Past projects 318
I Love to Teach Reading So Much!
Funded Apr 28, 2022Thank you so much for funding my "I Love to Teach Reading So Much!" Project on Donorschoose.org. These books are going to be so helpful to me as a teacher. Your match allowed me to pay the first half to fund the project and have the second half funded by you. I appreciate that so much!
The Teaching Reading Sourcebook is wonderful! There are so many, many useful resources in there. I have already flagged so many pages for future reference. It will be very handy.
The Orton-Gillingham Word List Dictionary Volume 2 is going to be wonderful, because it gives me all kinds of word lists. This book will be a huge time saver so that I do not have to create all of these word lists over and over again on my own.
The Recipe for Reading Workbook will be fantastic as well. We work on the skills that are in this workbook every single day, and having this tool will definitely support my younger students' learning. Thank you so much for helping me to develop my students' passion for reading. I appreciate it more than you could ever know!”
With gratitude,
Mrs. Britton
This classroom project was brought to life by Herb Kohl Philanthropies and one other donor.Super Star Spellers! Dyslexia Support for the Best Kids Ever!
Funded Apr 28, 2022Thank you so much for funding our "Super Star Spellers! Dyslexia Support for the Best Kids Ever!" project on Donorschoose.org. The Silver Moon Spelling Rules Bundle that we received is just amazing! I am so excited to have this wonderful resource for my class, and the really neat things is that this project, that you funded, went right back into a Wisconsin small business, so this project, not only helped our class, but a small Wisconsin business as well!
These spelling cards are a lot of fun! They have little rhymes that will help my students to remember the english language rules that I work so hard to teach them. They have fun pictures that coincide with the rule, and they are the perfect size for our lessons. The best part is that there are teacher cards AND student cards, so I can teach with mine, and my students can have set of their own.
I was looking for a set like this for a long time, and I was so excited to finally get my hands on them. Yippee! Thank you so much for supporting my students and their learning. This truly means a great deal, and it will make a difference for the many students that I work with.”
With gratitude,
Mrs. Britton
This classroom project was brought to life by Herb Kohl Philanthropies and one other donor.Sensational Storage for Students Who Love Literacy Learning!
Funded Apr 15, 2022Thank you so much for funding our "Sensational Storage for Students Who Love Literacy Learning!" project on Donorschoose.org. I just love these totes! They are the perfect size. They look so nice in our classroom, and I love that they have such nice lids for easy clean up and storage. They are perfect for my students to put their learning tools in. The kids come into class, grab their tote and start right in with learning. They make everything so convenient so there is no wasted time. The stikki clips are wonderful to use for putting up posters and learning materials. And, we use the erasers like crazy, so these are wonderful!
My students get so excited when these packages come in. You can tell from the smiles on their faces! And everything that we receive is something that we need and use. We appreciate your support so much. And, it is really neat to be able to tell the kids who donated to our project, so that they can learn to be thankful and appreciative. You have really helped to make our classroom into a very special place to learn!”
With gratitude,
Mrs. Britton
Swat That Word and Other Phonological Awareness Activities!
Funded Mar 1, 2022Thank you so much for funding our "Swat That Word and Other Phonological Awareness Activities!" project on Donorschoose.org. This was a wonderful project because it included some of our biggest needs with the Heggerty Curriculum. This is already helping me to meet the learning needs of so many of my reading students. Heggerty includes very quick exercises that we can do every single day in class, for 8 minutes at a time, and they really help to tune my students' ears to hearing and being able to manipulate sounds. We use this for rhyming, clapping syllables, breaking words into phonemes, counting the words in a sentence and so many other activities. I can definitely see my students making great progress after including this in my daily lessons with each group, and the kids really enjoy the brainwork that this allows. The pens are also very handy. You would think that pens would be easy to come by in a school, but they are not. Everyone needs them, and it is so nice to have some available and ready to use. My students and I all use them for so many different things each day. Finally, the SWAT the word game is so much fun! We play this wonderful sight word game and laugh hysterically at and with each other. The kids LOVE this! It is such a cute game, and it really makes learning exciting at every age level. Thank you so much for supporting our classroom yet again! My students just love these learning treasures, and if you could see their scores, you would be thrilled, Yippee!!!!!!”
With gratitude,
Mrs. Britton
This classroom project was brought to life by Valhalla Foundation and one other donor.Making Game Pieces to Lock in Literacy!
Funded Mar 25, 2022Thank you so much for funding our "Making Game Pieces to Lock in Literacy!" project on Donorschoose.org. I am so excited to have this new mini laminator and laminating film so that I can make really neat games and activities for my students! We love to play games like Splash, sight word games, games with prefixes, suffixes and root words, letter names, letter sounds, rhyming words, etc, and I love to make homemade phonetic books for the kids. This laminator will allow me to make all kinds of game pieces and activities that will last forever! I will be able to create games that cannot be purchased, and that I know are at just the right learning/scaffolding level for each of my students. I am also very excited about being able to create fun, little reading tokens for my students to collect each time they learn a new skill or reading rule! This will make it so exciting for them. It is always fun to collect trinkets and these will help them to remember the reading rules because they will hold little clues. It was so much fun to see the names of the special people who supported this project! Thank you so much for caring and for being there for us. We definitely appreciate it! I will make sure that I use this laminator to create the best learning experiences possible for my students! That is a promise! Your donation will truly make a difference for my students in so many ways!”
With gratitude,
Mrs. Britton
Rhyming, Blending, Hearing, Clapping and Phonological Awareness Fun!
Funded Mar 1, 2022Thank you so much for funding our "Rhyming, Blending, Hearing, Clapping and Phonological Awareness Fun!" project on Donorschoose.org! It is wonderful to have these new learning materials already being used like crazy. The Heggerty books are fantastic. They help me to work with my students on one of the absolute most important and often overlooked early reading skills which is phonemic awareness. These quick little, daily drills, really help the kids to be able to orthographically map much bigger words and skills later on. The baskets and toy bin look so adorable in my classroom, and are being used in a wonderful way! We store books for easy and quick use, and all kinds of learning games and activities. It is so much fun to teach these kids how to read, and they are just thrilled with being able to learn using these new materials. Thank you so much for your wonderful support of our classroom! We appreciate it!”
With gratitude,
Mrs. Britton
This classroom project was brought to life by Valhalla Foundation and one other donor.Let Your Abilities Soar, Remarkable Reading Practice!
Funded Mar 25, 2022Thank you so much for funding our "Let Your Abilities Soar, Remarkable Reading Practice!" project on Donorschoose.org. We are super excited to have these Giant Activity Dice and Word/Picture Cards in our classroom already! The big package just came and my students were so excited to guess what was inside. I let them just wonder for a full day before we opened it. They were trying so hard to peek and to shake it to figure out what was inside. It was torture for me to wait, but I wanted to build suspense for my students. Yesterday we finally opened the package. They were thrilled! We spent much of our day working with the wonderful Activity Dice. These are terrific for my students' learning! They will help us to practice blends, prefixes and suffixes, common sight words and so many other things for years to come. My students already learned so much and got to practice so many skills with them on the first day! They are big, colorful, and a LOT of fun! The word/picture cards are also wonderful! I am so happy, because the words are big and bold, so they are easily readable, and the pictures are nice bright photos. The cards look very attractive, are the perfect size to use in class everyday, and they are going to be such a huge help in teaching my students new vocabulary and basic words. These are going to be especially helpful with my younger students and with my students who are working on their English language skills, yet all of my students will benefit from them. Thank you so much for your support of our learning to read. We really appreciate it! Learning in our room is so much fun, and my students make wonderful progress because of people like you!”
With gratitude,
Mrs. Britton
Rip, Roaring Reading Success for Students Who Struggle With Dyslexia
Funded Jan 14, 2022Thank you so much for funding our "Rip, Roaring Reading Success for Students Who Struggle With Dyslexia" project on Donorschoose.org! I got both of these books right away, and I immediately sat down and read them both cover to cover! They are such good books. I have been using them every single day, all day long. The assessments in them are wonderful, and they definitely help me to focus in on every single kid's specific areas of need. My students' scores are already going up even more because of this. I can quickly target every single area that a student needs help with, and then I can follow up with the activities in the books. I am now able to use these books with the entire kindergarten, and I am using them with all of my reading groups,. Orton Gillingham is wonderful, and adding these two books to what I am doing has really taken my teaching to the next level. Thank you so much for helping me to get these. Both books are open on the table where my students work, right now, because I started and finished the day with them!
On a side note, my daughter is going to college to be a teacher too, and I am even using these books to teach her some strategies and lessons for the students she is working with. They are that good.”
With gratitude,
Mrs. Britton
Teaching Literacy Is My Passion, Please Help My Students Shine!
Funded Feb 22, 2022Thank you so much for funding our "Teaching Literacy Is My Passion, Please Help My Students Shine!" project on Donorschoose.org! We received these items this morning at the start of the school day, and I already had them in students' hands by 8:00 A.M. The kids were so excited, and oh my goodness did these fit perfectly with what we were working on! I used the rhyming flip books with every single group of kids today, all day long. And, did they ever help! There are multiple kids who struggled with rhyming before, any many are already catching on nicely after today! These flip books really helped to make their learning click. I love that there are easy rhymes with simple word families like ag and all, and more difficult ones with Magic e and vowel teams, so I can use them with students of various levels and abilities. It is so neat to see how one item like this can make such a huge difference for the kids! And, it was so much fun for them. Then there are my little bitties! All five of them come and sit around the table with the biggest smiles on their faces and they are ready to learn! I used the Beginning Sounds Splash game with them and will use the Final Sound Splash game tomorrow! These Splash games are wonderful because they come in a set of five, and each game reinforces a major area of kindergarten and first-grade readiness! They are very durable, so they will last for years to come, and I can use them with all of my students regardless of their ability! These really do help a TON with my students' learning, and I appreciate having these so much! Thank you for your generous donations and support of our literacy learning! It is wonderful to have such special support from both of you.”
With gratitude,
Mrs. Britton
Chunking it Up, Using Word Chunks to Do Great Reading!
Funded Nov 30, 2021Thank you so much for funding our "Chunking it Up, Using Word Chunks to Do Great Reading!" project on Donorschoose.org. I was so happy to see this funded! These phoneme/grapheme and morpheme cards are truly the backbone to the Orton-Gillingham program that I teach! After teaching in my first-grade, dream job for over 25 years, and loving every, single day of it so much, I handed the torch to my colleague and moved into another absolute passion of mine. I have trained for years on how to help students with reading challenges and/or dyslexia, and now I get to work with kids who have reading struggles all day long. I am having so much fun! I literally can not wait to go to work everyday, and I have such a close bond with each of my students and families. It is the best feeling in the world to start with a student who may be as much as five years behind and help them to see that they, too, can read, and to watch them start to soar through one grade level of material, then two, then three, four and five! I personally get to see to it that these students do not have struggle with reading through their entire school career and life, and that is the best feeling in the world! Some of my students just need a little boost in the right direction with literacy, and some have very big needs, but regardless of the situation, I can help them using these phoneme/grapheme and morpheme cards and the Orton-Gillingham approach, and after just 4 months, I can already see such big gains and so much progress. I can't wait to see what the rest of the year brings. These cards are a true gift to my students who are working so hard, and who now LOVE to read! Thank you very much for playing such a big role in helping me to make this happen for these kids and for their families, who no longer have to worry about their child being successful. Together, we've got them!”
With gratitude,
Mrs. Britton
This classroom project was brought to life by The DonorsChoose Community and 2 other donors.