Past projects 2
Super Science
Funded Aug 16, 2014My students love our new science materials. They cannot believe that people who do not even know them would donate to a project to buy new materials for our classroom.
We started the 2014-15 school year with a study of weather. Using our new materials made our learning fun. What eight year old does not want to wiggle and shake the thunder tube? We are able to study science concepts daily while focusing on content vocabulary and comprehension while using some of our new materials.
I think understanding weather made some of my students feel safer about the world around them. I know our weather work made our study of the regions of the United States more meaningful. I now have students that pay attention to the weather happening across the United States and report to the class.
We are looking forward to using our magnets when we get to that unit of study later this year. I look forward to sharing our new materials and again reminding my students how lucky they are that we live in a world with such caring adults.
Bless all of you for caring about our young students. I wish you could witness for yourself their excitement.”
With gratitude,
Ms. Rubesch
We Want To Read!
Funded Dec 22, 2013To the donors of the project, "We want to read," thank you from the bottom of my heart. I wish you could magically step into my classroom and watch the faces of my students as they are introduced to the lives of great people in our history while listening to biographies on a CD, all while holding the matching book in their hands. I never thought I would see the day that students would be demanding to get to the listening center or reminding me to change the book to a new biography.
Our new biographies and Cd's have been so handy because when they arrived we were learning about the People, Presidents, and the Preamble. We have a George Washington book, what perfect timing. What an awesome way to introduce a new topic with the story of our first President. It was also Black History month, and guess who we read about? Martin Luther King, Jr. and Rosa Parks. Again, what could be sweeter?
The most amazing thing that I have observed is the students being engaged by the subject they were reading about. They read all the way to the end of the book, including the historical timeline that is printed on the inside back cover.
Thank you for bringing reading alive to the students in my classroom. They are remembering who they read about. They are remembering facts. They are engaged in their learning. They want to read.”
With gratitude,
Ms. Rubesch