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• Learning Math While Developing Fine Motor Skills!

  Funded Dec 31, 2024

  Thank you so much for helping fund my project. These materials are going to be a great addition to my classroom. My students will develop their numerals, shapes and letter identification while working with the different puzzles , shape sorter, magnatiles and stacking building blocks. They can develop their counting skills while working with the pegboards, matching puzzles, the ice cream set and measuring with the frog scale. They can be creative when building with the different shaped magnatiles and the building blocks. They will also be developing fine motor skills and spatial awareness when exploring with the different materials. I cannot wait see my students excitement when I show them these new learning materials!”

  With gratitude,

  Mrs. Gordon

  This classroom project was brought to life by Allison and Austin McChord and 5 other donors.

• Developing Future Readers!

  Funded Dec 19, 2023

  Thank you so much for helping fund my project. These books have been a wonderful addition to our classroom library.

  The books will be used in conjunction with our curriculum. These books will help develop vocabulary with my younger students and English Language Leaners. My students will develop book handling skills when usiing these books. The lift the flap, pop up and books that maje sounds will enhance my students curiosity and interest in books. When looking at these books with peers will help my students with their social emotional skills.”

  With gratitude,

  Mrs. Gordon

  This classroom project was brought to life by A family that cares about Boston and 4 other donors.

• Doll House Furniture for Our Blocks Center!

  Funded Jan 15, 2024

  Thank you so much for helping fund my project. This furniture is a wonderful addition to our Blocks Center.

  My students were very excited when I added the furniture to our center. They have been busy sorting the furniture by what room it belongs to. We will soon be starting our homes and construction theme. The students will design a home and build it in Blocks Center. They will add the furniture to their buildings. My English Language Learners are learning the names of the different names of furniture in English. They will tell the teacher the function of the furniture when putting it in their buildngs.”

  With gratitude,

  Mrs. Gordon

  This classroom project was brought to life by A family that cares about Boston and one other donor.

• Materials To Engage My Younger Preschoolers In Learning !

  Funded Dec 4, 2023

  Thank you for helping fund my projects. These materials have been a great addition to my classroom.

  My students were very excited to use these new materials. The puzzles, button sorting and puzzles have helped develop their fine motor skills and some of my students named the shapes. They enjoyed looking at the books and talking about the pictures. The color match ups are a great way to introduce matching to my younger students. The What's Inside box were liked by my younger students. They enjoyed pulling out what they found in the box and named what they found.”

  With gratitude,

  Mrs. Gordon

  This classroom project was brought to life by A family that cares about Boston.

• A Mini Trampoline for Preschoolers!

  Funded Nov 29, 2023

  Thank you for helping fund my project! This trampoline has been a much needed addition to our classroom!

  My students were so excited to see the trampoline when they came to school. My students who need motor break during the day have used the trampoline. This trampoline will be used to help my students develop gross motor skills. I will add a large dice to the gross motor center where the trampoline will be. The children can roll the dice and jump the corresponding number of times on the trampoline. We used the trampoline as a whole group activity. The children took turns jumping on the trampoline and counting to 10.”

  With gratitude,

  Mrs. Gordon

  This classroom project was brought to life by The DonorsChoose Community and 8 other donors.

• Help Build My Sensory Corner In My Classroom!

  Funded Oct 24, 2023

  Thank you so much for your donation that helped fund my Sensory Corner project!

  These materials have been a needed addition to my classroom. My students with sensory integration needs have been using these materials. They have been touch in stringing the beads, touching the sensory beanbags and throwing them on the motor mats and doing the activitity that their beanbag landed on. I used the motor mats as a whole class math and motor activity. The children took turns throwing a large dice countig the dots on the side of the dice and throw a beanbag on a gross motor mat and did that activity the corresponding number of times. We used the rocker boat when acting out the nursery rhyme "Rub-a-dub-dub". We turn the rocker boat over to a bridge the the children work on walking up and down stair..”

  With gratitude,

  Mrs. Gordon

  This classroom project was brought to life by A Donor Who Loves Teachers and one other donor.

• Creative Learners in Blocks Center!

  Funded Aug 30, 2023

  Thank you for your contribution that helped fund my project

  These materials are a great addition to my blocks center throughout the schook year. We added the garages this month while we are learning about community helpers. My students are able to match the corresponding community helpers figures and their vehicles with the garages. We added the farm animals to the blocks center when we were learning about farms and fall. The woodland animals will be added when we learn about how animals hibernate or adapt in the winter. The arctic animals will be added during animals who live in the arctic theme. Ocean animals will be added during the ocean theme. The number ducks will be added during our pond life theme. The homes will be added during our homes theme when children learn about the different types of homes around the world.”

  With gratitude,

  Mrs. Gordon

• Curious Pre-Readers!

  Funded Apr 3, 2023

  Thank you so much for your contribution that helped fund my project! These materials have been a great addition to our classroom .

  I slowly add the alphabet puzzles as we learn different letters and their sounds. I first introduce them as a whole group activity. The children each take a turnn taking a piece of puzzle and putting in the correct place in the puzzle. They name the picture /or the letter and the sound that the letter makes. I then add the puzzle to our puzzle center for the children to futher explore during Center Time. These puzzles not only help with learning letters they help with fine motor and language development.

  The Rhyming and Beginning sounds boxes are used during whole group and small group work during Center Time. The reinforce the concepts that we are learning and help with language development. I have many children who are second language learners and with the use of these hands on materials helps them with English vocabulary development.”

  With gratitude,

  Mrs. Gordon

  This classroom project was brought to life by PNC Grow Up Great® and 2 other donors.

• Getting Ready To Read With Scholastic Big World!

  Funded May 4, 2023

  Thank you so much for helping fund my project. These magazines help support our curriculum and provide my students with a magazine that we read at school and they can bring home and share with their families. We will read the magazine, talk about the numbers that are on the pictures. My students learn about reading from left to right when I model when reading the magazine.

  We do that activity on the back of the magazine during small group time. These activities help my students develop their fine motor skills along with number, letter recognition and matching skills.

  We will watch the video that goes along with the topic of the month's magazine. We will do the online game as a group on our class Clear Touch screen. This month we did the Nocturnal Matching game which went with our science topic of Nocturnal Animals and the story of the Kissing Hand.”

  With gratitude,

  Mrs. Gordon

  This classroom project was brought to life by PNC Grow Up Great® and one other donor.