Past projects 61
Creating a Calm Corner in Mrs. Burke's PreK
Funded Sep 29, 2024Thank you to our generous donors for for providing us materials to our Calm Corner. This area in our PreK classroom is the most important to our students and their favorite area in our room. The materials in this project provided our children with soft and soothing pillows, sensory pillows and a beautiful faux tree. The students love to relax on the pillows under the tree.
This project also provide our Calm Corner with a breathing board, sensory mats and noise canceling headphones. These items help our students regulate and relax during our busy day.
We also received a yoga kit that we use EVERY day after lunch. The students love being the yoga instructor for the day.
Thank you for your continued support.”
With gratitude,
Mrs. Burke
Sand Play in PreK
Funded Jul 4, 2024Thank you for your generous donations to our PreK Sensory Sand Project. The funds that we received for this project provided our classroom with 4 exploratory boxes of sensory sand. We have a dinosaur box, ice cream box, space box and construction box.
We also received sand to refill these boxes.
The students use this boxes each day during Center Time. They love to mold and create scenes with the sensory sand. These boxes provide hours of fun and help our four year olds develop their fine motor skills.
Thank you for your support !”
With gratitude,
Mrs. Burke
Getting Organized in Our Polish Pre-K Classroom
Funded Jul 8, 2024Thank you so much to our generous donors for your support of our "Creating a Calm Corner in Mrs Burke's PreK" project. The materials in this project have created a relaxing and fun Quiet/Calm Corner. The students love the sequin pillow and the beaded sensory faces. The students enjoy wear the noise canceling ear muffs. The sensory stickers have been placed all over the our classroom for the students to use whenever they need to relax. The tree has created a beautiful and inviting focal point in our Quiet/Calm Corner. Thank you for your continued support.”
With gratitude,
Mrs. Burke
Colorful Printing in PreK
Funded May 7, 2024It is the simple things that we take for granted that make all the difference in our classroom. I am so so grateful for your generous donation of this color printer to our PreK classroom. I can now print out color worksheets for my students. I can also print out colorful labels for our classroom supplies.
So many times I need to send home a note to our parents and did not have a printer available to me. Often times our copier at school is not working or out of ink. This printer now affords me the opportunity to print and copy materials I need for my students and their parents.
Thank you so much for this generous donation to our classroom !”
With gratitude,
Mrs. Burke
This classroom project was brought to life by The DonorsChoose Community and 2 other donors.STEM Toys for PreK
Funded Jan 31, 2024The STEM materials in this project have brought color, texture, giggles, smiles and fun to our Discovery area. The students love to play and engage with all these new materials during Choice Time each day.
The students create amazing structures with the magnetic blocks and love to sort the colorful bug counters. The counting bears are sorted by size and color, depending on the students mood. Watching the students work the tweezers and trying to manipulate the bears. The matching apples allow the students to practicing their counting skills in Polish and English. We use all the bubble materials in the school yard.
Thank you to our generous donors for their support of our STEM project !”
With gratitude,
Mrs. Burke
Science Tools for Our PreK Discovery Center
Funded Apr 8, 2024The science materials in this project gave our students so many fun and engaging activities in our Discovery Area. We love watching the smiles and silly faces on the students when they are working with these new science materials.
The students love exploring the classroom with the magnifying glasses. The pulleys, magnetic wands, levers and simple machines are used on a daily basis by the students in choice time. the students have become very resourceful and creative with what they can do with these science materials.
Thank you to our donors for supporting our future scientists !!”
With gratitude,
Mrs. Burke
Reading Corner Carpet
Funded Feb 14, 2024Thank you for your donations to this Reading Carpet project. We always want to encourage students to engage in and enjoy reading on a daily basis. This beautiful comfy carpet was such an amazing addition to our class library.
Our students love sitting down or many times lying down and reading a good book during the day. Students can write in their journals, read their weekly readers, play with puzzles or tell stories with puppets while sitting on their comfy library carpet.
This reading carpet was an item I have wanted for my students for a very long time. I am so grateful to our supportive donors for giving this beautiful carpet to my students.”
With gratitude,
Mrs. Burke
Polish and English Coloring Books for PreK
Funded Mar 29, 2024The PreK Polish and English Coloring Books that you funded in this project helped support our Dual Language Polish PreK classroom. We are the only Dual Language Polish PreK class in District 24 and we really appreciate the support we receive from our donors.
These books help our students increase their Polish and English vocabulary in a playful and engaging way. We use these Polish and English books on a daily basis to help our students increase their language skills, as well as help them develop their fine motor skills.
Thank you for your continued support of our Dual Language Polish PreK class materials. Your generosity makes these special programs thrive in our school district.”
With gratitude,
Mrs. Burke
Non-Fiction Reading in Our Polish Pre-K Class
Funded May 16, 2024The Scholastic Weekly Readers that you funded for this project are a beloved activity in our PreK classroom. The students look forward to their bi-weekly readers every other Friday morning.
With this project, students were able to receive their own non-fiction magazine that they can read on their own. Each magazine has a fun and engaging activity for the students to work independently on and foster an important PreK skill.
Thank you so much for supporting this reading project. This is always a student favorite activity and one in which they gain so many reading skills for kindergarten.”
With gratitude,
Mrs. Burke
PreK Gets Dressed for Dramatic Play
Funded Jan 15, 2024The dramatic play dress up clothing for this project were a huge hit in our PreK classroom. The students loved the clothing, child sized hangers and the child sized clothing rack.
The career dress up clothing is displayed on the new hangers on the clothing rack in the dramatic play area. The students can pick their clothing and "dress up" for play time.
Thank you so much to our generous donors for your support of this project. Our PreK students love playing with these dress up materials every day during choice time.”
With gratitude,
Mrs. Burke