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Past projects 6

• Technology Templates From Teachers Pay Teachers

  Funded Aug 12, 2020

  I cannot express how thankful I am for your support of my classroom. It is my mission to educate and improve the lives of my students. Your help in this mission is beyond explanation. You are truly changing and improving lives. This gift card will help me transition to a 1:1 classroom. Thank you so much.”

  With gratitude,

  Mrs. Fennell

  This classroom project was brought to life by The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and 4 other donors.

• Supplies to Safely Hands-on Learn Part 2

  Funded Aug 10, 2020

  Thank you so much for funding my project. I have always prided myself on being a lifelong learner and adapting my classroom to the needs of my students. My students have benefitted from a hands-on, interactive approach to learning. The pandemic and social distancing guidelines make this difficult. However, these supplies will allow me to continue teaching the way that my students learn best. Your support of my classroom is truly impacting lives. Thank you so much.”

  With gratitude,

  Mrs. Fennell

  This classroom project was brought to life by Kleenex® Brand and 5 other donors.

• Supplies to Safe Hands-On Learning Part 1

  Funded Aug 10, 2020

  I am so excited that my project was funded. With the restrictions this year due to the pandemic, I was unsure how to format my classroom to follow the safety guidelines and my teaching belief that students learn best when it is interactive and hands-on. This project will help secure the supplies I need to continue engaging my students every day. Thank you so much for your generosity; you are helping to change lives.”

  With gratitude,

  Mrs. Fennell

  This classroom project was brought to life by Kleenex® Brand and 6 other donors.

• Connecting Through Literature -- Touching Spirit Bear

  Funded May 28, 2020

  Thank you so much for your generous donation towards my classroom. Your gift will be changing my students' lives. Thank you for impacting them and allowing me to have the materials I need to be a great teacher. I am so excited to teach this novel next year to my students and cannot wait to see their response to it.”

  With gratitude,

  Mrs. Fennell

  This classroom project was brought to life by The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and 6 other donors.

• Historical Fiction: A Collaboration Between History and English Class

  Funded Mar 3, 2020

  Thank you so much for your generous donation to my classroom. I look forward to receiving these materials and planning out this unit with my students. Not only will they be exposed to a genre that they do not normally read but they will also learn about historical events. This will help their growth in English and history. Without your donation, this unit would not have been possible. Thank you so much for making my students' learning a priority.”

  With gratitude,

  Mrs. Fennell

  This classroom project was brought to life by A group of anonymous donors and 6 other donors.

• Supplies, Supplies, Supplies For Hands-on Learning

  Funded Dec 3, 2019

  We are currently working on parts of a sentence: subject / predicate, direct and indirect objects, predicate adjectives and predicate nominatives, and objects of the preposition. I have found in the past that this particular mini-unit is really hard for my students to grasp. However, this knowledge is such an important step in understanding our 8th grade grammar standards. One of the reasons why it is so difficult to grasp is that this unit is highly visual. With your help, I have been able to make it hands-on. I have coupled the dry erase markers with some existing dry erase boards so that my students can write each sentence example down and then manipulate the sentences to show the parts of the sentence. Additionally, my students love doing this and this would not be possible without your generous donations. Also, I have used the card stock and colored paper to make a variety of different task cards for my students to complete on the parts of the sentence. These task cards are all fun games that completely engage them in the activity. Thank you for your donation to my project to help make this fun!

  When I told my students about the project and how it was funded, they were so excited. They were also surprised that "strangers" would want to help them in their education. By funding this project, you helped adjust my students thoughts on the global community and how people want to lend a helping hand. In my classes, I did an unboxing to show off the materials and the students were so excited. They could not wait to use the dry erase markers and for the activities that I would do with the paper. It was so fun to see their faces and hear their plans for the materials. A lot of times people do not remember how middle school students are still really children, but that was evident in their faces when I opened the box and in their general excitement.

  Once my students finish this mini grammar unit, we will be moving into vocabulary stations. I will be using some of the materials from this project to complete these stations like the card stock and paper. Students rotate through six stations and do different activities at each using their vocabulary words. My students really enjoy these stations because they are hands-on, which I am able to do thanks to contributions from you and they test them on their vocabulary knowledge using all the levels of Bloom's Taxonomy. Thank you for your support of my classroom and my hands-on approach to teaching; it makes all the difference in making learning engaging!!”

  With gratitude,

  Mrs. Fennell

  This classroom project was brought to life by Quill.com and 4 other donors.