Past projects 2
STEM Bins!
Funded Aug 13, 2021We are beyond grateful for your generous contributions to our STEM Bins Donors Choose Project! These STEM toys have given our students the opportunity to employ their STEM thinking in a play-based, collaborative, open-ended approach.
Each week students earn time with their STEM bins by demonstrating classroom expectations, being kind, and showing their growth mindsets. Students then have time to work collaboratively to build, create, and apply their STEM thinking with their STEM toys as they build. These STEM bins have also helped to build social skills and foster relationships. This type of play was something our students truly missed during the isolation of the pandemic.
Thank you deeply for the generous donations to our classroom. The joy you have brought our students helps build their STEM identities and confidence as STEM thinkers daily!”
With gratitude,
Mrs. Vlasic
This classroom project was brought to life by Bill Gates and 13 other donors.iPod Nano Listening Center!
Funded Jul 19, 2014We send our immeasurable gratitude for your contribution to our ipod Nano listening center! The students have been extremely thrilled with using this technology in the classroom. The students love that they can choose from several different texts and take time with a text at their individual pace and levels. They also love the thrill of hearing the stories narrated along with fun and exciting music set to some of their favorite authors (Like Dr. Seuss and Mo Willems)!
The students use these listening centers in different ways. They can use them as extensions as they finish their work early, giving them access to texts with increased rigor. Or students can use the listening center to strategically support their comprehension strategies, even if they are not ready to independently decode, or read, the text on their own. Students use the listening centers as well to implement the reading strategies that we are working on as a class, but with access to various levels!
Having these listening centers in our classroom has boosted student desire and interest in reading independently. We use them to support our struggling readers in comprehension as well as motivation to read with increased independence. For our advanced readers, the listening centers allow them to stretch their capacity for vocabulary, comprehension, and fluency. We are actively learning as educators more ways we can implement these tool din our classroom for all of our readers. Thank you, sincerely, for providing this opportunity for our students!”
With gratitude,
Mrs. Vlasic