Donors Choose:
Improving the learning lesson for Kindergartners

February 18, 2010

Ms. Robinson is working with her 30 kindergartners to make the academic gains necessary to start reading.

As part of the process, pictures are the key to helping them practice sounds and letters. Kindergartners can practice phonemic awareness skills by matching pictures of rhyming words, sorting pictures of words that begin with the same sound, and completing many other activities that will prepare them to sound out words. And while Ms. Robinson has found a good supply of printable pictures for these activities, she fears that the activities use far too much of the school's limited paper supply printing replacement copies.

To make my students' picture cards and other classroom materials more durable and reusable, she turned to Donors Choose for a laminator and a supply of laminating pouches. These items will let her kindergartners use unmarred, high-quality materials throughout the year. In addition, the students will feel that the nicely-laminated materials are more important than just paper, in turn believing that the learning activities themselves are also more important. With this greater investment, the learning activities will actually be more effective, simply because the materials were laminated.

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