Each day my students promise to come to school ready to learn! They are energetic 5 and 6 year olds who learn in many ways! Technology is one of the ways in which they are happily motivated.
My 22 Kindergarten students attend a year round school in North Carolina.
We are a moderate poverty school. My students are like little sponges. They love all things interactive and love to have fun! They are amazed and inspired by technology. My students also are at a developmental stage where they need to be able to easily see how things work. The range of developmental levels of the students in my classroom is quite vast and I believe that an iPad learning station would allow me to reach so many levels in a multitude of ways!
My Project
Our classroom uses a learning centers whenever possible. We use Daily 5 for literacy instruction and I have math learning stations daily. Small groups are a great way to individualize instruction, help set positive role models emerging skills, and build confidence! Our classroom has one iPad for student use and the addition of two more would allow me to establish an iPad learning center for both literacy and math times, as well as skill building enrichment or intervention throughout the day. Kids can build phonemic awareness skills, manipulate sounds, practice letter identification, read stories, answer questions, and more during literacy times.
In math stations, students can use a variety of iPad apps to build math skills such as building number sense, identify and build shapes, and build place value understanding through composing and decomposing numbers. Addition and subtraction practice to build fluency is yet another of the many possible ways we could use an iPad in our room!
Increasing the use of technology in our classroom with an iPad station will help spark the interest of my little learners!
It opens up a range of possibilities for interactive instruction in all subject areas, as well as providing all children another opportunity to experience success by learning at their own pace!
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Materials cost
$857.82
Vendor shipping charges
FREE
Sales tax
$66.91
3rd party payment processing fee
$12.87
Fulfillment labor & materials
$30.00
Total project cost
$967.60
Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms
$170.75
Total project goal
$1,138.35
How we calculate what's needed
Total project goal
$1,138.35
23 Donors
-$830.12
Donations toward project cost
-$716.85
Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms
-$113.27
match offer
-$295.00
Match offer toward project cost
-$250.75
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