Enter: Friday Fund Days. Book Riot readers have helped fund hundreds of classrooms over the last few years, and we’ll help bring funds to hundreds more. Each Friday, we’ll highlight two classrooms or other literacy-focused, important projects in hopes you’ll help them reach their goals to bring literature, advocacy, and education to others. Even if you can’t spare money, any social sharing you can offer to the projects each week absolutely helps: you never know who’ll find it and have the means by which to make the project’s fundraising goals reached. More, you’ll bring awareness to the unmet needs in communities around the world, as well as right in your own back yard. When all else feels hard or hopeless, remember that you can and do make a difference.
THIS WEEK’S PROJECTS
Motivating Learning at Home, Brooklyn, NY ($292)
Help me give my students puzzles, writing materials, board games and math games to help with remote learning.
My Students
My Project
Supplies for Success! Temple Terr, FL ($167)
Help me give my students pencils, crayons and writing journals to continue success at home. Due to my students’ disabilities, they face many obstacles daily, including communicating, daily life skills, understanding the world around them, and dealing with why things change. My students are all currently isolated at home, most do not go outside due to not having backyards. Since they are isolated at home my students engage in online tasks for academic instruction which includes Google classroom, Boom learning cards and watching videos. My students attend school for 12 months due to their disability and with schools most likely closed into the fall my students will be doing this for July and August too. My student loves puzzles so I am requesting new puzzles to help motivate him at home to complete academic tasks. I am requesting operation file games, number and letter writing dry erase books so he can complete academic tasks off of the computer. I am requesting Pop the Pig and Sneaky Snacky Squirrel board games so he can work on his social skills with his sisters as well as his fine motor skills. I am also requesting magnetic tiles because they are great for fine motor, social skills as well as an imaginative play motivator. I am hoping by having these materials provided for my student I can help ease some of the stress of not being in school currently. I am also hoping having some new motivators will help him stay occupied and complete academic tasks.
My Students
My Project
Parents are currently utilizing materials they have at home to help students succeed but not everyone has access to these materials. This leaves students without simple things like a writing journal, pencils and crayons. We continue to practice sentence writing while we are home but some students are practicing writing using blank paper with no lines. With your help my students can have a writing journal at home along with pencils and crayons to help them complete daily assignments.
