My students need hands on math and science learning materials, games, and puzzles to reinforce skills taught in science, reading, and writing. These items will provide the extra reinforcing while having fun.
This project is part of the Black History Month celebration because it supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of the students are Black.
My Students
Do you remember learning how to read and write with boring texts books, outlining chapter after chapter, and memorizing pointless facts for exams that were forgotten? My students need more than text books and lecturing.
My students are 8 and 9 year old third graders from Southwest Louisiana.
They love learning and using many different materials,and at times are quite challenging. Our school is a Title One school, low income and low parental involvement school. I have students in my class of all ability levels, so keeping them all focused and learning is hard with limited hands on materials. My students accept any task thrown their way and deserve to have their experience and knowledge expanded and challenged.
My Project
The items I am asking for will allow all students to practice skills through hands on learning and allow me, the teacher, to work with small groups of students, giving each student more one-on-one time. The science games and reading/writing skills folder games libraries will allow students to work in cooperative groups and understand the different topics in science and reading.
Providing these science games will allow many students to be engaged at once. The reading folders will offer learning in key areas such as grammar/writing, comprehension, vocabulary, and word work. Fluency and comprehension is a big concept and skill in third grade, so these partner scripts will allow students to improve their fluency and comprehension skills with high-interest passages and quizzes while working with a partner. The reading response prompt cards will help guide students while independently reading fiction and non-fiction selections.
Many of my students come from families that do not have the resources to provide the extra help they need to succeed.
They also live in an area that does not offer the opportunities these children need to overcome all of the obstacles thrown their way. These materials would maximize their learning potential and allow for maximum growth for students to excel in academics.
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