My students need a variety of writing materials such as post-its, notebooks, gel pens, pencils and highlighters to enhance their writer's workshop experience!
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
Our students are young, new, and excited writers who are looking for helpful writing supplies to help take them that extra mile in their work. Our goal as a first grade class, is to challenge our students to develop, expand, and elaborate on their narrative, opinion, and expository pieces.
Our school population consists of ninety-one percent low-income families, which means some of our students and families are unable to bring and provide the necessary supplies for school, let alone writing workshops.
The district also does not supply enough sufficient writing supplies that we need, in order to have a meaningful writers work shop each and everyday. Our students are extremely hardworking and are passionate and excited about their writing. We conduct our writers workshops with the students' interests in mind. Writing time in our class is a special time where the students can express their own opinions, create their own special world in a narrative, and explain research and new information from non-fiction texts in their expository pieces.
My Project
Our writing work shop begins each morning around the big sticky post-it note in order to discuss the necessary writing components for students' papers, a place to edit and brainstorm, etc. These big post-its are then hung around our room as a reference throughout the remainder of the school year of the writing skills we have covered. Students consistently rely on these big post-its when referring back to our discussions in their own writing. We would also like to develop the students' editing skills in order to create more opportunities for both self and peer editing. Markers, colored pens, and highlighters makes for a worthwhile editing experience. Students become better writers when they edit others as well as their own work. A pencil and paper can only take a student so far in writing; however, with extra writing supplies in our class, our students will have opportunities to develop, edit and produce exceptional writing pieces while also having a meaningful writing experience.
The writing supplies we are asking for will greatly improve our classroom writing experience because it will allow our students to take another role besides the writer.
These supplies will allow the students to become an editor, a teacher, etc. Our students will go into second grade knowing how to take their writing from a first draft all the way to a typed composition. Adequate writing supplies add excitement and depth to our workshops that the students will remember for the rest of school.
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