Students love hands-on activities for reading stations. They are able to expand their vocabulary, working on skills needed for reading and writing success. Students have enjoyed exploring multiple meaning words and quizzing each other on new vocabulary.
Students loved the bright colors and new materials. They were eager to get their hands on them and try them out.
We are always working on building our reading fluency and comprehensions skills. Projects like these help students build their schema and excitement for reading and learning!”
Thank you so much for donating money to purchase jump ropes for my students. They really appreciate your generosity. My students use the ropes every day for recess and they no longer have to argue over who gets a rope.
These jump ropes will be continually used for years to come. By donating money for this project you have enabled my students to have fun and get physical exercise daily. As you can see by looking at the photographs, the smile upon their faces says it all.”
Thank you very much for the art supplies. My students have benefited tremendously from these supplies.
Unfortunately, my school has a permanent sub for art specials. Therefore, the students are receiving no art education. Thanks to these supplies, I have been able to incorporate art activities into my lessons as well as provide an art center as a prize for students who complete their homework and behave in class. The art center has also worked for soothing students with poor coping skills who are having a rough day.
For science, my students completed a project about the life cycle of a butterfly. They were able to demonstrate their knowledge of the different steps in the life cycle by painting a picture. It was educational, hands on, and best of all the students were able to use their creativity! They were actively learning while having fun.
These supplies have been enriching and educational. Thank you very much for your donation.”
Thank you so much for donating a class set of calculators to our classroom! I can't begin to express how much the calculators have improved our class environment. Before your donation, our students hid or stole calculators to ensure they had one to use, but now they are happy to find enough for everyone every day.
We also use the calculators for the Ohio Graduation Test, and giving the students the opportunity to practice with the same calculators they use during the test helps us to give our students the same resources that other schools have. The OGT was given last week, and our students were so much more confident than I have ever seen them after taking the test!
Again, I can't even begin to express how much a seemingly insignificant donation has affected our students. Thank you!”
Thank you so much for your donation. We are poor school in Northern California struggling to reinstate our Academic Decathlon Program. The video camera that we received will go a long way towards helping the team become more comfortable as they practice their public speaking.
As you can tell by looking at the pictures, the camera also takes still photography and the students had a great time using it on our recent "team building field trip" to the north coast.
Without the kindness of people like you our program, and our students, would not have the extras that they need to improve their academic experience.
Thank you so much for your generous donations of The Catcher in the Rye and A Raisin in the Sun. Our school does not have a large library of literature, and this added two quality works to our collection of materials.
I taught A Raisin in the Sun first to my ninth grade class. We focused on the history of the time period, the relationships between the characters, and characterization through dialogue. They were so excited to be able to act out the parts everyday, and they loved being able to write an epilogue to the play as well.
I am currently in the middle of teaching The Catcher in the Rye to the same students, and we are also experiencing success with this work as well. They have been exploring the concepts of characterization, symbolism and theme, and are trying to determine whether Holden is a "normal" teen or not.
Thank you again for making it possible for a new generation of kids to experience these classics.”
With gratitude,
Ms. Bailey
This classroom project was brought to life by Build-A-Bear Workshop Foundation and 3 other donors.
Thank you very much for the donation you have made to my classroom. Your generosity has given me the chance to open many students eyes to the wonders of engineering and robotics. I have recently began coaching a competitive robotics team here at our high school, and these kits have given me a way to introduce freshmen to robotics and train them for a future on the team. My students all have a great time using the kits and have designed some impressive 'bots!
As an added bonus, many of the students who have taken the class and were on the robotics team will be using the kits your donation provided to teach a summer robotics course for elementary and middle school students! Just think, your simple act of kindness has affected several generations of students and will continue to impact them as they go on to college and beyond.
Thank you!”
With gratitude,
Mr. Jones
This classroom project was brought to life by Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and 18 other donors.
Thank you so much for the reeds. I have been able to offer students the opportunity to try bass clarinets and barisaxophones safely (not passing on germs). No takers on the oboe and bassoon yet. Because of you, I now have a supply of reeds to keep kids playing when they accidentally break their reeds. Your generosity means that the band, as a whole, will hear parts that would otherwise go missing if reeds were not immediately available. This means there will be no "down time" in rehearsals due to not being prepared. Thanks for supporting students.”
Donors thank you for helping me deliver a remarkable series of lessons! The opportunity you provided led to a 'revamping' of my approach to teaching evolution, cell biology and microbiology. Best of all, the students responded to the new approach in a very positive way!
Middle school students love to work in groups, especially when they get to pick their group mates. My students worked in groups to learn about the vastness of geologic time. They modeled time on paper, with objects and with a time line. They gained some idea of how long ago, long ago really was. They learned about the processes at work in evolution. Then in a cross-curriculum lesson with our language arts teacher, students researched a specific period in geologic time. They wrote essays and decorated our giant time line (2.5 cm = 1,000,000 years).
After the weekend we spent a couple of days discussing how the Earth looked during the Devonian period. The giant predators of the period definitely got their attention! Students worked with a friend to design an animal that might make the transition from water to land. They had to describe the evolutionary processes at work and provide examples of adaptations. Then in a messy couple of days they used paper mache, salt dough, modeling clay and all kinds of drawing tools to create their animal. They really did a great job!
After they completed their animals I introduced them to Tiktaalik. There was much discussion about which team's animal came the closest to Tiktaalik. Students are now reading Your Inner Fish. The book will serve as a guide for all of our remaining objectives in biology and microbiology. I included a few student comments below. Thanks again!
"Cool, look at This!"
"Oh, I get it now."
To our principle, "You've got to read this book, its awesome!"”
With gratitude,
Mr. T.
This classroom project was brought to life by Burroughs Wellcome Fund and 8 other donors.
I would like to take this opportunity to thank each and everyone of you for helping transform the our school cafeteria into a more inviting atmosphere, The Eagle's Nest Cafe. The students have been working hard to create beautiful paintings that reflect their heritage and culture. They were excited about painting on real canvases.
Art supplies are quite expensive and without your help, we would have never been able to afford all of these canvases and frames. Those students who were selected to create pieces for display feel honored to have their artwork permanently showcased in a school they once attended. While we sometimes take for granted the atmosphere we eat lunch in, it is nice to know that we have created a more enjoyable place to eat for future students and faculty.
It is amazing to look at how many individuals helped build this idea into reality, some with even small contributions - Together a Community Can Make a Difference! Thanks for opening our children's eyes to a more colorful world”
With gratitude,
Mrs. Dayton
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