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Mr. Warren's Classroom

  • J.E. Moss Elementary School
  • Antioch, TN
  • More than a third of students from low‑income households Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more

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Past projects 19

  • Speak Up!

    Funded Nov 11, 2020

    Thank you so much for supporting my classroom and helping me provide the best learning experience possible! Your kindness inspires me to be a better teacher! These tools will make learning easier and more effective whether we’re in-person or virtual! Thank you again for believing in my students!”

    With gratitude,

    Mr. Warren

    This classroom project was brought to life by Reese Witherspoon.
  • Constructing Little Artists!

    Funded Feb 19, 2013

    Thank you so much for supporting my classroom by providing us with much needed and much used art supplies. Our classroom is known throughout our building for the art projects that we create! I am so blessed to have the materials necessary to include art as one of my main learning tools. Our art projects are always tied to our learning for the week and are used as a way for the students to demonstrate their learning and knowledge. Your generous gift means we can continue doing art projects daily and weekly for the rest of this year and for years to come!

    Thank you for encouraging my little artists and supporting our creativity! Your gift inspires my students to continue to create beautiful art and you inspire me to be a better teacher!

    Thank you!”

    With gratitude,

    Mr. Warren

  • Stock Up Our Learning!

    Funded Dec 14, 2012

    Thank you for supporting my classroom and helping us with much needed supplies. Your gift has energized my class to work harder, read more and set higher goals for themselves. You have inspired them to be better and do better! You have also inspired me to work harder and do more for my students every day.

    The materials you provided have allowed us to print and make books for the class to read, we have been able to create and use new learning centers in math and literacy. And you've helped provide us with more ways to create beautiful art. Your gift is helping us learn from the time we arrive until the time we leave.

    THANK YOU for supporting my students and caring about their success! You are making a difference in the lives of my students daily.”

    With gratitude,

    Mr. Warren

    This classroom project was brought to life by Quill.com and 7 other donors.
  • Learning with Artistic Expression

    Funded Apr 4, 2013

    Thank you for donating to my classroom. These art supplies will allow this class and classes in years to come to continue to create beautiful art projects that add to our learning and education! Your kindness and generosity is inspiring not only to me, but to my students as well. When they heard that our newest project was funded and we were getting more art supplies, they cheered! Art is a powerful motivator in my class and provides my students a fun, engaging and meaningful way to show what they know! Thank you again for supporting my young artists!”

    With gratitude,

    Mr. Warren

  • Supply Our Learning

    Funded Apr 13, 2012

    Thank you so much for your generous gift to my classroom. The supplies you provided have been invaluable to our learning. The ink and paper have allowed us to make books so that our reading has increased tremendously. Without these supplies, we could not have the success we enjoy! You are making a very noticeable impact on my students. Your kindness has inspired me to be a better teacher every day. My students love watching the printer print books and love having the books to take home and read! Thank you again for supporting my classroom and believing in my students.”

    With gratitude,

    Mr. Warren

  • Computing in Kindergarten!

    Funded Nov 10, 2011

    Thank you for giving my students a new laptop for our classroom.  This additional computer allows more students to use technology to improve and enhance their learning.  We have access to some great educational software and now more students can spend more time on that software.  It's great seeing my kids so excited to play such educational software.  Thank you for providing them the tools to learn and succeed.

    Another great benefit of our new laptop is that the teacher is able to use it to plan and create engaging, hands on, meaningful lessons and materials.  

    This laptop has improved every aspect of our classroom and will continue to provide a powerful and fun learning tool.

    Thank you for believing in my students and helping them explore the world beyond the walls of our classroom”

    With gratitude,

    Mr. Warren

  • i Think. i Kindergarten. iPad

    Funded Dec 12, 2011

    Thank you so much for providing my class with an IPad2. The reaction my students had when I opened the box was priceless. It just so happened that the IPAD arrived on the 100th day of school so they thought we had gotten our IPad as a 100th day of school present!

    We have created a schedule so that everyone gets at least 2 chances to use the IPAD every week. We use the Ipad for sight word practice, making sentences, sound recognition, handwriting, numbers, adding and of course we have lots of fun with the camera. In fact, our IPad is so popular that other teachers send their students to our Kindergarten room to see us using the IPad. It even inspired a class to decorate their door to look like an IPad for our recent door decorating contest!

    We use an app that teaches the students sight words and when they get it correct, it praises them. "You are awesome!" I can't tell you how excited they get when they are praised by the Ipad. All day long I hear them tell their friends that they IPad thinks they're awesome! It's an incredible motivator for them to learn their sight words!

    This has already become an amazingly powerful learning tool! I look forward finding more and better ways for the students to use this tool and hopefully look forward to being able to get more of these!

    Thank you so much for providing this tool to my students and believing in my students and providing them with tools for success, fun and learning! You have inspired me to be a better teacher and you have inspired my students to work harder and be more successful!

    Thank you!”

    With gratitude,

    Mr. Warren

  • Scanning For Great Work!

    Funded Sep 9, 2011

    Thank you so much for providing my classroom with a printer and scanner! This has quickly become a very useful tool for me and the students. It provides opportunities for the students to make copies of their work and their art to take home, it allows me the opportunity to scan students work and writing and keep a digital copy on file and it has allowed me to make an extra copy or replace someone's damaged sheet or work. It is a must have in my classroom!

    The printer, ink and paper have also provided the resources to create wonderful and meaningful learning centers for the students to practice their reading, writing and math skills.

    It is so enjoyable to watch the kids as they watch the printer awaiting their stuff to print out. They are fascinated by the printer. And I am fascinated by the generosity and kindness that you have shown me and my students. Your kindness inspires me to a better teacher each day!

    Words cannot express my gratitude to each of you and your support and encouragement of my students!”

    With gratitude,

    Mr. Warren

    This classroom project was brought to life by Quill.com and 15 other donors.
  • Books! Books! Books!

    Funded Apr 25, 2011

    Thank you for providing these books to my classroom. I am very lucky to have kids who have a desire to read. All they want to do is read from their book bags and read in our every expanding class library. Your generous gift provides my students with even more leveled books to read. These books will push my students to become even better readers and writers.

    My kids especially love these books because the characters in the books look like them. This is so huge when it's hard to find books that my students can relate too. They love reading books and seeing kids who look like them. It's quite funny when you hear them say that the characters in the book like their cousin or some other family member. Never fails to make me laugh.

    Thank you for caring about my students and their success. Your kindness and generosity inspires me to be a better teacher and to work harder for my students!”

    With gratitude,

    Mr. Warren

    This classroom project was brought to life by Townsend Press and 2 other donors.
  • Inspiring Young Authors

    Funded Aug 9, 2011

    Thank you so much for investing in my itty bitty scholars. Your generosity is inspiring both to me and my students.

    In just 9 weeks of Kindergarten, my students are already writing sentences. And not just sentences, but sentences using words such as "fabulous." This is a direct result of the resources you provided to us. Once my students heard that people cared about them and wanted them to be successful, they took the paper, journals, books, pencil grips and pens and began writing. They were truly inspired to become young authors. This would not have happened without the resources you so generously provided.

    I am very excited to see how their writing develops over the course of the school year. I have very high expectations for my students and look forward to seeing them exceed those expectations.

    Thank you for caring for my students and for supporting their learning and growth. You have truly changed their lives with your donations. Thank you for inspiring young authors and inspiring me to be a better teacher and give more to my students.”

    With gratitude,

    Mr. Warren

I teach a group of 22 enthusiastic kindergartners in a very economically depressed area. The school is 100% free and reduced lunch and is the poorest school in our district. All of my students come from the housing projects adjacent to the schools and have very limited or no experience with learning prior to kindergarten. And despite these obstacles, they come to school with an unbridled excitement for all things learning that is unmatched anywhere.

About my class

I teach a group of 22 enthusiastic kindergartners in a very economically depressed area. The school is 100% free and reduced lunch and is the poorest school in our district. All of my students come from the housing projects adjacent to the schools and have very limited or no experience with learning prior to kindergarten. And despite these obstacles, they come to school with an unbridled excitement for all things learning that is unmatched anywhere.

About my class

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