My students need a book organizer to manage and maintain all of the materials of the language arts program that our school district just adopted this year.
Albert Einstein once said, “If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?” I can not help but think of this quote when it comes to organization and clarity in the kindergarten classroom. As a kindergarten teacher, I make sure to model great organization skills.
In a very large public school district, I teach at a Title One elementary school of about 1000 students who come from different socioeconomic and culturally diverse backgrounds.
My 25 kindergarten students come to school everyday with an "I can!" attitude. They are hardworking, energetic 5 year old children who are excited to "show what they know!". They speak English, Spanish, Portuguese, Hebrew, Armenian, Farsi and most come from immigrant families. With a varied level of abilities, special needs, and foundations in language arts, math and science skills, one thing that my students all have in common is their need to develop organization skills! From organizing their materials to organizing their thoughts, kindergarten students need to be surrounded by great examples of organization. This all begins with the environment and the expectations that the teacher creates, maintains and upholds for her students.
My Project
Our school district just implemented a new language arts program this year. Within the kindergarten curriculum, there are ten units of study. Each unit is supported by a variety of materials such as oral language picture cards, retelling cards, leveled predecodable and decodable readers. Since this is our first year using the program, teachers are busy learning and studying all of the components and trying to organize all of the materials in a fashion that best fits their instructional style. As a kindergarten teacher, I place great importance on organization skills and the presentation of materials. From day one, my young students learn how to keep their own materials neatly organized within their desks. They learn the value of keeping their writing and illustrating materials in a "tool box" and they learn to stack their books neatly inside of their desks. They learn to take pride in their work space which overflows into their work itself. A book organizer would help this effort.
The book organizer will help organize all of the newly adopted materials into a sequential, unit by unit manner.
My students would be able to access these materials easily and they would also witness how classroom materials are presented, organized, used, shared and respected. The broader impact that the book organizer would have is that it will help preserve the materials for future kindergarten classes.
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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