My students need soil, literature books, presentation boards, and gardening supplies to enhance and expand their literacy garden!
FULLY FUNDED! Mrs. Gaiter's classroom raised $865
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
This project is inspired by Planting Detroit: Solutions for Pollution. "To forget how to dig the Earth and tend the soil is to forget ourselves." Mohandas K. Gandhi. My students are scientists who explore and investigate the world around them and experiment in the environment. They love the garden!
I teach 22 inquisitive 3rd grade students at a small public school in California.
My students are eager to learn, and their brains are sponges that absorb any and all information given to them. Everything is a potential investigation/experiment to them so I strive to provide my students with as many learning and project based opportunities as possible to enhance the school curriculum and students' intrinsic motivation to learn more. We are a Title 1 school, but because of our size, our funding levels are not as large as some of the other schools in our area, therefore I am always seeking ways to bring additional funding and resources to the school. We have an amazing, supportive principal who believes in hands-on, inquiry based learning, and how this approach to learning empowers all students.
My Project
This school year my students have planted and nurtured our Literacy Garden, a place where they read, conduct research and relax. They have taken great pride in planting seeds, nurturing them and watching them blossom. The space is an extension of our classroom where science and literacy activities and lessons frequently take place. I and requesting an ample supply of potting soil, gardening supplies and science equipment so that we can expand our current garden space and refresh our raised beds with new soil for a new planting season. We will extend our learning by conducting soil experiments to determine the best conditions for growing. We will use the presentation boards to document plant growth detailing their scientific process and results that will be presented to the school community via an assembly and our annual third grade science fair.
This project will allow my students to do authentic research while learning about plant growth and sustainability.
Your generous donation to this project will enable us to implement a large-scale gardening project, provide materials and hands-on learning experiences for all of the third grade students in our school and enhance our literacy garden for another school year. Seeing the excitement in my students faces when their seeds go to fruit is one that will stay with them for years to come!
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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