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I love teaching Kindergarten! I'm Aine Sonnen and I have the best job in the world. Helping five and six year olds learn how to 'do school' is a big job. There are four of us lucky teachers at Hiteon who teach kindergarten. We've all been teaching more than 15 years each and are committed to helping our youngest learners develop socially, emotionally and academically.
We are going to use the funds from this campaign to support our students' handwriting development. The Beaverton School District adopted "Handwriting Without Tears" curriculum last year. We like how it is an easy and engaging way to teach handwriting to our students. Kindergartners have Writer's Workshop every day, starting on the first day of school. They are drawing and writing letters, then their name, then words, then sentences. We write together in class using large & small paper, sharing with small or large groups. Our students need to use their writing skills all day long!
We were excited to see that there is an iPad app to support our work so the kids can practice independently using technology. (It's called Handwriting Without Tears: Wet, Dry, Try.)
How disappointing it was to find that this app was the free version; kids could practice writing letters C, F, H. Or the numerals 1, 7, 8. Or lowercase letters d, p, v. The full version is $3.99/iPad. We currently have either 17 or 18 iPads per classroom. This campaign will allow each iPad to have access to this app. With the addition of this app, we anticipate that our students will be able to correctly form the lowercase alphabet letters (especially those in their names) and that this will occur earlier in the fall.
We are excited to help our young and emergent learners have the ability to read, then write, the alphabet quickly and neatly. These funds will give our students a way to practice!
This project is supported by the Beaverton Education Foundation.
Founded in 1988, the Beaverton Education Foundation raises money to provide hands-on innovative academic enrichment and advancement programs & projects that go beyond normal school funding at all Beaverton public schools and is a 501(c)(3) community-based nonprofit organization. BEF mobilizes community resources to fund innovative classroom, summer and after-school programs.
In the event that this project does not reach its goal, BEF may apply the funds received to another project in need.
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