DSG1112-04 A literacy project for 50 each 1st grade students at Ivey Lane Elementary School in west Orlando. Most of the children are considered at- risk and come from a challenged socio-economic community. On Tuesday, January 17, 2012, the Rotarians assisted the representatives from Orange County Sheriff’s Mounted Patrol at the school where the 1st graders were introduced to Walter Farley’s book, Little Black, A Pony, and a real horse. Following a chance to touch the horse, each child was presented their own personal copy of the book. On Tuesday, January 24, 2012, the Rotarians chaperoned the 1st grade class on a field trip to the Arabian Knights stables in Kissimmee. The HTLP personnel then treated the students to discussions about the horses at four stations; (1) grooming, (2) feeding, (3) shoeing and (4) saddles as well as a short program of trick riding and entertainment. Each child then received a second book by Walter Farley, Little Black Goes to the Circus. Total cost of grant was $750. DDF was $725.
DSG1112-05 This year we expanded our literacy project to include 50 each 4th grade students at Ivey Lane Elementary School in west Orlando. Most of the children are considered at-risk and come from a challenged socio-economic community in west Orlando. The students at Ivey Lane Elementary, 4th Grade were given their own personal copy of Walter Farley’s Black Stallion prior to a field trip at Arabian Knights on December 12, 2011. The field trip to Arabian Knights was chaperoned by the three teachers and four Rotarians and consisted of a demonstration of horseback riding and a segment in which a rider enacted part of the story of the Black Stallion. Total cost of grant was $787. DDF was $775.
DSG1112-08 The Rotary Club of Orlando provided $4,000 to Frontline Outreach, Inc. (FLO), a 501(c)3 organization serving low income rural west Orlando, to order 408 new books from Barnes & Noble to (1) expand the existing library of 4,000 books, (2) to provide additional books as incentives in in FLO Read and Succeed program with book awards, (3) initiate a new family reading program with book award incentives and (4) create a new and more efficient Library Numbering System. The books were ordered in March 2012. On Wednesday, April 11, two RCO members checked in the books and began labeling the new books with a reading level # and a Library #. On Saturday, April 14, 18 RCO members plus 5 spouses and guests (1) sorted over 4,000 old books, (2) completed labeling and sorting the new books and (3) began entering the old books in a data base (title and reading level). The data base will be used to create the Library # label and reading level label. This entry process was continued over the next 3 weeks utilizing RCO members and FLO helpers. Another work party was held on Saturday, May 5 to complete the labeling process. The books were sorted and refiled on library shelves per FLO directions. Total cost of grant was $4,000, DDF was $3,878.
