- Digital camera (for students’ projects, newsletters, yearbook, etc.)
- Video Camera
- Laptop projector (for classroom lessons & presentation)
- Microscope
- Balance scale
- Printer paper
- Pencils/pens
- Calculators
- Spiral notebooks
- Poster board
- Pocket folders
A grant from the Ralph and Mildred Johnson fund of the Community Needs Funds of Northern Illinois has provided a grant to purchase the Accelerated Reader Program. To help with the motivation for the reading program incentives would be helpful.
Gift certificates to the following places valued at $5-$20 each will be be used for those in our Accelerated Reader Program:
- McDonald’s
- Burger King
- Pizza
- Park District Passes
- Movie Passes
- Target
- Wal-Mart
- Mall
- Laser Tag
- Nickel World
What was your favorite book in school? It may become a favorite of a LYDIA student too. Would you consider helping us expand our reading library? We’re accepting new and gently used books, 3rd-12th grade reading level that are interesting to high-school aged teens.
The following books are high interest subjects for our students and at the appropriate reading level:
- Jumping the Nail by Eve Bunting
- Chicago Blues by Julie Reece Deaver
- A Sudden Silence by Eve Bunting
- Someone was Watching by David Patneaude
- The Car by Gary Paulsen
- It Happened to Nancy by Anonymous
- Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
- Holes by Louis Sachar
- Old Ways, New Ways by Tana Reiff
- Just for Today by Tan Reiff
- The Silver Skateboard by Bob Wright
Special Thanks to our Book Donors:
Sarah Circle
First Evangelical Free Church-Rockford
Marcy LeMaster
Renaisance Learning
Rick & Chris Walton