Past projects 23
Summer and Kindergarten Ready!
Funded Apr 9, 2025Thank you so much for your donations. Thanks to you, all of our students will be able to take home a learning culminmation gift. During the Summer many classroom skills are lost. But thanks to you, the books provide activities that are designed to review the skills mastered in Preschool and preview the skills to be learned in Kindergarten. The book, On my First Day of Kindergarten," students learned social skills. They know they will make new friends and we practiced how will look and how to approach new friends.
The way reading looks like in the classroom is during large group, I start off by going over three to four vocabulary words. Thanks to technology I show images and moving images through gifs. Then I begin to read, highlighting those vocabulary words, title, author and illustrator. I ask the kiddos questions or make comments. Students also make comments or ask questions. Since breakfast and lunch are served in the classroom we also provide reading during that time while they eat. Our students enjoy listening to stories but in particular this one because most are transitioning to Kindergarten or Universal Transitional Kindergarten, and like they say, "To the big school."
Thanks again for all your donations in making this project come to life. I am truly blessed to provide these amazing gifts to them. Thank you! Gracias! Mahalo! Have a BLESSED Summer!”
With gratitude,
Ms. Ochoa
This classroom project was brought to life by The DonorsChoose Community and 11 other donors.Help Me Develop Empathy
Funded Feb 19, 2025Thank you for your generous donations. Our classroom is truly blessed! The kiddos and teachers were so happy when we received all the packages. It was like Christmas in February. Thanks to you our students are able to grow in the areas of language development, writing, math and social emotional skills. Our pretend, "Vet Clinic," has motivated many to become doctors and vetinarians when they grow up. They have learned about empathy and how to care for a pet. Thanks to you we were able to have an adoption ceremony and all the kiddos where able to take a pet home. I know they will always remember this hands on learning experience. Thank you so much from the bottom of my heart for allowing me this opportunity to give my students this WOW moment.”
With gratitude,
Ms. Ochoa
Supporting Sensory Needs and Strengthening Fine Motor Skills
Funded Nov 19, 2024Thank you so much for your kind donations. The foam sensory paint allowed all kiddos to participate. They enjoyed writing their name and creating shapes. Thank you for the playdoh and playdoh cutters. The kiddos enjoyed making snakes with the playdoh and cutting them with the playdoh knives and scissors. Thanks to you they are able to strengthen their fine motor skills while they learn letters, shapes, and how to spell their names. The sequince wall is so cool! All the kiddos enjoy visiting the calming area and touching it. It is very soothing for them and even for the teachers! Thank you for everything! I am truly grateful! Mahalo! Gracias!”
With gratitude,
Ms. Ochoa
This classroom project was brought to life by Maxwell/Hanrahan Foundation and 6 other donors.Colorful Classroom
Funded Dec 3, 2024Thank you for your donations our classroom is more colorful! Thanks to the printer and laminating sheets we were able to complete each students 2025 calendar to gift to their families for Christmas. The fact that we were able to laminate each sheet will make it a lifelong keepsake for years to come. Thanks to you we can start our new year 2025 with a colorful start! We will be ready for the upcoming celebrations like Martin Luther King, Chinese New Year, Easter, Mother and Father's Day and lastly our culminating memory books. Also, thanks to you I will be able print more social stories for our classroom. Thank you. Gracias! Mahalo!
Happy Holidays!!!”
With gratitude,
Ms. Ochoa
This classroom project was brought to life by Maxwell/Hanrahan Foundation and one other donor.Preschool Arborists
Funded Sep 18, 2024Thank you kindly for your generous donations. Thanks to you I was able to provide many hands on learning opportunities with realia. We are currently learning about trees. What animals live in trees, what comes from trees and what grows on trees. Thanks to you I was able to teach the students about the butterfly life cycle and how caterpillars live in trees. Their curiousity and engagement promoted their language and cognitive development. They were always asking questions or making comments and eager to see the butterfly. They absolutely loved the wooden bird houses. Students learned that wood comes from trees and they were able to feel the wood and build and decorate their own birdhouse. Thanks to the fruit, tree, and animal stickers not only did I use them for positive reinforcement but I was able to use them for small group activities. Students learned to sort which fruits grow on trees and which grow on vines. Also, which animals live on trees and those who do not. Thank you again for allowing me to provide fun and intentional learning opportunites for my kiddos. I truly appreciate your donations, I am truly blessed! Gracias! Mahalo!”
With gratitude,
Ms. Ochoa
This classroom project was brought to life by The DonorsChoose Community & an Anonymous Partner and 3 other donors.STEAM Collaboration in Preschool
Funded Aug 28, 2024Thank you from the bottom of my heart for your kind donations. Thanks to you I am able to provide intentional and meaningful learning opportunities to my students. I am providing those WOW moments. Thank you for the shoe decals, they help our classroom with behavior management, because the students know where to line up independently. Thank you for the ladybug land hatching kit and the ladybugs. WOW, those where amazing. All my students where engaged and curious about the lifecycle. Thanks to the lifecycle figures you donated, I was able to show them in real life and support them with the lifecylce figures so they could see the features.
Thank you for the Lego baseplate, it encouraged the kidddos to create larger buildings, restaurants, shopping stores, dinosaurs and more. They absolutely love the magnetic building roads and magnetic action figures. Their imagination is going above and beyond. The Pete the Cat board game is so cute! The kiddos are learning to wait their turn patiently while learning the shapes and colors. Thank you for providing so many learning opportunites in many areas like Language and Cognitive development, Social Emotional, Science, Math, and Engineering.”
With gratitude,
Ms. Ochoa
This classroom project was brought to life by United Airlines and 9 other donors.2024 Summer Fun!
Funded Apr 16, 2024Thank you so much for your generosity. Thanks to you I was able to provide my students with an amazing culmination gift. With the vinyl you funded I was able to customize each beach bucket. They were so excited! The beach balls provided different opportunities for turn taking games and helped strengthen the kiddos' gross motor skills and social emotional development. The ready for kindergarten workbook allowed me to make copies and provide each student with a summer workbook to help them prepare for kindergarten. I am immensely grateful and blessed! Thanks again for your support! Gracias! Mahalo!”
With gratitude,
Ms. Ochoa
This classroom project was brought to life by PNC Grow Up Great® and 6 other donors.Life Science in Preschool
Funded Apr 19, 2024Thank you so much for your kind donations. Thanks to you our students' language developed. It inspired their curiosity to see a plant on top of a fish tank. They were curious about the fish lamp too and they would call their friends over to see and have conversations with each other. The cute sea creature stickers provided many opportunities to strengthen their fine motor skills and helped us teachers with positive reinforcement because they wanted to earn a special sticker. I am so very grateful and I can't wait to see our new kiddos in August explore and wonder with all the cool things we have in our science and calming area. Thank you again! Have a beautiful and memorable summer!”
With gratitude,
Ms. Ochoa
This classroom project was brought to life by PNC Grow Up Great® and 2 other donors.First School Experience
Funded Sep 20, 2023Thank you so much for your kind donations to our classroom project. Thanks to you I was able to make literacy activites more engaging for my kiddos. With the stickers you donated I was able to do many different literacy activities. Students made a letter tree and that helped me a lot to assess their letter knowledge of letter identification and sounds while they worked. Students also developed language utteraces because this activitiy initiated many conversations. It also strengthen their fine motor skills as they peeled each sticker.
The ziplock bags you donated not only helped me to organize our interactive classroom books, but also to create Fall sensory bags. The students had so much fun making them, they wanted to do it again and again. This activity also accommodated our kiddos who refuse to do art because they don't like to get dirty or our kiddos with Autism who have challenges with sensory and/or tactile dysfunction.
The laminating sheets and dot velcros you donated helped me create several interactive letter and math activities. One of the students' favorite was counting turkey feathers and finding the number to match. This activity helped them with counting, one -to-one correspondence, and number identification. Thank you again for all your support. Our next project is STEAM, I would like to provide my kiddos with Science opportunities that include art, math, technology, and engineering. Our next study is, "Building.: I know with my next project I will be able to do it. I can not wait!”
With gratitude,
Ms. Ochoa
This classroom project was brought to life by The DonorsChoose Community and 7 other donors.Summer Fun!
Funded May 19, 2023Thank you for helping me bring my classroom project to life. Thanks to you my students left for summer break with a huge smile from ear to ear. Thanks to your support our students were able to go home with a beach bucket, shovel, bubble wand, playdoh, and coloring book. I was also able to personalize each bucket with the vinyl donated.
My students were so happy and eager to see all the goodies donated by you. Thanks to you our students are going to be able to have some at home activities to do. The coloring book and playdoh will help them strengthen their fine motor skills and eye coordination. The bubble wands and sand pails will help strengthen their gross motor skill.
Thanks to your support our students will have something to engage during their summer and build memories with their loved ones. Also, enhance their language development as they talk about what their doing, ask questions, answer questions, label pictures etc. So many learning opportunities through play. That's what preschool is all about! Thanks again for all your support!”
With gratitude,
Ms. Ochoa
This classroom project was brought to life by PNC Grow Up Great® and 5 other donors.