Tools of the Trade: Writing Implements for Authors at Work!
Help me give my students the basics- quality pencils and crayons for writing and illustrating, durable poly folders for their writing work, with sturdy prongs to hold their writing reference materials, and supply of glue sticks.
FULLY FUNDED! Mrs. Wilson's classroom raised $205
This project is fully funded
My Students
Our class consists of over two dozen uniquely energetic, creative, motivated seven- and eight-year-old students, heading full STEAM ahead into second grade. Ours is a neighborhood school, serving the families of our city since 1953. Our class and the school has an amazing group of children from a fabulously diverse range of backgrounds and experiences. Unfortunately, high poverty is part of the experience for most of these young learners.
These wonderfully wiggly young learners deserve every advantage as we work together to improve achievement in reading, math, and science by focusing on the whole child - building confidence while fostering their creativity and curiosity.
Lifelong learners are created by lighting the spark of imagination that drives a passion to learn.
I teach my students through rich, integrated units that make connections between literature, science, math, social studies, and the arts. Every unit begins with all of us together at the carpet, with a rich piece of children's literature.
Thank you for taking the time to read about how we can work together to ensure these students have quality, basic school supplies so they can hone their writing skills each day with confidence!
My Project
My budding authors, aka second-graders, sure do go through a lot of pencils! By the end of this school year, we were down to chewed-on nubs, golf pencils, and broken crayons! I had gone through every pencil and a new box of crayons that families had brought at the beginning of the year, as well as all of those I had purchased and purchased again and again. It doesn't help that some students take out their frustration by breaking crayons or pencils from time to time.
Our music teacher, thankfully, had a handful of mismatched award pencils that got us through the last two weeks of school.
We ask our families to bring a very small list of items at the beginning of the year, and I know as a parent how quickly the cost of these items can add up- especially when you are deciding between school supplies and new socks or an extra needed grocery item. We have an even smaller list for this year, and I am hoping to fill the gap with the purchase of some boxes of new, quality Ticonderoga pencils, a class pack of crayons (much more economical than each family bringing an individual box), glue sticks to get us through the year, and durable poly, 3-prong writing folders. Ticonderoga pencils really are the best. They break far less often and need much less sharpening. They really are a good value- especially when a young writer is in the middle of an exciting story!
We use the glue sticks for integrated literacy and science projects, math interactive notebooks, word work, and art. I add a personal word wall, sound wall, and sentence starters to in our writing folders so students have resources to help develop their independence during writer's workshop.
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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