Our Title I elementary school is in a large metropolitan area. I teach K-6th graders 21st century media skills and to love to read. Our 560 students come from diverse cultural backgrounds, including several Native American tribes. Many are immigrants from all over the world. Eighteen different languages are spoken in their homes. Over 90% of our students participate in the free or reduced lunch program and so are in financially challenged situations. Our library is critical for them.
Students who develop a strong reading habit succeed.
In a reading impact study, Nagy, Anderson, and Herman proved that students who read 20 minutes a day can score in the 90th percentile on standardized tests. Wanting this and much more for our students, I instituted a school wide weekly reading challenge. To complete a challenge students must read 30 minutes a day for 7 days. They are given prizes and public acknowledgement to encourage them to continue throughout the year.
I also run a program called Lunch Bunch. During lunch recess students come into the library to do makerspace projects or crafts, play games, or just read. This is to help them feel the library is a safe, very special place.
My Project
We have developed a makerspace program in our school's library called Lunch Bunch where students can come do arts and crafts, build, create puppet dramas, play games, compute, or read.
We believe that this program fires students' interest in learning, gives them a safe place to try new things, and sparks their imaginations.
Providing our students with quality STEAM games and activities will help them to become more interested and proficient in science and to improve their independent learning skills.
Some of the makerspace materials requested will also be used in the library classroom to teach STEM concepts such as computer coding.
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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Materials cost
$4,573.20
Vendor shipping charges
FREE
Sales tax
$326.98
3rd party payment processing fee
$68.60
Fulfillment labor & materials
$30.00
Total project cost
$4,998.78
Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms
$882.14
Total project goal
$5,880.92
How we calculate what's needed
Total project goal
$5,880.92
1 Donor
-$3,332.52
Donations toward project cost
-$3,332.52
Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms
-$0.00
match offer
-$1,960.31
Match offer toward project cost
-$1,666.26
Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms
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