Sit on It! Story Seats
Funded Aug 30, 2024Thank you so much for funding our Sit on It! Story Seats project. Through your generosity, I was able to purchase 24 adorable round mats for students to sit on during our story share. Each mat has a number and a tree stump, and around the tree stump is something living from the forest in the amount of the number. For example, the number 1 seat has one racoon on it; the number 11 seat has eleven monarch butterflies on it.
The students were delighted when they first saw the seats and have been fascinated by the living things represented on them. Once they learned that the living thing was in the same number as the mat, they practice their counting skills while waiting for class to start. They have also been helping each other learn some of the double digit numbers especially the twenties. And they love the flexibility of the seats, some of them a little too much as they sometimes prefer rearranging their mat to listening.
The mats have been useful for regrouping; in addition to using them for story time, we've been able to use them for lessons at the SmartBoard. The mats have been very useful in helping the children learn about personal space; they have given us bonus lessons in counting, number recognition, and the natural world. Thank you for making all of this possible.”
With gratitude,
Ms. Roy