My project needs 6 big books (in Spanish), from "Insects" to "Air and Weather".
FULLY FUNDED! Ms. Wesley's classroom raised $280
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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.
I am a 7th-year inclusion ESL/Bilingual Education Teacher at H.D. Cooke Elementary School, in Washington, D.C. Through our Dual Language program, I’m presently “looping” both classes of 1st-graders into 2nd Grade as their Spanish teacher. Aside from Spanish reading and language arts, I also teach math and science in Spanish. This is my fourth year teaching under a two-way immersion program.
Essentially, all of our students (English-speaking and Spanish-speaking alike) need more visual and hands-on materials in order to become better inquirers, thinkers and problem-solvers. Outside of the classroom or field trip setting, not many of our students go to aquariums, museums, or other science-related organizations. Our students also need visual stimuli in order to form more concrete, personalized text-self and text-world connections.
Big books have proven invaluable to encouraging our students to explore fiction and non-fiction stories. They have also served as key motivational tools for the classroom activities therein. For example, our success with a 1st grade project on spinning and rolling marbles and balls was due in good part to the students learning about balance and motion. Now that they are in 2nd grade, our students enjoy sharing big books with each other as well as listening to the stories.
Perhaps most importantly, big books link photography, illustration, reading, and language in a way that more "standard"-sized books might not. They nonetheless positively encourage our students to better acquire, learn and comprehend varied subject matter. Our students are working in content areas in Spanish (as opposed to just Spanish foreign language instruction); their efforts are all the more worthy of support.
More than 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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