Help me give my students a mobile, dual-sided magnetic white board for our Phonics and Writing materials.
FULLY FUNDED! Mrs. Elsea's classroom raised $555
This project is fully funded
My Students
My classroom consists of 19 first grade students! They are eager to learn! The students I have the opportunity to teach come from a variety of backgrounds and have a wide range of abilities. Many of them receive free/reduced lunch, and unfortunately, more than you could imagine have already experienced trauma in their lives. Despite so many hardships, my students are eager to learn and do their best.
"Tell me and I forget ~ Teach me and I remember ~ Involve me and I learn" ~Benjamin Franklin.
Students in my classroom LOVE to be involved in their learning. Six and seven year old students struggle to sit still and they need the opportunity to move around the classroom. These kiddos love recess, snacks, story time, reading, math, and writing! They love to laugh, be silly, and they give their teacher the BEST hugs!
My Project
Ask most teachers and they will tell you their classrooms just aren't big enough! My first graders would tell you the same thing! We try to be as creative as we can be, but there just isn't enough wall space for our anchor charts or large enough white boards for lessons. This double-sided, mobile white board would solve many of those problems! It would create the space we need for our Phonics and Writing lessons.
In order to teach a program with fidelity, we need the space the program suggests utilizing.
Our phonics lessons are currently being taught on a 4x3 white board. There is just enough room for our letter, digraph, glued sound, and suffix magnets. But, when we try to build and mark words, practice writing sentences, or read and scoop stories on chart paper, we have no room! This large white board would provide that space. It is also mobile and we could move it to different areas of our room when we need to reference the information from the phonics program.
The other side of the mobile white board would be used for writing. There would be room for our current unit anchor chart and plenty of room for the modeling that would occur during the writing lesson. We would be able to leave it on the board to complete the lesson over several days. We wouldn't have to start from scratch daily and we would be able to move it to our writing area in the classroom!
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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