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Past projects 3

• Kicking Off a New Year of Language Learning

  Funded Nov 29, 2023

  I am deeply grateful for your generous donation of school supplies for our elementary Spanish classroom. All of my students are always excited to have a variety of supplies to use in the classroom that ignite their creativity and desire to learn. Your contribution has helped create exciting hands-on activities and teaching materials, making our students enthusiastic about learning the Spanish language. Thanks to you, our students will be able to create wonderful projects about La Familia and La Comunidad. Thank you so much for recognizing the importance of incorporating fun and engaging activities like games into our language lessons. Your support in providing versatile tools like flexible seating really enhances our teaching methods. The school supplies you've provided are invaluable in ensuring our students have what they need to succeed academically and create a safe learning environment for everyone.”

  With gratitude,

  Ms. Gonzalez

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

• Learning Spanish Through Art!

  Funded Oct 24, 2022

  My students and I are extremely thankful for all of your kindness and support. Because of your help we have been having a blast creating art while learning a new language. My students continue enhancing their creativity as well as their language skills with a variety of art projects and activities. Hispanic cultural lessons have never been better.

  My students were very excited to see that we had received new art supplies for our Spanish class. They were thrilled to use new colored pencils and crayons. They were amazed about not having to share a pair of scissors or glue stick because everyone had the chance to have one. It meant everything for them and ignited their creativity even more, as well as their eager to learn Spanish.

  Every lesson has been more engaging than ever. Students ask for our Spanish Art time more than before too. We have spoken about how blessed we are for receiving these donations and how grateful we should feel. Additionally, how important it is to be kind and respectful to these new supplies by taking good care of them so that all the students of our school can use. Now we are always ready for our Spanish learning journey.”

  With gratitude,

  Ms. Gonzalez

  This classroom project was brought to life by Rainwater Charitable Foundation and 2 other donors.

• Cultivating Spanish Literacy and Growing Cultural Understanding

  Funded May 28, 2020

  I am grateful that my scholars have the opportunity to have an authentic books library in our Spanish class. School looks very different this year, but that does not keep me from providing the necessary tools and experiences for my scholars to succeed in their Spanish class. Teaching with authentic cultural texts of various kinds in a foreign language class is essential. Authentic materials provide real-life examples of language used in everyday situations. I have designed and carried out a few interactive reading and listening comprehension tasks with these texts along with appropriate activities that provide my scholars with the chance to apply or practice what they have learned.

  These authentic texts are great for my scholars. They are context and age appropriate, and they fit the scholars linguistic level as well. I use the same text with a variety of activities. I like to give my scholars opportunities to make meaning with a text. For example, I teach them to use their background knowledge, contextual cues, and different interpretive strategies to construct meaning. One way to assess my Spanish learners' ability to deal with the language in an authentic text is giving them interpretive tasks. I give them the opportunity to analyze and explain their conclusions about meaning. Because of social distancing, the way I do read aloud and independent reading in class has changed. Technology has now turned into an essential tool in my teacher's toolbox, as you might have seen in the photos I shared. But we enjoy our readings anyhow.

  My scholars are having a great time with these readings. I personally like to give them some background information about the author, which gives me the opportunity to teach them some more about the culture of the target language. I teach kindergarten through fifth grade and they all enjoy the books. Especially the illustrations! We have a blast doing choral reads, describing the pictures, making connections with real life situations, and so on. There is so much you can do with one book, imagine how much we will be doing and will accomplish these book sets. It's just amazing! Finally, I would like to express that I am very pleased with the outcome of this project and can't wait to keep incorporating these reads in my lessons all year long and the years to come.”

  With gratitude,

  Ms. Gonzalez

  This classroom project was brought to life by The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and 14 other donors.