used cooking utensil, cookware, baking sheets, pans,  
 silverware, etc.
-paper plates and napkins
 
 
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Jr./Sr. High School Library (Sam Garchik, librarian)
-books - Iowa Teen Book Award
-books - Iowa HS Book Award
 (Each of these awards are given to 10 books. The library has had copies for the
 past decade) @ $300
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License - Alexandria Automated Catalog
 (Annual licensing fee for elementary & jr./sr. high school.  Cost consumes
 significant portion of annual library budget) @ $799
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Subscription - Cedar Rapids Gazette (Newspapers are the most commonly 
  read items in the Regina Library) @ $110 
-Subscription - Iowa City Press Citizen / Des Moines Register (Newspapers are
  the most commonly read items in the Regina Library) @ $225
-Subscription - Iowa City Press Citizen  (The 2nd subscription for the Press 
 Citizen is given to the office, which uses it to cut out articles about Regina
 students and post them in the hallways.) @ $115
 -Statesman‛s Yearbook (Reference works unsurpassed by electronic resources.  The Statesman‛s Yearkbook has been purchased annually for over two decades.  Less expensive in print than electronic.) @ $230 
-Current Biography (Reference works containing detailed, proven information about individuals in the news.  Current Biography has been carried by the library since it opened.  Less expensive in print than electronic.) @ $187