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Elm Grove Elementary and our Partner in Education, Wesbanco, have started the First Savers Program for our students in grades K-5. Students participating recently received their savings books and are able to deposit money on two "banking" days per month, the first and third Thursdays.
The students are excited about watching their money grow!
Project
KIND is a program designed to promote kind, responsible deeds by students toward people,
animals, nature, and each other. The program encourages students to develop positive
behaviors that promote present and future responsible citizens at school and in the
community.
Strengths of the program identified by various teachers are awareness, enhancement of positive self-esteem, and encouragement of positive behaviors and deeds.
Activities at Elm Grove this year began with a cat/dog food drive
with all food being donated 
to the Ohio County Animal
Shelter. We are currently collecting pop
tabs which will be donated to the Ronald McDonald House in Morgantown, WV. The
students are also planning on making Easter cards for the patients at the Continuous Care
Center at Wheeling Hospital.
Our students have demonstrated a great deal of caring towards people, animals, and the environment, and truly believe "it's cool to be kind."
They've collected a million cool ones at Elm Grove Elementary School. Unfortunately, it isn't dollars the youngsters have amassed. But it is the next best thing: something that will be converted into dollars to help one of the region's worthiest charities. The students have collected aluminum beverage tabs.
The tabs will be donated to the Ronald McDonald House in Morgantown where funds from the recycling will be used to help defray costs for maintaining the house, which is open to families whose children are in the West Virginia University hospitals.
Elm Grove Elementary has been fortunate the past two years to receive assistance with the collection of tabs from the West Liberty State College Health and Physical Education Department staff and students.
The culmination of the current year-long collection project was a yield of five 30-gallon garbage cans filled to the brim with aluminum beverage tabs, mostly from soda pop and beer cans. Where do we get the 1 million cool ones notion? That's how many tabs are estimated to be continued in five jam-packed garbage cans.
Elm Grove students and staff want to thank the WLSC physical education department for their generous contribution, as well as other individuals who have supported this project and helped to make it a success. Everyone is reminded to continue to save tabs over the summer to help Elm Grove Elementary School kick off the project for the 1999-2000 school year.
After a quarter century, the journey has brought us to the dawn of a new millennium. Regional Education Service Agencies (RESA) still stand ready to provide leadership for program and services as deemed appropriate. Together with the counties, RESAs are prepared to turn tomorrow's challenges into opportunities and tomorrow's intentions into realities.
Nick Zerros, Executive Director
Dr. Bonnie Ritz, Director of Programs & Staff Development
The Volunteer Reading Tutorial Program centers efforts on supportive services for primary students in need of assistance in making a positive transition into the formal instructional school environment.
Ohio County recognizes that success in the school setting for beginning students rests on these initial experiences.
This program offers concentrated individual instruction that parallels the county's basic reading program and extends to each student positive self-concept reinforcement in a personalized setting.
In conclusion, tribute must always be given to the volunteers whose love of children and giving of their own time make this program possible.
An After School Tutoring Program is held at Elm Grove Elementary School for the purpose of providing additional time for students who need help with homework. Emphasis is on comprehension skills in the content areas and problem solving in mathematics.
The intent for before and after program is to provide care for children whose parent must work outside the home or who are going to school, and who have no one to care for them. The children are provided with many activities to keep their minds alert while out of the classroom environment. We develop craft activities, play games, work puzzles and discuss holidays to keep the students thinking and questioning their world.
DARE (Drug and Alcohol Resistance Education) is a sixteen week program taught by the Wheeling Police Department and sponsored by AAA. The weekly classes are approximately 30 minutes. The students are taught about the effects of various drugs, alcohol, and tobacco. They are given lessons in self-esteem, and they are taught ways to avoid and reject the use of these harmful substances. Each student is required to participate in class, complete a workbook, and write an essay. At the end of the course, the students graduate from the program. If they have met the requirements, they receive a certificate and a DARE T-shirt.
