• Adult & Family Fun (dinner & theatre packages, electronics, sign-up parties, sailing trips, and more!)
• Sports Events & Memorabilia
• Classroom-Created Gifts
• "Spend time with Your Favorite Teacher" Packages

Last year, we raised over $47,000 for our schools and we hope to repeat that again this year!

• Document Camera – Equipment used to project images (text, 3-D objects, etc.) that facilitate and support student learning.
• Poster Printer – Printer for teachers to use to make large-scale instructional aids such as concept webs, maps, poem charts and diagrams.
• Life Fitness Materials – Provides new items of fitness equipment (instant pulse monitors, exercise tubing, etc.) and an online fitness resource (“Brain Pop”) to extend and enhance healthy lifestyles aspects of Physical Education curriculum at Lyon .
• Language for Learning – Instructional materials for English Language Learners that provide activities and lessons supporting vocabulary development, word and sentence variety, word knowledge development and basic language concepts.
• Integrated Student Digital Portfolios - Promotes the integration oftechnology through language arts, science, social studies,mathematics, and our encore program. During their time at Pleasant Ridge School , students will take a variety of pictures and writings oftheir experiences and work. Students will develop a digital portfolio oftheir learning products.
• 3-D US Map Kits - These 3 dimensional maps provide children with a tactile feel of the earth’s geography. Using these maps, children build deeper understandings of problems society face resulting from geographic issues. Our students can see the changes in terrain soldiers would have faced in conflicts such as the Civil War.
• Everything You Need to Teach Money - This program allows students who struggle with the system and concepts of money to explore and utilize play money in a plethora of ways. This hands-on methodology creates deep understandings for students.
• Horseshoe Tables for Pleasant Ridge classrooms - In the world of biology and architecture, form follows function. The Horseshoe table is a unique piece of furniture that allows a reading group leader to be surrounded by the students that are reading with him/her. This grant will support our teachers as they implement the new guided reading program, by allowing teachers to work more closely with 5-7
  students in a reading group.
• Art Classroom CDs - Accessing students multiple learning styles opens their minds to learning. The use of music within the art classroom activates and stimulates students’ creative minds.
• For more information about PTA Grants link here.