Past projects 6
Meeting the Needs of Learning
Funded Feb 14, 2025Thank you so much for your donations. You have made our classroom learning such a better experience already. The students are all able to have their own individual dry erase boards readily available to them to use on the go.
We are able to print out color resources for our students as well with the new color ink.
We also are loving our flexible seating. This is allowing us to all learn within out individual needs. This helps us focus on our learning while being comfortable doing so.
Thank you again,
Mrs. Tortorella”
With gratitude,
Mrs. Tortorella
Small Group Instruction On The Go
Funded May 7, 2024Thank you For your generous donation to help improve my small group instruction. My students were so eager to be able to go into the hallway to continue their learning and use the moble dry erase board wherever we needed. This improved their concentration and motivated their learning.
My students were ready to learn and write on the board. Some even got up to help teach my lesson which is always encouraged. Being able to take our board anywhere we needed made our classroom that much more fun and flexible.”
With gratitude,
Mrs. Tortorella
This classroom project was brought to life by The DonorsChoose Community and one other donor.MacBook for Learning
Funded Nov 27, 2023Thank you so much for donating to our need of a new laptop for our classroom. with this new laptop, we are able to create more fun and efficient slides for our lessons. We also are able to search the internet better to look for better resources for the students.
The students love having the ability to use the computer also to research things for projects or to simply use it to look up unfamiliar words. We really appreciate all of your donations and support for our classroom and to help allow our students to learn to the best of their abilities.”
With gratitude,
Mrs. Tortorella
Furniture for Student Led Lessons
Funded Aug 15, 2023Thank you so much for your generous donations to our classroom. Now the students are able to practice their leadership skills in front of the classroom with our new furniture. They are able to practice giving presentations to the classroom which gets them ready not only for middle school, but for their future.
Having this furniture from the start of the year allows us, as teachers, to expose them to this practice from the start. They will be able to sit in the front of the classroom and get as much practice with presenting their presentation with our new laptop desk. Thank you again for all your generosity.”
With gratitude,
Mrs. Tortorella
This classroom project was brought to life by The SONIC Foundation and one other donor.Flexible Seating
Funded Feb 7, 2023Thank you so much for donating to our project. These flexible seating chairs have allowed our students to dive into their books in a comfortable way. It also allows them to request the seats as a reward for classroom activities. They love using them and their focus has improved so much. Having these chairs also helps us create more movement in the classroom. Our students love to move around in class and sometimes sitting in their seats all day gets boring. This creates movement for them and motivation to complete all their classroom work.”
With gratitude,
Mrs. Tortorella
Printing in Color
Funded Dec 9, 2022Thank you so much for funding us our color printer. Since we have received it we have been able to print colorful worksheets to help the students understand their learning better. We have been able to differentiate all lessons. We have been able to print worksheets for math to show different place value in different colors as well as organizers for the students writing.
We also have created a fun reward system for the students. We have printed out a Desk Pet adoption center with adoption certificates as well as fake money to earn as incentives.”
With gratitude,
Mrs. Tortorella