About My Time

Scholastic My Time, A Box for Comfort and Fun™ is a “comfort kit” for children affected by disasters or crisis situations. Based on principles from the fields of child development and mental health, the kit features tools that can be used to help children handle stress and anxiety including: three age-appropriate books; a children’s magazine; a "make your own" book that allows children to express their feelings through writing and drawing; a pack of colored pencils; and information to support parents’ and family members’ efforts to help children cope with difficult circumstances. There are two versions of the kit, one for grades K–3 and one for grades 4–6.

Scholastic My Time was created as a component of the company’s Rebuilding for Learning initiative, a long-term recovery effort aimed at supporting the restoration of the learning infrastructure in Gulf Coast communities. The initiative works to provide educational leaders, educators and families with comprehensive recovery resources.

This year, Scholastic is donating an initial 20,000 kits to children in the Gulf Coast. The kits will be distributed through Volunteers of America and its affiliates working in the region.

Going forward, Scholastic will make Scholastic My Time kits available to children around the country who are impacted by homelessness, abuse and neglect, and family and community crises.





Scholastic My Time (grades K–3)


  Contents include:
Scholastic My Time Book: An Art Therapy Coloring Book
Rin, Rin, Rin/Do, Re, Mi , by José Luis Orozco
The Magic School Bus in the Time of the Dinosaurs, by Joanna Cole and Bruce Degen
Clifford’s Family, by Norman Bridwell
Let’s Find Out, a children’s magazine
Crayons


Scholastic My Time (grades 4–6)


  Contents include:
Scholastic My Time Journal: An Art Therapy Journal
Esperanza Rising, by Pamela Munoz Ryan
Space Explorers: A Magic School Bus Chapter Book, by Joanna Cole and Bruce Degen
Geronimo Stilton: Lost Treasure, by Geronimo Stilton
DynaMath Magazine
Colored Pencils