My Students

In the current testing climate, our students' feelings often get ignored or pushed aside. Peter Reynolds' books focuses on character building and trying your best, which are two things we are working on in our classroom this year.

This year I am teaching second grade in a low-income district in California.

My class is comprised of diverse learners, some of who are students with special needs who are fully included and mainstreamed into the general education classroom and 2nd grade curriculum. Students who enter second grade at my school typically have academic levels below the expectation of incoming second graders. Almost all of our students are English language learners and qualify for free and reduced lunch.

My Project

My students would be receiving multiple copies of many Peter Reynolds books to support our character development work this year. Many of the books, including Ish and The Dot, focus on being happy with being yourself, which is something students often struggle with when they are constantly being compared to others using test scores. My students have already started to attach themselves to these books, so we would have many more copies that could be shared in the classroom.

Our students have been fortunate enough to be chosen to work with Peter Reynolds in a project this year and your support will allow his positive messages to really stick with my students.

These books would support my current students as well as many second grade students for years to come.