Mrs. Kugelman's Classroom Edit display name

Past projects 264

• Third Graders Want to Dissect Owl Pellets!

  Funded Aug 22, 2018

  My students loved dissecting owl pellets! Each student received at least two pellets. They learned so much about the different animals that the barn owl eats, and they really enjoyed finding the skulls and different body parts from the different animals that the owl had eaten.

  This is definitely a "hands-on" project, and something I look forward to teaching and have my students experience every year. After the students sorted the different skulls and body parts that they found in the pellets, they worked on gluing the bones onto black paper so they could create an imaginary creature. This was a great culminating project and super science lesson too!”

  With gratitude,

  Mrs. Kugelman

  This classroom project was brought to life by The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and 7 other donors.

• PowerMyLearning Family Engagement Innovators Home Program

  Funded Oct 12, 2018

  Thank you so much for matching my donation to this amazing at home online opportunity. I know this will bring a new level of excitement for learning with our students. Your generous match made it possible to add this great program to our technology-based curriculum. Thank you very, very much. I could not have added this program to our class without your amazing match offer.”

  With gratitude,

  Mrs. Kugelman

  This classroom project was brought to life by Morgridge Family Foundation and one other donor.

• Take Us to the Arboretum to Tour a Tongva Hut!

  Funded Aug 23, 2018

  Thank you so much for helping all the third grade students go on an amazing field trip to the Arboretum. The students learned about the Tongva Native Americans and entered a huge Tongva hut. They loved learning how to build a hut, climbing on a large tree, seeing a beautiful waterfall, and hiking up a trail. They also learned about early Los Angeles history and saw lots of equipment that was used in the late 1800s. The peacocks were everywhere, and the students loved seeing them! Each student received a free peacock bookmark to remember their trip.

  We also toured the old train depot and the students loved learning about an ice box and seeing how small the section was for refrigeration. We saw different equipment that was used in the kitchen, including a wood burning stove that long ago was bought from a catalog and shipped by train for $25. The rain stayed away during our field trip, except for the last few minutes as we were loading the bus. This was a great learning experience and adventure. Your help covering the cost of the bus transportation is greatly appreciated! Come visit our bulletin board to see what my students loved most about the field trip!”

  With gratitude,

  Mrs. Kugelman

  This classroom project was brought to life by The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and 13 other donors.

• Help Our Teams Prepare for Flag Football Competitions!

  Funded Aug 29, 2018

  Thank you very much for donating to our project so we could get new flag football resources. The football team loves using this equipment to prepare for the Saturday competitions.

  So many of our students beg Coach April to play flag football because they feel that it is a great way to practice for the Saturday games. Your help donating to this project and providing us with a funding incentive made such a huge difference!

  Our team practice is going great now that we have a new set of flag footballs. It is a safe way to practice, and our co-ed team looks forward to playing together often.”

  With gratitude,

  Mrs. Kugelman

  This classroom project was brought to life by DICK'S Sporting Goods Foundation - Sports Matter and 10 other donors.

• Can you Hear our Poetry Presentations and See our Movies?

  Funded May 23, 2018

  The new wireless speaker is an amazing addition to our classroom. We were practicing how to respond to an interview from our Language Arts reader, so I grabbed the wireless microphone and started to interview my students, and called them by the name of the character in our reader. Suddenly the responses were well thought out, and everyone wanted to be interviewed and to pretend they were the character. Who knew that a microphone could bring out so much from students? We have also used the microphone for some puppet shows my students created and to sing songs with.

  Now that we have the speaker, Go Noodle has amazing sound, and we use the speaker often during the school day. My students are not yet ready to work on their Poetry PowerPoints, but when they are, the speaker and microphone will be a wonderful addition to our classroom. Thank you so much for your help in our getting these great resources!”

  With gratitude,

  Mrs. Kugelman

  This classroom project was brought to life by An Anonymous Arts Funder and 13 other donors.

• OSMO Technology Will Help My Third Graders Learn to Code

  Funded Aug 23, 2018

  The Osmo hands-on games are a huge hit in our classroom. Students are Coding with Awbie and learning great block programming strategies. They are also learning music and coding skills with Coding Jam. The students are making songs and sharing the tunes with the class.They are playing the Words game, creating Tangram shapes, and using Osmo Masterpiece to draw great illustrations. Your help donating to this project means that students will collaborate in the classroom to learn by doing - the Osmo way!”

  With gratitude,

  Mrs. Kugelman

  This classroom project was brought to life by The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and 29 other donors.

• Silent Movement and Hanging Up our Third Grade Work!

  Funded Aug 22, 2018

  Thank you so much for helping us get the strong magnets to hold up my banners and student artwork. They are extremely strong and I love using them!

  I also appreciate having a class set of the chair covers. The noise level from moving chairs has dropped considerably! This helps students focus more because when a student moves out of his/her chair, there is no sound! It also helps the teacher and her class downstairs from us. She used to hear all our chairs moving, and now the sound is gone! You have changed our classroom by your generosity!”

  With gratitude,

  Mrs. Kugelman

  This classroom project was brought to life by The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and 24 other donors.

• We'll Get a Charge Out of Our iPad Docking Stations!

  Funded Aug 22, 2018

  I can't believe how simple and small our two new iPad docking stations are, and how they are so fantastic and easy to use! It is a wonderful problem to have too much technology to charge and store during a school day. Instead of charging our 10 iPads in our green cart, we can free up that cart so it can be used to charge our MacBook laptops and chromebooks. The students helped me put the docking stations together, and they even came with short charging cords for all of our iPads. Your help donating to this project is fantastic. We love having an easy way to charge our iPads.”

  With gratitude,

  Mrs. Kugelman

  This classroom project was brought to life by The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and 6 other donors.

• Third Graders Want to Make Cut Paper Animated Movies!

  Funded May 24, 2018

  Taking a novel and having the students turn it into a script without narration is one of the highest levels of synthesis. Students re-read key sections of the book and find ways to invent new dialogue with the characters.

  These photographs show the next step in creating an animated film - recording the dialogue from the student-created script. We use GarageBand and our Snowball microphone to record each student's voice as he/she reads the script with great emotion. The students love the fact that they can have more than one take to get the right tone for their character. This is a great form of acting - voiceovers, and my students are great actors!”

  With gratitude,

  Mrs. Kugelman

  This classroom project was brought to life by An Anonymous Arts Funder and 10 other donors.

• Our Classroom MacBook Pro Laptops Need a Tune Up!

  Funded May 23, 2018

  I was fortunate to receive 7 MacBook Pro laptops when Google funded every DonorsChoose.org project in Los Angeles in 2012. Now, six years later, those laptops were getting kind of slow and needed updates. Because of your incredible generosity, I was able to get all the MacBook laptops updated, cleaned up and ready to go during our summer break.

  My third grade students love using the MacBooks! When I suggest that they use our Reflex Math online subscription to practice their multiplication tables, they are thrilled! They can't wait to play online games on the MacBook as they practice their times tables. Technology is a great way to reach young minds! Thank you for helping to give new life to our laptops!”

  With gratitude,

  Mrs. Kugelman

  This classroom project was brought to life by An Anonymous Arts Funder and 28 other donors.