My class loves having the option of sitting at their tables or laying on the floor.
I teach at a low income school in the Oklahoma City area.
Many of my students live in single family homes or are raised by other family members. There is a large ELL population at my school as well. For many of our students, school is the only safe place for them. Our school also has a high percentage of free and reduced meals.
With the budget cuts our class sizes will be getting larger. I teach Kindergarten and my students need room to move around.
My Project
I am asking for 30 bath mats for my class. I will use them this year and many years to come. With our class sizes growing because of budget cuts, I will not have room for all the kids at a table. Right now I have three tables that can sit 18 students. Then I have other students seated at desks or at center tables around the room.
I give my students the option of moving around the room and several of them enjoy grabbing a clipboard and laying on the floor to work. I have read about several teachers who have moved their tables into storage and use bath mats and clipboards instead. Each student grabs a bath mat to sit or lay on to do their work. The students have more freedom on where they want to work. This helps their learning, but also helps the kids with personal space.
I believe these bath mats will help my students' learning by allowing them more freedom on where they work.
The bath mats will also allow my students to learn and work and not force them to be at a table. With the growing number of students teachers have in their classroom, these bath mats will allow me to move my tables out of my room and give my students more space to learn while teaching my students about personal space.
More than three‑quarters of students from low‑income households
Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more
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