TIME for Kids

School:: Palmetto Elementary
Subject:: Special Needs Students
Teacher:: Nancy Rojas
: Sheila Snyder
Students Impacted:: 32
Grade:: 4
Date:: July 14, 2016

Investor

Thank you to the following investor for funding this grant.

Christy Ruschel - Realtor - $77.52

Impact to My Classroom

# of Students Impacted: 37

I am very grateful for this grant. Using Time For Kids in my classroom was fun, engaging and best of all the kids loved it. All 16 of my students are special needs learners. Most are language impaired who lack age appropriate vocabulary compared to their peers. Using Time For Kids allowed me to bring topics into our class that was interesting to them. Each month they were excited to read the nonfiction articles about topics that they were interested in and were excited to learn about. The stories really got them talking and asking some very good questions. They liked that many of the stories we read were about kids their age. I picked the kinder-first grade level for my students because that is the level they read on. Included with the subscription were online digital resources. These resources allowed me to download worksheets that went along with the stories as well as help me plan my lessons. Most of the worksheets focused on skills I was already teaching in the classroom and went along nicely with the lessons. The quizzes helped me to check their comprehension as well as teach them important test taking strategies. Time For Kids definitely enhanced our reading curriculum this year.

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Original Grant Overview

Goal

My goal is to enhance our Unique modified curriculum by helping my special needs students better understand the world around them. I would like to purchase a one year subscription to TIME for kids. This news magazine offers engaging articles, colorful maps, and vivid graphics that can motivate my students to read as well as learn about the world around them. Also included in this subscription is a digital resource that can be used on our interactive whiteboard or as well as our student computers.

What will be done with my students

Using the weekly magazine as well as the digital resources included with the subscription, my students will have access to a wide range of current real world topics. Through classroom discussions as well as teacher led instruction I plan to use TIME for kids daily to help build my students reading and writing skills. The magazine can also be easily integrated across our curriculum to provide support for our social studies, science and math units.

Benefits to my students

The benefits to including TIME for kids into my curriculum include, the availability of age appropriate printable classroom resources, access to online teaching tools as well as providing an additional resource to go along with our curriculum. With this subscription I hope to be able to provide my students with a fun and engaging way to better understand the world around them. This subscription would also be shared with the two other intermediate modified curriculum classroom teachers at my school.

Budget Narrative

In addition to the weekly classroom magazine the subscription also includes a classroom app that can be used on student computers as well as classroom I-pads, student assessments, interactive whiteboard activities, printable classroom resources, access to online teaching tools, a teacher’s guide as well as classroom extras such as graphic organizers and learning posters.

Items

#	Item	Cost
1	Time for Kids Plus Subscription (6.46 x 12)	$77.52
	Total:	$77.52

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