Help me give my students academic success through quality instruction and effective, fun-to-learn literacy, math, and organizational classroom resources.
FULLY FUNDED! Mrs. McEwan's classroom raised $999
This project is fully funded
My Students
I teach an Optional Enhanced Kindergarten class of 16 students who were selected for my class because their Kindergarten entry state assessment scores were below entry-level Kindergarten benchmarks.
Although my students typically do not have learning disabilities, they have focus challenges, lag emotionally and developmentally, and require additional, intensive teaching support in phonological awareness, phonics, speaking, writing, and reading decoding, fluency, accuracy, and comprehension skills.
Many of my students’ challenges are inherently due to the impacts Covid has had on their social opportunities for the past 1 1/2 years. Specifically, Covid has isolated my students from interactions outside their home and family life in highly social interactive environments such as daycare, preschool, church, playgroups, and outings to parks, playgrounds, museums, etc. These interactions foster strong language skills prior to Kindergarten.
I have taught students in our elementary school for seven years and have seen the same children struggle with literacy skills because learning gaps were not closed early enough in their education. I am passionate about teaching my students the social, emotional, and academic literacy skills they need to find confidence and success in their future academic pursuits.
My Project
As a first year Optional Enhanced Kindergarten (OEK) teacher, 85% of my instruction focuses on teaching foundational literacy skills to Kindergartners who are at-risk or below grade-level benchmarks. The remaining 15% of my instruction concentrates on solidifying Kindergarten math concepts. I currently have a goal for 95 percent of my Kindergarten students to complete their Kindergarten year performing on or above the end-of-the-year Kindergarten grade-level benchmarks. This goal will primarily be achieved by giving my students quality instruction in a fun-to-learn, loving, organized, and safe classroom environment and by engaging them in quality, effective educational resources.
Each of the literacy, math, and organizational products provided through this Fun-To-Learn Literacy Classroom Resources project will support my daily instruction and intense interventions needed for my students to engage in their learning and to achieve successful and on-or-above grade-level literacy and math learning outcomes at the end of their Kindergarten year.
These products have been carefully selected and I am confident they will be extremely valuable in strengthening my students' literacy and math skills and will bridge their social, emotional, and academic learning gaps and delays significantly impacted by Covid.
Last week during one of our online learning days, one of my students told me she got Covid when she was three years old. This took me by surprise when I realized more than half of her life and early-childhood development has been impacted by ongoing isolations, lack of pre-school, in-person learning, and school absences brought on by Covid.
2 Pack LCD Writing Tablet for Kids - 8.5inch Doodle Scribbler Board Colorful Screen Drawing Pad Learning Educational Toy for 3+ Year Old Girls Boys Toddlers
• Amazon Business
$19.99
2
$39.98
LC676 - Magnetic Numbers Counters
• Lakeshore Learning Materials
$29.99
1
$29.99
Really Good Stuff 305764 Phonemic Awareness Magnetic Sound Box Mats & Chips
• Amazon Business
$26.82
1
$26.82
Colorations Alphabet Dough Stampers Set, Lowercase Letters – Set of 26 Letter Stamps, Fun ABC Learning Tool for Toddlers, Ideal for Classroom and Home Learning
• Amazon Business
Coogam Wooden Reading Blocks Short Vowel Rods Spelling Games, Flash Cards Turning Rotating Letter Puzzle for Kids, Sight Words Montessori Spinning Alphabet Learning Toy for Preschool Boys Girls
• Amazon Business
$19.98
1
$19.98
EOOUT 36pc Mesh Zipper Pouch Document Bag, Plastic Zip File Folders in 11 Colors, Letter Size, A4 Size, Zipper Pouches for Organizing, Board Games and School Office Supplies
• Amazon Business
$18.99
1
$18.99
Emotional Well-Being - The Joy Cowley Well-Being Series
• Amazon Business
$18.69
1
$18.69
Hebayy Magnetic Alphabet ABC Flash Cards with Large Uppercase and Lowercase Letters 5.5" x 3.5" (54 PCs)
• Amazon Business
$16.99
1
$16.99
Key Education Sentence Building for Kids—Sight Word Builder for Early Reading, Speech, Writing, Language, Literacy Resource for Kindergarten-2nd Grade
• Amazon Business
$15.99
1
$15.99
68 Pieces Giant Magnetic Number Bonds Line Math Magnetic Counters Place Value Math for Kindergarten,Teacher Aid Dry Erase Whiteboard Accessories, Suitable for Children Over 5 Years Old
• Amazon Business
$15.99
1
$15.99
GAMENOTE Dry Erase Alphabet and Number Flash Cards - Write and Wipe Laminated ABC Letter Tracing Practice Card for Kindergarten (47 Flashcards with 2 Rings and Marker)
• Amazon Business
$12.99
1
$12.99
LM392 - Splash CVC Words Game
• Lakeshore Learning Materials
$10.99
1
$10.99
Fun-to-Know® Puzzles: Uppercase & Lowercase Alphabet
• Amazon Business
$10.82
1
$10.82
Sight Words Bingo - Language Building Skill Game for Home or Classroom (T6064), Build Vocabulary with 46 Most-Used Words, 3 - 36 players, Age 5 and up, Cover the Spaces Needed to Win & Call Bingo
• Amazon Business
$8.75
1
$8.75
Alytimes Counting Stick Calculation Math Educational Toy, Wooden Number Cards and Counting Rods Box
• Amazon Business
$6.39
1
$6.39
Materials cost
$807.02
Vendor shipping charges
FREE
Sales tax
$0.00
3rd party payment processing fee
$12.11
Fulfillment labor & materials
$30.00
Total project cost
$849.13
Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms
$149.85
Total project goal
$998.98
How we calculate what's needed
Total project goal
$998.98
1 Donor
-$998.98
Donations toward project cost
-$849.13
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