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Past projects 36

• New School Year...

  Funded Jan 30, 2017

  Compositions books what can I say... We use two per student and I have about 65-70 students. As a Math teacher we have an interacting journal for our notes. I request students to bring the composition book that has quadrilateral squares instead of lines. Unfortunately is a bit more expensive and my students parents to do not have the income to splurge on a composition book. I want to be able to provide my students with the necessary supplies and I with your donation I will.

  A basic pencils is all we ask at times and with your donation I am able to have what I need for my students. We have table caddies with our daily supplies such as pencils, colors, color pencils, highlighters, post it note to even tape. With donors from Donors-Choose I am able to keep my caddies fully stock.

  Thank you”

  With gratitude,

  Mrs. Vargas

• Supplies We Can Use to Get Organized

  Funded Jan 30, 2017

  We are using the color pens for our interacting Math journal. We are teaching note taking strategies such as color coding. Having color pens helps to stay organize. Tape dispensers my goals is to replace the old ones I have. We are trying to get one tape dispenser per table, and with your help I was able to complete my goal. We use tape to paste on our notes in our interacting Math journals. Students are super excited to have tape on the tables.

  I am excited we are getting our plastic container for our work-stations. I was looking for a system for organizing and these plastics boxes are really going to help.

  Once again

  Thank you”

  With gratitude,

  Mrs. Vargas

• Classroom Supplies

  Funded Dec 5, 2016

  We are using our new resources daily. The tape we use it during whole group instruction when I am teaching new concepts. The tape is use to paste note and foldables in our journals. The glue is used for interacting school projects when I want students to work with hands-on activities. We try to have hands-on activities at least twice a week. The binder clips have many uses to keep me organize and to keep the students organize. Students use the binder clips for task cards when we are reviewing for test. My students got so excited when they received the news we are getting new supplies. They know to be more vigilant when walking by front of the office as we check for packages.”

  With gratitude,

  Mrs. Vargas

• Sounds of Learning

  Funded Dec 31, 2016

  Technology is evolving daily and we have to evolved as well. We use computers and iPADs daily. We try to merge together learning the basics as well as mastering technology. We use computers for work-stations. Work-stations are when students get to work on a particular TEKS independently without the teachers guidance. One of our work-stations is the computer lab, where students get on Math websites to practice particular skills. We needed headphones for students and I am happy to announce with your contribution each of my students have headphones.

  Some of our students come to school with out supplies and with this project i am able to provided composition books and pencils. To some they seem as basic supplies but for my students they can not bring the necessary supplies.

  Thank you”

  With gratitude,

  Mrs. Vargas

• Paper, Pencils and Duck Tape

  Funded Sep 26, 2016

  I want thank all of our donors for the help and donations we received. We use the paper daily to make copies. The clipboard we use when we have hands on activities outside.

  The color cardstock we use to glue on foldable on our notebooks. The write & wipe boards help us to have competition to enhance our math skills. We use tape and pencils to add our notes to our interacting journals. I am grateful for the pencil holder, command hooks. handheld hole puncher, and hole puncher to get me organize. I use all kinds Duck Tape Brand Colored Duct Tapes in Red, Zebra Print, Neon Orange, Yellow, Blue Leopard Print, Leopard Print, Pink/Black Zebra, Electric Blue, Pink, Blue, Purple, and green to cover our journals.

  Thank you”

  With gratitude,

  Mrs. Vargas

• Empowering Students In Math Through Art

  Funded Feb 8, 2016

  Being able to make the connection between subjects is important. Some of the books we received will help us during workstations. Examples are Strategies to Integrate the Arts in Mathematics, Once Upon A Dime, Math Art: Hands-On Math Activities, Math Potatoes: Mind-stretching Brain Food , Quick & Easy Math Art, Math-trapezes: The Art of Problem-Solving, Math Art Fun: Teaching Kids to See the Magic and Multitude of Mathematics in Modern Art, Math Curse, The Best Of Times, Fractions in Disguise: A Math Adventure,

  MathART Projects and Activities, Anno's Mysterious Multiplying Jar

  Mummy Math: An Adventure in Geometry, Sir Cumference and the First Round Table, Math For All Seasons: Mind-Stretching Math Riddles, The Grapes Of Math, Divide and Ride; and Math Fables Too: Making Science Count. These books help understand Math in a real world application and in fun activities.”

  With gratitude,

  Mrs. Vargas

  This classroom project was brought to life by an anonymous donor and 2 other donors.

• Workstation Time...

  Funded Jul 12, 2016

  To start off I want to thank all of your donations we are able manage our workstations. My students love to work in workstations because they get to use our carpet squares when they sit on the floor. We store our daily supplies in the large crates to keep our classroom nice an neat. I use the crate on wheels to stay organize daily. Thank you my students and I appreciate all of your support. We also received pencils that keep us going daily. Tape to get our notes organized in our notebooks. As a third year teacher I can use all the help I can get.”

  With gratitude,

  Mrs. Vargas

• Bringing Literature into Math Class

  Funded Mar 17, 2016

  This project has help students facilitate cross curriculum making the connection between Math and Reading. We now have a class of the set of the book The Number Devil we began a book study. We are also expanding our Math book library with books such as Mathematicians are People Too, Great Number Rumble: A Story of Math in Surprising Places, Arithetricks: 50 Easy Ways to Add, Subtract, Multiply and Divided, 101 Things Everyone Should Know About Math; and Math Book for Girls. My students love to go to our Math Library to enjoy reading books. My students were over the moon excited when we received our books.

  Thank you”

  With gratitude,

  Mrs. Vargas

  This classroom project was brought to life by #BestSchoolDay and 2 other donors.

• Literature in Math

  Funded Sep 22, 2015

  The resources we received are helping us in many forms. I love to do cross curriculum and implement reading in math. We are growing a math library by including books like Math Stories, Math Arts, One Minute Mysteries: 65 Short Mysteries You Solve with Math, One Grain od Rice A Mathematical Folktale, The Number Devil, and Math Content Picture Dictionary. We were even fortunate to receive book bins to store books. My students are able to make the connections with real world situations be exploring our Math books.”

  With gratitude,

  Mrs. Vargas

  This classroom project was brought to life by Experian and one other donor.

• Classroom Supplies

  Funded Dec 30, 2015

  In the spring my students prepare for Texas STAAR assessments and we greatly utilize the resources donated such as TEKS 5th Grade Math Test Prep for STAAR, and STAAR Grade 5 Mathematics Assessment Flashcard Study System: STAAR Test Practice Questions. I was able to provide my students with composition books, and pencils during the school year. I was able to place one stapler per table. The Post-it were use as add on to our interacting journals.

  My students were so excited when we stopped by the office to pick up our packages. They knew the good news and couldn't wait to open our gifts.”

  With gratitude,

  Mrs. Vargas