To encourage literacy and education, Wesley’s Way Foundation is continuing to help provide educational items for classrooms. This year, we have provided items for schools in Manchester, New Hampshire and for schools near the Outer Banks of North Carolina.
Manchester, NH Schools
At Beech Street School, we have funded durable headphones to allow 25 students to be able to do their work online.
At Hallsville Elementary School, we have funded art materials for 18 handicapped students.
At Northwest Elementary School, we have funded Handwriting Without Tears workbooks and small pencils to help 25 first graders learn to write.
At Jewett Elementary School, we have funded Brain Bins to allow 21 students to improve their creativity and fine motor skills.
At Weston Elementary School, we have funded illustrated Shine-a-Light books for 10 autistic students, and also funded play centers for 25 students.
At Green Acres Elementary School, we have funded creative play items for 25 students.
North Carolina Schools
At Trenton Park Elementary School in New Bern, we funded items to improve fine motor development for 10 students with disabilities.
At Beaufort Elementary School in Beaufort, we funded STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art, and math) materials for 22 students.
At Roger Bell New Tech Academy in Havelock, we funded weekly Time Magazines to help improve literacy for 70 students.
At Arthur W. Edwards Elementary School in Havelock, we funded hands-on math manipulatives to help provide a strong foundation for math for 20 students.
At Morehead City Primary School in Morehead, we funded K’Motion stools to allow 17 students to better focus in the classroom.
At Northeast Elementary School in Pinetown, we funded various learning and play material for 18 students.
At Green Acres Elementary School, we have donated funds to give 21 students a listening center in order to improve their comprehension skills and exposure to new vocabulary.
At Green Acres Elementary School, we helped to give 25 students Lego building blocks to allow them to express themselves creatively, as well as help them learn how to build from their imaginations.
At Henry Wilson Elementary School, we helped give 25 students kinetic sand to play with to help develop imagination, fine motor skills, and sensory processing in a calming way.
At Smyth Road Elementary School, we have donated funds to give 26 kindergarten students floor puzzles to encourage many areas of their educational growth.
At Hallsville Elementary School, we helped to give 23 students sorting games, number line floor mats, magnetic ten frames and other amazing hands-on manipulatives to support math lessons.
We provided funds to give 25 students Handwriting Without Tears workbooks and small pencils to help support their handwriting mastery and practice.
At the Beech Street School library, over 300 students will benefit from the Keeper of the School Book Series, and additional titles by Andrew Clements, to encourage reading and literacy.
Books, blocks, puzzles, writing, coloring, math – these are all things Wesley enjoyed, so we wanted to give other children in our community the opportunity to learn through these activities as well!
Teacher’s Comments
THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH for your generosity and support of this project!! My first graders are going to be SO EXCITED tomorrow when I share the news that we have a NEW listening center! The students LOVE listening to stories on tape/CDs and now they will be able to truly focus on the stories. It will help promote the students’ love of reading!!
With gratitude, Mrs. Welch
Thank you so much for providing my class with these Legos. I cannot wait until I can tell them about it tomorrow! They adore playing with Lego each morning and now we will have even more to go around! Thank you so much for your generosity and support of my students!
With gratitude, Ms. Beakey
Thank you so much for funding this project for my students. This kinetic sand will be used the children every day offered as a sensory bin in the morning and at free choice for play as well as a “calm down” technique for those who need it. I appreciate your generosity more than words can say!
With gratitude, Mrs. DePietro
Thank you very, very much for funding our classroom project! Our current puzzles are hanging on by a thread and we love making puzzles together!
I know how thankful these kiddos will be to receive their package and I can’t wait to see their faces and tell them all about YOU and how wonderful you have been to us!
Again, thank you so much for supporting a fabulous group of kiddies!
With gratitude, Mrs. Webber
I am beyond grateful for your generosity. Your donation in honor of Wesley will support many children and our school community. My students are going to be overjoyed to hear that our project was funded by an amazing foundation! I am thankful beyond words for your generous donation to my classroom. My students and I are so very appreciative of your support and love for education. Your donation will effect numerous students and support many lessons. Thank you again for your generosity. We can’t wait to use the materials in our classroom!
With gratitude, Mrs. Wood
Thank you so much for your generous donation! My students will greatly benefit from these materials which help them become more proficient writers. Becoming a more proficient writer will also allow them to become more proficient readers, which will help instill a life-long love of reading and writing. Thank you again on behalf of my students!
Michelle
We are especially grateful that our project was funded in honor of a little boy that loved books. As a mom and teacher it makes my heart full to know that these books could be the ones that spark a love of reading for one of my students! We will have a special author display with these Andrew Clement books and do book talks for each one creating a lot of excitement before voting on which one they’d like to read together.
These books will be read and loved for years to come. Thank you on behalf of all our kids.
