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Let Go! Let Your Feelings Flow!

My students need 50 blue journal for the boys and 100 red journals for the girls to use as a counseling tool to help them express their feelings.

  • $943 goal

This project expired on May 24, 2009.

This project expired on May 24, 2009.

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Ms. T. Sutton Elementary School
Houston, TX Grades 3-5

Celebrating Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

Celebrate Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.

Imagine a peaceful heart and mind through the use of a journal. I am an elementary school counselor and have been for over 11 years. My school is located in the a gang-infested area with low socio-ecomic status. We are a recognized school through the hard work and dedication of our staff at our school. Our students are well-behaved students who still excel and are working up to their potential and some are performing beyond our expectations, even though they are in an area that has one of the highest crime rates in Houston. Most of our students are Limited English Proficient and yet they are dedicated to achieve and do the best work as they can.

Students encounter challenges everyday at home and at school. The quality of their home life and their situation may affect their academics performance. As a counselor, I empathize my students' personal situations and listened to them tell me their personal stories and see the struggles and obstacles that they face daily. At our school, we have students who encounter issues such as poverty, gang infested environment, single parenting, abusive homes, alcoholic parents just to name a few. These kids feel safer at school than they feel being at home. Those who have bad home experiences tend to act out due to the instability and most of they time they witness adults expressing their feelings in dangerous and non-productive ways. They are not taught to express these stressful experiences in healthy ways. The students have a hard time expressing their feelings and labeling their feelings. All they know is either feeling good or bad.

As a counselor for over 11 years, I have found that when I use this technique, the student improved on their verbal and writing skills. They seemed to improve in their ways of dealing with their anger. This is a healthy technique to help them because they are not transferring their hurtful feelings onto hurting self, others and destroying property, they can write exactly what they are thinking and how they are feeling by letting everything go through papers. Through journals they can think and process information clearly. Journaling and free-writing will have them improve their writing skills and their well-beings.

I think a journal is a valuable tool and journaling is an effective technique that will have students release their pent up feelings. I have done this myself as a counselor and discovered that there are multiple of benefits just using an inexpensive item as a journal. I have been keeping and writing in my journal since I was in high school and find that it helps me with my own family problems. As an adult now, I am still journaling. Even famous writers have used journals as their way to express themselves and eventually turn them into memoirs and share their pain with the world. In my opinion, journaling is healing and it's the most effective way to let go all types of feelings. It's a great way for the students to track their growth as they work through their issues and just an outlet that they can use to let go of the sufferings that they experience in their lives.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Nearly all students from low‑income households

Never Before Funded 100 students impacted
Ms. T. Sutton Elementary School Grades 3-5

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Houston, TX View local requests

Nearly all students from low‑income households Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more

Never Before Funded 100 students impacted

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Thoughts Blue Journal Metro Books • Barnes and Noble $4.48 50 $224.00
Thoughts Red Journal Metro Books • Barnes and Noble $4.48 100 $448.00

Materials cost

$672.00

Vendor shipping charges

 $67.20

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$16.80

Fulfillment labor & materials

$17.00

Total project cost

$773.00

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$169.68

Total project goal

$942.68

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