The American covers our KaBOOM! grant

Thank you to the staff at the St. Louis American for reporting on our recent KaBOOM! grant award.  We are fortunate to have support from all of our friends, family and advocates who made this a reality.

Cast your final vote for the SLLIS playground today

Voting for the KaBOOM! video contest ends tonight at 10:59PM CST.  There was a technical glitch overnight, but voting has re-opened.  Cast your final votes and remind your networks to get their votes in as well.  We are so close, but if you’ve been watching and voting, you know how quickly that can change.

We appreciate the outpouring of support for the future of our students’ play and look forward to building the space with you!

SLLIS on Spring Break March 29th-April 2nd

Classes will not meet next week, March 29th-April 2nd for Spring Break.  Classes will resume Monday, April 5th.

Remember to vote for the SLLIS playground in the KaBOOM video contest through March 31st!  We are currently in the top 3 and we must finish there in order to receive grant funding towards our playground.  Spread the word and keep voting!  Thank you to all of our families, friends and friends of friends who continue to encourage new votes daily.  This is the essence of the work it will take to bring this playground dream to fruition!

KaBOOM! declares SLLIS Playground “In the lead”

We have 8 days left in the KaBOOM! video voting contest.  KaBOOM! reorganized their website over the weekend and SLLIS is currently “In the lead” to be one of the three finalists to receive up to $5,000 towards playground equipment purchase.  Thank you to all of our families, friends, supporters and friends of friends and friends who are voting for us daily!  With your support over the next 8 days we will certainly be among the awardees.

We appreciate every single one of  you, your votes, energy and enthusiasm.  Our students are fortunate to have such a strong local and global fan base.

Vote for the SLLIS playground today

It’s not too late to start voting for the future of our students’ play.  Vote now for the SLLIS playground to win up to $5,000 towards our first real playground structures.  Visit the KaBOOM! video voting page to vote for us and learn more about our project.

We are one of 10 finalists in North America competing for this funding.  Again SLLIS is a unique horse in this race.  We are the only language immersion school, the only Missouri school/project, the only first year school and the only public charter school to be among the finalists!

Remember that you can vote once every 24 hours from all of your computers (home, work, library, pda).  Encourage your friends, family, colleagues, neighbors and legislators to vote for us.

Will you stand for PLAY?  Vote SLLIS now!

Voting works: Let KaBOOM hear your voice!

Apparantly we started trying to vote before the KaBOOM! voting site was ready for us.  Now the site is ready.  You can see the videos of all of the other finalists and how many votes each school has received so far.  If you tried to vote earlier and got frustrated, don’t give up!  Remember to vote daily and send daily reminders to your network.

Vote for SLLIS’ KaBOOM! video: March 8th-March 31st

We have been named one of ten finalists for the KaBOOM! video contest.  Woohoo!!!!  We need your help to win this contest.  The top 3 finalists will receive a grant towards their playground build.  Voting begins Monday, March 8th and ends March 31st.  You are able to vote once per day.  If you’ve been following our school from afar and haven’t yet figured out how to help, now’s your chance!  Bookmark the voting page, vote each morning when you check your e-mail and share our voting information with all of your friends, family and networks.  We are a little school with a lot of heart and if every person in our community can inspire their community to support us, we have a chance to win this.  Post the following sample text to your Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter etc. accounts and encourage your people to support our little school.

Help St. Louis Language Immersion Schools win a new playground!  From now until March 31st vote for the SLLIS playground video.  Each person may vote once daily, so make it a habit. In your web browser create a bookmark for the voting page: http://projects.kaboom.org/voting/elections/video_2010.

¡Juntos podemos! Oui on peut!

SLLIS one step closer to KaBoom! playground

We have been invited to advance to the next round of consideration for a KaBoom! Playground installation.  Woohoo!!!  If selected, we will mount our biggest single day volunteer opportunity to date to install our new play structures this school year.  Think Extreme Home Makeover type big.

How can you help us now?  Community support is a big part of the award consideration process.  Visit the official KaBoom! website, create a profile and become a member of the SLLIS Playground Project.

SLLIS applying for KaBoom! playground grant: photos needed

Our Green Space task force is hard at work on a new funding opportunity: a KaBoom playground installation. SLLIS has begun a project for consideration and will find out this spring if we have been selected for this exciting opportunity.  If selected we will begin a massive volunteer campaign to support our Build Day.

How can you help support our application?

We’re making a video to help us win a grant to build our playground. Please send ANY pictures you have that can be used in this video. Pictures should be from any Green Space work day or of kids playing on the playground during school. Please only send pictures if you would allow them to be shown on the web. E-mail pictures to lisaberman@rocketmail.com.  We’ll publish a link to our video as soon as it is available.