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The Inoculation Project 5/14/2023: Mississippi Math, Alaska Reading [1]

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Date: 2023-05-14

We have a new project #1 this week! In this Gulf Coast Mississippi town near Biloxi, Mrs. Reiling needs some math activities for her second-grade students.

PROJECT #1 Project: Math Mastery Matters Resources: Help me give my students interactive and engaging mathematical centers to meet their individual needs. Economic need: An Equity Focus School; half of students from low‑income households. Location: Magnolia Park Elementary School, Ocean Springs, Mississippi Total: $171.81 Still Needed: $ 171.81 $119.16 Project description by Mrs. Reiling: My students come to school every day eager to learn! They each have their own learning need and style at various academic levels. Help me give my students math centers that will help support their needs. The addition and subtraction games and regrouping manipulatives will help them to build mastery of foundational mathematical concepts. Using the math centers during small groups with their teacher or when using centers in small groups with their peers, my students love the hands-on centers, which help keep them engaged and focused. These centers will be a fun and encouraging asset to their learning. DONATE HERE Donations of ANY size can make a BIG difference! Usually, there’s at least some vendor video of the games being requested, but not today. But several are math games using special dominoes, so instead, here’s a fun “Women in STEM” domino art project from domino artist Lily Hevesh (@Hevesh5). You can see her two-part, extremely detailed video about the making of this project here and here. x x YouTube Video

Last week, we took up this ambitious project, and made quite an encouraging dent in it. Mrs. Parks teaches early grades in an Alaskan village of about 400 people, on the Bering Sea. She needs hands-on phonics materials to help her students learn to read.

PROJECT #2 Project: All Hands on Deck for Reading Resources: Help me give my students hands on activities for kindergarten students to help build phonics skills. Economic need: An Equity Focus School; nearly all students from low‑income households. Location: Manokotak School, Manokotak, Alaska Total: $612.67 Still Needed: $ 337.67 $261.49 Project description by Mrs. Parks: My students are so special to me. They are from a small village in Alaska. It is a predominately low income community, however these students deserve to have hands on activities to help them build their phonics skills. Phonics is the foundation to building literacy skills. The materials in this project take my students from the basic literacy skills of learning letters to being able to build 2+ letter words. It also provides opportunities to go from reading words to reading sentences. The hands on supplies in this project will allow my students to build independent reading skills . By providing these activities it gives small busy hands an educational tool to help build vocabulary and decoding skills. Learning to read can be quite a chore for 5-7 year olds. The materials requested in this project will help my students strengthen their phonics and reading skills by providing materials to enhance their learning with hands on activities. Kindergarten students are curious and like to learn with materials they can manipulate. These materials also provide opportunities to build their fine motor skills. They would be so excited to be able to have these fun and educational materials. DONATE HERE Donations of ANY size can make a BIG difference! These little videos from the vendor describe a couple of the learning tools being requested. x YouTube Video x YouTube Video

Our main project from last week was completed, with a big boost at the beginning from our readers! Project #1, Classroom Manipulatives: Ms. Spearman wanted her Oklahoma early-grades students to have some materials to help with science and math. The project was completed late in the week, and as I write this, she hasn’t gotten the good news yet, but we’ll bring you her note when it’s available. In that vein, a couple of weeks ago, we were too early to see a note from Mrs. Hicks, after we helped with some books for her Arkansas high school students, for the project New Books for the Classroom Library. Here it is now: She writes: Thank you so much for your generous donation that allows me to expand my classroom library. I have a very diverse group of students who struggle with reading. Providing them with books that will interest them will make them more eager to practice their reading skills. Your donation just made that possible! Thank you so much!

DonorsChoose has developed the designation Equity Focus Schools to describe some schools that submit projects. They meet two criteria: at least 50% of students are Black, Latinx, Native American, Pacific Islander, or multiracial, and at least 50% of students qualify for free or reduced price lunch, the standard measure for school economic need. You can read more at the link about their efforts to address the longstanding inequity in education.

Founded in 2009, The Inoculation Project combats the anti-science, anti-education push in conservative America by funding science, math, and literacy projects in red-state public school classrooms and libraries. Our conduit is DonorsChoose, a crowdfunding charity founded in 2000 and highly rated by both Charity Navigator and the Better Business Bureau.

Every Sunday, we focus on helping to fund projects in neighborhood public schools where the overwhelming majority of students come from low-income households. We welcome everyone who supports public school education — no money is required!

Finally, here’s our list of successfully funded projects — our series total is 1035! The success-list diary also contains links and additional information about DonorsChoose.

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