Past projects 2
Read, Baby, Read!
Funded Jul 26, 2016Dear Donors,
Thank you so much for contributing the the reading classrooms at our Chicago middle school. Our students are absolutely loving their current unit with Joey Pigza. Each student now has their own copy of the text to read and annotate - a responsibility and skill that they've never been able to experience before.
Joey Pigza is a wonderful book - especially for the first unit in a brand new school. Students go on a journey with Joey, a smart, kind child with Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) and learn to show empathy, tolerance, and love even if someone is different than them. The book's themes also help our students to understand that fair is not always equal. That people may have different stories or circumstances that we may not know about that effect how they behave in an environment.
I have definitely seen these themes come off the pages of the book and into our school and classroom culture. Students are kind and supportive of one another. They are patient if another teammate is struggling and are thoughtful in how they respond.
Through this text, students were able to master skills such as: making inferences based on text evidence, identify an author's use of imagery to visualize a text; identify the point of view and explain its impact on a story; identify character emotions, traits, and motivations.
Thank you for supporting an incredibly strong start to my students' fifth grade year - both culturally and academically.”
With gratitude,
Ms. Valerio
5th Grade Basics!
Funded Jul 27, 2013I cannot fully express my excitement and thanks for your donation to my project. My students are so lucky to have people like you support them in their learning this year.
The materials that you have funded will allow my students to master mathematical concepts at a deeper level through hand-on, exploratory problem solving. I cannot wait to see their faces when they enter my classroom in just a few short weeks to see the amount of resources and materials we have to make learning so fun and meaningful this year.”
With gratitude,
Ms. Valerio