Green Valley and Sahuarita Teachers listen up! KGVY Radio, Green Valley Rotary, and Freeport MacMoran, may have a check for you.

We have raised money on your behalf to pay you back for your financial contributions to the classroom.

If you teach in the Green Valley or Sahuarita school system, and have spent your personal money for classroom necessities, you may receive a partial refund. Just click on the teacher's form. Follow the easy instructions. After we compile all the information from you, a check will be mailed. To all teachers, thanks from everyone in the community for your caring and hard work.

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We asked several area teachers what is on their wishlist every year, and here is what they said:

Nancy Alfing. Teacher of the Year at Continental School:

Some of the things I spend my own money on are art supplies for special projects we do in 2nd grade. We have some of the basic supplies provided by the school - pipe cleaners, popsicle sticks, water color paint, glitter - but depending on the projects we choose to do for Christmas, Mother's Day, Father's Day, we frequently need to buy other supplies that are more expensive. I can't remember what we did for Christmas this last year. Sorry. For Mother's Day this last year, we purchased clay flower pots for each child to cover with tissue paper covered with Modge Podge to give a 'stained glass' look. We also purchased the floral foam and floral tape for the flowers we made to put in the pots. For Father's Day we made personalized bulletin boards using science fair display boards cut into smaller pieces. All of those supplies were purchased out of pocket.

Prizes in a prize box are also at my expense. I try to recognize effort and improvement in the academic areas of math, reading, and in penmanship, and once a month we have an art contest where 1st, 2nd, and 3rd prize winners are acknowledged. During certain times of the year as behavior is harder to keep under control (especially toward the end of the year after Spring Vacation - the last nine-weeks of the school year) I use a point system for groups where good behavior and classroom manners are rewarded. Groups of children are rewarded for their group being the 'winner' for the week, and each child in the group gets to pick a prize from the prize box at the end of the week. I try to get prizes from the 88 cent section of the Wal-Mart toy aisle or the $1 section at Target, and I scour the toy section at Walgreens for deals, too. Sometimes I get $1 coupons from Dairy Queen or McDonalds. But those add up over the course of the year. (I also use unopened toys from the McDonald's or Burger King kids' meals.)

At Christmas time, I buy everyone a book from the Scholastic Book clubs and three personalized pencils from Atlas Pencil Company. By this time of year I know each child's independent reading ability and most of their likes and dislikes for reading material, so I buy each child a different book, specially picked for them.

I do something similar at the end of the year so I can 'hope' they will have at least one book to read over the summer.

Lori Punske, English teacher at Sahuarita.

- Overhead transparencies (the inkjet kind)
- Printer cartridges: Lexmark 17 black
- Binder dividers – I use many, many of these in research and lesson planning
- Dark purple or dark green pens for grading
- Pencils (for testing)
- Poster paper
- One-sided tape for dispenser
- Large paper clips
- A good stapler that can stand up to 130 punches a day or more
- Glue sticks
- Large post-it notes

If anyone wanted to give me credit at Bookman’s, I would love it! I have purchased well over a hundred dollars in materials already through my own trade and cash. I have movie segments that pertain to novels, taped books for kids with disabilities or illnesses, even a lecture series by Harold Bloom on the Shakespearean tragedies to use as a launch for Othello.

Julie Tatum, 3rd grade teacher at Sahuarita.

- A.R. chapter books for my classroom library
- Nonfiction books: Science and Social Studies emphasis
- Literacy games and puzzles
- Math games, flash cards and puzzles
- Math Wrap Ups for practicing addition, subtraction, multiplication, division and fractions in a fun game.
- Reading Wrap Ups for word study--homophones, synonyms, antonyms, compound word games
- Judy Demonstration Clock and student clocks
- Listening Center with CD player and student headphones
- Leap Frog reading system and games with headphones
- Science / Social Studies DVDs (Bill Nye the Science Guy type DVDs)
- Measurement demonstration set (Gallon, half gallon, quart, pint, cup canisters)
- Digital and Standard Gram / Ounce scales
- Science kits for teaching hands on science: (magnets, pulleys, simple machines, magnifying glass, prisms etc.)
- Microscope with sample slides
- Science experiment kits (chemistry set, simple electrical experiment set, computer experiment kit)
- Large pull down maps of the United States and the world
- Class set of student maps of the U.S. and the world
- Multimedia projector to use with my computer