Past projects 6
Exercise: Food for Brain Development
Funded Jan 26, 2018Thank you so much for your generous donations. We use the exercise equipment all day long. When I work with a small group another group of children use the bikes. When I am finished with my reading or math group the group on the bikes switch to work with me and another group go onto the bikes. The students love them and are much more settled and less 'fidgety' when working with me.
The students were very excited when the bikes arrived and helped build them. We made safety rules together and practiced using them safely.
Our next steps are to set up another Donors Choose project with some different pieces of equipment that allow the students to take part in aerobic exercise in class and learn at the same time.
Once again, thank you.”
With gratitude,
Mrs. Armour
This classroom project was brought to life by The First Million Fund and 3 other donors.STEAM into STEM: Arts to Enhance Science, Math, and Technology
Funded Jan 11, 2017Once again thank you for your generous donations. My class love arts and science. They learn best when being creative and using multi sensory materials. We designed our own space ships. You can see, from the photos, that we began by drawing and then painting them. We then worked very hard building them with Lego and cardboard boxes. Our computer came in very handy when we made a video about the 'building' stage. We used the i movie feature to edit parts to create a single short clip about building using our drawings and designs.
Thank you so much for everything.
Cecilia Armour”
With gratitude,
Mrs. Armour
This classroom project was brought to life by Stavros Niarchos Foundation and 16 other donors.Differentiation: Tablets for Personalized Leveled Texts and Optimal Reading Growth!
Funded Dec 28, 2016Thank you so much for the generous gifts. The students in my class use the ipads each day. The technology allows me to provided leveled, differentiated books that are specific to each individual students reading levels. I can now monitor individual progress and keep parents
up to date with the progress that their child is making at home. I also assign homework via reading apps used in class. The students log onto them at home and pick right up where they left off in class. By doing so students do not 'forget' their homework.
Once again, thank you!”
With gratitude,
Mrs. Armour
Technology: Gateway to imaginative learning.
Funded Nov 21, 2016Thank you so much for your kind donations. As you know the project was related to technology and its use in the classroom. We have used the printers every single day. We print our work from Google Classroom so that we can take it home to our parents. We create documents that are 'spur of the moment' via the wifi printing facility. We share our thinking with other teachers when we print our work and take it to them so that we can explain our thinking. The paper that was part of the project allows us to create and make as we learn. It allows us to print but also do rough work for maths and brain storming for writing. Osmo has been a lot of fun. We are learning to code and program using this game. We also practice our fast facts and spelling. Our classroom is much more efficient due to the technology. Our parents have copies of what we have been learning about and we have fun whilst keeping up to date with our skills. Thank you so much!!!!”
With gratitude,
Mrs. Armour
Independent Learning Resouces
Funded Aug 22, 2016Hello everyone, I would like to thank you, on behalf of my students, for the resources you purchased. We use them on a daily basis and they have had an impact already. For example, the Wiki sticks have helped with fine motor development and directionality for writing numbers and letters. The lego and blocks have helped us learn to work quietly at centers whilst our teacher helps others learn. The dominoes have enabled us to begin to learn about resilience. We are trying to build a track where we can set them up and then knock them all down. We have used the laminating machine to make flash cards to help us correspond values to numbers. The model magic has helped us form letters in a 3D context. We then trace them and try and write them.
Thank you so much.
K Armour Class”
With gratitude,
Mrs. Armour
Todays Technology for Tomorrows Future
Funded Aug 6, 2016Hello, I would like to give you a few updates on the ipad and stylus that was donated. Each day we carry the Ipad around with us and take photos of environmental print, our school environment and our outdoor area. When back in class we learn to read the signs we saw and look for shapes in pictures. By doing so we learn that print and shapes are not abstract but part of our world. We also learn how to use them and the reasons for them in our world. As the teacher I also use the Ipad to create dynamic learning situations through apps like Spotify. We use music to help us focus and transition from learning situation to situation. I have also profiled each student and have their assessment data and differentiated learning plans to hand to be adapted and noted each time they are used.
Thank you so much for your gift.”
With gratitude,
Mrs. Armour