Past projects 16
A Comfy Spot to Read
Funded Nov 21, 2012The day we received our beanbag chairs was one I wish you could have all witnessed! They arrived in HUGE boxes and just seeing them come down the hallway excited the kids. As I opened the boxes, the kids were clapping, and cheering. It was so much fun.
The chairs are the perfect size and color for our classroom. They have provided us cozy places to read, and talk about what we are reading. The kids LOVE them and I love to see how happy they make the kids. When we have visitors in our room, my students are so proud to show off their beanbag chairs. They tell everyone that donors gave them to us and appreciate them more than I can express.
Thank you so much for making this possible for my students! Your donations have made our classroom a great place to read!”
With gratitude,
Mrs. Harrell
Where in the World Should We Sit?
Funded Oct 11, 2012Thank you all SOOO much for your generous donations to our classroom rug. It is AMAZING. It was like Christmas in our room when it arrived, we unrolled it and the kids went wild! They were so excited and shouting out, " I am going to sit in Asia!," "I am sitting in the Atlantic Ocean", "I am standing on Australia". During some down time one of my students used the rug to draw their own world map - no prompting from me! Amazing! It is an fabulous map resource in our room.
The rug is HUGE and BEAUTIFUL! Every little booty fits perfectly on the rug, making giving students parameters of where to sit a snap. It adds a huge amount of color and excitement to our room. We cannot thank all our donors enough for this wonderful addition to our classroom! Thank you so much for your investment in the lives of children!”
With gratitude,
Mrs. Harrell
Our Desks Runneth Over!
Funded May 21, 2012Thank you all so much for the incredible donation of our seat pockets! They have absolutely transformed our classroom. We now have an amazing place to keep our netbook computers and headphones safe when they are not in use.
Our room looks wonderful with the green pockets on each chair. Each student has a place to store their own belongings. It is such a relief to not walk into the room and see books hanging out of desks and pencils all over the floor. I feel there is a definite sense of pride in the children about our classroom.
We can not thank our donors and donorschoose.com enough for providing us such an incredible resource! Thank you from the bottom of our hearts!”
With gratitude,
Mrs. Harrell
Fluency Matters!
Funded Apr 6, 2012Wow! I wish I could send you a video of my kids when we received the microphones, they were so very excited! These microphones are so cool. The kids immediately wanted to get started but had to wait a little while until we charged them up. The morning after we received them was so much fun! I have never had so many kids begging me to read another book!
The microphones record the children as they read and then they can play their reading back. We can download their reading on to our computers and compare their reading of the story the first time, and then after several readings of the same text. They are so anxious to hear how much more fluent they are after a few readings. It has been incredibly exciting to watch my most reluctant readers working so hard to be expressive as they read.
I cannot thank you enough for the incredible impact you have made on our classroom through your generous donation! I am excited to see how fast our fluency will come along as we use these awesome tools over time.”
With gratitude,
Mrs. Harrell
We Can't Find the Words!
Funded Mar 22, 2012I am so thrilled to tell you about the incredible impact your donations have made on my classroom already. We received the dictionaries less than a week after receiving full funding. My students all stood around as I opened the box and "ohhhed and awwwed" as I pulled out the beautiful new books. I immediately distributed them to pairs of students and let them explore. It was AHHH-mazing to see and hear their excitement as they realized what these new dictionaries could do for them.
This past week, we started a unit on the mystery genre. Before we started reading we were
"Dictionary Detectives" and looked up the main vocabulary in the unit. The class had a blast looking up the words and finding the meanings. They were so excited to actually FIND the words because the picture dictionaries that we have been using up to this point never seemed to have what we were looking for! I am excited to watch them become more and more proficient and comfortable with using them.
These dictionaries will help us for years to come! We can't thank you enough!”
With gratitude,
Mrs. Harrell
It's Time for Technology!
Funded Nov 8, 2011I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for the Samsung Tablet you have blessed our classroom with. I wish you could have been in our room the day we received it, it was like Christmas, they all crowded around the box in awe. My class thinks it is about the neatest thing they have ever seen. They have finally stopped calling it, "the big phone", and work hard to earn some extra time to work on it.
We have used it in so many ways already. We have downloaded applications for math, reading, spelling and science. Children struggling with sight words have been using it to practice their words, students that are ready to go ahead in math are using it to memorize their times tables. We use the tablet when we are reading in small groups to look up additional information about the subject we are learning about. I have downloaded an app that allows me to control my desk computer from the tablet so students are able to now use it like an interactive white board when we use the projector. All of this and we are just getting started! It has changed our classroom for the better and we are so very grateful for your generosity!”
With gratitude,
Mrs. Harrell