We are so very appreciative that you chose to support our class. I wish you could get a clear vision of what a wonderful class we have, because you have been part of helping create that. While there are many obstacles and challenges in our district, and being a teacher who has been laid off due to budget cuts 3 years in a row due to low seniority (this meant 3 years of being moved to a new school), means a tremendous amount of long hours of work&stress, your support encourages us beyond words. So how have you helped? Well, my students ADORE school. They especially love Math and are growing leaps and bounds. The math games are extremely engaging and are helping them develop a firmer foundation in place value and their addition, multiplication,&division facts. The Dinosaur Place Value game helps build key place value understandings. The Digitz game helps build multiplication and division understanding and fluency. The Snap it Up Game does the same, but for addition and subtraction. The students are recognizing how much they've grown this year and are becoming more reflective and goal-oriented. This translates to genuine belief in oneself. This is key, since next year they will have much larger class sizes. We are fortunate to have a low teacher-student ratio for grades K5-3, but it isn't available for grades beyond third grade. Almost every single one of my students came into 3rd grade testing extremely low. Thankfully, they've demonstrated some fantastic gains. Better than that, is the actual observations and conversations being had in our classroom that capture this amazing growth. You were instrumental to that occurring! Thank you again”
There are no words that can express how grateful I am for your generosity. My scholars haven't met you and yet you are allowing them the privilege to receive materials they probably wouldn't have seen otherwise. As a teacher you always have concerns when you can't provide your students with great hands-on materials that they can learn from. Thanks to you they have those materials.
When I told my students I had posted a project they were extremely excited. It wasn't until the boxes arrived in our classroom, however, when they truly understood what you had done for them. Seeing them "ooo" and "aah" at all the feel and discovery science bags and the cool solar system blow ups was truly amazing.
Thank you again for your extreme gratitude and your blind generosity to my students. Although they may not truly understand what a blessing you are, I do. Thank you for believing in my students and thank you for believing in my quest to teach them as best as I can! ”
I can't fully express both my excitement and thanks for your donations to my project. It is great to know so many people believe in math education.
The tools that you have funded will enable students to make the connection between math in the classroom and math in the real world, develop essential problem-solving skills, gain more independence in their learning and be confident in their abilities to be successful in math.
Thank you so much for your support, it will make a world of difference. I can't wait to introduce these tools to the children.
I am beyond words to describe the activities we have already done with the materials in this project and I am looking forward to doing even more with my class next year as we discover science in a new light.
At first, my scholars were overwhelmed by the quality and quantity of the specimens in the rock collections but through several investigations and explorations on the school property, they became enthusiastic and were bringing in every rock they could find to compare it and determine what type of rock it was.
The scientific equipment came in handy also when we were measuring mixtures and learning about heat and electricity.
Thank you so so much for your generosity and feeling the need to supply a classroom with adequate equipment to make science real and concrete for inner city children.”
With gratitude,
Mrs. Vaughn
This classroom project was brought to life by Disney's Planet Challenge and 9 other donors.
For the past few months all of my students have been engrossed in the books you sent. The engagement these books have provided has been more than I could have hoped for. It has been exciting for me as a teacher to see students use books as both a reference and as entertainment!
Just yesterday, I had a female student reading one of the college level Earth Science textbooks you sent. She used it to deepen her understanding of why global wind patterns exist. When I initially asked her to reference our 6th grade textbook, the information provided was not enough to quench her thirst for knowledge. After reading the college book she said: "I had to read this three times but now it all makes sense! This book is really cool!" It was a wonderful moment.
Thank you so much for donating to this project and making moments like this possible. There is no such thing as having too many books in a classroom but there is such thing as having too few. Thank you for helping us have books in ours. ”
With gratitude,
Mr. Lesser
This classroom project was brought to life by KnowHow2GO and 4 other donors.
Thank you all so much for your generous donations to my classroom project, "The Earth and Beyond." My students and I have found that all of our resources and tools are extremely helpful and fun.
The inflatable planets help liven up my classroom and the students love them. The planets videolab has been a wonderful enrichment tool. The kids enjoy being able to recreate events that actually occur in space. The telescope and star finder are both so exciting. The students and I have had stargazing events several evenings and plan on having many more.
It is so gratifying to teach a subject that students enjoy learning about. I want to thank you again for your donations and generosity. Without you some of my students would never be exposed to some of these things. ”
With gratitude,
Mrs. Davis
This classroom project was brought to life by The APSRC and Walton Family Foundation and 3 other donors.
Thank you once again for donating to my project. My students and I really benefited from interacting with the engaging texts your donations funded. The aerial photographs featured in the selections are both stunning and informative.
After conducting a stream table investigation and making aerial drawings of the investigation results, my students viewed the various texts in small groups. After this kind of study of aerial photographs, my students grasped the concept of aerial photographs, an important concept for fifth graders in my state to understand, and my students also had the opportunity to use landform vocabulary to describe what they saw in the photographs.We repeatedly return to the books to deepen our understanding of how various agents shape the earth. The texts also helped my students understand one way aerial photographs are used.
Because of you, this year's fifth graders and many other classes to come will be able to use literature to understand the wonder of science. You are the best!”
With gratitude,
Ms. James
This classroom project was brought to life by Arts & Science Council and 6 other donors.
The digital probes and technological tools advancing lab-based inquiry have been monumental to the success of our students. The lesson sessions since the arrival of the materials have promoted fundamental techniques necessary to better equip all of our students for their trek into high school physics and chemistry courses.
Recently, students excitedly calibrated the pH probes and set up a pH lab in order to measure the pH of NaOH and HCl as a means to compare/contrast the collected data with that of a weak acid (C6H8O7) and weak base (NaHCO3). Based on the data, select group members developed Excel graphs on their data, compared the results to data involving litmus paper, and presented their findings to the class. Since the arrival of the supplies, students have developed incredible video clips on fun activities involving forces, accelerated motion graphs, temperature graphs, among other activities/experiences that integrate multiple usages of the materials obtained.
English Language Learners continue to harness the full power of the advanced technology offered to them by continually practicing the scientific vocabulary involving motion, pH, and chemical reactions through hands-on inquiry instruction. Our school strongly supports advanced instruction in the fields of STEM and we will continue to progress forward with positive efforts, made possible by the gracious support of those who are both near and faraway.”
With gratitude,
Mr. You
This classroom project was brought to life by KnowHow2GO and 22 other donors.
I would like to express an enormous amount of gratitude for your generous giving towards this project. My passion is to highly engage my fifth graders in the Scientific Process. We have a wide expanse of content to cover in Science and to let students get their hands dirty, investigate, and explore allows them to carry connections into other areas and into life.
My colleagues and I have a great collection of resources, materials, and tools. But the ones that you funded for this unit have been needed for some time. We are Soo excited to have these things at our disposal. The unit on sedimentation, soil formation, and fossilized has always been a unit that is primarily just read about in books. So I look forward to using our new items as we approach this coming up unit! ”
I barely know where to start, this project included so many components. The pictures surely can't do justice to the impact of this project. Many of the activities is enables and most of the best of them involve lots of activity in the classroom and I don't have the time nor the awareness to get out the camera, even if its on my belt!
The pastels mean that now I have enough for the whole class. This is such an improvement on crayons. I don't just assign art projects, I teach art, as best as I am able. Therefore a medium that has feel, and enables color mixing and shading, if invaluable. We are currently starting a large format set of images on the theme of Dinosaurs in Our Imaginations. As with previous projects I'm excited to be working in this 'new' medium.
The molecular models may seem a bit advanced for second grade earth science, but my unit is 16 weeks long and 2.5 hours a week. Therefore I can delve into the basics. I have students act our atomic and molecular combining, including single and multiple bonds, crystal structure and expansion and contraction upon heating and cooling. I want them to have some idea what rocks are made of and why the tectonic plates move and float on substrates. The models are great 'illustrations' of some of what we are doing. They are quick to grab, pass around, and demonstrate with.
Our current language arts unit is, "Fossils." The amber is a necessary bit of realia. And so on.. Every piece of this 'project' has helped me do a better job of teaching. Even the batteries, mundane though they be. I have set up a Wii remote based interactive white board (IWB) and the batteries made it possible to operate with minimal expense and much less the hassle of changing batteries.
Your support of my teaching is greatly appreciated.”
With gratitude,
Mr. P.
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