My students need a CD/Cassette player for our listening center that actually works!
$190 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.
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 class of awesome little bilingual learners is engaged in literacy activities in small groups each day. These activities are hands-on multisensory, and fun for the kids. We stand, we sit, we lay down, we build, we move and we play, all in the name of learning! Our bilingual students have varying levels of English proficiency in our high poverty school district. They are enthusiastic and excited about kindergarten in spite of the academic hurdles they are facing.
I am amazed and inspired every day by how much their brains can absorb and analyze on a daily basis and it motivates me to provide them with the ideal learning environment to meet their needs.
Our school celebrates their potential to be literate in two languages and supports teachers trying to find innovating ways to work with these at-risk students.
My Project
The listening center is an important part of literacy instruction in our bilingual kindergarten classroom. The students take turns enjoying a new story in the listening center each week. They get to hear the stories with sound effects and music and follow along in individual books. We are fortunate to have wireless headphones so that they aren't tangled up in cords, but we do not have a fully functioning radio. About half of the stories are on cassette tapes and the other half are on CD. At the moment, we have one radio with a broken cassette player and another radio with a broken CD player. Depending on the story of the week, I have to unplug the power cord and wireless receiver and reconnect them to the corresponding radio. It is really a hassle each week and requires space to store both of them.
A new radio would allow me to teach the students how to use it independently, keep it in one place throughout the year, and stream the songs we sing together every day over Bluetooth from my iPod.
The students love listening to stories on tape and CD and I do not want to eliminate the listening center from the schedule due to outdated and broken equipment.
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