Past projects 13
Puzzles Help Our Brains Think!
Funded Mar 25, 2025We are so excited to use our new crayons, and work together to complete puzzles with our friends. We love the new book shelves for the classroom to add some color to our classroom. Having new colorful books shelves for our students will help them learn how to put the puzzles and crayons away in bins. We can offer a lot more art activities for the students if the materials are readily available.
We are so excited to see our little kindergarteners start using our new items and work together.”
With gratitude,
Ms. Duarte
This classroom project was brought to life by The DonorsChoose Community and 4 other donors.Diverse Learning in Kindergarten
Funded Jun 19, 2024We are having a great time playing with the diverse materials provided by this project. Our classroom has students from many parts of the world. Students are feeling happy and comfortable making sushi and using the dumplings pretend toys during play time in the kitchen area. They get to enhance their playing and learning while playing with the coffee machine at the market place center. The students are using their name badges when we have music and library time and during the first weeks of school so that all our staff cna familiarize themselves with our beginning Kindergarteners. Students also love the baby and the family of toys from this project when playin blocks and community workers. They pretend to work (firefighter) and come home (Kitchen area) and let their imagination take over. We appreciate all the donations and the materials to help promote oral language, cultural diversity, and role playing for our little ones.”
With gratitude,
Ms. Duarte
This classroom project was brought to life by Newman's Own Foundation and 5 other donors.Students Need to Think and Play like Engineers
Funded Aug 18, 2023WOW my students are so happy to play with the sand table and the toys. They make creative structures and their possibilities are endless. Using the sand has helped develop their oral language skills and their overall peer interactions.Students look forward to these centers when they are finished with their work or when they have free choice to play. They make vehicles with the engineering toys. They make houses and tall buildings and they make a whole town. These toys have benefitted them with learning 3-D shapes like cubes and rectangle prisms and pyramids. Thank you so much for sharing your hard earned money on our students and our class.”
With gratitude,
Ms. Duarte
This classroom project was brought to life by United Airlines and 4 other donors.Cozy, Clean and Creative
Funded May 7, 2024My students were really able to play and have unique projects with the brain flakes. They were so creative that they incorporated the lessons in our science and the brain flakes by making flowers and insects with them. My students really had to think outside the box like engineers when they played with the engineering centers. They built cars and pretended to be plumbers and move the water through the pipes. This was so innovative. The sand table is a great center for all the students along with the molds. They love to make castles and create new sand lands. Thank you to everyone. Learning through play is so important for my students they work together and resolve conflicts and they work together to make something new. They get so excited to show me so I can share with their families.”
With gratitude,
Ms. Duarte
This classroom project was brought to life by General Motors and 7 other donors.Useful Classwork Makes a Difference
Funded Dec 24, 2022Students are benefitting so much from your donation. Their writing has improved with all the great templates they can choose from. The impact that the visual pictures and all the lessons for Social Studies have really helped my students visualize the Past and Present. Students are really benefitting with learning about Black History Month with the helpful handouts and printables to incorporate art and famous inventors. THANK YOU AGAIN for your generosity”
With gratitude,
Ms. Duarte
Art for the Heart
Funded Oct 26, 2022We are so appreciative for allowing us to use the paint markers and vibrant colorful construction paper. My students love to use the sand and sand toys when we are working in small groups. Students get so excited to make castles and show their friends and family what they made. When my student seen the paint marker s and paper they were so excited and wanted to use them right away. When I brought out the sand and sand toys, students couldn't wait to switch centers so they could feel the sand between their fingers and make castles.
As we celebrated Black History Month we used our paint markers and the construction paper to showcase our work in the classroom. We use the paint makers at our art center as well. Students love to take their creations home and share with family.
THANK YOU again. I am so happy people still think of schools and students and what they need to make learning fun!”
With gratitude,
Ms. Duarte
This classroom project was brought to life by Panda Cares and 6 other donors.Organizing at a Young Age
Funded Sep 15, 2022We are so excited to organize our Science and Math Manipulatives. Our students are able to take out and find what they need to get their STEM challenges going. We have so many little blocks, lights, ball, sticks, magnifying glasses and ropes. All of it is easier to access and put away when all finished. Students have built bridges and planted seeds! They are able to use magnifying glasses that are easier to access and students are able to measure the plants.
We also use the shelves for measuring with weight. Students use different blocks and cubes as we use the Math manipulative shelves. Everything they need is put in clear storage boxes and placed it the shelves at the end of the day!! Easy to play and organize all on their own. It also foster self sufficiency while I am not in the classroom. Students know where all the math and science things go! We appreciate it so much!”
With gratitude,
Ms. Duarte
Get Ready, Set, Relax or Build!
Funded Apr 1, 2022My classroom has had a greta impact with the use of all the materials from our project. We use the calming pillows during reading and students use them when they need a little break time in class. Our Transitional Kindergarten students love using the Construct a Letter Activity Center and this has helped with Letter Formation and with using their small motor skills to hammer away. The Playstix have boosted creativity in learning how to think outside the box! I hope these pictures reflect the joy that they have brought our classroom. The Cuddly Puppy Weighted Shoulder really has helped foster a sense of sitting and focusing on classwork. Our colorful Sand Timers help foster duration of time to work and play. We are using all our materials daily!!! THANK YOU Donorschoose!”
With gratitude,
Ms. Duarte
This classroom project was brought to life by Lakeshore Learning and 4 other donors.Write it Print it!
Funded Jan 10, 2022I am so grateful for the printer that my class was gifted. We have been able to make a copies of students' artwork as well as printed on sticker paper. My students are so excited to share their artwork as stickers. Their writing has been able to go home weekly now because teachers usually save all the writing until the end of the year, but now it can get copied and be sent home. My students are amazed that their pictures and writing can be copied more than once. The color copies are especially nice when I let them select pictures from their favorite stories so they can create their own. I really have seen a growth in wanting to write and draw more. Thank you again to all the donors!!!”
With gratitude,
Ms. Duarte
This classroom project was brought to life by Panda Cares and 4 other donors.iNeed iPad!
Funded Feb 3, 2021I want to thank all the donors for funding our IPAD. As I continue to teach through distant learning, this iPad has helped our class in so many ways. The biggest way I use the iPad is by logging into our class zoom. Having two devices on the class zoom allows me to utilize the iPad as a document reader. My students can see the book pages we are working. It provides me a way for them to see my actual writing and formation of letters that is essential in Transition Kindergarten and Kindergarten. I am able to have student group conferences by joining them in breakout rooms to discuss their work or simply offer guidance and support in Writing and Math.
When students are having trouble logging into websites, or finding the websites, I use the iPad to log in as a student. By doing this I can show how the online platform looks as a student. I could not do this before because the laptop that I use is always logged in as teacher. This iPad has also allowed me to approve assignments that students submit when I am either away from my desk at home or my other device is overheating. This iPad has so many advantages to distant learning and attending trainings online.”
With gratitude,
Ms. Duarte