Past projects 57
Thirsty Minds Can't Learn as Well as Hydrated Minds!
Funded Feb 6, 2025Thank you so very much for your support of our Kindergarteners. They were ecstatic when their new water bottles arrived and have been using them daily ever since. The new water bottles have proven to be sturdy through some accidental drops and have remained leak-proof. We love that they are transparent, so our littles can see how much water they have left and ask to fill their bottles when the time is appropriate instead of going for a drink and finding it empty, as had happened from time to time with our older non-transparent water bottles. Students are missing little instructional time to grab a drink as their water bottles are filled and ready to find whenever needed. Thank you for making this happen for our littles!”
With gratitude,
Ms. Sample
This classroom project was brought to life by An Anonymous Supporter in memory of Francinia Hall and 5 other donors.Help Kinders Grow Hydroponically with a Grow Tower!
Funded Feb 16, 2025Thank you so very much for supporting our classroom and this project! This is our second attempt to secure this hydroponic grow tower, after our first DonorsChoose project expired partially funded. I am so excited to get this for my Kinders so they can learn first hand about the life cycle of a plant, grow their own veggies and fruit, and enjoy the harvests. We have had no luck growing plants in our classroom in the past (we are in the lower level with windows above our heads), and I am so happy our Kinders will now be able to know the excitement of watching plants grow from seeds. This tower is going to provide countless learning opportunities about sustainable agriculture. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for helping make that happen for our students!”
With gratitude,
Ms. Sample
Help us Gift Stories of Racial Justice to Young Learners
Funded Jan 11, 2025Thank you so very much for helping me tell the stories of three incredible historical figures who demonstrated outstanding resilience to my class of Kindergarteners. The books you gifted our class were incredibly impactful and engaged our littles page after page. They were thrilled when I told them they got to keep both books and take them home! The vibrant, detailed pictures featured along with quotes from Dr. King really held their attention as we told his story with Martin's Big Words. A student pointed out that one of Dr. King's quotes in the book connected to what I've been teaching them about resolving conflicts with words...that was a powerful teaching moment. The book Ruby Bridges wrote about her own story included real photographs documenting her experience which helped my young students see what happened through her eyes. We will read the Rosa Parks book during our Black History lessons this month. The students are excited to hear more about her story as she was mentioned in Martin's Big Words.
Thank you so much for supporting our class!”
With gratitude,
Ms. Sample
This classroom project was brought to life by Munchkin and one other donor.Gong Xi Fa Cai... Learning About Lunar New Year!
Funded Jan 14, 2025Lunar New Year was an incredible learning experience in our Kindergarten classroom, thanks in large part to your generous support. We kicked off our Lunar New Year with a welcome photo for each student as they entered using the backdrop and stand gifted through this project. We continued our fun with reading books about customs of the holiday and fortune cookie fortunes, a book gifted to us thru this project, while enjoying fortune cookies, also gifted thru this project, as snacks. We extended our learning about the holiday by watching a couple videos about the traditions of the holiday, which includes gifting kids fancy red envelopes with money. This project provided a set of snake (we learned 2025 is the year ot the snake!) embossed red envelopes, which I filled with fun money to give to every student. Later in the afternoon, we arranged to serve every student in our class a free Kids Meal from Panda Express as our Lunar New Year feast. Everyone received a set of trainer chopsticks from this project to use during the feast (and then take home and keep forever!). Students learned so much through the experiences they had with the gifts provided by this project. Thank you so much for helping make that happen!”
With gratitude,
Ms. Sample
This classroom project was brought to life by Panda Express and 2 other donors.As Ink Flows Freely, the Next Chapter Will Be Written!
Funded May 11, 2024The ink is flowing, leading to creativity and confidence in our Kinders' writing, thanks to you! Having ink on hand to print our developing writers' drafts has been instrumental in supporting the writing process in the moment. With the ink supply you provided, I am also able to print helping tools such as pages with sentence stems and word banks as needed, which has helped my students develop not only their skill base but confidence while writing. Thank you for your help with this. Your support of our class is very much appreciated.”
With gratitude,
Ms. Sample
This classroom project was brought to life by The DonorsChoose Community and 5 other donors.Gong Xi Fa Cai...Help Us Learn About Lunar New Year!
Funded Dec 19, 2022This year our class dived deep into learning about Lunar New Year, thanks to your help with this project! My class was so excited to learn about the traditions of Lunar New Year, especially gifting red envelopes with coins, which they then received (with paper coins!) through this project. We were able to extend our learning with a field trip to a local children's museum featuring a special exhibit on China for kids, where my class was invited to hold up the dragon during a mini-parade through the exhibit room. They were blown away when they then received their own miniature paper dragons through this project to reenact their special memories from their learning experience at the museum. We read the book on Lunar New Year requested with this project before our field trip to give students insight on what they were about to experience. The rolling magnetic whiteboard has been a wonderful addition to our classroom in so many ways. We have very limited writing surfaces in our classroom and your magnetic whiteboard has allowed us to post anchor charts with the magnets on one side and flip it over to write lesson notes on the other side. We used it for our study of the Lunar New Year and posted mini posters of all the Chinese Zodiac animals and then turned the board to the other side to write about the animals that represented the years in which they were born. The mobile whiteboard has continued to enrich my students' learning immeasurably... Thank you !”
With gratitude,
Ms. Sample
This classroom project was brought to life by Panda Express and 2 other donors.Lessons Worth Untangling Headphones For
Funded Sep 21, 2022Oh my goodness, I cannot begin to tell you how helpful the headsets you helped fund were to our class this year! We work on school issued iPads daily and because our young students are just learning to read, most activities and sites they work with feature audio experiences with their learning. That was a lot of loud noise happening in our class! The boys love the fit of the headphones (as opposed to ill-fitting wired earbuds) and have enjoyed learning on their iPads daily with these wonderful gifts you have provided them. Their web based lessons have truly become a favorite of theirs. Thank you for helping make web learning a much better experience for them!”
With gratitude,
Ms. Sample
This classroom project was brought to life by Bill Gates and 4 other donors.When Big Feelings Happen to Little People
Funded Aug 10, 2022Thank you so very much for gifting our class our awesome aquarium lamp and Lego Build Me Emotions set. The aquarium has calmed our students on several occasions when overstimulated. We placed it next to our couch and "fireplace" shelf and encourage students to take a few minutes to sit there and watch the fish in the aquarium when they need some time away from the whole class. Students have enjoyed that option immensely and often return to whole class activities refreshed and refocused after their time with the aquarium. The Lego Build Me Emotions set was incredibly helpful to our littles when they were overwhelmed and unable to talk about how they were feeling. Getting a few minutes away from the whole class to build their "emotion buddy" that reflected their feelings helped me better understand them when they weren't able to tell me themselves how they were feeling. I truly thank you for helping make that happen.”
With gratitude,
Ms. Sample
This classroom project was brought to life by Bill Gates and 4 other donors.The Pages are Blank, but the Words are There.
Funded May 3, 2021The ink is flowing, leading to creativity and confidence in writing, thanks to you! As we've seen nationwide, our students are not at the academic level we'd like them to be at especially with writing composition. Having ink on hand to print our developing writers' drafts and helping tools such as pages with sentence stems and word banks has helped them develop not only their skill base but confidence while writing. Thank you for your help with this. Your support, especially during this time, has been very much appreciated.”
With gratitude,
Ms. Sample
This classroom project was brought to life by Ford Drive 4 UR School and 5 other donors.Math Fluency in Kindergarten? You Can COUNT On It!
Funded Oct 18, 2020We began using your gift of the hand2mind Daily Math Fluency Kit for Kids in our classroom shortly after we resumed brick and mortar instruction in October, 2020 to help build number sense with math talk and number strings. The large sized demonstration Number Rack, also known as a Rekenrek or Math Rack, is a manipulative used for elementary math to demonstrate key math concepts. The Rekenrek included in the kit is HUGE and grabs every student's attention while we are using it during whole class instruction!
The kit's math talk helps students develop multiple strategies to solve math problems. Further, it provides opportunities to students to explain their reasoning with their strategies. The related math problems provided with the kit helps teach strategies based on number relationships. The kit has provided quick daily math activities to supplement and support our Kindergarten curriculum.
Thank you for supporting our class and helping strengthen my Kindergarten students' math fluency with this amazing hand2mind kit!”
With gratitude,
Ms. Sample
This classroom project was brought to life by hand2mind and one other donor.