Past projects 3
The Prime Climb
Funded Dec 3, 2024I wanted to share another appreciation for your contribution to the ALPS classroom this year. We have already played Prime Climb a few times as a class, and everyone really loves it. The best part is that it's full of math and strategy and a fair bit of luck to make things a little more interesting.
This new routine adds yet another way to engage my students in mathematical thinking. Last week I was with a group of three boys who were competing with one another, while simultaneously supporting one another by thinking about the best moves each one of them could play.
Thank you for helping bring a new fun routine to our math classroom!”
With gratitude,
Mr. Olmsted
This classroom project was brought to life by The DonorsChoose Community and 5 other donors.Reading Real Books! Also Headphones!
Funded Apr 17, 2023Thank you once again for funding this Donors Choose project for my classroom. This year we read the book A Single Shard about an orphan who lives under a bridge with a kind old man who teaches him about honor and courage. The students loved it. Then we wrote book reports on it. Students learned how to summarize the story and tell about the characters succinctly. It was a wonderful project.
Later this year we will read A Call of the Wild. It's over 100 years old, but the themes are timeless. Thank you for helping bring these wonderful reading experiences into our classroom!
This project also funded some new headphones. Many students are currently using them to listen to videos as we do research. Right now students are researching ideas from a wide range of topics including quantum physics, coral reefs, William Boeing, and Machu Picchu.
Thank you again for your support of our classroom.”
With gratitude,
Mr. Olmsted
Books That Inspire Us
Funded Jun 7, 2023Thank you so much for your generous support of this project last spring! Teaching young children about history through literature is absolutely fantastic. Authors like Mildred Taylor and Laurie Halse Anderson bring it alive in a way that textbooks are usually unable to do. Not only do we spend more time diving deeper into a particular historical context, but we can empathize with the characters to get a more well-rounded perspective.
Being alive today and not knowing our history is like walking in on the punchline of a joke: it just doesn't make sense. Giving students access to well written historical fiction is a wonderful way for them to join the story.”
With gratitude,
Mr. Olmsted