If you can help, please contact Gail Schmader, Director of School Volunteer Services at 799-7339 x344 or [email protected].

Pond Cove School

•Volunteers are needed 2 hours once a week to scan text into the Kurzweil, a computer that converts the printed word to spoken word. Training will be provided.

•Items needed:

-A globe

-Out of print paperback books: “Choose Your Own Adventure”

-Models that do not require glue and simple wooden model kits

-Mini-exercise trampoline

-A Magic School Bus video: “Through the Water Works”

-A small CD player

-A chair with cushions

-Used tennis balls

-Empty ink jet and laser jet cartridges and used cell phones

Middle School

•Adult mentors are needed in the areas of literacy to challenge students who show a special interest in reading and writing. Mentors will meet one or two times a week for 30 minutes and will work under the direction of a teacher.

•An adult volunteer with a writing background is needed to assist students in revising and editing their work one-on-one in the classroom.

•A 6th grade parent is needed to post World Language student work 4 or 5 times a year.

•A volunteer is needed on an occasional basis to repair books in the library.

•Volunteers are needed to teach eight 45-minute sessions on economics to 8th graders. Junior Achievement provides materials and training.

•Long-time Cape residents, veterans, and people are needed who could serve as primary sources to historical events. People are also needed for oral history interviews for students.

•Items needed:

-Used cross-country ski equipment

-Snow sleds

-Used tennis balls

-Used sewing machine

-Shelving, bookcases, or stackable cubes to be used to organize a closet

-Medical files to be used for student art portfolios

-Used 27″ or larger TV, VCR and DVD players in good working order

High School

-Guest speakers are needed who are willing to share an “Outdoor Adventure” trip

•Items needed:

-The Life Skills class could use Legos (technics), an electric pencil sharpener, and gently used scientific calculators

-Mountain bikes in good or “fixer-upper” condition

-35mm cameras in excellent working order

-A floor tripod for a camera

-Standing lamp

-Felt scraps

-Field hockey and lacrosse sticks, balls, and goggles

-Ping pong tables

-Posters, pictures and/or paintings to go on newly painted staff areas of the high school

-Dorm-size refrigerator and a small microwave for the Life Skills class