Our first grant of the year was approved! We are providing funds for the Heart of the Lakes Elementary School to purchase Magformers. Magformers are intelligent magnetic construction sets that were developed for brain development of youth. Students in Kindergarten through 4th grade will be able to develop scientific thinking skills while creating a varietyRead more
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Another grant has been approved for the school year! Our Perham High School astronomy students will head over to Minnesota State University – Moorhead’s planetarium. Planetariums offer a unique tool in showing our night sky, which is a great way to help students better understand constellations. Here is a bit from MSUM’s website about the planetarium:Read more
Our 20th grant for the 2017-18 School Year has been approved! Students will head down to St. Paul for the annual Festival of Nations. For a number of years, Perham High School students have traveled down to the festival to take in the different cultures and heritages represented. Here is a little information about theRead more
For many years, the kindergarten classes have visited the Chahinkapa Zoo to cap off the school year. This year is no different. This May, kindergarten students will load up in buses paid for by 549 Family Foundation and head over to the zoo in Wahpeton, ND. Leading up to the visit, students will be studyingRead more
Here are a few pictures from when the 2nd graders went to the Holmes Theater earlier this week to see the musical “How I Became a Pirate.” The kids love it. They thought it was very funny. Thanks to the 549 Family Foundation who generously and paid for the buses.Read more
Our next grant for the 2017-18 School Year is for Circuit Kits for the 4th grade classrooms. In fourth grade, students study electricity and the different types of circuits. Circuit kits would allow teachers to enhance the unit on electricity by allowing students the chance to make many different types of circuits. The kits are calledRead more
The next grant is another visit to the Holmes Theatre in Detroit Lakes. This time, the fourth graders will be going to watch the production of “Seedfolks.” The play is based on the Newberry award winning book of the same name. It is a play about an immigrant neighborhood in Cleveland, Ohio, and about creating aRead more
The next three grants of the school year are for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd graders to travel to the Holmes Theatre to see “How I Became a Pirate.” It is a delightful family musical about a boy who wants to become a pirate and finds that all he really needs is at home. The musicalRead more
Every year, the Kindergarten class gets to visit the Lubitz Farm just north of Perham. They get to experience how a dairy farm works, while also seeing animals. Farmers from around the area bring in some of their animals to see and hold. This experience helps students understand farms more. There aren’t many farms leftRead more
We approved our first grant in 2018! It is our 12th one this year. It is for the Hugh O’Brian Youth Leadership (HOBY) program that a sophomore goes to each year. HOBY was founded in 1958 with the mission to inspire and develop our global community youth and volunteers to a life dedicated to leadership,Read more