Books to Support Our Student's Emotional Needs

Funded Aug 12, 2020

We are all so appreciative of your kind donation of books to enhance our social and emotional curriculum. It is so important for educators to address these needs along with the academic needs. The pandemic has been a tricky time for our students and these books open up doors for us to talk about our feelings in a more genuine way. The list of books came from a suggested list to go along with our SEL program. So we are able to extend each lesson with a read aloud and further our discussion.

I am so pleased to see that our students are able to communicate their feelings with a more in depth description, rather than I feel happy/sad. It is not easy for children to recognize their own feelings. So we use characters in a story to see how they are feeling in the books. Then we are able to make connections to the characters feelings to our own feelings. These are lifelong skills that they will take with them through life.

We are sincerely grateful to you both for your donation to fund our project.”

With gratitude,

Mrs. Strunk