My students need specialized books that teach social skills to help them learn how to self-regulate and deal with their emotions and impulses in an effective and responsible manner.
$349 goal
Hooray! This project is fully funded
Hooray! 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.
Eager to learn, my 26 kindergartners are full of energy and excitement and ready to tackle the challenges of living in a low socioeconomic neighborhood in Anaheim, California. My students have a wide variety of learning needs. They come to school with speech and language disabilities and emotional and behavioral challenges. Some are dealing with homelessness. Two-thirds of my students live in a household where English is not their first language. Two-thirds receive a free or reduced-price lunch.
Even though they come to school with challenges, my students are still eager to learn to read, write, and meet the 21st-century skills of today.
Recently our school adopted the distinguished practice of STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math). While this is an exciting change for our community, it does pose challenges as far as providing the students with the materials and resources needed to adopt this new distinguished practice. The students are eager and excited to delve into engineering units, and watching them embrace these ideas is exciting to me as a teacher.
My Project
In today's society of iPads, X-Boxes, and Netflix, children are often sitting in front of screens instead of interacting with each other. Because of this phenomenon, many children come to school lacking some of the basic social skills that we as adults take for granted. They come unprepared to make friends, share space, and deal with emotions and the lack of immediate gratification.
With books such as "Lucy Walker, Non-Stop Talker," "Personal Space Camp," and "You Get What You Get," I can teach young children social skills in an engaging and meaningful manner.
I would like to implement a weekly social skills lesson into my curriculum for the first 26 weeks of school to teach and reinforce these important social skills. Having the ability to self-regulate helps children become prepared for academic learning and makes them more successful human beings.
I have recently had several students who are experiencing homelessness in my class. Due to their life situations they are especially at risk for emotional and behavioral problems. Social Success with Social Stories will be especially beneficial to these student in helping them learn how to manage their emotions and behaviors.
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