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• Dust and Dirt Be Gone! Time for a Clean Space!

  Funded Mar 24, 2025

  It’s hard to express how incredibly grateful I am to all of you! Your kindness and generosity not only gives our classroom much needed materials but it also helps us to teach our students the importance of being helpful and giving. Your donation means a lot to our little class family and I know the kids are going to be so excited to clean. They love helping to take care of our classroom which is like a second home to them, in fact their parents always joke how they wish they were as eager to clean at home. Thank you again!”

  With gratitude,

  Ms. Heather

  This classroom project was brought to life by LOFT.

• Snap and Slide to Build Words!

  Funded Dec 4, 2024

  Our students have been loving these magnetic tiles. They always ask to work in this center because they love to engage with the letters. The tiles allow them to manipulate and physically slide the letters together to make new words. They have been so excited to use them and are so excited that they can now read.

  The ability to have hands on materials really makes a difference especially in our ICT class where we have all types of learners. These tiles allow them to physically manipulate the letters to create the words that they read. These letter tiles give them ownership and help them to be a leader in their own learning.

  What is really nice about these tiles is that the students can also be the teachers and they are able to work in partnerships and create words for their partner to read. We truly appreciate the support from donors like you who make all of these things possible in our classroom.”

  With gratitude,

  Ms. Heather

  This classroom project was brought to life by The DonorsChoose Community and 6 other donors.

• Construction Ahead! Build and Learn with Everything Blocks!

  Funded Sep 18, 2024

  When we opened up our everything blocks the students were so excited and started asking how to use them. We asked what they thought we could do with them and the first thing they said was make words. They love working together to build words using the sounds they know. For our other students who are working on identifying sounds they love to listen to the sounds we make and then find the correct letter block. We haven't even begun to explore the numbers sides of our blocks yet and they are so excited to use them in Math. One of my little friends said hey we can put them in the way they go (Number Order). We are so grateful for your donation that helped to purchase these fun and exciting resources.”

  With gratitude,

  Ms. Heather

  This classroom project was brought to life by The DonorsChoose Community & an Anonymous Partner and 3 other donors.

• On the Move: Rolling With Technology

  Funded Jun 9, 2024

  It's so hard to put into words what this piece of technology has done to help improve our students learning. In the few months that we have been using it the difference it has made. This technology has made it possible for my co teacher and I to break up into small groups to teach our lessons so that our students get as much 1:1 attention as possible.

  It has allowed me to use different resources to teach the same lesson my coteacher is teaching but in a different way that meets my groups needs. For example I can pull up pictures to help with vocabulary work or show a video on a new topic, something as simple as playing calming music while they work.

  My students favorite part is the interactive touch screen that allows them to write and draw on their board. Again words can not express how thankful we are for your support. I truly appreciate all our sones so thank you Oak Foundation and to all of our donors son this project. Thank you again!”

  With gratitude,

  Ms. Heather

  This classroom project was brought to life by Oak Foundation and 3 other donors.

• Reading, Writing and Math Growing Tool Kits!!

  Funded Aug 16, 2023

  Thank you so much for your generosity and for helping us to fund this project. Your donations helped us to organize tools and games that our students use throughout the day to help them complete their work tasks. Having them in baskets makes it easier for them to pull what they need for their table and groups.

  The kids were so excited to see the new baskets with all their tools in it. They loved that the baskets also matched the colors of their tables and/or groups which made it easier for them to find which tool kit was meant for them. They love using them and it helps to make them independent and responsible for some of their own learning. They love being leaders.

  Thank you again for your generosity!”

  With gratitude,

  Ms. Heather

  This classroom project was brought to life by The SONIC Foundation and 3 other donors.

• Teach and Learn Together! One Easel Opens Many Doors!

  Funded Mar 23, 2023

  I wish you could have seen the excitement on my students faces when we wheeled our new easel into the room. They're little voices saying how big it was, how clean it was and then one voice who asked " Well what is it for?"

  Actually the question is what can't we use it for. We have been using our new easel to store materials , solve math problems, read new shared poems or big books. We have been practicing how to draw and how to write our letters. What we are using it most for now is practicing becoming writers. They love coming up to the board to be the teacher and help write a story. We love our new easel! Thanks!”

  With gratitude,

  Ms. Heather

  This classroom project was brought to life by an Anonymous Classroom Supporter and 11 other donors.

• H.E.R.O Binders Help Everyone Remain Organized

  Funded Sep 29, 2022

  Thank you for providing us with the binders to help make a resource that we can use in school and at home with our families. One of the things that we are always asked by families is how can I help my child at home and in the community where our school is our families face many challenges. They often work several jobs and sometimes they also have a language barrier. So over time the H.E.R.O. binder came to life.

  During the school day the students are provided with many tools to help them learn new material, such as an alphabet chart, number line, or story chart. The use these resources to help them read books, write a story or solve a math problem. Throughout the year new resources are added to the binder and these binders go back and forth between home and school.

  The students love the binder because the charts help them during the day but then they get to bring them home and show their parents. The parents love it because they are able to use the same materials to support their child at home and their kids already know how to use them. Just recently our students have started to learn about how the tricky "e" changes the way we say some words and they got to teach their parents the rule with our tricky "e" rule /picture chart. They love getting to be the teachers and the parents love having the materials to review.”

  With gratitude,

  Ms. Heather

  This classroom project was brought to life by An Anonymous Classroom Supporter.

• A Home for Our Book Adventures

  Funded Sep 29, 2022

  K053 was so excited when we received our new book bins and reading baggies. It was like Christmas morning. Their faces lit up with excitement and they couldn't believe that they had new friends who sent them gifts for their class family.

  Our class had moved into a new room and our library was in need of help. Our baskets were old and broken. This was a big problem for our class as we love to listen to stories and go on adventures to new places. As soon as we opened our new baskets they wanted to put our books into their new homes, so together we worked together to sort them into their baskets. We made a basket of our favorite authors, our favorite read aloud, fairytales, animals, poems etc..By having our books organized in our library our students now have easier access to the stories they love.

  But the best was yet to come! Now that we are new readers and are starting to be able to read books all on our own we needed a safe place to keep our special books close. They were so excited to see the new reading baggies in bright colors to keep their books in. They love going to grab their reading bag during independent reading time!!! They are so proud!! Now our kids are excited to try and earn a new easel so they can be the teachers in the class and use their new reading skills to help others.”

  With gratitude,

  Ms. Heather

  This classroom project was brought to life by An Anonymous Classroom Supporter and one other donor.

• Letters and Dry Erase Boards and Writing Practice, Oh My!

  Funded Jun 8, 2016

  Dear Donors,

  Thank you so much for your incredible donations. I just wanted to take a minute to stop by and explain how your donation has impacted the lives of my students.

  This year I am working as a Reading/Special Education teacher and I am servicing several different students across multiple classrooms. Some of my students have special needs and a majority of them are English Language Learners, so you can only imagine how difficult reading is for them. We have been using the supplies we have received to work on building our phonics and reading skills. We have been using the small wipe off boards to work on word families (all the words that end in at or ed etc..) so that we can read them in a snap. We have been using the dry erase pockets to work on filling in the missing sounds of words, especially the vowels so that we can recognize them in our books. One of the trickiest parts of reading is decoding which is breaking down our words into smaller parts and then putting them back together to form a word. Many of my students are visual learners so we have been breaking the words apart on the small dry erase boards and then sweep under the words with our markers to put the word back together. It's been great.

  When my groups first saw our new supplies they were so excited!! They couldn't believe how many people cared about their learning. They absolutely love the small dry erase boards. At first they all giggled when they saw how small they were, but then they realized how perfect they fit on their laps and they thought that was awesome. They also love how the boards are both dry erase and magnetic. Every Friday we have fun Friday and play literacy games. They love using the dry erase sleeves to fill in their games and they enjoy using the magnetic letters. Today I introduced them to the Wiki Sticks (wax strings) that we use to circle or underline words. They thought they were the greatest invention ever. They loved the way they feel (that's important to some special needs kids) and the bright colors.

  Our next steps with the materials you donated is to use our magnetic letters to work on more decoding skills and strategies. The students are really excited to use the wiki sticks in our upcoming guided reading lesson to circle the word family words we have learned. We will also be continuing to use the whiteboards to break apart tricky words. The students really love Fun Fridays and we are in the process of making and finding new games.

  Thank you again for all that you have done.”

  With gratitude,

  Ms. Heather