Help me give my students new and exciting books to spark their interests and help in building a LOVE for reading!
FULLY FUNDED! Ms. DeGroat's classroom raised $288
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
My students are a lively fourth grade bunch in an Integrated Co-Teaching setting located in the Bronx. This means that my classroom has a unique mix of students with special needs and general education students. Many of our wonderful students have Individual Education Plans to meet their specific needs and to give each student strategies and supports that will help them reach grade level and participate in the 4th grade curriculum despite any challenges they may be facing.
Our class word that we use every day is PERSEVERE; although some days it can be difficult to understand a lesson, we have to keep trying, push through and stay positive!
We call our class a community, a team, and a family. We all work together to support each other and learn not only the academics but how to be loving, caring, powerful, passionate human beings. We instill in each of our students that they can do anything they put their minds to; our school starts every morning by reciting "With these hands, with this heart, with this mind, I can do ANYTHING!" And I want each of my students to believe it!
My Project
From the first day of school I've always told my students, "It is okay to make mistakes, but it is NOT okay, not to try.” We read the book "The Girl Who Never Made Mistakes" by Gary Rubinson and Mark Pett. This silly book showed that mistakes can be fun and if you don't try, you'll never know. We have a wide range of different reading levels in our classroom, and practice makes perfect; the more you read, the better you'll get! But some of our students are having trouble finding books that they enjoy, that are also on their reading level in our classroom library.
A wider range of exciting, different books that can reach each students' reading ability/level will help create a more enthusiastic group of readers!
I don't just want to teach my student how to read... I want to teach them to love reading! Ensuring that the students can find books within our classroom library to take home in their book baggies and read outside of school is so important for their growth in becoming avid readers. Many of our students do not have the privilege of having books at home so they must rely on our classroom library so our library must be updated to meet their needs and wants. Help me in instilling how amazing and fun books can be!
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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