You're on track to get doubled donations (and unlock a reward for the colleague who referred you). Keep up the great work!
Take credit for your charitable giving! Check out your tax receipts
Donate
To use your $50 gift card credits, find a project to fund and we'll automatically apply your credits at checkout. Find a classroom project
Menu
Skip to main content

Help teachers & students in your hometown this season!
Use code HOME at checkout and your donation will be matched up to $100.

Your school email address was successfully verified.

Edit classroom photo

Ms. Arukwe’s Classroom Edit display name

  • Cross Country Elementary School 247
  • Baltimore, MD
  • More than half of 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

Support her classroom with a gift that fosters learning.

  • Monthly
  • One-time

We'll charge your card today and send Ms. Arukwe a DonorsChoose gift card she can use on her classroom projects. Starting next month, we'll charge your card and send her a DonorsChoose gift card on the 17th of every month.

Edit or cancel anytime.

cancel

Support Ms. Arukwe's classroom with a gift that fosters learning.

  • Monthly
  • One-time

We'll charge your card today and send Ms. Arukwe a DonorsChoose gift card she can use on her classroom projects. Starting next month, we'll charge your card and send her a DonorsChoose gift card on the 17th of every month.

Edit or cancel anytime.

Make a donation Ms. Arukwe can use on her next classroom project.

Your custom url is https://www.donorschoose.org/j-arukwe

View your stats
Track donations »
Edit
In the next couple of weeks, I will have the privilege of teaching great minds. As a future classroom teacher, I want to make sure that all of my students' academic needs are met. Reading is a crucial part of that process. During my first year, I would love to build a classroom library. If possible, I would love to have a wide variety of books that awaken my students' love for reading. I want to create a space where students are free to escape into a world of endless possibilities. The books were selected to help fill the classroom library. It is important that students not only read for academic purposes, but to also build a joy for reading. I chose books that they would find interesting as well as some that are more challenging. The labels will be use to organize the library by guided reading levels. Students will have an easier time find books on their level. The pencils, highlighters, and tabs are materials that students will use as they close read text and apply strategies they learn throughout the year. The post it chart paper will allow for students to see those strategies around the classroom as we learn about reading strategies. My students will be able to reference those anchor charts when they need them. Lastly, the index cards will be used to help build vocabulary. Students will learn different Latin/Greek roots. The purpose of the index cards and metal rings is to help keep the roots they learn organized, and provide them with a resource they can use over and over again until they internalize the meaning of each root. Students are then able to make meaning of unknown words as they come across them.

About my class

In the next couple of weeks, I will have the privilege of teaching great minds. As a future classroom teacher, I want to make sure that all of my students' academic needs are met. Reading is a crucial part of that process. During my first year, I would love to build a classroom library. If possible, I would love to have a wide variety of books that awaken my students' love for reading. I want to create a space where students are free to escape into a world of endless possibilities. The books were selected to help fill the classroom library. It is important that students not only read for academic purposes, but to also build a joy for reading. I chose books that they would find interesting as well as some that are more challenging. The labels will be use to organize the library by guided reading levels. Students will have an easier time find books on their level. The pencils, highlighters, and tabs are materials that students will use as they close read text and apply strategies they learn throughout the year. The post it chart paper will allow for students to see those strategies around the classroom as we learn about reading strategies. My students will be able to reference those anchor charts when they need them. Lastly, the index cards will be used to help build vocabulary. Students will learn different Latin/Greek roots. The purpose of the index cards and metal rings is to help keep the roots they learn organized, and provide them with a resource they can use over and over again until they internalize the meaning of each root. Students are then able to make meaning of unknown words as they come across them.

Read more

About my class

Read more
{"followTeacherId":4503067,"teacherId":4503067,"teacherName":"Ms. Arukwe","teacherProfilePhotoURL":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp4503067_272x272.jpg?width=136&height=136&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1502764729347","teacherHasProfilePhoto":true,"vanityURL":"j-arukwe","teacherChallengeId":20948526,"followAbout":"Ms. Arukwe's projects","teacherVerify":-148286899,"teacherNameEncoded":"Ms. Arukwe","vanityType":"teacher","teacherPageInfo":{"teacherHasClassroomPhoto":true,"teacherHasClassroomDescription":true,"teacherClassroomDescription":"","teacherProfileURL":"https://www.donorschoose.org/classroom/j-arukwe","tafURL":"https://secure.donorschoose.org/donors/share_teacher_profile.html?teacher=4503067","stats":{"numActiveProjects":0,"numFundedProjects":3,"numSupporters":29},"classroomPhotoPendingScreening":false,"showEssentialsListCard":false}}
Supporting teachers and students since 2000

DonorsChoose makes it easy for anyone to help a classroom in need. Public school teachers from every corner of America create classroom project requests, and you can give any amount to the project that inspires you.

We've earned the highest possible ratings from Better Business Bureau, Charity Watch, Charity Navigator, and Guidestar.