Words cannot truly express the gratitude and appreciation that I have for this project coming to life. My students have truly enjoyed the Bose SoundDock in our class.
Each morning when my students enter our classroom they are welcomed with soothing classical music to get their day started. I also introduced my students to music from all around the world. It is amazing to see their reactions and watch them as they bop their heads to the beat of the music.
I am currently reading aloud, "The Autobiography of a Stray, A Dog's Life" to my class, which I have on audiobook too. I downloaded the audiobook on our class iPod so that my students could listen to the narration on the SoundDock. The use of the audiobook on the system had an amazing impact on my students comprehension. My students who had attention difficulties were able to focus more on the story and participated more with our discussions of the book. Every time I hit the pause button with the remote there was an awe that echoed the room. They did not want to stop listening and reading the book. As I do not want to stop talking about all the ways you helped impact my students learning through your donations.
Thank you again for enriching the lives of my students.”
Thank you, from the bottom of my heart, for all of your support and donations! My first graders love the new art and music supplies. My students come from low income families, and truly appreciate the wonderful materials that you have purchased for them. They love learning dance moves with the dance DVD's, singing along to the educational CD's and using all of the art materials. We are blessed to have such wonderful people like you, provide us with these wonderful materials. Thank you again, from my first graders and myself.”
Thank you to all of the donors who funded this project to help keep our classroom music organized and our students energized and ready to learn through bringing great-sounding music to their ears! We received the Bose SoundDock first, and there was a delay on the iPod Touch due to vendor restrictions. The wonderful staff at DonorsChoose helped us to find another vendor that could provide the iPod Touch to educational institutions, and we received the iPod Touch this week.
When I had set up the iPod and synced it to iTunes on our new HP notebook computer from another project that was just funded (lucky us!), we were ready to begin using our new circle time music tools to learn! Let me tell you, the kids may not know exactly why our experience was better, but they sure felt something different in the air. The rich sound of the music coming from the speakers of the SoundDock sure is pleasing to the ears. I recently purchased an album with 99 classical pieces of music that sound heavenly to the ears using the SoundDock, and I use that as a calming background during free choice time.
During circle time, we don't have to turn up the volume as loud to try to hear the words to the songs. Dr. Jean's "My Mother is a Baker" (good for language development and sequential ordering) was easy to listen to and be able to hear the lyrics. In the pictures I've uploaded, you'll see the kids dancing to Dr. Jean's "Tooty Ta" song (multiple concepts and also sequential ordering) while they get to see their teacher being just as silly - no pictures of that! An added bonus is the remote control that allows me to go forward or backward in a playlist, from one playlist to another, pause between songs, or raise or lower volume at the touch of a very responsive button.
What a way to "glam up" our classroom circle time! Thanks also to Adam Lambert, whose love for music and growing young minds and creative beings was and continues to be an inspiration for so many people who also have giving hearts. Thank you to all of you wonderful people who donated to make our classroom one that encourages a love of music while we learn!”
With gratitude,
Mrs. C.
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