You're on track to get doubled donations (and unlock a reward for the colleague who referred you). Keep up the great work!
Take credit for your charitable giving! Check out your tax receipts
To use your $50 gift card credits, find a project to fund and we'll automatically apply your credits at checkout. Find a classroom project
Skip to main content

Help teachers & students in your hometown this season!
Use code HOME at checkout and your donation will be matched up to $100.

Mrs. Smith's Classroom

  • Brookside Elementary School
  • Springville, UT
  • 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

Support her classroom with a gift that fosters learning.

  • Monthly
  • One-time

We'll charge your card today and send Mrs. Smith a DonorsChoose gift card she can use on her classroom projects. Starting next month, we'll charge your card and send her a DonorsChoose gift card on the 17th of every month.

Edit or cancel anytime.

cancel

Support Mrs. Smith's classroom with a gift that fosters learning.

  • Monthly
  • One-time

We'll charge your card today and send Mrs. Smith a DonorsChoose gift card she can use on her classroom projects. Starting next month, we'll charge your card and send her a DonorsChoose gift card on the 17th of every month.

Edit or cancel anytime.

Make a donation Mrs. Smith can use on her next classroom project.

https://www.donorschoose.org/classroom/4043734 Customize URL

show projects from all time

Past projects 2

  • Headphones for Innovative Learners

    Funded Jan 26, 2022

    Thank you for the donation of headphones to my classroom. My students use technology more than ever and headphones with a built-in microphone assist with voice-to-text and other applications.

    My class was so excited to try the microphones on the headphones. It makes it easy to record voices for many of the programs we are using for student work, projects, and feedback.

    When I brought the new headphones out, my special needs students were thrilled to have an easier way to create documents using their voices. One student with sensory issues especially loved the soft earpieces!

    We really appreciate the donation and it is a great asset to our class.”

    With gratitude,

    Mrs. Smith

    This classroom project was brought to life by Utah State Board of Education.
  • Listen Up! MP3 Devices and Earphones Needed!

    Funded Nov 28, 2016

    Our funded DonorsChoose project provided a set of iPod Shuffle devices with student-sized earphones. We use these as part of our literacy program in first grade. One of the skills we practice during our literacy period every day is 'listening to reading.' When our students listen to the recording of a fluent reader and follow along with an accompanying text, they learn to read fluently themselves, increase word recognition, and build the ability to read with expression. This practice also promotes language development in our ELLs (English Language Learners).

    In first grade, we had a collection of grade-level books with audio CDs, but it is hard to find durable players that are reliable after daily use by 6 and 7-year olds! The iPods are easy to load with the book's audio files and my students have quickly learned to use them. Since they have one-button operation, there is less chance of "technical difficulty" or breakage, even after multiple uses.

    All of my students love the new system, but I have a student with autism who loves the opportunity to control the listening experience himself. He had trouble sharing the group center before because he needs to have the earphones and books a certain way. When the old system broke, I was almost relieved. The iPods have allowed this student to individually choose his books, select the device he prefers, and control his reading/listening experience without extra stimulus from other students. The new system unexpectedly solved a problem I had not anticipated!

    Thank you so much to all those who participated in funding our project!”

    With gratitude,

    Mrs. Smith

Welcome to Mrs. Smith's First Grade Class!

About my class

Welcome to Mrs. Smith's First Grade Class!

About my class

{"followTeacherId":4043734,"teacherId":4043734,"teacherName":"Mrs. Smith","teacherProfilePhotoURL":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp4043734_orig.jpg?crop=1397,1397,x14,y0&width=136&height=136&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1643065029047","teacherHasProfilePhoto":true,"vanityURL":"","teacherChallengeId":20871700,"followAbout":"Mrs. Smith's projects","teacherVerify":-1740358429,"teacherNameEncoded":"Mrs. Smith","vanityType":"teacher","teacherPageInfo":{"teacherHasClassroomPhoto":true,"teacherHasClassroomDescription":true,"teacherClassroomDescription":"","teacherProfileURL":"https://www.donorschoose.org/classroom/4043734","tafURL":"https://secure.donorschoose.org/donors/share_teacher_profile.html?teacher=4043734","stats":{"numActiveProjects":0,"numFundedProjects":2,"numSupporters":2},"classroomPhotoPendingScreening":false,"showEssentialsListCard":false}}