Past projects 3
Study Binders for College-Ready Scholars!
Funded Jan 16, 2020I am truly humbled by your generosity and support for our classroom. Your donations have made such a huge impact on our learning! With your support, we were able to purchase a printer with ink, a paper cutter, a pencil sharpener, antibacterial wipes and hand sanitizer for our classroom.
Having the printer and paper cutter have been instrumental in my lesson plans. Because of these items, we are able to print "daily" half-sheets of paper for each student. On these half-sheets, students record the daily lesson objectives, and on the back, students write their "exit tickets", a paragraph showcasing what they learned that day. Being able to create this routine in our class makes it so that each student is practicing writing everyday, and I can give them feedback on their skills on a daily basis.
Our classroom would not be complete without our new sharpener. Our previous well-loved sharpener lasted a whole 5 years before giving out, and we hope to care for our new one for many years to come.
Finally, with our antibacterial wipes and hand sanitizer, we have been practicing good hygiene, and hopefully, we can avoid the flu virus this year and miss less instructional days!”
With gratitude,
Ms. Gallegos
This classroom project was brought to life by District Partnership Program and 6 other donors.Whiteboards and Easels for Student Presenters!
Funded Dec 11, 2018The students and myself are still in awe of your generosity. The whiteboards and easels have been incredibly helpful in allowing our students to take ownership of the classroom and lead their peers in group discussions and debates. Our first two projects using the boards were for our Economics classes and our A.P. Psychology class.
In our Economics class, we used the whiteboards to draw supply and demand graphs and make predictions based on what we know about the laws of supply and demand. The students picked a table leader and they took charge of graphing and plotting the points on our new boards. In our A.P. Psychology class, we worked on our "Brain Olympics" challenge in order to understand how cognition works. In the pictures, you can see students collaborating to build the highest tower using only 10 sheets of recycled paper (and of course, recording their efforts on the whiteboards) and brainstorming different uses for a roll of toilet paper in order to demonstrate divergent thinking and convergent thinking.
The whiteboards and easels have become a hit in our school. Other teachers have loved the idea and are helping me brainstorm new ways to use the boards in my classes. I am extremely grateful for you and I am so glad that you saw the value in adding these to our curriculum!”
With gratitude,
Ms. Gallegos
This classroom project was brought to life by Someone Who Cares and one other donor.Expo Markers, Highlighters and Lysol Wipes!
Funded Sep 19, 2018I cannot begin to express my gratitude for your generous donations. I am happy to report that the items purchased with your donations are already being put to good use in my classroom! With your help, I have created a student resource corner in my classroom with materials like highlighters, pens, post-it notes and rulers for the students to borrow. We have already used the post-it notes for a peer review activity where the students used the multi-colored highlighters to color code parts of their peer's essays and using the post-it notes to write suggestions for improvement. We will be using the rulers and pens next week in my Psychology class when the students will be creating drawings to represent perception cues. And finally...the Lysol wipes. We have begun a bi-weekly tradition that the last class of the day spends 2 minutes wiping down their desks, chairs and textbook covers with a Lysol wipe. The students in our school are very conscientious about spreading germs and they are very relieved that we have a measure to help stop the spread of germs with flu season approaching. Hopefully, we will curb the spread and have less missed days this year!
When the students saw the enormous boxes with the supplies, they were shocked. When I explained that the items were donated, they could not believe it. They were surprised and thankful to say the least.
Once again, thank you so much for your donation. As they say, "It takes a village". Thank you for being part of our village.”
With gratitude,
Ms. Gallegos