Learning Without Tears Will Help My Students Become Confident Writers!
Help me give my students the hands-on and engaging learning materials from Learning Without Tears that they need to learn to write!
FULLY FUNDED! Ms. G.'s classroom raised $1,084
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 classroom is comprised of a highly diverse group of students ages 3-5 from Chicago. Many of them have never been to school, or even around other children their age before. The goal of our program is to support these students to acquire emotional, social, physical, cognitive, and academic skills to help them thrive. We use a play-based, student-centered approach to learning that allows for a great deal of choice and flexibility in the learning environment.
All my students are natural-born learners who arrive with unbounded curiosity and passion for inquiry.
My job is to help direct those drives into skills and behaviors that will help them for a lifetime.
My Project
The biggest challenge my students face each year, and especially this year, is learning to write. The jump in the expectations between preschool and kindergarten are daunting. I have found writing practice needs to be multi-sensory and hands-on to be received well.
Learning Without Tears teaches the youngest students to write down to a science.
It works and the kids love it! I have been using the uppercase books with my remote learning students and they really enjoy doing it! I am asking for additional materials to help my students thrive as writers: wood piece, letter cards and a mat for showing students how to make letters, slate chalk boards for practicing writing and building hand strength, roll a dough letters and stamp and see screens for using play dough to make letters, magnetic letter bards to help students learn about spelling and letter placement, name plates and alphabet environmental print materials, work books and special flip crayons that are specially sized to encourage proper finger grip. All these materials combined will help our students become confident writers!
As we head back into the classroom I am looking to add more hands-on materials into the mix. My hope is that these materials will give my students an edge as they enter kindergarten next year.
Half of 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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