Past projects 2
Building in Joy With Games, Puzzles, and Art Activities
Funded Aug 26, 2022Thank you so much for seeding my classroom with joyful activities! Students have made great use of Boggle and Quiddler for word play, mindful coloring, puzzles, and origami for anxiety management, Jenga for team building, and more. These activities have lightened our mood, increasing students' social emotional capacity to learn.
We frequently started class with word game play, especially Boggle. Students discovered words and within-word patterns through the use of these games. The games also supported learning about homographs, homophones and words with multiple meanings.
Additionally, I was able to create a resource library for students to access when they needed a calming activity such as a puzzle or a coloring page. This supported students' ability to self-reset and rejoin the class for learning.
Going into next year, I am thinking a lot about how to build more word play and word study into our class, for which the word games will continue to be much used. The calming activities are not going out of style either, so thank you so much for contributing to them.”
With gratitude,
Ms. Jen
This classroom project was brought to life by Bill Gates and 8 other donors.Journalism In the English Classroom
Funded Nov 28, 2010I want to thank you so much for your contributions to my classroom. The voice recorders helped my students capture exact quotes as they interviewed their family and community members about their experiences of human rights for their human rights journalism project. The stories that emerged from these interviews paint a vivid picture of the human rights experience of immigrant communities in our city. I'd like to share a few quotes from the interviews with you:
"In my country I did not have enough food to eat because I did not have a job. Only when I went to the forest to hunt for bamboo shoots, then I had food to eat." -- interview by a student from Burma with her mother
"After my mom and dad died when I was 10 years old, every morning I had to wake up early and cook food for my older brothers and younger sisters. When I finished my housework I had to go to the field for work. I worked the whole day in field.I had to watch cow, ox and other many animals every day and give them grass and food. I had to worked all the time for my family." -- interview by a student from Bhutan with her father
"During the war in 1990-91, I traveled by walking to Ghana. I hid among the trees and drank dirty water. I almost gave up." -- interview by a student from Liberia with his aunt
I know that the voice recorders will also help my students in a multitude of ways in the coming years. Thank you for your assistance.”
With gratitude,
Ms. Jen
This classroom project was brought to life by Bing and 23 other donors.