Past projects 2
STEM Building and Current Events For Engaged Learners
Funded Nov 1, 2022Thank you so much for donating to this project. The resources and materials have kept all students engaged and actively learning since we received them. Opening the boxes with the students in class was like Christmas morning, lots of smiles and positive energy. They were excited to use the resources!
Students have enjoyed using the surfer desks to allow flexible seating around the classroom, and even outside! It has allowed them to work independently and in small groups across all content areas. The TIME for KIDS magazines have allowed us to have great collaborative group and class conversations around the current event articles and activities that are featured. The magazine have allowed us to explore text features and different types of writing, like opinion pieces and interviews. It has been a great way to open their minds to different perspectives around the world. With the STEM Building activities, students have been able to let mind explore to create and build models using science and engineering ideas.
Our class continues to use the surfer desks on a daily basis for independent and collaborative work. Now that we have read several issues of time magazine, students will we working on writing their own articles on a current even. STEM blocks and construction manipulatives will be used in a engineering lessons that will require students participate in design challenges like building towers, catapults, structures, and rafts. Our class looks forward to using the most of these resources and materials that was so generously donated. We are so very grateful! Mahalo!”
With gratitude,
Ms. Bautista
This classroom project was brought to life by Hawai'i State Department of Education.Experiencing the "Wonder" of Kindness and Compassion
Funded Jan 26, 2018Thank you all so much for all our generosity and support when it comes to literacy in the classroom. Every year, our fifth grade commits to reading at least two chapter books, aside from the curriculum, together as a class so we can all have in depth discussions, experience the message and theme, and see the evolution of characters and events. I am so happy that this year we are able to read "Wonder" as one of those chapter books. That would not be possible without all of your generosity.
Throughout the story, students have participated in whole class discussions, think/pair/shares, written responses based on theme, character comparisons, and personal connections. The culminating activity after reading "Wonder" is a student created lap book that contains a summary, visual representations of characters and scenes, precepts (rules for life) that are introduced throughout the story and their own created precept, and connections/relationships that students were able to make with the characters.
My favorite moments in class while reading "Wonder" is when the class is so consumed in the story that you can hear a pin drop. And when I tell them that the time is up, students ask if they can read "just one more page" or "can I take it come to continue reading?"
Thank you again for allowing us to have this experience.”
With gratitude,
Ms. Bautista
This classroom project was brought to life by The First Million Fund and 17 other donors.