My students need a class set of carpet squares and a set of enjoyable books.
$333 goal
Hooray! This project is fully funded
Hooray! This project is fully funded
Celebrating Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month
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.
We love to read! Unfortunately, we don't have many books. My super second graders would love a set of easy to read, kid-friendly books along with some cozy carpet squares to read on! The first step to getting kids to read is providing them with inviting books. The second step is provide the area.
My 24 second graders live in an extremely impoverished, underprivileged school district.It sits directly between 2 affluent neighborhoods, but often gets overlooked because it is only 1 square mile.
Many live in deplorable and overcrowded housing conditions. Most parents are working 2 and 3 jobs to make ends meet.100% of students qualify for free and/or reduced breakfast and lunch. It would be wonderful if my classroom could provide these children with a beautiful class set of leveled readers. Every day, I send each child home with a book from our classroom to read to provide my students with their daily reading requirement of at least 30 minutes a day. Often, children receive the same book a number of times, as I am running out of books to provide them with. By providing us with an enticing and enriching set of readers, along with carpet squares for the children to cozy up somewhere in the classroom for a quiet place to read, you will be providing a great incentive for literacy!
My Project
My students will utilize these materials in so many ways. Books are necessary to promote literacy and a love of reading. By providing the students with colorful child friendly, individual carpet squares, you are giving my students a way to be more independent and mobile. They can chose to find a cozy spot with which to quietly read and enjoy the new books. You are also providing a more rich, colorful and inviting environment for children who may not have such aesthetically pleasing living conditions.
By providing students with new books and colorful, kid-friendly carpet squares, you are showing these children that they mean something.You are showing them that they deserve a print-rich, educationally-sound learning environment.
Someone cared enough to provide them with a warm, child-friendly classroom environment that every child deserves. Despite where you come from or how much money you have, every child should have access to a great education. And you are helping that happen!
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