Past projects 125
New Year, New Supplies!
Funded Oct 15, 2016First of all, thank you so much for taking the time out of your day to read my grant and funding it.
The new supplies I asked for may not seem like much but it will make a big difference in our room. Our new pencils and pencil sharpener has already helped us so much! The students now are able to go independently to sharpener their pencil without any disruptions during instruction. Also, the Ink has helped my special education students be able to print out their illustrations they create. My students love creating stories about their parents and friends, and now they can print them out to take home to their families.
Thank you so much for giving my special education students new supplies to replace the old ones in our reading, writing, and math centers to have a promising and successful year.”
With gratitude,
Ms. Marassa
Let's Balance, Strengthen Our Cores, and Learn!
Funded Aug 25, 2016Thank you so much for your generous donation of Hooki Stools to our classroom. My student and I are so lucky to have amazing people give such helpful educational gifts to us. When I was explaining to my students how Donors Choose works and how we do not always know the people that donate, they thought that was so nice and generous to have strangers help our classroom. Thank you for putting a smile on my students faces.
These new stools will enhance my students learning so much in the classroom because it will allow my "wiggle worms" to still move around but not be so distracting.
I will forever be grateful to Target for funding and all other donations for helping this miracle come true.
You truly have no idea how amazing it was to receive these great Hokki Stools for my classroom! I was so excited to find out that my project was funded by such awesome people like you. It is because of your generosity and commitment to education and teachers that makes it possible to see growth and success in our learning environments.
Once again, Thank you so much for this amazing gift!!!”
With gratitude,
Ms. Marassa
This classroom project was brought to life by Target and one other donor.New Year, New Supplies!
Funded Aug 3, 2016Thank you! Thank you! Thank you for our new supplies to start the school year! You truly have no idea how amazing it was to receive the wonderful gift you have given my classroom! I was so excited to find out that my project was funded by such awesome people like you. It is because of your generosity and commitment to education and teachers that makes it possible to see growth and success in our learning environments.
The new supplies will provide my students to have the proper materials they need in each literacy and math center to be successful in the learning process.
When I told my students about the new supplies our classroom will receive, they were extremely excited and grateful. One student shouted, "This is the best day of our lives." Another one said, "The people that donated to our project are so kind!" Thank you so much for your donations and providing my students with these exciting times in their educational lives.
I will forever be grateful for your donations to help this miracle come true!”
With gratitude,
Ms. Marassa
Help Me Understand
Funded Jul 19, 2016Thank You so much for gifting our classroom with a new Chromebook. As soon as my students saw the computer boxes their faces lit up with joy. It was like Christmas in September. This computer mean a lot to my students because they can now enhance their foundational phonics skills and become lifelong readers. Thanks to your donation, our computer center is now starting to look like a computer center; we have added this Chromebook to our existing computer center. Our classroom is so lucky to have a computer center with working technology, because my students are able to log onto the Internet and access a variety of applications to help excel the pace of their reading and writing.
Susan, I will be forever grateful that you made this project cross the finish line, I plan to use the computer center to bridge a gap where there is a need! You have made a difference in my students educational experience and I appreciate your generosity!”
With gratitude,
Ms. Marassa
Time to Investigate
Funded Jun 1, 2016Thank you! Thank you! Thank you for our new materials to start the school year! You truly have no idea how amazing it was to receive the wonderful gift you have given my classroom! I was so excited to find out that my project was funded by such awesome people like you. It is because of your generosity and commitment to education and teachers that makes it possible to see growth and success in our learning environments.
The materials that we received have been put to good use already!! My students have absolutely loved going outside to "investigate." They have learned so much in the first week of school with the help of your donations.
When I told my students about the new supplies our classroom will receive, they were extremely excited and grateful. One student shouted, "This is the best day of our lives." Another one said, "The people that donated to our project are so kind!" Thank you so much for your donations and providing my students with these exciting times in their educational lives.
I will forever be grateful for your donations to help this miracle come true!”
With gratitude,
Ms. Marassa
This classroom project was brought to life by Orkin and one other donor.Creative Minds Through Art
Funded May 26, 2016Thank you so very much for the donation you have made to our classroom. These materials have enhanced my students to express how they are feeling through creating pictures on the computer. The printer now allows my students to work at their developmental level and be creative through art and expression.
When my students received our new materials, they were so excited to see what was inside the box. One student yelled, "This is the best day ever!" Another students said, "I love Donors Choose, the people are so nice!" Thank you for allowing my students to smile and become excited to see the materials we are adding to our classroom.
We really appreciate your thoughtful and generous donation! Please know that you are making a positive difference in a student's education experience.”
With gratitude,
Ms. Marassa
This classroom project was brought to life by an anonymous donor and 4 other donors.Rock and Roll Phonics
Funded May 14, 2016Thank you so very much for the donation you have made to our classroom. These materials have enhanced the literacy centers in our classroom in several ways. All of the Roll and Read Phonics are helping my students decode new words by letting them focus on short vowel sounds, long vowel sounds, blends and digraphs, and word families. The students love just rolling the dice and trying to be the first one to build all of their words—sound by sound! All of these activities allow my students to work at their developmental level as well as building these essential phonics skills that they need to be successful readers.
Thank you for allowing my students to smile and become excited to see the materials we are adding to our classroom. When my students received our new materials, they were so excited to see what was inside the box. One student yelled, "This is the best day ever!" Another students said, "I love Donors Choose, the people are so nice!"
We really appreciate your thoughtful and generous donation! Please know that you are making a positive difference in a student's education experience.”
With gratitude,
Ms. Marassa
Hooked On Phonics!
Funded Mar 15, 2016Thank you so very much for the donation you have made to our classroom. These materials have enhanced the literacy centers in our classroom in several ways. The word work and phonics stations allow my students to build essential word working skills with fun-filled activity stations that let them work at their own pace! The phonics activity station engages my students in building words with blends, identifying spelling patterns, sorting vowel sounds and many more. The word work activity station engages my students in activities such as building contractions, sorting parts of speech, and constructing plurals. All of these activities allow my students to work at their developmental level as well as building these essential phonics skills that they need to be successful readers.
When my students received our new materials, they were so excited to see what was inside the box. One student yelled, "This is the best day ever!" Another students said, "I love Donors Choose, the people are so nice!" Thank you for allowing my students to smile and become excited to see the materials we are adding to our classroom.
We really appreciate your thoughtful and generous donation! Please know that you are making a positive difference in a student's education experience.”
With gratitude,
Ms. Marassa
This classroom project was brought to life by #BestSchoolDay and 2 other donors.Reading in a Flash!
Funded Mar 11, 2016How can I thank you enough for your wonderful gift? First of all I would like to thank you for the bottom of my heart. It is because of people like you my students can enjoy reading and literacy skills. I want my students to really understand the topics presented to them, and the only way to make sure that they understand is to have reading materials at their developmental level. Now with the wonderful donation you have made my students love literacy.
When my students received the boxes full of our new materials, they were extremely excited and grateful. One student shouted, "This is the best day of our lives." Another one said, "The people that donated to our project are so kind!" Thank you so much for your donations and providing my students with these exciting times in their educational lives.
The tubs that we have received are great for our word work center to build foundational phonics skills. These tubs engage my students to practice sequencing & forming letters, using sight-words in sentences, sounding out simple words and much more! Best of all, when my students are done with an activity, they can simply flip the card over to check their work. The highlighter tape is very helpful to my students especially when learning a new sight word. They are able to find it in the story and highlight it to remember the important word!
Thank you for making that possible. I have also included pictures of various activities they were engaged in thanks to your donation. This donation has the ability to change so many lives, what a wonderful gift you have given my wonderful students. Thank you for giving my students this wonderful life time experience, they will truthfully enjoy.”
With gratitude,
Ms. Marassa
This classroom project was brought to life by #BestSchoolDay and one other donor.Successful Learning During Center Time!
Funded Jan 26, 2016Thank you all very much for such generous donations you have provided to myself and my students. As soon as my students arrived to school, I told them the great news of our project being funded! They were all so excited and wanted to see all of our new materials. Within a few days, the materials were delivered and we were able to start our centers using our new learning tools. The students used words such as: awesome, cool, we are so lucky..I am so happy to share with you their thoughts and feelings about these wonderful materials. The students work so nicely together and they are very careful and respectful of our new materials.
We thank you from the bottom of our hearts that there are such generous people in the world like you.”
With gratitude,
Ms. Marassa