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Ms. Makambila's Classroom

  • Neff Early Learning Center
  • Houston, TX
  • Nearly all 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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  • Distance Learning and Technology

    Funded Sep 10, 2020

    The technology is so useful for the children to get connected to the teacher (virtual class) when the normal classes are impossible due to the dangerous disease.

    The technology is helpful in reading e-books, playing math, science and literacy games. The kids learn faster and are more motivated.

    The new product allowed the students to get involved with learning ABCs and counting, addition and subtraction, reading and math fluency.

    Almost all the kids are excited about technology, and it is used as an indispensable part of our learning.”

    With gratitude,

    Ms. Makambila

    This classroom project was brought to life by A Generous Donor and 3 other donors.
  • Accessible Literacy, Math, and Science for Pre-K

    Funded Dec 2, 2019

    Thank you so much for giving access to a variety of materials to all my students.

    When the materials reached our classroom in December, everyone got super curious and excited! The students asked many questions and were eager to unpack and use the educational materials, which we did, and they were so happy and motivated!

    We used manipulative and resources widely in the whole groups for explanation, workstations for exploring and everyday practice and learning through play, small groups for guided practice or deeper learning of concepts. For example, the birthday cake helped students to learn numbers and AB (chocolate-vanilla layers) patterns. The owls when stacked on top of each other were used for practicing one-on-one correspondence, number recognition, AB and ABC patterns. We learnt uppercase and lowercase letters with letter popsicles (some called them ice-cream) of different colors (and 'flavors'). We cooked soup and counted vegetables we needed to put from the cans while learning to count by 1 and sometimes by 2 and identify numbers on the cans. We made shapes with geo boards and rubber bands and then used them to make houses and different polygons. We used magnifying glass to look for the insects outside around the playground. Learning Math, Science and Language Arts was fun!”

    With gratitude,

    Ms. Makambila

    This classroom project was brought to life by PNC Grow Up Great® and 3 other donors.
  • Give Opportunities To Each Student

    Funded Jun 25, 2019

    We are very excited about all the materials that we received. The students were very amazed and curious when the boxes arrived.The students are extremely happy about the crayons we use for writing and drawing purposes. We use them to color, write letters and numbers, draw in our "creative stories" journals. We also use glue for arts and crafts as well as for Math whole group (e.g. in the picture, we were learning about positional words (geometry) and moved Pete the Cat on the picture with the schoolbus). We use markers both for workstations, where they can practice letters, shapes, numbers, and words on their own, and in the whole group during the morning message, when we write on the white boards. The stickers are very beautiful and very motivating for the students.

    For the nearest future, the next steps are to use the materials in everyday whole group lessons in Language Arts and Math as well as in Science. We also have art and crafts in workstations , to vary the materials we can use for our practice, for creativity, and for our development of imagination and different skills. The students will use the materials to get ready for Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year celebrations. They used it for the Principal appreciation month to draw special pictures for our Principal. That was a great contribution you have made into education of the young scholars!”

    With gratitude,

    Ms. Makambila

    This classroom project was brought to life by Google.org and 9 other donors.
Some of the goals for our Pre-K students are to learn letters and letter sounds, numbers, basic everyday school vocabulary, to develop socially and emotionally, to focus and pay attention during instruction. They learn how to rhyme words and look for the words with the same letter/sound. They learn to count, name and create shapes, understand and create patterns. Everyone will benefit from the variety of materials, tasks, and workstations, as it makes learning more motivating and it resonates with the young scholars' needs and developmental processes. This project will allow my students to use different materials to learn the letters of the alphabet, numbers, shapes, patterns, acquire basic literacy and math skills through craft materials and glue, playdough mats and playdough for kinesthetic learners, paint and easel for visual learners, markers to write morning message on the whiteboards and practice writing letters, words, numbers, shapes, and patterns .

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Some of the goals for our Pre-K students are to learn letters and letter sounds, numbers, basic everyday school vocabulary, to develop socially and emotionally, to focus and pay attention during instruction. They learn how to rhyme words and look for the words with the same letter/sound. They learn to count, name and create shapes, understand and create patterns. Everyone will benefit from the variety of materials, tasks, and workstations, as it makes learning more motivating and it resonates with the young scholars' needs and developmental processes. This project will allow my students to use different materials to learn the letters of the alphabet, numbers, shapes, patterns, acquire basic literacy and math skills through craft materials and glue, playdough mats and playdough for kinesthetic learners, paint and easel for visual learners, markers to write morning message on the whiteboards and practice writing letters, words, numbers, shapes, and patterns .

About my class

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