Tiny Humans, Big Feelings

Funded Dec 24, 2023

Our kindergarten wants to thank you SO much for your incredible and generous donation to our classroom through your support of our project, "Tiny Humans, Big Feelings!" Because of your thoughtfulness, we have new tools to teach social emotional skills in a way that is relevant and meaningful to these young learners.

Our project came with many different books about feelings, stuffed visuals of those feelings, and diverse student dolls. In our classroom, we are now able to introduce different feelings through read alouds that students sometimes do not yet have names for (frustration, anxiety, empathy, etc). These books come with matching feeling "plushies," which is such a wonderful visual for our students as they learn what different emotions are, how to recognize them, and strategies for handling big feelings. The student dolls are wonderful for role playing activities and allow us to have engaging and insightful discussions about how to handle the many different social scenarios students are learning how to navigate as they first start school.

Your donation to our project that aided in it being funded has been such an amazing gift to our classroom. We fully believe in our classroom that we are teaching much more than academics to our young learners and that our biggest responsibility lies in helping them become the incredible humans we know they are. These tools that you helped purchase for our classroom will impact so many students in the years to come. We are so incredibly grateful for people like you who recognize the importance of early education and the work we are doing in schools. In our classroom, we teach our kindergarteners to say daily affirmations to themselves; one of them is "I am loved." Your gift truly made our whole classroom feel that we are loved-thank you from the bottom of our hearts!”

With gratitude,

Mrs. Roche