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
Living in poverty creates many obstacles to learning, including, but not limited to a lack of educational resources and an environment plagued with violence. My students have to endure these struggles on a daily basis.
In spite of these difficulties my students face every day, they are eager and motivated to learn!
Their faces light up when they are able to recognize and decode words and successfully compute math problems. They are overjoyed at their emerging reading and math skills.
My Project
During whole group instruction, students need a space to gather to learn with their peers. Ideally, this space is a carpet and serves as a gathering place for interactive read alouds and content area instruction such as math, science and social studies. We also will gather at the rug for our morning meeting and afternoon news time.
This carpet will also serve as the space where students will engage in activities that help us build community within our classroom and learn mindfulness strategies to stay on task and to resolve conflict in positive ways.
Additionally, this carpet help students to talk with their partners as they engage in discourse during our math talks and accountable talk exercises.
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