TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WCTV) – It\u2019s time to party! That is, if you help these students have the celebration they deserve.<\/p>\n
For this month\u2019s Community Classroom, Springwood Elementary School in Tallahassee is rewarding student achievement with a party!<\/p>\n
\u201cCommunity Classroom\u201d highlights a teacher from the Big Bend or South Georgia to help them with their classroom needs. <\/p>\n
Springwood\u2019s reward party is called the Big Mix.<\/p>\n
The party is for students who get 100% on their fact fluency for multiplication and division.<\/p>\n
Math Coach Danielle Vaughn said academics and becoming fluent with those math strategies are very important at Springwood Elementary, so students should be rewarded.<\/p>\n
The huge party is held in the cafeteria, where students walk around and sign each other\u2019s shirts and write multiplication facts on the shirts, and ask each other about the facts.<\/p>\n
Vaughn said students look forward to it every year.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re building a positive culture here at Springwood, where the students love coming here every single day. So, rewards are always a thing for us,\u201d she said. \u201cI want them to remember their elementary school years as fun, rewarding, the culture as just being amazing here.\u201d <\/p>\n
The shirts will be provided for students, along with dye for the kids to tie-dye them.<\/p>\n
The school is hoping for enough donations to cover those costs, as well as other party items.<\/p>\n
Ms. Vaughn said the kids get a sparkly ticket to invite them to the Big Mix party.<\/p>\n
She said the students really love it and work hard to go.<\/p>\n
She said the number of kids doubled this year, and that first graders are doing multiplication now because they want to go.<\/p>\n
For those interested in helping Springwood students party, visit Ms. Vaughn\u2019s DonorsChoose page here<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Community Classroom is a partnership with DonorsChoose, which is a website where teachers sign up to request donations for anything they need.<\/p>\n The WCTV Community Classroom segment airs every third Wednesday of the month on the Good Morning Show.<\/p>\n To keep up with the latest news as it develops, follow WCTV on Facebook<\/a>, Instagram<\/a>, YouTube<\/a>, Nextdoor<\/a> <\/a>and X<\/a> (Twitter<\/a>).<\/p>\n Have a news tip or see an error? Write to us here<\/a>. Please include the article\u2019s headline in your message.<\/p>\n Be the first to see all the biggest headlines by downloading the WCTV News app. Click here<\/a> to get started.<\/p>\n Copyright 2025 WCTV. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n