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Ms. Maldonado's Classroom

  • PS 43 Jonas Bronck
  • Bronx, NY
  • Nearly all students from low‑income households Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more

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No More Sick Days!

Help me give my students products to keep germs away and reduced missed learning opportunities
Ms. Maldonado
PS 43 Jonas Bronck•
Bronx, NY
  • $161 still needed
  • 1 donor so far

Stickers for Effort & Hard Work

Help me give my students stickers to encourage motivation, effort and hard work.
Ms. Maldonado
PS 43 Jonas Bronck•
Bronx, NY
  • $205 still needed
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Learning Should Be Magical

Help me give my students an Apple Pencil and Magic Keyboard to enhance their learning experience on the Apple iPad
Ms. Maldonado
PS 43 Jonas Bronck•
Bronx, NY
  • $607 still needed
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Vibrant Colors for Enhanced Learning

Help me give my students colorful visual materials to capture their attention and enhance their learning experiences.
Ms. Maldonado
PS 43 Jonas Bronck•
Bronx, NY
  • $356 still needed
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Technology for Tiny Hands

Help me give my students an iPad mini with protective case to help them reach their speech/language goals
Ms. Maldonado
PS 43 Jonas Bronck•
Bronx, NY
  • $831 still needed
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Past projects 24

  • Food for Brain Fuel

    Funded Mar 24, 2025

    My students were thrilled to see all of the snack options they now have thanks to your generosity. I packed some of the snacks into a large toy treasure chest I have and revealed it to them in a surprising way. They were so excited and had trouble deciding which snacks to choose haha! The biggest hits so far have been the cookies and the gummies. Your funding has brought big smiles to my students who have all expressed gratitude for the snacks on many occasions. Thank you again for making this project a reality for them!”

    With gratitude,

    Ms. Maldonado

    This classroom project was brought to life by LOFT.

  • Tell Me a Story

    Funded Jan 13, 2025

    My students and I have begun using some of the materials, specifically the blue storytime board and the Old MacDonald Farmer and animals. My younger students have responded so positively to the materials. They enjoy being able to manipulate the Velcro characters as we sing along to Old MacDonald Had a Farm. As I engage in shared reading experiences with select picture books, I will be introducing the other character sets that match the books soon, e.g. (The Very Hungry Caterpillar, The Three Bears, The Little Red Hen, Three Billy Goats Gruff, Three Little Pigs, The Gingerbread Man, No David, Pete the Cat, The Rainbow Fish, and The Snowy Day). I am excited to use these materials to begin reinforcing story sequence and encouraging my students to use their language to practice telling stories. Thank you again for your generosity and for helping make learning fun with these hands-on materials!”

    With gratitude,

    Ms. Maldonado

    This classroom project was brought to life by The DonorsChoose Community and 3 other donors.

  • Snacks to Fuel Learning

    Funded Oct 19, 2024

    My students were so excited to see all of the snack options. We took a vote to decide which snacks to give out first, and there was a tie between cookies and gummies. After we tossed a coin, heads for cookies and tails for gummies. Cookies won! So I snapped a few pics of my cookie monsters with them. We'll take another vote soon to see which snacks we will open next. Thank you for helping fund this project and allowing my students to have snack options to fuel their day and give them energy they need for learning.”

    With gratitude,

    Ms. Maldonado

  • Books to Build Critical Thinking

    Funded Dec 4, 2023

    My students enjoyed reading each of the books funded on this project! The books got my student's thinking critically as they asked and answered many out-side-the-box questions that challenged them to see different perspectives, consider the concepts of motive/intention, and engage in problem-solving. Some of the questions posed a challenge to certain students because they required more time to process and consider information before forming a response. So many of my student struggle to sit patiently and engage in the deeper thought processes that cognitively-demanding questions require, so much so that I had to explore the concept of questions and get them to understand that some questions are easy and quick to answer, while others are more complex and require depth of thought. Thank you for helping me enhance their executive functioning and critical thinking skills!”

    With gratitude,

    Ms. Maldonado

    This classroom project was brought to life by Townsend Press and 3 other donors.

  • Movement to Motivate Learning

    Funded Sep 7, 2023

    My students are having so much fun using the materials you helped purchase. The egg spoon race is being used to help them practice their speech language goals by having them practice saying their target sounds/words as they walk around the therapy table balancing their egg on a spoon. This has been such a hit with the students, and has motivated them tremendously. The added benefit is that this also helps with their hand-eye coordination and with controlled movement of the body (which is such a bonus for my students who struggle with regulation of their physical movements). The tug-of-war rope is being used to facilitate healthy competition toward goal accuracy, in that two students will grab either end of the rope and will get to move back for each task they complete correctly (e.g. following a directive, producing a target word/sound, answering questions, etc. The rope gets marked in the middle and the first person to bring the mark to the spot where they were standing at the start is the winner. The hop sacks and agility rings are being used in a similar manner in that each student gets to hop/jump to a ring every time they complete a task correctly and the first student to make it to a marked finish line wins!”

    With gratitude,

    Ms. Maldonado

    This classroom project was brought to life by Dial® and 2 other donors.
My goal with this project is to secure therapy materials and resources to help my students develop executive functioning skills--a set of crucial life skills that allow us to complete tasks and solve problems. Many of my student's struggle with attention, working memory, impulse control, planning/organizing tasks, and cognitive flexibility--all of which are sub-skills of executive functioning and all of which affect their ability to effectively use their thinking to learn, make connections, and carry out tasks. My students will use books and structured games like Taboo Junior and Snake Oil to strengthen their executive functioning skills, and in turn, develop and reflect on the language that is used in their thought processes to achieve metacognition. The books I have selected will be used to teach my students about planning/organizing, analyzing cause/effect as it relates to their chosen actions, and how to control their impulses. The games I have selected will facilitate attention, working memory, and cognitive flexibility. I have also selected a resource that will assist with increasing my knowledge of strategies to assist my student's with building these skills. A big thank you to anyone who is able and willing to support the growth of my students!

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My goal with this project is to secure therapy materials and resources to help my students develop executive functioning skills--a set of crucial life skills that allow us to complete tasks and solve problems. Many of my student's struggle with attention, working memory, impulse control, planning/organizing tasks, and cognitive flexibility--all of which are sub-skills of executive functioning and all of which affect their ability to effectively use their thinking to learn, make connections, and carry out tasks. My students will use books and structured games like Taboo Junior and Snake Oil to strengthen their executive functioning skills, and in turn, develop and reflect on the language that is used in their thought processes to achieve metacognition. The books I have selected will be used to teach my students about planning/organizing, analyzing cause/effect as it relates to their chosen actions, and how to control their impulses. The games I have selected will facilitate attention, working memory, and cognitive flexibility. I have also selected a resource that will assist with increasing my knowledge of strategies to assist my student's with building these skills. A big thank you to anyone who is able and willing to support the growth of my students!

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