All donations are tax deductible

Technology:

• Digital camera (for students’ projects, newsletters, yearbook, etc.)
• Video Camera
• Laptop projector (for classroom lessons & presentation)
• Microscope
• Balance scale

Reading Program: 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

School Supplies:

• Printer paper
• Pencils/pens
• Calculators
• Spiral notebooks
• Poster board
• Pocket folders

Books are Needed for our Accelerated Reading Program: 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