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• Bilingual Readers

  Funded Jul 2, 2020

  We are ecstatic to have recieved your donations. Thank you for considering our classroom, we are now able to expand our reading options in our classroom. As soon as books were placed in the classroom library, every student wanted to grab them and just see what they wanted to read. It was very exciting to see that they were actually interested to grab a book. During literacy workstations, they all wanted to be in the reading section. They do have the option to read any book of their choice as long as they complete a graphic organizer. Having bilingual books was very crucial for our classroom since most of them are Spanish speakers and are learnign English as a second language, these resources couldn't be more perfect. They best part is that they come in both languages and are very illustrated which also helps them with comprehension and making connections. Again, a million thank you for your support.”

  With gratitude,

  Ms. Tovar

  This classroom project was brought to life by Google.org and 3 other donors.

• Irresistible Readers

  Funded May 5, 2020

  I am in disbelief that my students were able to receive new books into our classroom library. We are beyond thankful for the opportunity that you have given them. Being a bilingual teacher and teaching bilingual students has been quite challenging to find resources in Spanish. These resources are more than just typical books, they meet my students needs. They come in various reading levels which allows every single one of my students to be able to read them. They provide different reading skills such as comprehension, reading fluency, vocabulary and decoding among others. These skills are being used during whole group and small group. We are just thrilled to have more options to read and that my students can have many to choose from within our classroom. They are very happy to see our bookshelves stocked with books they can actually read, it gives them some ownership feel. A million Thank you.”

  With gratitude,

  Ms. Tovar

  This classroom project was brought to life by SONIC Drive-In and one other donor.

• A New Beginning

  Funded Jan 17, 2025

  On behalf of our class, we would like to thank you for supporting us with these items. We are very excited and we ensure you that they will be used at their fullest. Again thank you, we appreciate you for considering and taking your time to read and learn about our classroom needs.”

  With gratitude,

  Ms. Tovar

  This classroom project was brought to life by Chesmar Foundation and one other donor.

• Learning With The Magic Touch!

  Funded Oct 30, 2017

  I would like to begin by saying that my students have learned many positive things and one of them is having the opportunity to use technology as a way of learning. It has been very fun and interesting teaching my students how to navigate through the Ipads. Teaching them from pushing a simple on/off button to opening the application and putting their student ID number has been quite a challenge because it is time consuming, but after investing the time to teach them has been well worth it. As a result, they have become more independent, and have learned many social skills as well such as sharing and responsibility. On the academic side, my class has advanced so much, they are now reading two and three syllable words in their native language (Spanish). The most exciting part for me as their teacher has been seeing the growth in the English language. The district's new digital resources have been a success because my students are learning how to write, recognize and sound out the alphabet and as ELL kindergarten students, this is a huge step in their learning. They participate more during our ESL block and they have better comprehension on the lessons and are even using words that they've learned from these resources. My students use the Ipads during our reading centers and they are always excited to get on them. A great joy that I get from these electronics is that I use them as incentives as well, for example the best behaved group gets to use them during their recess if they choose to and thanks to that, my students' behavior has improved so much. Overall this has honestly been the best thing that could of happened to my students, it has brought them so many wonderful things. I would like to first apologize for the late thank-you package. On the other hand on behalf of my students and I, we thank each and everyone of you from the bottom of our hearts for making this possible, thank you for being great supporters to the future leaders of tomorrow.”

  With gratitude,

  Ms. Tovar

• Improving Reading And Listening Skills!

  Funded Oct 2, 2017

  Our classroom has been practicing on creating new words and blending syllables and thanks to the file folders that we received from your donation, my students have been able to develop more advanced and independent reading and comprehension levels. They can relate the activities they do on the file folders to our daily phonics lessons. They say words that appear on the folders as well as how they are spelled. High frequency words is one of the things that kindergarten students have to master by the end of the school year. These file folders have activities that has helped them become familiar with these words and can recognize them during our morning message and their reading level books. Students have the opportunity to use these file folders during workstations in which they believe to be "play time" without realizing that it's another fun way of learning. Another amazing result that I have seen on my students is that students have acquired many social skills such as sharing, cleaning, responsibility, participation, following directions, helping others and staying on task. It is amazing seeing them when the timer goes off cleaning and ensuring that every piece of each folder is put back in there color coded envelope so that the next group is ready to use it.

  Another awesome thing is the listening center and the read along books that we received. Thanks to these multi-leveled books, my students are developing their listening, comprehension and writing skills. These books have open many doors into the reading world. One of the things that I have strongly incorporated with these books is that I read two books twice a week and then they are used in the listening center for the students to re-listen. Students have been taught that we use our finger to follow along and these books are just awesome because it teaches them when to turn the page maintaining students active and alert during the read along. After the listening center, students move to the writing center in which they will complete a sentence stem and illustrate what they wrote about regarding the book they just heard. Students at this point have been developing skills that will help them understand what the book is about by making connections, retelling, comparing, and giving details about the stories. As a teacher, I can see where each student stands academically and I can group them accordingly and continue expanding their knowledge.

  As I mentioned in my project, finding Spanish resources for my bilingual classroom can be very expensive and challenging. This has been an amazing year so far, seeing my students have better useful resources that have helped them reach higher academic levels is just mind blowing. I have received thank you notes from parents saying how grateful they are for helping their children succeed in their first school year but I could not take full credit without first thanking you for what you have provided for my students. On behalf of my students, their parents and myself, we gratefully thank you.”

  With gratitude,

  Ms. Tovar