I teach in a wonderful school that's located in a small, rural area. Our school is full of caring, inquisitive, and amazing students. They brighten my day and make coming to work something that I love doing daily. I teach third grade and I cannot imagine a more perfect age group to work with. My students are at the age at which they are gaining independence, but are still eager to learn and soak up the world around them. I learn just as much from them as they do from me.
Benjamin Franklin once said, "Tell me and I forget, teach me and I remember, involve me and I learn." That is my goal for my kiddos each school year.
I want each of them to be totally engrossed and involved in the learning process so that their lives will be forever changed because of what they have learned.
My Project
This past summer, I bought 2 or 3 books in the series, "Weird But True." This series is a National Geographic Kids series that is FULL of weird and interesting facts about all sorts of topics. I cannot keep these books on my shelves! As soon as a student returns one of these books to the class library, it is immediately grabbed by another eager reader. My students are so amazed at the "weird but true" facts featured in this neat series. I am writing this grant proposal in hopes of getting more books in this series to be able to share with my 3rd graders. They just cannot get enough of these books, and I love that they are so wrapped up in reading! I know they would be thrilled to add more to the collection in our class library.
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