Funded Nov 12, 2020Your very generous contributions helped to purchase some wonderful books to share during read aloud times with my students during our virtual learning model. Students were motivated to snuggle up and listen to a read aloud with the books that you helped provide.
Before every read aloud, I choose an object to place in a 'mystery box' that pertains to the story. Students are given clues to help them figure out what is inside! Students loved finding a monster in the mystery box to go along with the story 'Monster Feelings'! This story helped us think about learn about and label different feelings. In my preschool classroom we work hard on social-emotional skills, including labeling and understanding feelings. We have referred back to the fun illustrations in this book many times as we have experienced many different feelings over the course of our virtual learning, and our very recent start back to in person learning.
The story titled "Lucy's Mask" fit perfectly into our clothing study. It also was a wonderful and relatable story for students, as they saw Lucy wearing all different types of dress up masks and eventually wearing a facial mask that we are all required to wear at school. The story set the stage perfectly for a game we played afterwards where I had pictures posted of the students with a mask icon covering their face and we had to guess who was 'under the mask'...it was a hit!!
Thank you so very much for your donation. The books donated have a permanent place on my classroom bookshelf and will be used with students for years to come.”
With gratitude,
Mrs. Saro