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Past projects 82

• STEAM-ing Through Grade 4

  Funded Sep 12, 2023

  Thank you so much for your generous monetary donation and the support that you've shown my students, classroom, and me. It has been a wonderful year watching my students build relationships with their peers and together foster a sense of curiosity and enjoyment of STEAM activities and games. Thanks to your donations we were able to provide my students with magnetic building blocks, gravity maze marble games, building blocks, and much more classroom supplies. We are just about to enter our energy unit in Mystery Science and I cannot wait to see my students make the connection from their marble run and their lessons on "height energy". Thank you again for helping to provide these opportunities.”

  With gratitude,

  Mrs. Shinshiro

  This classroom project was brought to life by United Airlines and 2 other donors.

• Health & Wellness for Our Girls!

  Funded Sep 29, 2023

  Thank you so much for your generous monetary donation and the support that you've shown my students, classroom, and me. With the pads, wipes, deodorant wipes and, extra shorts and underwear provided with this project, we are able to prepare for any "accidents" that may occur for our 4th grade girls. Myself along with 5 other homeroom teachers were able to provide personal hygiene product carts and a supply located in the girl's bathroom so that girls can either ask for help or help themselves. Thank you for helping to normalize, support, and empower our girls!”

  With gratitude,

  Mrs. Shinshiro

• Fourth Grade Coding with Dash

  Funded Sep 3, 2023

  Thank you so much for helping to fund our amazing Dash robots! My students and I were ecstatic when we unboxed our 3 new friends (names to be determined). My fourth graders have been able to use their lessons on Code.org to go hand in hand with writing code in the WonderWorks Blockly app.

  I cannot wait to expand on my students (now) basic knowledge of coding and integrate our Dash with other curriculum. Our Dash have become a great incentive and hands-on learning took in our classroom. I hope that their newly sparked interest in coding continues to grow and inspire other classrooms.”

  With gratitude,

  Mrs. Shinshiro

  This classroom project was brought to life by United Airlines and 3 other donors.

• Bee-Friendly & Earth-Friendly Fourth Graders!

  Funded Jul 20, 2023

  Thank you so much for your generous monetary donations and the love and support you've shown my students and classroom!

  Our students started the year with a fun incentive as they earned a personalized reusable water bottle for returning their "back to school" forms. They've been excited to use these water bottles ever since (especially on PE days).

  We've also planted our bee-friendly pollinating blend of flowers and added them to our classroom garden outside. These will be fun to watch bloom and send home. The best part is that we have extra dirt and seeds to continue planting and gardening all year long!”

  With gratitude,

  Mrs. Shinshiro

  This classroom project was brought to life by General Motors and 2 other donors.

• Books for Our Social Emotional Learning Journey

  Funded Mar 6, 2023

  Thank you for you generous monetary donations and support. Thanks to you we were able to purchase some much need school supplies for a mid-year refresh! Our learning targets never looked better typed, printed, laminated, and hanging on our whiteboard. Students were the most excited for the classroom doorbell, pencil sharpeners, and earbuds that came just in time for standardized testing! We are also excited to put together our bookshelves and work on some end of the year SEL and growth mindset during this busy testing time of the year.”

  With gratitude,

  Mrs. Shinshiro

  This classroom project was brought to life by Hawai'i State Department of Education.

• The Traveling Novel Study

  Funded Mar 30, 2023

  Thank you for you generous monetary donations and support. Thanks to you we were able to purchase a class set of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory for our traveling novel study. We were also able to purchase more graphic novels for our classroom library as well as leveled readers for our emerging readers and contact paper to protect these new books. Our students were most impressed by the amount of books we continued to pull out of our Amazon boxes but were probably the most excited to see the graphic novels freshly wrapped and added to our library!”

  With gratitude,

  Mrs. Shinshiro

  This classroom project was brought to life by The DonorsChoose Community and one other donor.

• We Solemnly Swear We Are Up to No Good!

  Funded Mar 30, 2023

  Thank you for you generous monetary donations and support. Thanks to you we were able to purchase multiple sets of Harry Potter books and other themed Harry Potter supplies to run a fun Harry Potter book club! This was a great way to reward students and also build relationships with each other. I look forward to being able to continue this book club with new students each year and recreating these fun projects. I hope that these fun activities continue to spark magic and mischief (good mischief) with my 4th graders!”

  With gratitude,

  Mrs. Shinshiro

  This classroom project was brought to life by The DonorsChoose Community and one other donor.

• Celebrating All School Year Long!

  Funded Nov 18, 2022

  Thank you so much for your generous monetary donations. Our students were over the moon to see the new prizes that they could earn. The cute squish pens, highlighters and roller erasers were definitely the most popular.

  Thanks to you we were able to provide our students with a mid school year supply refresh with additional pencils and bandages. We were also in need of the replacement hole punch, and replenishment of stamps, laminations sheets, and dry erase markers.

  We are ready for the second half of the school year and ready to go out with lots of fun and hard work!”

  With gratitude,

  Mrs. Shinshiro

  This classroom project was brought to life by Panda Cares.

• PBIS Incentives for Royal Behavior!

  Funded Dec 12, 2022

  Thank you so much for your generous monetary donations. Thanks to you we have an abundance of motivational prizes for students to earn with exemplarily student behavior and academic achievements. Being able to reward students through our PBIS program has been awesome and students are loving the cute pencils, erasers, and pens. We were even able to purchase prizes for academic achievements in their XtraMath practice with stickers, keychains, and fidgets. Lastly and most excitingly, you helped to provide our students with personalized keychains for their birthday gifts this year.

  Thank you again so much for helping to make this school year amazing!”

  With gratitude,

  Mrs. Shinshiro

  This classroom project was brought to life by Equitable Foundation.

• Mini-Society: Fourth Grade Financial Literacy Fun

  Funded Sep 20, 2022

  Thank you so much for your generous monetary donations. We were able to provide so many things for my students through this project. We were able to provide family Christmas gifts that the students created, Kindergarten buddy slime project, earbuds for testing, resources for our Mini Society project, and so much more. My students were so excited for each project that they were able to carry out and participate in. They enjoyed each activity so much they can't decide on which was their favorite.

  Thank you again for helping to make this school year a great school year for my students!”

  With gratitude,

  Mrs. Shinshiro

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