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 love science! They want to explore, investigate, experiment and invent, but they lack the financial resources at home and at school that provide beyond the basics.
Experiences, motivation, knowledge and resources are VERY important for my students to break the cycle of poverty that is in their community.
My students and their families want them to do well in school, they just need opportunities. Help my students become a future biologist, or inventor, or engineer, or agriculturalist or whatever other career that interests them!
My diverse students are multilingual--English, Spanish, Mam, Qanjobal--and most come from working class families. Many live with single parents, guardians, grandparents or multi-household families. Regardless, their families say they want their kids to do better than they did.
My Project
As a 2nd greade teacher, I have the task of deciphering the writing of my students everyday. Some have very nice penmanship, while many others...
With the rise of digital technology, young children are not developing their fine motor skills to write legibly.
I love displaying student work, but too many times I've overheard their peers wondering, "Huh?! I can't read it."
With your help, I'd like to purchase supplies that will help them exercise their fine motor skills in fun and educational ways: Playdough for shaping letters; Wikki Stix for shaping numbers and objects; tongs for classifying small objects. There are so many fun ways to integrate penmanship into the curriculum rather than the traditional paper-pencil-tracing with which we grew up.
I've been researching activities with my school's occupational therapist (OT) and the website, Therapy Fun Zone, so your donation will be used to support fine motor skills that will help develop legible writing.
Please help put an end to sloppy handwriting in my class!
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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