Bringing Stories to Life: Literacy Extension Activities
My students need glitter, spangles and sequins, felt, paint, paint brushes, aprons, yarn, crayons, magnets and paper.
FULLY FUNDED! Mrs. Ocampo's classroom raised $400
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.
My Students
Many of my students are not read to at home. Creating a love of reading by extending good stories though art projects and other subjects introduces them to reading, and extends their enthusiasm. Our school focuses on being able to identify letters and letter sounds, but I want them to love reading.
We are an inner city racially identified public school in a large Midwestern city.
My students are all English Language Learners, who speak Spanish as their first language. My room is 100% low income. I have 23 students in the morning, and 25 in the afternoon. All are 5 or 6 years old, and only 4 of them attended preschool. Most are of Mexican heritage.
This is a poor neighborhood, hard hit by the recession, and the drying up of blue collar jobs. My students are very active, some have attention focusing, but they are well behaved, kind to each other, and want to please. Their parents love them, and want the best for them, but many times don't know how to help. A number of students enter and don't know how to write their names, the colors, etc. Many parents don't read aloud to their children & many students have not been exposed to books. My job is to teach them to read this year, recognize letters, letter sounds and put them together, but I also want to instill in them a love of book
My Project
I want to do art and other projects with my students, "extending" each book. With the supplies, we could create projects like:
The Very Busy Spider: We will create spiders out of number 8's cut out of construction paper, and each child will glue on 8 legs, and glitter eyes. They will make spider webs out of white crayon on black paper, and then add glitter webs.
Flannel board-retell the story. Brown Bear, What Do You See?: create large strangely colored animals from paint. Flannel board retell story. Tape the story with children chanting along and put in listening center. Using colored blocks, retell story and have students find the matching colors and identify.
Where the Wild Things Are: Using rolls of paper, have each child paint a "wild thing" one from the story or from their imagination. Use sequins, yarn etc. to decorate. Music: Have students show how they would dance to the "wild rumpus".
The Hungry Caterpillar: Science: Get several painted lady caterpillars, have students observe their transformation.
Since our school does not have enough money to buy us art supplies, my students are limited to crayons and pencils.
I want to be able to create exciting art projects that will help my students extend our stories in a creative way. The arts are taking a beating in the public schools, as test scores take precedence over everything, even in kindergarten. This is a way we can incorporate art into the curriculum, and make school and reading a little more fun. Won't you help?
Nearly all 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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