Past projects 9
Help Us Keep Our Minds, Bodies, and Emotions Healthy!
Funded Dec 31, 2024Is is with an immense sense of gratitude that I send you this letter. As you may already know, my students come from low-income housing &/or shelter housing. Most of my students do not have basic living essentials so I try to provide them with everything they need to be successful in school. Many of my students have pre-existing medical conditions (such as asthma) and we need to always keep a clean environment. The Lysol wipes have helped us to maintain our cleanliness. Every morning, the students come in, unpack, wash their hands, and take a Lysol wipe to wipe their desks. The tissues are very helpful this time of year and the students were so happy to have the aloe infused tissues to use.
As we are a New York State testing grade, we are constantly preparing our students to take the state tests in the Spring. The binders that you have provided us, give our students an opportunity to keep all their review materials in one place. The students were even more excited to learn that they will take their binders home at the end of the year to continue to review over the summer. As all of my students have special needs, checking on their emotional health is key to helping them be successful. The social-emotional journals and conversation prompt cards, have been extremely helpful in helping my students open up about their feelings, as well as be able to identify their feelings.
As students with special needs, having ways to expend energy is key. The fidget bands have been attached to their desks so that while they are learning, they can move their legs without disrupting the class. Additionally, having a timer in the classroom has helped my students stay on track with completing their tasks.
My students, and I, are so grateful for your generosity, kindness, and compassion. We wish you a very happy Winter and Spring season.”
With gratitude,
Mrs. Garcia
New Homes for Our Supplies
Funded Oct 23, 2020The impact these supplies will have is ongoing. Since we are still battling a pandemic, the students are not allowed to share common supplies like crayons, or pencils. I want to try to make my classroom as safe, yet inviting, as possible. These supplies will allow myself srudents to stay healthy & safe while still having access to the materials they need everyday.
Even though we are not in the building, yet, my students were overjoyed to know that the people of the world care about them enough to propvide these much needed supports. Thank you for providing some normalcy to my students when they return to school.”
With gratitude,
Mrs. Garcia
This classroom project was brought to life by OshKosh B'gosh and 2 other donors.Healthy and Clean During Covid-19
Funded Nov 23, 2020This is a very uncertain, and sometimes scary, times for our students. Some have lost family members and friends to COVID, and those who have not are just plain scared to leave their homes. Unfornately, the majority of our classes are completely remote until the end of this school yerear, including mine. However, when we do return fully, providing a safe, yet warm, education space is so important now more than ever.
By funding this project you are allowing me to come up with safe, healthy, yet fun ways to keep my students safe when we return to the building. With the floor decals, the students will know where to stand and not have to guess if they are the appropriate amount of space apart. With the Social Emotional Journals, the students will have the ability to both free write about their feelings and thoughts but, also have guided topics to give me a better understanding and insight into what they are truly feeling. With the colorful uplifting posters, my students will *hopefully* feel like they are in a nurturing, warm, and inviting environment where they are loved and cared for.
With the alternate COVID greetings posters, the students are given multiple safe ways to great one another without touching each other. With the HEPA air filter for my classroom, my students never have to worry if there are germs, and sickness, floating in the air. They can breath easy and breath clean, fresh, air.
Thank you for giving me the opportunity to provide a safe learning space for not just this year, or next but, for years to come!”
With gratitude,
Mrs. Garcia
This classroom project was brought to life by Allstate Foundation and one other donor.Virtual Materials for Actual Success
Funded May 20, 2020Thank you for donating to this project. As you can see from the posted pictures, my class is COMPLETELY virtual until the end of this school year. Therefore, I am teaching from home to my ICT fifth grade class. Six of my students are special needs and ALL of my students benefit from my Special Education skills and techniques. However, teaching remotely does not always lend itself to me being able to fully extend all my techniques and skills to my students.
By funding this project, you have given me tools to help with their writing pieces with the magnetic graphic organizers. You are helping me to fully teach math with the virtual games and magnetic math manipulatives. By funding this project, you have given me the ability to print out worksheets, and lesson plans, so that I can be the best teacher virtually. Thank you for helping me, and my students, get the most of this unique, and virtual, school year. We thank you from the bottom of our fifth grade hearts!!!”
With gratitude,
Mrs. Garcia
This classroom project was brought to life by Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and 3 other donors.Getting Our Technology On!!
Funded Oct 25, 2019Thank you so very much for your charitable and generous donation to our classroom. In this day and age technology has become an intricate part of the educational process. All of my students have some form of learning disability and therefore they each learn in very different ways. However technology is a tool of instruction that they all understand, sometimes better than I do! The headphones that were a part of this project allow my students to hear books being read to them through an individual laptop. It also allows them to take tests on the laptop so that the test can be read to them aloud.
My students were most excited about the color printer that we now have in our classroom. It allows them to add color graphics and designs to their works of writing that they use the laptops to type up. It also allows them to make copies of work for their portfolios. Those portfolios are presented by the students to their parents during parent teacher conferences.
My students always get excited when a project gets funded and when the boxes come in the mail. This project was no exception to that excitement as they knew that it would enhance the technology that we have in our classroom. Thank you from the bottom of all of our hearts and we hope that you continue your generosity with future projects.”
With gratitude,
Mrs. Garcia
This classroom project was brought to life by Verizon and 2 other donors.Help My Students Get Four Stars On The Math Exams!
Funded May 3, 2019Thank you so much for your donation to our Math project entitled: "Help My Students get 4 stars on their math exams." Teaching math is a hands-on subject that many students, especially my special needs students, struggle with. Now, with the current common core standards, it has become increasingly difficult for students to comprehend some of these complex topics; such as fractions. Having the manipulatives from this project has really helped my students to further their comprehension of fractions and decimals.
When the materials arrived, and I introduced the students to the materials, they could not believe that perfect strangers could care about their learning and their achievement. So many of my students come from fractured backgrounds/families that tend to leave them feeling unnoticed. By having you, the donor, contribute to our classroom, it leaves my students with a sense of love, compassion, and concern.
Using the fraction tiles, the students are able to better comprehend equivalency between two sets of fractions. Using the cuisinaire rods, the students are able to compare two fractions to see which is more than, less than, or equal to. Using the fraction flips books helps my students with both equivalency and compare/contrast.
I can not express my appreciation enough for your generosity and support to my classroom. I truly wish you the best in your endeavors and hope to see your name pop up on our next project!!! Thank you to the moon and back!”
With gratitude,
Mrs. Garcia
This classroom project was brought to life by OshKosh B'gosh and one other donor.Help Us Open the Virtual World of Learning!
Funded Sep 19, 2018Thank you so very much for your donation of the two Google Chrome laptops for my classroom. My school is a Title 1 school, which means that more than half of our student population is on or below the poverty line. So, a lot of my students do not have access to technology in their homes. Having access to laptops gives my students the opportunity to access math websites to reinforce math concepts, reading websites so they have access to books they normally would not read, and google itself to research writing and social studies assignments. All of my students are so excited to have their turn with the two laptops, that it's amazing!! Thank you for giving my students the opportunity to touch the world!!!!”
With gratitude,
Mrs. Garcia
This classroom project was brought to life by The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and 3 other donors.Good Readers Desire to Become AMAZING Readers!
Funded Mar 27, 2018Thank you for your patience in receiving this thank you letter. As you know the end of the school year can be very hectic and that hectic nature can prolong into the summer. However, my students did get plenty of opportunities to use the reading table and the reading and phonics centers that you have provided for them. My students were thrilled that you believed in them so much to become better learners. By using the table to conduct small group activities I was able to reach each student on a more personal level. The reading centers and the phonics centers had the students thinking outside of their boxes. They were able to make connections using those centers that some of them had been unable to make before the use of the center. As a special education teacher it is my goal to reach each each student on their level and help them to reach their own potential. The materials that we were able to purchase using your generous donations enabled my students to have a great ending to another amazing school year. Thank you from the bottom of my heart and their hearts. I look forward to another amazing school year and to working with all of you again.”
With gratitude,
Mrs. Garcia
This classroom project was brought to life by Ripple and one other donor.Aspiring Scientists Need Materials!!
Funded Oct 30, 2017Recently, my students completed a Science unit on the three types of rocks and their properties.
When we started this unit, there was an extremely limited amount of resources available to me. Being that my class is a self-contained special needs class, hands-on learning is ESSENTIAL for my students to truly retain the information presented. After racking my brains trying to figure out how to provide hands-on materials without breaking the bank, a co-worker told me about Donors Choose.
I decided to give it a try and my project was fully funded fairly quickly. When our materials arrived, the students were so excited and amazed. When it was time to discuss the properties of rocks, having the kit with all different types of rocks for them to actually touch, see, and examine was so amazing. Being able to hold in their hands something I was teaching them about was the most gratifying experience, as a teacher.
Being in a Title 1 school, most of my students live below the poverty level and are exposed to little enrichment in their personal lives. To be able to provide for them experiences that they wouldn't normally receive is the best gift of all. Thank you from the bottom of all 12 little hearts for helping my scientists reach their fullest potential!! Next stop, the moon!!”
With gratitude,
Mrs. Garcia