Help me give my students foam basketballs, super safe bell balls, a digital whistle, and a duffel bag.
FULLY FUNDED! Mrs. Monte's classroom raised $322
This project is fully funded
My Students
"Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world." - Maria Montessori
Transforming children is par for the course in the Title I, K to 5 school where I teach physical education.
We have one of the largest enrollments of English as a New Language Learners of any elementary school in our city. The challenges these kids face are amazing. Many are learning to speak English for the first time, even as they continue to develop and master their native tongues at home.
There are over a dozen languages and dialects represented in our school. This, along with the long hours of school and after-school program enrollments, severely limit the time available for social interactions and the formation of meaningful friendships outside of school.
In every grade, there are students with special needs. All of the children are working hard to meet our rigorous curriculum. What is more amazing than all of this, however, is the dedication these students show day in and day out as they strive to reach all of their personal, social, and academic goals.
My Project
Physical Education is a class during which all students get the opportunity to learn and play through what they do best...moving around.
“What we have once enjoyed we can never lose.
All that we love deeply becomes a part of us," Helen Keller. At our school, we strive to make all learning enjoyable, hoping that the students will embrace that joy and internalize the value and need for repeating those experiences. This year, we are fortunate to have a lovely little kindergarten student who is legally blind, nestled within our elementary school students. At first glance, you would not know she has ANY limitations. She is courageous, smart, articulate, and brave. Indeed, according to her mother, she loves to ride her bicycle really fast! Now that we are entering our time of year in PE during which we focus on learning and refining our manipulative skills, we are faced with some new equipment challenges. We need some balls that are extra soft and that emit a sound when used, in order to help our little learner hear the location of the balls to retrieve them. We also need some tactile sensory bell balls with differentiated surfaces, in two sizes, to provide appropriate sensory feedback and allow our learner to form a proper hand shape to effectively throw a ball at a target. The digital whistle can be used as an auditory target identifier to allow our student to roll, throw and kick objects at a distant target. Of course, a big duffel bag will give us an easy way to store all of these adapted PE materials and make them available for easy access. With these sound emitting learning tools, all our students, but our student with visual impairments in particular, will find success in our physical education program.
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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