Ingite a Fire with Read Alouds

School:: Eden Park Elementary
Subject:: Stem
Teacher:: Ysela Quintana
Students Impacted:: 700
Grade:: K-5
Date:: July 15, 2019

Investor

Thank you to the following investor for funding this grant.

Sue Sherwin - $103.63

Impact to My Classroom

# of Students Impacted: 700

Thanks to your donation for books in technology class at Eden Park, I was able to provide read aloud for the students. I have kids form K-5^th grade. The books all centered around some area of STEAM and some specifically on girls in STEAM. It is a powerful tool to have books available in a computer classroom where everything is usually online. The best part was when the kids have STEAM day they can choose whatever they want and they would go the book bin and select and book and read it independently. We have a class come that had pen pals from another state and the school mascot, Snowball, was sent to our school. They wanted to make sure that they read to the mascot so they could write about the adventure they had with him when he went to computer class at Eden Park. You have given me the ability to ignite a passion in reading outside of the typical classroom.

I apologize I currently don’t have any pictures, we were not counting on being out of school. When return and are able to work with the kids I will upload pictures. There are plenty on Twitter and I know we try to tag you in several so you can see all the great things that are made possible thanks to your generous donations.

Thank you again !

Original Grant Overview

Goal

My goal is to inspire the students while I have them in technology class. A simple read aloud will not just help them with literacy, but will provoke a conversation, and begin to have them ask questions and become curious. Then we can take the curiosity and use it in class and to apply our STEAM challenges.

What will be done with my students

Student will be read to at the start of class, this will have a literacy benefit for them to hear how books should be read and show them how with the correct intonations a book can inspire a young mind. Once the fire has been sparked in the child , my goal would be to fuel it with activities and conversations to keep it burning. Allowing them to explore through research , problem solving tasks, and collaborative work.

Benefits to my students

My students will have the opportunity to have books read aloud read to them or by them to their classmates (depending on age). The books I have chosen are geared towards STEAM, naturally posing questions and sparking curiosity about how things work, why things happen, and even about potential professions in the STEAM field.

Budget Narrative

Purchasing books from Amazon in the STEAM categories, specific books listed above, prices range from $ 8.00 - $14.36.

Items

#	Item	Cost
1	The Book of Mistakes	$13.29
2	The Most Magnificent Thing	$11.86
3	What Do You Do With a Problem?	$13.18
4	What Do You Do With an Idea?	$13.40
5	Ada Twist, Scientist	$14.36
6	Rosie Revere, Engineer	$8.99
7	Iggy Peck, Architect	$14.19
8	11 Experiments that Failed	$14.36
	Total:	$103.63

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