Past projects 4
Building Heroes
Funded Jun 7, 2015Thank you so much for your generous donations to my class! I cannot fully express how thankful and excited I am for your generosity in helping me with this project. It is wonderful to see others who share my vision for involving students in a 21st century learning environment.
The tools you have funded will enable my students to document their learning in fun and creative ways. I'm sure they will even think of ways to use the resource that I haven't thought of yet.
Thank you from the bottom of the heart! I cannot wait to present this resource to my students.
My kiddos were so excited to wear the GoPro and start exploring all of the possibilities. Their first project is to create a book trailer for "Camille McPhee Fell Under the Bus." They chose to give up their lunch and recess for several weeks to read with me during "Lunch Bunch." They loved this book and want to encourage others to read it with a GoPro created trailer. They are working on their plans now! Can't wait to see what they create.
Thank you for supporting teachers and students through Donors Choose!
Most of all thank you for making a positive impact on my students' futures!!!”
With gratitude,
Mrs. Holden
Leaders Lending a Helping Hand
Funded Apr 7, 2015My students (and myself) are beyond excited to receive our Macbook Air! It makes us feel like we are joining the 21st Century! Adjusting to a Mac is a fun adventure for us all. As an educator, golden opportunities such as these provided by the PwC match program are rare. We all know the budget of an educator is not one of greatness. There are truly no words to adequately express my gratitude for the chance to implement and put into action my own vision for what I want my classroom to be. This is very powerful.
Because of all of you, my students can be ahead of the curve in using the latest technology to the highest level. Cheers to you and on behalf of everyone impacted by PwC's match program, the single most effective action you can take to improve education is empowering great teachers! Thank you all for paying it forward!”
With gratitude,
Mrs. Holden
Click. Boom. Amazing!
Funded Sep 9, 2013Thank you so much for your generosity. My students were just as shocked as I was to receive our Ipad so quickly. I can't believe the speed with which this project received funding. I added some apps that I had been wanting to try and it seems as if every day I learn a new feature from the kids.
I installed RAZ-kids, a leveled reading program that my students use during their independent reading time. For some reason, doing it on the I pad is more preferable than on the computer. There's an app, Puppet Pals, where students can take pictures of themselves, their peers, book characters, and create plays. The next unit we're moving into happens to be Drama, I can't wait. We're still exploring, but it seems like it will be a great tool for Retelling Stories to check for understanding as well. Students can also read books outside of class and take Accelerated Reader quizzes. The incentive to be able to use the Ipad alone, had increased the number of books students are reading. Who would have imagined there would be a tool that made students want to take a quiz?
Today, after working on R-Controlled vowels with a group of students, they showed me an app called "Decide Now." We turned it into a spelling challenge. I quickly entered extra words that followed our patterns, had them spin the wheel and spell these "bonus" words. So no exaggeration, I learn something new everyday too! We are all excited to see what we're going to discover and my kiddos LOVE to read and share and learn and grow!
Click, Boom, Amazing....Indeed.”
With gratitude,
Mrs. Holden
Read, Baby, Read!
Funded Feb 18, 2013The excitement for reading that my students were struck with when our package arrived was AWESOME!
We received brand new fiction and nonfiction books. Graphic Novels & biographies. Picture books & Chapter books. Series they love, like Skippyjon Jones & Captain Underpants. Authors we love, like Judy Blume & Jon Scieszka. Newberry Award Winners & Caldecott Honor Books!
But best of all, we received books that are on my students' reading levels! As they progress to the next level, we have books! Excitement & Appropriate Wonderful Resources! You just can't beat it! We feel the love!”
With gratitude,
Mrs. Holden