Learning is an Adventure Fund

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Verified Non-Profit

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With these funds I will...

Since we don’t have a student accessible school library, this money will also allow me to purchase a Kindle eReader for students to use. I will be able to have a library at my desk with easy access to stories, leveled books, and interactive digital applications.

Learning to read is an adventure in discovery! Reading opens the door of the world for children and can literally propel their imaginative and critical thinking sky high. As an Intervention Teacher, I am lucky to work with many diverse learners. These students struggle with decoding, sight words, spelling, and fluency, and are not responding to core and supplemental reading programs. They need carefully selected materials designed to recapture their interest in learning the basic skills to become fluent readers.

I will also purchase an Easi-Speak Recording Microphone for students to use when practicing phonemes, decoding, phrasing, and expression. Kids love to hear themselves, and this will allow them to monitor their own fluency progress.

I would also like to purchase a Magnetic Word Builder kit with beginning, middle and ending sound letters, so I can turn my file cabinet into a learning center.

This money will directly impact the amount of smiles during Intervention and allow students to learn in the best way possible, their own way.

 - kindle readers @ $80-$120 each (before tax) 

 - Microphones @ $69.00 each (before tax & battery cost)

 - Magnetic sounds @ $39.00 each (before tax & battery cost)

 - (Batteries $20)

Total with 2 of each = $376-$416 ($396-$436)

Back Up Plan

If I don't get all of the funds - I will just get the magnetic letters and buy fiction/nonfiction books for my intervention library. 

Help me open the adventurous doors of learning for my students by supporting KEA's Learning is an Adventure Fund. 

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About the Creator

I have been a teacher for 12 plus years, working at various charter schools within LAUSD. I graduated from UCLA with a BA in Dance and MFA in Art. Prior to earning my Teaching Credential at Chapman University, I worked in the arts and entertainment industry as a paralegal, and designed imaginative-play toys for young children.

For two years I worked at KEA as an Educational Therapist before joining the staff as the Founding Art teacher. At KEA, I implemented a blended learning approach to Art, and still use this approach in my present position as an Intervention Teacher to further students’ comprehension skills and practice. As an art teacher, I urged students to draw what they see, now I urge them to see what they read.

Connecting children with their own unique literate vision of the world and learning how to articulate it with grit and clarity is my mission. With two children, three dogs and rabbits at home, I try to squeeze in some Pilates, hiking, and Netflixing.

Investments (2)

$10

Lynn Dudinsky

9 years ago

$50

Anonymous

9 years ago