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I would like to thank each one of you for the immense help and

inspiration to my classroom. As you can see from the posted pictures,

my students did some amazing work that they, their families and school

were very proud of. We held an end of the year art show/auction that

was a joint effort with the AP Euro class where the art class created a

work of art from a different art period and the history students wrote a

summary about what they think the art is about and what time period,

from their readings, did they think it was from. There was a great turn

out for the first of this new annual event with parents,

administrators, teachers, and students coming. With your assistance of

materials three students were accepted to the prestigious Ryman Art

program on Saturday's.”

With gratitude,

Mr. ARNOLD

I would like to thank each one of you for the immense help and

inspiration to my classroom. As you can see from the posted pictures,

my students did some amazing work that they, their families and school

were very proud of. We held an end of the year art show/auction that

was a joint effort with the AP Euro class where the art class created a

work of art from a different art period and the history students wrote a

summary about what they think the art is about and what time period,

from their readings, did they think it was from. There was a great turn

out for the first of this new annual event with parents,

administrators, teachers, and students coming. With your assistance of

materials three students were accepted to the prestigious Ryman Art

program on Saturday's.”

With gratitude,

Mr. ARNOLD

I would like to thank each one of you for the immense help and inspiration to my classroom. As you can see from the posted pictures, my students did some amazing work that they, their families and school were very proud of. We held an end of the year art show/auction that was a joint effort with the AP Euro class where the art class created a work of art from a different art period and the history students wrote a summary about what they think the art is about and what time period, from their readings, did they think it was from. There was a great turn out for the first of this new annual event with parents, administrators, teachers, and students coming. With your assistance of materials three students were accepted to the prestigious Ryman Art program on Saturday's.”

With gratitude,

Mr. ARNOLD

Thank you for contributing to my classroom!  The purchase of this camera and the success of it's use in the classroom has encouraged my school to purchase additional cameras for a classroom set.  The students are so excited to be given a camera to create a video of what they know.

The camera has allowed students to create short movies, instead of a slide presentation and brought a new level of interest to the class.

I truly appreciate your contributions and encourage you to continue to support other donnorschoose projects”

With gratitude,

Mr. Stocks

This is just a small token of my gratitude for your generous donation to my classroom. The production equipment that you donated has helped and encouraged my students. They have created some really professional looking DVDs!! They have been acting like reporters, interviewing various people around the campus, taking pictures and videos and then putting together and editing the DVD. It was then shown school-wide on our closed circuit system. My school does not have the funds to support an endeavor such as this, so I thank you very much.”

With gratitude,

Ms. Smedley

We are so thankful to Donors Choose and its donors for making this enrichment program a success. Fashion design is such a great way for the students to experience the art of sewing and using math skills as they learn measuring. The creative juices were flowing on Fridays as the students began to put their ideas which they created on paper into wearable fashions. Many students are using a sewing machine for the first time and are amazed at what it can do.

Your donations will help us to make many creations. Some of which are already in progress and others which will help us to get started again in September. A day doesn't pass that a student asks when the class will start again, they are all very anxious.

Thank you again, you are all very appreciated”

With gratitude,

Mrs. Youkers

Thank you so much for donating to my classroom. The students have really enjoyed making books in our class. They have made color books, number books, and "building blueprints" which they use in the block center as instructions for building different types of structures. In addition to making books and taking pictures, they have also benefited from the binding machine by creating a workbook to use over the summer to keep them fresh on their skills and give them a jump start on Kindergarten. You have helped them create a love for reading and a desire to be a lifelong learner.”

With gratitude,

Mrs. Bull

The universe was working with us. I say this because, it was only a month after receiving the gallery walls that the The Art Rock Star Traveling Art Trips Scholarship program began to systematically fall into place. First, our school received an out of the blue invitation to display our students' work in the beautiful lobby of one of the largest hospitals in the city. So, we got our first opportunity to become a traveling show and advocate the arts and our schools arts program.

Secondly, It turned out to be more than a one-day display opportunity. The director of the hospital helped our school organize and host a weekend auction and sale of the students' work in the show. Prior to this, in anticipation of the gallery walls arriving, and not even knowing if we would have a venue this school year, my students and I decided that we would create work anyway, in anticipation for what would come. Hence, if you build it they would come.

And they did come, from word of mouth, from the emails that the hospital directors circulated to its staff, its clients, its stakeholders, and and overall community, They came. And with them came a curiosity and the opportunity for me and my students to sell them on the power and importance of the arts to motivate children to strive for excellence, to push the envelope on the completion of a task, to give more than just enough to shut the teacher up. They did come, and I do believe that they left with that same spirit that you had after you came to DonorsChoose.org, and out of curiosity right clicked on the Art Rock Star Traveling Arts Trip program, read about the need of this little red headed teacher from the south and her inner city school students and said to yourselves: "Yeah, I believe in this program and I want to help make this happen for that teacher and her students." And you did make it happen, and as a result of your generosity towards our program, the visitors to our first traveling show made it happen. Through the sales of our students artwork (and some of my own) our art program was able to raise enough money to give two week art summer camp scholarships to three very happy students (I mean so happy they were on the verge of practically doing a couple of back flips).

Your gifts created one heck of a snowball effect in my student's lives. Thank you so much. And keep those balls rolling ”

With gratitude,

Ms. Franklin