Past projects 20
Sensory Toys
Funded Aug 12, 2021Thank you so much for your donations for the classroom. By giving the students sensory toys to use daily, has helped them self regulate their needs. Students enjoy having many options to choose from to when they need to self regulate. The liquid timers, and fidget toys are used through out the day. Students use them during academic work, in addition to calm anixety or stress. The fidget toys are a great addition to the calm down area, the bean bag is a place for the students to go when they need a quiet moment, self regulate or to decompress.”
With gratitude,
Ms. Jena Ferrara
This classroom project was brought to life by Bill Gates and 3 other donors.Visual Learning
Funded May 17, 2021Thank you so much for the donation to our classroom and providing the students with the tools to have a successful learning enviorment. The students are enjoying using the items in everyday learning. The students are excited to learn through out their school day and making it fun while doing so. The right brianed sound spelling cards and activies are a great visual tool for the students. They look up at the board where the cards are displayed to help them with their writing daily. The visual and movement supports with the sound spelling cards are a great way to meet the needs of all learning styles.”
With gratitude,
Ms. Jena Ferrara
Making Learning Fun While Learning Remotely
Funded Dec 17, 2020Thank you so much for the items, the some of the students are now in the classroom and some are still learning virtual. These items are being used in both educational settings. The students in the classroom are excited to have hands on learning again. While the virtual students are learning through me modeling and using the items virtually. The Little Red Door SEL kit is a great addition to use with the students to help develop identifying emotions and feelings. The hands on materials that are with the kit are a huge hit, the red door and the animals are some of their favorites.”
With gratitude,
Ms. Jena Ferrara
Materials for Distance Learning.
Funded Jul 20, 2020Thank you so much for your generosity and donation to help provide the students with distance learning supplies. The students use the materials daily to help with their learning both synchronously and asynchronously. The students enjoy using their white boards for learning, math, letters, and writing sentences. The Osmo is a great tool used as a projector. This what I can share what I am teaching and we can complete the task together. In addition the Osmo and stand allows me to do read alouds over video and the students can see as I read.
Thank you again for all your support during this time.”
With gratitude,
Ms. Jena Ferrara
Visualizing With Pictures
Funded Jan 18, 2020Thank you so much for your donations. You have brought so much joy to the students in the classroom with the supplies that you have given them. The printer has help us tremendously, because of you I get to bring their visuals to life. Their communication boards are vibrant and the icons are actually come to life. Such as the icon for banana is not on the grayscale anymore, it is actually yellow!!! Now I can print story boards in color and that matches the story that was read. The students can make the real connections and communicate their knowledge with the help of the sentence starts and visual pictures.”
With gratitude,
Ms. Jena Ferrara
Supplies Needed for Students with Special Needs.
Funded Oct 24, 2019Thank you are awesome. Thank you for your donation my students love the items and were so happy to use them. They are already so excited to learn with materials. The smencils are a huge hit with the kids they love to write even more now. The skin colored paper is a wonderful addition to the paper supply that is in our classroom. Now there is an option for all students when creating art projects. The velcro is something that we use daily in the classroom to create student reward charts, schedules, and the students daily binders.”
With gratitude,
Ms. Jena Ferrara
This classroom project was brought to life by An anonymous classroom supporter and 3 other donors.Help Us Get Regulated and Learn
Funded Aug 25, 2019WOW!! Thank you so much for making this project come to life. The students enjoy the seat cushions, chair bands daily and sensory objects. The items help regulate their bodies while they are learning at centers, during whole group and mainstreaming with their general education peers. The apple tv is used daily, for educational stories that are brought to life, and learning new social emotional skills. The students are having a successful year in their learning environment because of you. I cannot express how grateful I am for your donation to my students and my classroom. The students bring a smile to my face everyday and because of you they are growing and learning new skills.
Thank You!”
With gratitude,
Ms. Jena Ferrara
Namaste Calm
Funded Aug 16, 2019WOW!! Thank you so much for making this project come to life. The students enjoy the seat cushions, chair bands daily and sensory objects. The items help regulate their bodies while they are learning at centers, during whole group and mainstreaming with their general education peers. The apple tv is used daily, for educational stories that are brought to life, and learning new social emotional skills. The students are having a successful year in their learning environment because of you. I cannot express how grateful I am for your donation to my students and my classroom. The students bring a smile to my face everyday and because of you they are growing and learning new skills.
Thank You!”
With gratitude,
Ms. Jena Ferrara
Ready to Learn
Funded Dec 15, 2015Thank you all for your donanations for our new classroom supplies. The students love looking at the books and being read to. Some of the students have their preferred book. The students will bring a book to myself or classroom assistants to be read to. While the students are being read to, I can see that they are engaged in the book looking at the pictures and some are even tracking. The new classroom toys such as the games and leapfrog items are a great tool. The students are engaging by sharing and learning social skills. Even though the students are non verbal, they are smiling and engaging with one another while playing with their new toys.
You all have touched our hearts with your donanations. The students now have more items to learn from and explore with one another. I use many of the items as teaching tools. This keeps the students more engaged with hands on manipulative's and developing language.
We are so grateful and amazed by your generosity.”
With gratitude,
Ms. Jena Ferrara
This classroom project was brought to life by Google.org and 9 other donors.Supplies for Our New Autism Class
Funded Jan 22, 2015Words can not express how grateful we are for your generous donation to our classroom. I wanted to provided you a little more information on our class. This is the first year that LAUSD has a Autism Alternate Curriculum class. So that means, the students in the class have moderate to severe Autism. We have students that use assistive technology devices, learning how to communicate using language, and learning how to write and hold a pencil. Sometimes it is hard for the students to stay focused on their given task. However, with the items you purchased for our classroom, helps them stay on task for 5 - 10 minutes. Which is huge in our class.
What you have done for our class by providing the manipulative's, access to the curriculum ( printer), music instruments and train set ( social play), helps the students develop socially, language, and academically. You have touch these students lives in a way that provides them to grow on a daily basis in our classroom. Most of my students will carry on with me for the next year ( K-2) and they will benefit from your kind gesture.
We and future students will forever be grateful for your donation to our classroom.”
With gratitude,
Ms. Jena Ferrara
This classroom project was brought to life by Annenberg Foundation and 2 other donors.