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Ms. Sheila French's Classroom

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  • Busy Hands and Creative Minds

    Funded Oct 10, 2018

    This project has been amazing in my class! The students have made their own needles and now are on their way to knitting. Officially all twenty students are able to knit on their needles. It's wonderful to see the students knitting together, talking and creating such a nice and warm community in our second grade classroom.

    It's interesting that this project has gone out into our community of Palo Alto. Many students bring home their knitting projects and knitting tools to work on them at home. Families have shared with me that students knit at home, in restaurants, on airplanes!”

    With gratitude,

    Ms. Sheila French

  • Let's Build!

    Funded Sep 7, 2017

    Thank you very much for your generous donation of the Kapla Blocks. When the package arrived (and it was BIG!), the students could not wait to open it!! They guessed and guessed but could not figure out what was inside.

    We use the Kapla blocks at least twice a week. The students love to build tall towers with them. They also enjoy working together to plan and execute buildings. If they see the word "kapla" on the math stations, they squeal with joy. They absolutely LOVE using them. I had hoped to be able to use these blocks for coding with the Sphero Robots, but we did not get the grant for 1:1 ipads.

    The students have been using the school AirBook laptops to code, so we plan to continue with the idea of having them coding these robots to get through the Kapla Maze. I am really looking forward to this project.

    All in all, the Kaplas have really improved the cooperation, teamwork, and creativity in 2nd grade.

    :)”

    With gratitude,

    Ms. Sheila French

Second graders need to create and move their hands. We have just embarked upon knitting in my classroom! The students are excited to do this and are burning through yarn, knitting on their fingers. Our next endeavor is to make knitting needles in class! The students will sand, oil and wax their needles, topping them off with Sculpy Clay nobs. Teacher Wendy and I will be teaching students how to knit with their own personal needles. This will probably be small group instruction, or one-on-one. Once the students are all knitting, they will burn through yarn like crazy! They'll learn that knitting is patterning, calming and soothing, and allows them to create their own projects. I hope you'll help us with this project. Thank you!

About my class

Second graders need to create and move their hands. We have just embarked upon knitting in my classroom! The students are excited to do this and are burning through yarn, knitting on their fingers. Our next endeavor is to make knitting needles in class! The students will sand, oil and wax their needles, topping them off with Sculpy Clay nobs. Teacher Wendy and I will be teaching students how to knit with their own personal needles. This will probably be small group instruction, or one-on-one. Once the students are all knitting, they will burn through yarn like crazy! They'll learn that knitting is patterning, calming and soothing, and allows them to create their own projects. I hope you'll help us with this project. Thank you!

About my class

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