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Mrs. Veselka's Classroom

  • West Valley High School
  • Yakima, WA
  • More than half of students from low‑income households Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more

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  • Puppet Show Project

    Funded May 10, 2021

    I can't describe how grateful I am for your support. Watching my students this year, blossom and grow while creating stories using puppets, was a true joy. One student in particular who came into my classroom, head down, only wishing to disappear, wrote me a note at the end of the semester saying, "I had so much fun with puppets, and liked that I made friends. I now have two friends." Puppets allowed these students to relearn skills that were lost during COVID, and it is thanks to you! You provided the supplies to help continue to support students, and we all are grateful!”

    With gratitude,

    Mrs. Veselka

  • Building WRITING SKILLS in the Drama Classroom!

    Funded Oct 23, 2020

    First let me say thank you again! I truly cannot thank you enough for all your help. In a time when teaching is so different from what we all know, we are constantly looking for ways to help our students feel connected, cared for, and engaged. These new desks have been invaluable for helping my students work on their ChromeBooks, create masks and puppets, write in our journals, and offering flexibility at a safe distance. Flexibility to create good drama, communicate in a new way, and learn together.

    One of the first things we do in my classes is we create some tools, masks or puppets and talk about how we communicate with body language. Because of your generosity, we had these small personalized desks, giving us the ability to work, then move the desks to one side to stand and have "bubble space" to warm-up, move and practice our body language with the masks/puppets. As we continue through the term we will use the desks as we write scripts, be creative, and learn; thank you again for helping make this a reality.”

    With gratitude,

    Mrs. Veselka

These desks will be used during hybrid learning and beyond. We are looking for ways to help students social distance while they do their independent work, but also be able to store the desks so we can have room to learn social skills and interact with warm-ups, focus activities, and "good drama". Student will use these flexible seating desks to write in their journals and work on script writing in their Chromebooks. It is my goal that these "desks" will help students stay socially distanced while being about to work together and focus on what they are doing. If I have to bring actual desks into the class space there will not be enough room for students to move about and create drama.

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These desks will be used during hybrid learning and beyond. We are looking for ways to help students social distance while they do their independent work, but also be able to store the desks so we can have room to learn social skills and interact with warm-ups, focus activities, and "good drama". Student will use these flexible seating desks to write in their journals and work on script writing in their Chromebooks. It is my goal that these "desks" will help students stay socially distanced while being about to work together and focus on what they are doing. If I have to bring actual desks into the class space there will not be enough room for students to move about and create drama.

About my class

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