Writing Our Way to the Post Office
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My Students: I teach all day Kindergarten to non-English speaking children who are just learning how to read and write our language. Learning how to use the skills of reading and writing ... My Project: "Writing Our Way to the Post Office" will empower our children to write letters to their peers in their classroom and in their neighbor Kinder classroom. These letters will b... more» My Students: I teach all day Kindergarten to non-English speaking children who are just learning how to read and write our language. Learning how to use the skills of reading and writing will open up a whole new world to these young students and brighten their future. My kids try hard (but don't get help from home) and they are learning the basics from the books the school district provides. I want to take them beyond the basics by encouraging them to put their writing and reading skills to practice by implementing the "Writing Our Way to the Post Office" Project in our Kindergarten Classrooms. In order for our children to reach the national average, we have to work twice as hard because they come to us extremely low at the beginning of Kindergarten.
Our school is in an impoverished area and the students are not provided with much at home, so as teachers we have to provide our student with all of the extras beyond the paper and pencil activities. My Project: "Writing Our Way to the Post Office" will empower our children to write letters to their peers in their classroom and in their neighbor Kinder classroom. These letters will be "mailed" by placing them in our new Classroom Mailbox. Each day our classroom helper will also be the "Postal Helper" of the day and sort and deliver the mail into our new Mail Boxes. There will be time each day devoted to reading and responding to our mail.
All students will be involved in writing, reading, delivering, sorting and enjoying the gift of writing for a purpose! Help my classroom become more than just textbook readers and writers. Help them see the purpose in writing by giving them a purpose to write and respond to others by ..."writing their way to the post office" so they can receive a letter in return and read it and want to write back!
This will empower them to be lifelong writers and readers! hide» My students need 3 Letter Writing Supply Kits, 2 Mailboxes, 2 Classroom Post Office Kits and 4 Toddler Mail Carrier Costumes. details» |
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| Materials | Vendor | Price | # | Total |
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| EE427 - Classroom Post Office | Lakeshore Learning | $59.95 | 2 | $119.90 |
| LL684 - Toddler Mail Carrier Costume | Lakeshore Learning | $29.95 | 4 | $119.80 |
| MAILBOX | School Specialty Inc. | $44.99 | 2 | $89.98 |
| EE419 - Letter Writing Supply Kit | Lakeshore Learning | $19.95 | 3 | $59.85 |
Vendor Shipping Charges  |
$9.00 | |||
| State Sales Tax |
$28.24 | |||
| 3rd Party Payment Processing Fee |
$5.84 | |||
| Fulfillment Labor & Materials |
$9.00 | |||
| Project Cost Excluding Donation to Support DonorsChoose.org | $441.61 | |||
| Optional Donation to Support DonorsChoose.org |
$96.94 | |||
| Project Cost Including Donation to Support DonorsChoose.org |
$538.55 | |||
| 14 Donors | -$538.55 | |||
| To Go | $0.00 | |||
Subject:
Literature & Writing (in Literacy & Language), Early Development (in Applied Learning)Resource:
Supplies (Enrichment)Students reached:
45Used by future students?
YesSubmitted:
Feb 19, 2010 |Expires:
Jul 18, 2010Project ID:
370309
$539 given
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