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Creating Upper Case Letters With Wooden Pieces

Help me give my students wooden pieces to learn how upper case letters are formed.

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My Project

We asked kids, “What are lines?” They used their hands and arms to show horizontal lines moving away from their chests and across their bodies. Then, we took a walking trip down the second floor hallway, looking for lines. Kids partnered up to find vertical, diagonal, curved and zigzag lines all around them, noticing different lines’ lengths and thicknesses, on the walls, windows, doors and ceiling. Back in the classroom, we examined examples of paintings that artists have created using lines. One child said that Piet Mondrian’s Composition II in Red, Blue, and Yellow painting looked like a robot, while another commented that Tina Lavole’s Gilded Cage looked like french fries. The class was so inspired by the different line paintings that they made their own art–tempura paintings, watercolors and construction paper collages–using different kinds of lines.

When we looked at numbers and letters, the children also recognized that they’re all made up of horizontal, vertical, diagonal and curved lines, too.

This line exploration is the beginning of the many activities we’ll be doing to help kids learn how our letters and numbers are created as we prepare to focus on learning to write numbers and letters. The wooden pieces from Learning Without Tears program will give children a hands-on learning experience with forming capital letters in small groups.

Ms. Shirley The Brooklyn New School at PS 146 Grades PreK-2

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More than a third of students from low‑income households Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Learning Without Tears Wood Pieces Set for Capital Letters- Get Set for School and Handwriting Without Tears- Pre-K and K, Sensory, Letter Building, Alphabet Awareness, Mat Man - School and Home Use • Amazon Business $43.82 2 $87.64
Learning Without Tears Show Me Magnetic Pieces for Capitals- Get Set for School- Pre-K, Teach Capital Letter Building- Circle Time, 1:1, Small Group, or Whole Class- for School and Home Use • Amazon Business $39.83 2 $79.66

Materials cost

$167.30

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$2.51

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$199.81

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$35.26

Total project goal

$235.07

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $235.07

3 Donors

-$204.81

Donations toward project cost

-$178.56

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$26.25

match offer

-$25.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$21.25

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$3.75

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$5.26

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 $0.00

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