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
Our Title I school serves free breakfast for 85% of the students, and they get to the school early to eat the breakfast that they don’t get at home. My students eat their breakfast at school each morning before they come to my class. Fuel in their bodies makes them ready to learn and start the day. We are a uniform school. Some kids have uniforms that fit and are clean, and others have uniforms that are too big, too small, and don't really look clean. The majority of kids are happy, energetic, and ready to learn, but some students have trouble staying awake and staying focused. They come every day from group homes, and some are homeless, or being raised by grandparents.
My students are 11, 12, 13, and 14-year-old boys and girls who are growing, trying, creating, experiencing, experimenting, challenging, and ultimately becoming educated with art in my classroom.
My classes are all year long, so I can work with these students in-depth with technology, get to know their strengths and weaknesses, likes and dislikes, and see their creativity develop as their experience with art increases and grows.
My Project
This project is started with Google Slides and students collecting recipes from home. Many students will have to ask their parents how they cook their food as it is not written down. These cookbooks with family recipes will hopefully be finished for the holidays and given as meaningful, handcrafted presents authored and illustrated by their sons or daughters celebrating their heritage.
Students will be celebrating their heritage with these cookbooks, getting the recipes that have been passed down from generation to generation (not written down) and students adding their food drawings that they will learn to draw in art class.
The recipes that students will write and organize in Google slides will be printed and glued to the hardcover blank books this Donors Choose project is requesting.
More than three‑quarters 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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