Past projects 14
Newsies R Us Year 6
Funded Aug 31, 2024Your donation to our class's Scholastic News subscription has made a huge difference already! We are looking forward to utilizing the materials that will enhance our students' learning experience. Our students have diverse backgrounds. Many of the children are English Language Learners and also students with learning disabilities. The resources that Scholastic News provides enables our students to access this information in a clear and enjoyable manner. The students are provided with vocabulary slides that introduce the more difficult words with a picture and supporting sentence. There are short videos for each magazine that are related to the main article and really help our auditory and visual learners. They also provide graphic organizers, open ended questions, essay prompts and multiple choice questions that help prepare the students for the New York State ELA exam.
Our parents also thank you, as almost all of our students are from immigrant backgrounds and their families struggle financially. We always used the Scholastic News resource but were forced to collect $10 from each student at the start of each school year. Your generous donation alleviates this added cost for our families.
Thanks so much!”
With gratitude,
Mrs. L.
This classroom project was brought to life by An Anonymous Supporter and 6 other donors.Keep Chillin!
Funded May 1, 2023Thanks so much for your generous donation. The students in my class were most excited to grow herbs in the classroom. In the heat of June, they were able to refrigerate the harvest to be used later. The students also experimented with various liquids, such as, juice, milk, coffee and soda to see how the different liquids affected the growth of their aloe and other succulent plants. Having a place to store the materials for use and experimentation was most convenient.
The students are also encouraged to bring healthy snacks and lunches that may need to be refrigerated. We are always promoting a healthy lifestyle and are sure that the habits the students develop in elementary and middle school will grow with them into adulthood.
Thanks for making a huge difference in our classroom!”
With gratitude,
Mrs. L.
Newsies R Us Year 5
Funded Jan 1, 2023Your donation to our class's Scholastic News subscription has made a huge difference already! We are looking forward to starting the next school year 2023-2024 on the right foot with the materials that will enhance our students' learning experience. Our students have diverse backgrounds. Many of the children are English Language Learners and also students with learning disabilities. The resources that Scholastic News provides will enable our students to access this information in a clear and enjoyable manner. The students will be provide with vocabulary slides that introduce the more difficult words with a picture and supporting sentence. There are short videos for each magazine that are related to the main article and really help our auditory and visual learners. They also provide graphic organizers, open ended questions, essay prompts and multiple choice questions that help prepare the students for the New York State ELA exam.
Our parents also thank you, as almost all of our students are from immigrant backgrounds and their families struggle financially. We always used the Scholastic News resource but were forced to collect $10 from each student at the start of each school year. Your generous donation alleviates this added cost for our families.
Wishing you much success and a healthy summer!”
With gratitude,
Mrs. L.
Botanists R Us!
Funded Jan 3, 2023Our students were soooo excited to receive our hydroponic garden system. We were able to plant thyme, parsley, curly parsley dill, basil, Thai basil, and dill. We have been learning so much about plants and now we get to observer their growth up close!. We have visited the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens and learned sow to grow a hydroponic garden. We can hardly wait for all the herbs and veggies to grow! In the meantime, hats off to you who made this experience possible for our class! Wishing you a health and enjoyable summer!”
With gratitude,
Mrs. L.
This classroom project was brought to life by The Chuck Lorre Family Foundation and 8 other donors.Classroom Made Beautiful!
Funded Oct 26, 2022Your contributions to beautify our classroom are much appreciated. We work really hard during our readers, writers, math, science and social studies workshops to learn the curriculum and show what we know in creative ways. your donations help us present our learning in an inviting and appealing way. This develops our pride and encourages us to work even harder. Our bulletin boards reflect our efforts and we no longer struggle keeping our work displayed thanks to the Command hooks and double sided tape we received. We use the colored stock paper to enhance our learning to help us color code and to display our work in a creative way.
Wishing you much success in all your endeavors!”
With gratitude,
Mrs. L.
This classroom project was brought to life by Panda Cares and 3 other donors.Newsies R Us Year 4!
Funded Mar 25, 2022Our school population is 100% free school lunches, which reflects the impoverished state of income of these parents. Many of our children are latch-key children who spend most of their free time watching television and playing video games.
We hope to broaden our students' horizons and motivate them to engage in reading non-fiction (especially the boys, many of whom are reluctant readers). The Scholastic News Magazines will also help prepare the students for the New York State Test. In the past, we have found our students eager to read the Scholastic News. We have found their on-line resources most valuable in supporting our teaching. Through use of the Scholastic News magazines and related reading material, we will conduct reader's theater and role-playing to reenact historical events.”
With gratitude,
Mrs. L.
Newsies R Us Year 3!
Funded Apr 22, 2021Our students greatly benefit from the non-fiction articles and interesting news tidbits that are presented in Scholastic News Magazine. These magazines expose their families to current events in the English language, as well. By reading Scholastic News articles, the students are also preparing for the New York State ELA Exam since the questions and activities that accompany the magazine are all aligned with the new Common Core Standards. The subscription also provides the class with access to informational videos related to the cover stories. This is extremely helpful to our students that are new to the English language, as well as, the learners who benefit from auditory and visual supports.
We hope to broaden our students' horizons and motivate them to engage in reading non-fiction (especially the boys, many of whom are reluctant readers). Our students are most eager to read the Scholastic News and watch the accompanying video clips and vocabulary slides We have found their on-line resources most valuable in supporting our teaching. Thanks so much for your generosity!”
With gratitude,
Mrs. L.
This classroom project was brought to life by J.Crew and one other donor.Newsies R Us Year 2
Funded May 5, 2020During this most difficult time in our lives, the donation you have made to our class subscription to Scholastic News has made a huge impact on our learning! Our sixth grade class was only back in class 1-2 per week (if they chose the hybrid remote schedule), before our school found itself in a red zone and went completely remote without even a day's notice! Thanks to this wonderful resource from Scholastic. we have been able to keep our students engaged in meaningful learning.
The magazines provide an online digital version with a "read to me" option. The new vocabulary is introduced in a slide show. There are engaging video clips that build up the students' background knowledge and are most supportive for our students with learning disabilities, language delays, or English Language Learners. Each article is written in a most engaging manner with supportive info graphs, maps, photos, sidebars. The students have a chance to respond and show what they know by using the included skills sheets that link directly to our google classroom. The students are most engaged and look forward to our lessons each Friday as a chance to catch up with current events and loads of nonfiction reading.
Wishing you and your loved ones a healthy New Year with blessings for a time when Covid 19 will just be a distant memory and we can remind ourselves of our fortune to have survived a world pandemic!”
With gratitude,
Mrs. L.
This classroom project was brought to life by SONIC Drive-In and 2 other donors.Newsies R Us
Funded Feb 28, 2019As a seasoned teacher, I was delighted to have been gifted the subscription to Scholastic News, this past school year for my sixth graders. I had used the engaging magazine with all its multi-media and digital features in the past, however, as it became more expensive, the students were unable to pay for the subscription and their learning definitely was affected.
The students really enjoy the colorful magazines with lots of engaging features. Their interest in current events and non fiction articles is sparked. The captivating videos make the topics so engaging and accessible, even to the students who are English Language Learners or Students with Disabilities. The vocabulary development is so rich and engaging, with many reinforcements so that the students really internalize what they have learned. The text-to-speech feature, lower-level versions of the articles, and vocabulary slideshows make current events accessible to all of my students!”
With gratitude,
Mrs. L.
This classroom project was brought to life by The DonorsChoose.org Community and one other donor.Newsies R Us!
Funded Oct 24, 2016As the holidays approach, I would like to extend my heartfelt gratitude to you who have made such a difference in my students' lives. They were astounded to find out that people who don't even know them were kind enough to donate so much money to help them become better students. The Scholastic News Magazines are an exciting way for the to learn about current events. Especially this year, during the presidential election, they were able to keep pace with the news. The class even conducted a mock election for the entire school! The science articles really engage the students (especially the boys!). Scholastic News also provides videos that correlate to the articles that really interest the students and are perfect for the ESL students. Each magazine also comes with skills sheets and written assignments to reinforce their comprehension of the articles. The questions are all based on the Common Core Standards and helps prepare the class for the New York State ELA Exam.
In addition, you also were kind enough to sponsor a laminating machine for our class. It is so helpful to be able to laminate the student's materials and manipulatives. May your kindness be repaid many times over in your lives.
Seasons Greetings!”
With gratitude,
Mrs. L.