Past projects 8
Classroom Needing A Midsummer Night's Dream
Funded Dec 3, 2024Thank you, thank you, thank you! It is so hard to get resources for our classrooms these days! With your help we are going to put books in the hands of every student and not have to use online resources. Students learn so much better from print and I am so grateful to be able to give them that opportunity!”
With gratitude,
Mrs. Ennis
This classroom project was brought to life by The DonorsChoose Community and 2 other donors.Share the Love of Reading
Funded Nov 28, 2023These have been great! We can't wait to deliver the books to the first graders in our district! These have been great! We can't wait to deliver the books to the first graders in our district! These have been great! We can't wait to deliver the books to the first graders in our district! These have been great! We can't wait to deliver the books to the first graders in our district! These have been great! We can't wait to deliver the books to the first graders in our district! These have been great! We can't wait to deliver the books to the first graders in our district!”
With gratitude,
Mrs. Ennis
This classroom project was brought to life by The DonorsChoose Community and 3 other donors.Feels Like Home
Funded Aug 2, 2023My students have loved their classroom this year. It has a homey feeling that had been absent in years past. We are able to enjoy a much calmer environment on some of the crazy days that present themselves in high school.
I have had several coworkers come in and ask where I got my new desk or the new posters on my walls. I get to brag and tell them that I just upcycled an old desk with supplies that were so generously donated to my room from gracious donors like yourself. My students have loved using the new maps as well when we track our characters' travels during our literature reading.
We so appreciate you and your generosity!”
With gratitude,
Mrs. Ennis
This classroom project was brought to life by The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and one other donor.A Book in Every Hand
Funded Feb 13, 2022This project has impacted my students more than you could ever know. We completed a unit covering the Holocaust, which was made easier thanks to having the books we needed in hand. We have been sharing PDFs of the literature we cover and it is so much more meaningful to have real books to use. I even had some students who hate reading that were so thankful for the effort, they requested a paper copy just to be sure that the books were used appropriately. They are so appreciative for your generosity, as am I. Thank you!”
With gratitude,
Mrs. Ennis
Books for Gifted Readers
Funded Mar 25, 2021My classes have absolutely loved getting the opportunity to read some new books. They have enjoyed, so much, the new titles on the shelves in our classroom. When they walked in the first day and the Harry Potter series was here, I had about six students ask to be on the waiting list to begin reading the series next. The impact a book can make on only one student can be tremendous. Imagine seeing all of these students so excited to just get a book in their hands. I have enjoyed it so much and I think you for giving them this opportunity.”
With gratitude,
Mrs. Ennis
Oral Mechanism Supplies for Better Speech
Funded Sep 11, 2020Thank you for your generous donation to our project. My students were so excited to see new things in our classroom. They have loved getting to use them and then put their new skills to work. When we received all the new materials it allowed the students to have more things to practice their motor speech skills and improve their articulation. They have been so excited to get to practice their new skills by helping their teacher make important phone calls. They have also gotten to practice using their new, expanded vocabulary due to some of the new things we received.”
With gratitude,
Mrs. Ennis
Apps for Great Communication
Funded Mar 6, 2019This addition to my classroom has been very beneficial to the education of my students. They are excited to learn. They love to have new ways to learn and practice the skills that they have been working on, and these new apps have really done that.
With two of these new apps we are able to let the students read and practice comprehension questions right from the iPad. Students get very tired of the same stories and book, so these apps have allowed for a new and improved means of comprehension.
With the articulation apps we have given the students working on speech sounds a whole new approach and excitement for working on their articulation. They are able to work on their sounds and even play games, making learning fun and exciting.
We are so appreciative of your donation to our classroom and help with making education fun.”
With gratitude,
Mrs. Ennis
iPad for Super Speech Skills
Funded Aug 20, 2018Thank you for your donation toward the purchase of an iPad for the Speech Therapy classroom at Joe Harrison Carter Elementary School. Our new iPad has had a great impact on our classroom. Students are now given more independence to work on multiple skills during a single speech therapy session. They are more motivated than ever to work in Speech. They have new resources that are more easily accessed at the tips of their fingers. The variety it has added to their therapy sessions has made their speech services more interesting and fun every day.
The students are able to work independently on one skill, while I am working one-on-one with another student, taking turns receiving individualized therapy. For example, if a student has both language and articulation goals, I can allow that student to use an app for answering wh questions while I am working with another student learn to correctly pronounce a certain phoneme. Then, when I have finished working with the other student, I can work with the student on their particular needed skills. Children are such quick learners that I can show them one time how to use a new app, and they are able to work independently on their skills.
My students are much more motivated to work in speech therapy. Working for five therapy sessions to get to dig into in a prize box of a piece of candy or a cheap plastic toy is not a motivator for students anymore. I have done away with the prize box and have downloaded a few appropriate games to our new iPad. Students are allowed to choose a game to play once every five therapy sessions, as long as they have had good behavior and work ethic. The students get a five minute time frame to play their chosen game while I am working with another student. The response to the change from prize box to iPad time has been remarkable. The excitement in their eyes when they come into my therapy classroom and hear that it is prize day is so joyful to see.
These students get as bored with the same old materials as I do. This new iPad has given us a complete refresher. We now have access to new interactive therapy supplies that weren't available on our desktop or in therapy books. They get to see new graphics, different prompts, and a complete change from the standard copied page from a book. Therapy isn't boring anymore, and they're finally excited to get to come work with me.”
With gratitude,
Mrs. Ennis