Past projects 8
Community Garden Oasis
Funded Feb 8, 2023Thank you so much for funding our project to help students learn about the correlation between gardening, community, and wellness of mind, body, and soul. We are looking forward to working with members of our community and school to move forward with our garden and sustaining it for years to come.”
With gratitude,
Mrs. G.
This classroom project was brought to life by Panda Cares.Reading for STEAM
Funded Oct 20, 2021We are so sorry for the delay. Our teacher Mrs. Gann has had some illness in her family. They are much better now. Before that we received our books and circuit boards.
It was so much fun learning how electricity worked and reading different books about it. We even had a contest to see who could build the best circuit path in the shortest amount of time! We also got to learn how airplanes were invented and fly. We built our own paper airplanes and had a contest to see who could fly theirs the farthest.
Reading is a must in our classroom. We read during our ELA time to work on comprehension, vocabulary and phonics. We read during science to find out how things work, grow and live. Social studies is a time to learn about history and the things that make our country great. If we finish our work early, we have to read 3 books BEFORE we get free time. We even have to read and do story problems in math!
Thank you for supporting our classroom.
Mrs. Gann's Class”
With gratitude,
Mrs. G.
Life Skills Learning Made Easy Peasy
Funded Sep 23, 2021Thank you SO MUCH for assuring my students get what they need to continue learning! They are so excited about getting new materials, learning folders and task boxes. Every day we are pushing ourselves to learn more and become stronger academically and growing our positive mindset. Thank you again for your generous donations.”
With gratitude,
Mrs. G.
This classroom project was brought to life by The DonorsChoose Community and 2 other donors.Did You Say Remote Learning!?
Funded Mar 23, 2021Thank you so much for helping us get the supplies we needed to do virtual learning. The manipulatives and flash cards are just what we needed to work on our math facts and sight words. We love using the dice to play our Roll It games. We roll a die and write the word from the clue box that has that number. We try to fill all our boxes. We get a point for each correct answer and another point if we are the first one to fill all the boxes. The points are used to buy virtual stickers and backgrounds to use for our TEAMS meetings.
The large Post-it charts makes it easier for our teacher to show us example of how to play our games, work our math problems and show us how to write our assignments. Our teacher has a hard time writing with the computer curser and it is really messy. The charts are nice and neat. She can save them for review too.
We have one other project that needs to be funded to get the rest of the iPads. We need so all of us can work on them at the same time. Please consider giving to it as well.
Thank you again for your support. Volunteers, DonorsChoose and Mrs. G are as she says - "Cooking with Gas!"”
With gratitude,
Mrs. G.
This classroom project was brought to life by T-Mobile and 8 other donors.School Supplies
Funded Oct 29, 2020Thank you so much for helping us get the supplies we needed to do virtual learning. The manipulatives and flash cards are just what we needed to work on our math facts and sight words. We love using the dice to play our Roll It game. We roll 3 dice and put one of the numbers in each of the placeholder boxes - hundreds, tens, and ones. Our teacher draws a card to tell us if we add, subtract, multiply or divide. We get a point for each correct answer and another point if we are first. The points are used to buy virtual stickers and backgrounds to use for our TEAMS meetings.
The large Post-it charts makes it easier for our teacher to show us example of how to play our games. It is also nice to see what sentences our classmates have used for their spelling words. Picture Prompt Stories are so much more fun to do now that our teacher can show our picture on the screen and we can see the sentences as she writes them on the Post-its instead of bouncing back and forth from screen to screen.
We have one other project that needs to be funded to get the rest of our iPads. Please consider giving to it as well.
Thank you again for your support. You, DonorsChoose and Mrs. Gann are the BOMB!”
With gratitude,
Mrs. G.
This classroom project was brought to life by Equitable and 10 other donors.Virtual Learning Technology
Funded Oct 23, 2020My students have really enjoyed their new iPads! They are able to access not only our Schoology platform for announcements, but our online curriculum, Boom cards and Google classroom with a touch of an app. They have gained a new found independence and self-reliance for their own education.
With a computer, students had to login, connect to internet, login to the Schoology platform, click on one of their 6 courses... I think you get the picture. By installing the apps on the iPad, each task and class has its own icon to click. They see the icon that matches the picture on their visual schedules. This allows them to complete tasks without having to wait on someone to assist them in reading the class list, announcements and such. The audio accessibility feature is a blessing.
The iPads are easier for them to handle and carry. They are compact and considerably lighter than a traditional computer. They will easily sit on their desk without having to remove pencil boxes and water bottles. Hopefully with our next project we can get cases for them to protected against excessive wear and tear.”
With gratitude,
Mrs. G.
This classroom project was brought to life by Michael & Susan Dell Foundation.OSMO, Coding and SPED? Yes, WAY!
Funded Jan 9, 2018It has been a blessing having the OSMO Coding Systems in our school. Many of the schools in our district are being trained to use the latest STEAM, the integration of Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Mathematics as access points for guiding student inquiry, techniques. Our school is one of chosen to participate in the first round of training. Being an urban, inter-city school many of our students do not have access to computers, Internet or any other technology outside of our building.
It was exciting to see our kids exploring the programs and actually creating something of their own. This is something they rarely get to do due to environmental circumstances. They were so engaged in attempting to outdo each other in aspects of creativity, speed and competitive strategies. Another amazing outcome was the fact that our general education students were great mentors to our special needs population. They continually asked them questions to assist them in maneuvering the pieces.
All of our students were hesitant to rotate stations because they were so engrossed in the activity at hand they did not want to move on the try another area. Once they did change the process repeats itself each time the buzzer goes off. Our students with disabilities have seemed to enjoy the OSMO programs even more than our general population. This seemed a bit odd to me because many of the programs have intricate steps to follow. However, they did their programing more by trial and error and it seems to work for them.
Thank you all so much for helping us with Part 2 of our process. Now, on to Part 3 - getting enough iPads so all of our programs can be used at the same time!”
With gratitude,
Mrs. G.
We Want to Do STEAM TOO!
Funded Oct 25, 2017Thank you do much for helping to fund my project! My students were hesitant at first to use the new technology. Although they were familiar with the iPad, the OSMO equipment was something new. However, it didn't take long for most of them to master placing the items in the camera field and progress through multiple levels during their 15 minute one on one time with myself or a paraprofessional. They, and my team, enjoy the progress monitoring feature that shows the ratio of problems correct to those attempted and tracks how many times a level was played before mastery. We post our scores and the student that made the most progress gets to have an extra pick from our treasure box. I have one student, with Autism, that especially delights in playing word games against the computer and squeals with joy when successfully dominates it. Several students have begun to use the problem solving skills they are learning with the tangram program to build new items from our blocks and LEGO's with just the instruction of build a "____" and no other directions. It has been a joy watching each one grow and learn through their new found ability to work independently with our wonderful technology and carry it over to other learning situations.”
With gratitude,
Mrs. G.