This is a guest post from Amy Cox, Technology and Media Specialist at Meadowvale Elementary School in Elk River. Read more about our Extended Mini Grant Program. This program is only available during the FY21 school year.

Meadowvale Elementary School in Elk River, Minnesota was so excited to receive grant money from CMLE.  We used the funds to purchase $950 worth of new library-bound books, focusing our purchase on recent award-winners. 

Many of these are books that we are unable to purchase through our book fair program, which has also been less profitable than in past years.  With budgets being practically non-existent this year, these funds allowed us to put high-quality, new, and exciting books into the hands of our students, and they were SO excited to preview and check out these new books. 

We feel so fortunate that in this trying year, we were still able to purchase quality literature for our students, thanks to CMLE. 

Fifth graders showing off some of the new books: