Grace Place third graders took First Lady Ann Scott's Summer Literacy Adventure! Challenged to read three books this summer Grace Place students exceeded expectations, completing 960 minutes of concentrated reading per student. That's approximately 45 minutes a day!
Grace Place's Kindergarten Readiness classes came to a close this week. A component of the Bright Beginnings curriculum, the eight-week class focuses on key factors in a child's development while teaching parents skills and providing books, songs, and activities to complete at home to help prepare their child for Kindergarten. The program also offers their children the opportunity to play [...]
Wasmer, Schroeder & Company (WSC) hosted 40 Grace Place middle school summer STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) Camp students for a tutorial of a day in the life of money management. Held throughout the WSC’s office, including its trading floor, students were exposed to much more than just an overview of the firm’s landscape. [...]
Forty future leaders toured the Collier County Landfill and Renewable Energy Facility to learn about green job opportunities at Waste Management. The middle school students are participating in a summer STEM enrichment curriculum through Grace Place for Children and Families. The goal of the program is to educate the students on different career opportunities and [...]
Participants in Grace Place’s STEM Camp morphed into CSI investigators Wednesday during an interactive presentation by Collier County Sheriff’s Office Chief of Community Engagement Stephanie Spell. The 40 middle-school campers donned latex gloves and learned what it’s like to work in a Crime Scene unit. During their visit campers performed three exercises designed to give [...]
Grace Place students in the Digital Journalism class put their education and imaginations to work with the creation of a newsletter. Working from storyboards they created, the students conducted interviews, wrote articles and developed the layout and design of the Grace Place Gazette. Click here to download the full issue of the Grace Place Gazette.
This week, Grace Place has been 'taking care of business' with a variety of fun and educational opportunities for our young people. High school interns Arletys Gomez and Jamie Williams attended a week-long Junior Achievement CEO Academy at the Lutgert School of Business at FGCU and Annissa Williston completed Youth Leadership Collier. Forty of our [...]
IBERIABANK hosted 40 Grace Place middle school summer STEM Camp students for a bank tour on Monday, June 17, 2013. Held at IBERIABANK’s Naples headquarters at 2150 Goodlette Road North, students were exposed to much more than just dollars and cents. Professionals from IBERIABANK shared the fundamentals of how a bank operates, career opportunities available [...]
CONGRATULATIONS! Grace Place Middle School After-School teacher Lisa Hanba was honored by Junior Achievement of Southwest Florida as 2013 Teacher of the Year!
THANK YOU! To THE COMMUNITY SCHOOL OF NAPLES Upper School students from The Community School of Naples hosted Grace Place elementary summer campers during Teen Angel Camp, June 10-13. Classes included math, reading, science, computer, art and physical education, based on daily themes of space, pirates, circus and sports.