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Past projects 21

• Hands-On Learning in Math

  Funded Apr 11, 2025

  Thanks to your generous donation of Unifix Cubes, our young learners are not only counting numbers — they're building confidence, discovering patterns, learning about place value, regrouping, and engaging with math in ways that spark curiosity and creativity. What may seem like simple plastic cubes have become powerful tools for learning and play.

  Whether it's creating colorful towers to practice one-to-one correspondence, learning addition and subtraction through hands-on exploration, or simply working together to build imaginative structures, these cubes have made a lasting impact on our classroom. They've helped transform abstract concepts into something tangible — and fun!

  Beyond academics, the cubes have also supported social and emotional learning. Students have learned to share, collaborate, and express their ideas more clearly, all while playing together. It's been truly heartwarming to watch friendships and understanding grow — one cube at a time.

  Thank you for believing in early education and in the importance of giving children the tools they need to succeed. Your support is helping lay the foundation for a lifelong love of learning.”

  With gratitude,

  Ms. Meineke

• Kick and Count Your Way through Kindergarten!

  Funded Feb 14, 2025

  Thank you for your contributions and support for the playground balls and unifix cube hundred bases. Our kindergarten students have had so much fun outside with the new playground balls. They are kicking, tossing, and playing four-square with them. This has given them the opportunity to learn to share and work together. They are also learning to solve problems. It has been a tremendous asset at recess! With the Unifix trays, we are able to hold up cubes and show our students what one, tens, and hundreds look like without the cubes falling all over the floor. It has been so helpful in our teaching to have this visual aid. Thank you so much for making all this possible!”

  With gratitude,

  Ms. Meineke

• Fun & Engaging Lessons!

  Funded May 10, 2024

  Thank you so much for donating to my project! With this project, I purchased resources that inspired my students and excelled their learning. With the Handwriting curriculum students built a strong foundation in their writing in a developmentally appropriate manner. The yearlong bundle of writing slides brought narrative, informative, and opinion writing in a fun and approachable way to young writers! This develops writing skills in a way students love to write! The Into Reading slides are interactive and engaged my students with cute animations and colors. This held students' attention and allowed them to use many learning modalities. I can't wait to use all these resources again with my students and watch them love learning! These resources not only helped my current students but will excel the learning of students for years to come!”

  With gratitude,

  Ms. Meineke

  This classroom project was brought to life by Young Sheldon on CBS and 4 other donors.

• TPT Materials for Interactive Learning!

  Funded Apr 16, 2024

  With your support and generous donation, I was able to buy several Teachers Pay Teachers (TPT) educational activities that enhance our writing and literacy learning. These resources from TPT are subject-based, grade-level appropriate, current, and relevant to both our writing and language arts standards. These hands-on activities are engaging for my students, especially at the end of the year when they need engaging activities the most. These literacy activities incorporated class projects with real-world activities and my students have loved planting plants and making lemonade. They completed the writing activities and reading books and followed their how-to page to complete these projects. Thank you so much for making learning Fun and Engaging!!!”

  With gratitude,

  Ms. Meineke

• Clear and Precise Instruction

  Funded Nov 6, 2023

  Thank you so much for your generous support towards our project for these amazing headphones! Students have been sharing them with our social-emotional online learning software. They have been able to clearly hear and focus on their learning while avoiding distracting noises in the classroom. This has been particularly beneficial to my students who are easily distracted and lose focus. During testing, I have used them to support my students who are struggling to stay focused during their test and these students have used them as a special tool to help them do their best! We are using them with our reading supplemental programs to support and excel in their reading skills. These headphones have encouraged my students to focus and attend and will serve students for many years to come! Thank you so much!”

  With gratitude,

  Ms. Meineke

• GROWING INTO READING!

  Funded Sep 11, 2023

  Thank you so much for your generous donation to our project. We were able to purchase engaging language arts slides that cover all the standards for phonics, language, vocabulary, parts of speech…etc. The slides are engaging and involve the students in their learning! The students are eger to participate when we use these slides and has made the transition to our new curriculum material an easy and fun transition. We really appreciate your support with this project and it will impact studentsnfornuears to come”

  With gratitude,

  Ms. Meineke

  This classroom project was brought to life by Panda Cares.

• Seat Sacks for Success

  Funded Oct 18, 2022

  Thank you so much for the seat sacks! This project is allowing my students to keep the materials they need at their seats and helps tremendously with transitions. The seat sacks allow them to easily access all materials in a quick manner giving them more time to complete assignments! Seat sacks have also helped a great deal with organization! My students are using seat sacks and we have had a lot less of missing and/or broken headphones and books. Their materials are lasting longer, saving the school and parents additional expenses! This project was desperately needed and greatly appreciated!”

  With gratitude,

  Ms. Meineke

  This classroom project was brought to life by The DonorsChoose Community and 5 other donors.

• Clean Classroom, Happy Smart Students

  Funded May 4, 2022

  Thank you so much for contributing to our classroom vacuum cleaner. As the pandemic ended and our schools were left with custodial staff shortages. We were struggling to keep our classroom tidy and students were spending instructional time cleaning up at the end of the day. With your support, we will no longer need to spend instructional time cleaning. As we leave the classroom at the end of each day, a student pushes the clean button on our Roomba vacuums the floors. Our classroom is clean and ready for students to learn each morning! Thank you all so much!!”

  With gratitude,

  Ms. Meineke

• Shine the Light on Learning!

  Funded Oct 9, 2021

  My students are loving the light table for both math and literacy centers! It has created excitement in their learning and is a great motivative tool.

  My students were so excited to see the letters, numbers, writing templates, and math manipulative light up for the first time. They are so excited to come to school each day and get their turn to learn at the light table.

  As we continue to work through the kindergarten curriculum, we are excited to get more items that will be used with our light table!”

  With gratitude,

  Ms. Meineke

  This classroom project was brought to life by Nevada Department of Education.