The 2009-2010 school year is coming to a close and I wanted to take a moment to thank you for you generosity in helping me fund a project for my students. With your help, I was able to give 120 students their own notebook for a unit on memoir writing. The notebooks served as journals and students learned how to become stronger writers through writing everyday.
As a result of your donation, my students had the opportunity to reflect and discover the pleasure of remembering stories and sharing them with other people. Thank you for your kindness. On behalf of all of my students, your gift was greatly appreciated.”
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! This letter can only show you a glimpse of my gratitude for the opportunities your donations have allowed my kids. We have very little opportunity to interact with dirt and growing things. The excitement and amazement on my students' faces as they watch the tiny seeds sprout is priceless. I can see the engagement and the learning in their faces. Thank you for giving us this gift. Our worm compost will help to nurture our classroom garden during summer school, further continuing our learning. There is an excitement about plants and helping the environment. Thank you for nurturing our seedlings.
The school budget has been slashed this year, so without your gifts this hands-on learning opportunity would have been impossible. I can see the learning seeds you helped to plant blossoming in my students. Our gratitude is immense.
Without donors like you, we would be trapped in our concrete jungle. Thank you for allowing the roots to take hold. Now, the smallest shoots can break through the pavement. We should see some strong trees grow.”
Thank you again for your generous donation of an LCD projector for my classroom. My students and I use the projector every single day, and it helps us to do so many things more effectively than we ever could before. From the very beginning of class, when I use the LCD projector to project the warm up onto the board for students to complete, to the end of class, when I project the exit ticket to help the students reflect on what they've learned that day, we definitely take full advantage of our new technology. My lessons have been enriched by visuals, video clips, and power points, which my students appreciate because it makes learning more engaging, especially for the visual learners.
Without your help and generous donation, I would have to share one of only two school-owned LCD projectors with the entire (large) English department, which would make it impossible for me to use the projector on any sort of regular basis. Thank you again for helping my students learn and be the best that they can be!”
With gratitude,
Ms. Hildebrandt
This classroom project was brought to life by Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and 5 other donors.
Thank you so much for your generous support of our art program! Students are enjoying the acting aspects of the animation unit, as they act out and identify their emotions; they are sharpening their drawing skills, and are interested in how cartoons work. The drawing kit is helping to teach effectively about value and line quality, and students especially like working with darker leads which give a softer effect. We are learning facial proportions and learning to recognize and replicate expressions. The light boxes are such a great modification for our students, as they help to reduce frustration when used in concert with printouts and templates.
This has been a great "hook" to make a fundamentals of drawing unit interesting and fresh for me and the students. I am working in concert with a local animator and learning many new skills which I am sharing with my students and will help me to continue to develop innovative models in the future. We will definitely be exploring these techniques in future years to work on storytelling using 21st century technology, and use the Internet and other forums to share the students' work. Other city school art teachers are interested in the methodology we're developing with your support and I plan on sharing with the art education community.
I cannot thank you enough for your support of this pilot animation program. We would not have been able to do it without you!”
Thank you for donating a class set of Charlotte's Web to my students. We began reading last week and the students have not been disappointed. From the day the books arrived, students began asking, "When will we read Charlotte's Web?" on nearly a daily basis. Now that we have begun, I am frequently greeted with the sounds of, "Oooh! Charlotte's Web!" as I distribute books before we read the next chapter. Seeing my students so excited about reading is refreshing and exciting.
So far, we have read the first four chapters of Charlotte's Web. During this time, students have broadened their vocabularies, practiced sequencing events, identified characters' feelings, and improved reading fluency. The numbering of chapters even led to a "teachable moment" discussing Roman numerals. Students will gain and practice more skills as we continue reading through the spring.
Thank you again for your generous donation. Your support helps my students continue to grow into life-long learners and readers.”
I want to thank you for contributing to a monumental improvement in my classroom. Our audience response system clickers are featured in nearly every lesson as we navigate the curriculum one core learning goal at a time. My students are invested and constantly demanding to know, "Are we going to use the clickers today?" Not only do the students benefit from a more interactive learning style, but each person that walks through my door is held accountable for what they learn. Competition has increased, and, interestingly, so has the propensity to help peers who might be struggling.
This kind of technology is usually only available to students in high-income areas or at the university level. By donating to this project, you've made a solid dent in the conditions that lead to such dramatic achievement gaps between high- and low-income students.
Without donors like you, my students would not be as excited to learn as they are today. Thank you!”
With gratitude,
Mr. Wilcox
This classroom project was brought to life by Amgen Foundation and 6 other donors.
Thank you so much for your donations. I absolutely love the Elmo and use it daily in my classroom. I no longer know how I would teach without it! It is so easy to use and just wonderful. I can't praise it enough and I certainly can't express how grateful I am for your donations, which made it possible for my students and me to have this tool in the classroom.
The Elmo has greatly improved the quality of education that I am able to provide for my students. My students know exactly what to do and where we are while reading a book or completing a worksheet. Those students who have vision challenges can follow along without needing to squint or look at a neighbor's notes. All of the students love to be the one to model their notes for the class or to put their completed assignment on the screen as an example.
Thank you for making all of these wonderful changes happen with your donation. My students truly benefit from your generosity. ”
Thank you for your contributions to my project; this has helped bring the Hispanic culture to my students through music. With the new CDs, we are able to immerse ourselves in the target language while learning to accept and enjoy Latin rhythm. The students are having a great time listening to such a variety of music! Thank you for helping to strengthen our foreign language program and for fostering the acceptance of diversity within our students. Please continue to support projects like mine so that more students can learn and grow as individuals. ”
Since receiving the LCD projector for my classroom, I have brought 6th, 7th, and 8th grade students on a visual trip to six of the seven continents. The 8th grade students have seen and learned about masks from the past and present created by different cultures all around the world. They are currently creating their own masks. The students are each making two masks. Each mask will show a different emotion. The 6th and 7th grade students have taken a journey through time, experiencing early to contemporary abstract art and portraiture from around the world. The art spans all the way from Native American art to Dutch, to contemporary art from Taiwan. Every project from now on will be able to be explored more deeply. The social, cultural, and aesthetic qualities will be investigated. Student work is already showing greater depth and meaning after viewing the way other people have created similar pieces of art. This is a very exciting time in my classroom. The students look forward to the topic of art history and have wonderful insights into the art of the past.
Thank you so much for your donation to help fund this project. You have truly helped a dream come alive. The students are excited every time they see the projector set up because they know that they will get to see something and experience artwork that they have never seen before. Visual learning is important in every subject. Art is certainly no exception. The visual process is critical to art and the information that I can present now leads to more enriching discussions as well as student artwork. I really can't thank all of you enough for helping to fund this project.
Thank you again for your help and donations in funding this project. You have truly made a big difference in the education of many students for years to come.
This is just a small token of my gratitude for your generous donation to my classroom. The overhead projector you have donated to my classroom has helped my students in many ways. We've used it every single day to complete math, read words, to take tests, and even get ready for testing! We have also used the crayons and pens everyday to help us check and complete our work!
Without your help, my student would have never had these vital resources. Having supplies in our classroom helps continue our academic success within the classroom.
Without donors like you, thousands of classrooms in the United States would go without.”
With gratitude,
Ms. Kramer
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