My students need: Very Short Stories To Read Together, Critical and Creative Thinking Activities, watercolor crayons and a stapler to create and illustrate their stories.
$298 goal
Hooray! This project is fully funded
Hooray! This project is fully funded
Celebrating 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.
“You have to learn the rules of the game, and then you have to play better than anyone else,” said Einstein. My students are acquiring the basic rules to become fluent readers. They are learning to use illustrations and words to share their ideas and to collaborate with peers.
Mutual understanding comes from the ability to communicate with others.
My students need to understand cultural differences and diversity to become responsible global citizens. They need to learn to appreciate the work of others, giving them a positive feedback. My students need to learn the importance of teamwork.
I teach 24 eager Kindergartners, in a Title I school. Most of the students receive free breakfast and lunch. Most of them are learning English as a second language and live in a high poverty area. One parent families, children being raised by grandparents, and parents working late hours are some of the difficulties facing our students. However challenged, my students are extremely motivated to experience the world first hand and are in their way to become lifelong learners.
My Project
Empowering Students Through Art will nurture Creativity, Critical Thinking, and foster Collaboration. Those are some of our key C-words, besides Communication and a sense of Community. Art will also add the ingredient of innovation to our formula: STEM+Art=STEAM. The books in phonics will help the students learn the rules. We will use the Short Stories to Read Together, pairing students to take turns reading, looking together for clues and then producing an illustration and a writing to show their interpretation of the problem at hand. They will do real world connections and use art to communicate their findings to their peers. The watercolor crayons are ideal to transition to other media since they are used as regular crayons, but the results are quite different. This will allow us to explore "Art without the mess" in a regular basis.
Students will explore together different topics, including: Food, Animals, Weather, Plants, Amazing Creatures, Neighborhood, and write about them.
Donating these materials to my classroom will help my students learn to love and appreciate not only reading, writing and math but the arts, too.
This will support not only their literacy skills, but also their creativity, critical thinking, collaboration and ability to communicate with others.
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