Past projects 119
PreK Books: We Love to Read!
Funded Apr 30, 2025Thanks so much for your generous donation! You have supplied us with so many wonderful books! We will use these as read alouds and in our independent learning area! Thank you again for caring about our classroom and my students! My students love to read and these books will be a wonderful edition to our classroom library!”
With gratitude,
Ms. Calarco
PreK Rocks!
Funded Apr 2, 2025Thank you so much for your generous donation! You have supplied our classroom with 12 bottles of liquid Elmers glue and 60 Elmers glue sticks! You have also supplied us with stickers that we will use throughout the year! My students love to use the stickers in our independent writing learning area! Thanks again!”
With gratitude,
Ms. Calarco
Sensory Sand: Pretend Baking
Funded Mar 30, 2025Thank you so much for your very generous donation! You have supplied us with 22 pounds of pink kinetic sand! We will use this is in our sensory area for our farm to food theme! Students will use the sand and cooking materials to “bake” cookies, cakes, and others sweets! Thank you again!”
With gratitude,
Ms. Calarco
PreK Basics: PlayDoh
Funded Jul 31, 2024Thank you so much for your generous donation. You have supplied our classroom with enough PlayDoh for the entire school year.
We use PlayDoh every day! We use it for free play when we are finished with our morning arrival activities. We also use it to make letters, numbers, shapes and names during instructional activities.
We also have PlayDoh in our independent learning areas. Students can use it in our art area, abc area, science area, math area, and sensory area!
Thank you for taking the time to help our classroom!”
With gratitude,
Ms. Calarco
Board Books: Families
Funded Jul 31, 2024Thank you so much for your generous donation! You have supplied our classroom with board books for our family theme. This theme is part of our Marvolous Me unit where students learn and share about themselves while celebrating similarities and differences.
These books will be stored in our reading area. We also use these books to place them in other learning areas for independent center time such as our abc area, block area and abc area.
Thank you for taking the time to help our classroom!”
With gratitude,
Ms. Calarco
PreK: Classroom Basics
Funded Sep 18, 2024Thank you so much for your generous donation! This project was for prek classroom basics. We received hand sanitizer and tissues for our classroom!
We are very busy in prek and participate in a lot of activities throughout the day. Sometimes we get messy! These materials help us keep our room clean and our bodies healthy! Thank you so much for your beautiful donation and for caring about our classroom and my students! We truly appreciate your help in getting necessities for our prek classroom!”
With gratitude,
Ms. Calarco
This classroom project was brought to life by The DonorsChoose Community & an Anonymous Partner and 2 other donors.PreK Basics: Dry Erase Markers
Funded Jul 31, 2024Thank you for your very generous donation! This project was for dry erase markers for our classroom! We use these everyday! Students use them in our independent writing area on white boards. We also use them during the day to practice writing letters, numbers, shapes, pictures and our names!
Our favorite thing to do with these dry erase markers is to practice writing our names using rainbow colors! We also like to practice drawing things that begin with the letter of the week we are learning about!”
With gratitude,
Ms. Calarco
Sensory Bin: Baking in the Kitchen
Funded Jul 11, 2024Thank you so much for your generous donation! You have supplied my classroom with sensory table activities for our food theme/unit!
Our students received kinetic sand, mixing bowls, measuring cups and spoons to make pretend food in our sensory table independent learning center!
We also creceived silicone cupcake holders, mixing spoons, and birthday candles. My students will love making baked goods in their sensory learning area!
Thanks again for your generous donation and for caring about our classroom!”
With gratitude,
Ms. Calarco
This classroom project was brought to life by Newman's Own Foundation and 5 other donors.We Love PreK
Funded May 8, 2024Thank you so much for your generous donation! You have supplied our classroom with 2 cases of baby wipes. We use these daily in the classroom for bathroom use and for cleaning our hands and faces. You also supplied us with 3 containers of gallon sized bags and 3 containers of quart sized bags. We use these to store classroom supplies and materials.
Thanks again for your generosity and kindness. We really appreciate your help in supplying us with materials we use often in our classroom. We hope these materials will last throughout the remainder of this school year and into next year as well.”
With gratitude,
Ms. Calarco
This classroom project was brought to life by Valhalla Foundation.Board Books: Healthy Foods
Funded Apr 5, 2024Thank you so much for your generous donation. You have supplied us with many board books on healthy foods and healthy eating. We are currently in a unit about food! These books will be a great addition to this unit! We put the board books on shelves in areas around the room. Students can read these books to themselves, a friend, or a stuffed animal or doll.
I will also use these books to read aloud to my students. The students love to look at and read books that we have read together as a class!”
With gratitude,
Ms. Calarco