Past projects 2
Making Students Feel At Home
Funded Jul 24, 2018Thank you so much for you donations to our classroom. We have been using them since the start of the year, and I wanted to apologize for the delay in response on my part as the educator. Students use the fidget bands daily and thoroughly enjoy being able to move even when they are being asked to sit in their seats.
Students who first saw the materials that were provided to our classroom were giddy with excitement and still get thrilled when they get to do things like read in the tent. The tent is set up in the reading corner of my classroom and students are always eager to get their turn inside. Students use it to read, do partner work, as well as a calming place for students to cope with emotions or process an emotionally charged event.
The next step that these students will be taking is for us to move further and further from the traditional approach to taking in information. Students are going to be allowed to move around in a more free range form and be allowed to pick any seat of their choice over the upcoming weeks. Thank you for investing in this vision of self managed learning in the classroom without you none of this would be possible. I appreciate you, and your gifts to our classroom very much.”
With gratitude,
Mrs. Bates
Help Inspire a Love for Literacy and Math Education
Funded Apr 5, 2018Our class got to explore shapes in a new way that they had never experienced before. Thanks to your donations, we used hands on stations almost daily to explore the way shapes are made, and the way that they make up our world every single day. When students first received our boxes they were thrilled. Opening the boxes, and explaining to them how we had obtained these materials thanks to great people in our community was very important to me as an educator. Each time we used these materials my student would refer to them as the 'special manipulatives because they knew that someone in their community cared enough to purchase these items for them. We also received new books for our reading corner through this Donors Choose account, and I can not say thank you enough. They were so thrilled to read all their new books, especially "The Fly Guy" series! Thank you again for being a part of their education, and for caring about our school!”
With gratitude,
Mrs. Bates