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128,007 | p032456 | e7ce1976c2ddd2d1931a6faa28a4764b | Mrs. | KY | 2016-07-20 18:13:28 | Grades 9-12 | Literacy & Language, Special Needs | Literacy, Special Needs | Tech to Help Special Needs Students Better Manage Their Behavior | As students with special needs, all of my kids have learning gaps. They all need individualized instruction to close the gap between where they are and where they need to be academically. Many of them also have behavior problems due to disabilities, poverty, or home situations. \r\n\r\nMy students are regular kids with learning problems. They typically like to hunt, fish and ride 4-wheelers. Our district has a great vocational school where my kids have learned valuable skills in construction, auto tech, welding, and more. Please help them close the other gaps so they can use those skills. \r\n | Often, students with special needs have trouble paying attention or other behavior issues. The students learn better, and like it, when I do web-based learning games and activities. However, since I do not have a device to control what I project on the screen wirelessly, I am stuck behind my desk. Every teacher knows that teaching from behind a desk leads to less attention and more behavior problems even when students do not have disabilities. I am unable to monitor what all students are doing from this position. In addition, many of my students need a teacher in close proximity to them to maintain classroom appropriate behavior. \r\n\r\nWith a wireless mouse and keyboard, I can monitor and control their behavior while using the technology that helps them learn best. I was using a smart slate to solve this problem, but it no longer works and my district is not replacing it. The technology director at my district suggested I get a wireless mouse and keyboard to solve this problem. I have also requested headphone sets to help students with severe attention problems block out distractions. \r\n\r\nThank you for considering helping my students! With this technology, my students will end up with more time learning and less time waiting on me to deal with behavior problems. More time on task learning always means greater academic gains! | null | null | My students need me to be in close proximity to them to better manage their behavior. This wireless mouse and keyboard set will allow me to stay closer to them when projecting websites. | 1 | 1 |
126,069 | p002923 | ba5afd3cf8678427b12a905be7cc49c4 | Ms. | PA | 2016-08-27 02:37:30 | Grades 3-5 | Literacy & Language | Literacy | Keep Our Noses in Great Books | \"Do we have to leave?\" Our students are funny, compassionate, and imaginative children that enjoy exploring new skills and developing their literacy skills. They are predominantly English Language Learners (ELLs) and attend an elementary school in the Kensington section of northern Philadelphia.\r\nThe room buzzes throughout the day as they laugh, sing, and share with their peers. They are a thoughtful, loving, and hardworking bunch, excited to learn and grow. While they are motivated by their dreams and engaged by the opportunities presented to them, due to economic challenges within the community, school, and district, our resources are limited. As their teacher, I struggle to provide sufficient and enriching supplies that will support small group learning. However, at our school, we are resourceful and do with what we have, but our students deserve and require more. | Philadelphia is currently partnering with organizations across the city in an effort to get more students on reading level by the fourth grade. What better way to get students on board than to provide quality books to engage them?\r\n\r\nThe goal is not simply to address the need for all of our students on their appropriate reading level, but more so to develop a love for reading. These book sets will be used during the independent reading portion of the day. Students will be able to select from classic grade level appropriate chapter books, which I hope, will further develop their interest in reading. | null | null | My students need classic fictional chapter book sets like Judy Moody, Cam Jansen, and Junie B. Jones. | 10 | 1 |
60,298 | p206824 | 5007546c4c19148d9d7393555b508aa5 | Ms. | CA | 2016-08-03 01:50:03 | Grades 6-8 | Health & Sports, History & Civics | Health & Wellness, History & Geography | Experiencing History Through Outdoor Simulations | Gone are the days when history was only about names, dates, and events. In my classroom, my students don't just learn history, they experience it. \r\n\r\nMy students are rambunctious historians that investigate the past by experiencing history in my class. They are a very diverse group of students coming from various religious, ethnic, and socioeconomic backgrounds. Despite these differences, my students are brought together by a common love of learning. They love learning history when it becomes alive for them and they are not just hearing about it or seeing it in a textbook. They respond to history when it is hands-on. | My students are hands-on learners that have endless energy. They learn best when experiencing something themselves and love \"traveling back in time\" to see how something may have been experienced in the past. This was the inspiration for this project. Many historical simulations are designed to be done in the classroom. However, I'd love to bring the simulations outdoors so my students have more room to run and move. That is why I need these materials in order to set up simulations like an Inca Relay using the cones, a medieval trade hub with the cones and colored chips, the engineering behind the dome using the exercise ball, and an American Revolution capture-the-flag game with the jerseys. The bullhorn and blue tape will also help me with managing these simulations when outside.\r\n\r\nThe donations to this project will help my students get to experience history while also giving them the opportunity to get outside and be active. Being able to be active is important to my energetic middle school students and they love being able to take their learning outside of the classroom. These materials will allow me to create these 60-90 minute historical simulations for my students so they can be healthy, happy, and experiencing history. | null | null | My students need practice jerseys, colored plastic cones, and colored counting chips to simulate an Inca Relay, a medieval trade hub, the American Revolutionary War as Capture-the-Flag, and other simulations so students can experience history. | 5 | 1 |
74,001 | p039591 | 161d364fd23233d1c1d97e414fcf7050 | Ms. | NY | 2016-08-18 11:24:58 | Grades 6-8 | Literacy & Language | ESL, Literacy | Words! Words! Get Your Words Here! | The majority of our 6th graders enter middle school reading several levels behind. Our workshop style classes with a focus on independent reading and student choice help our students quickly improve. Many children improve their reading levels by more than two years in 6th grade alone. \r\n\r\nAs a Title I school in the poorest US Congressional District, our disadvantaged Black and Latino youth work hard to overcome the challenges presented to them. One hundred percent of our students receive free or reduced lunch. Many students voluntarily attend tutoring after-school and a Saturday Institute to help them catch up on basic skills. \r\n\r\nOur combined middle/high school is centered around the philosophy that all students can be college and career ready. In 2016, more than 95% of our first high school graduating class was admitted to college and all students entered college or a work program. | These electronic dictionaries will help my students conquer the word gap. By age 3, there is a 30 million word gap between children from the wealthiest and poorest families in America. Lack of exposure means that many of my students start school already behind. My students need the tools for authentic word acquisition rather than having to memorize a list of words just to pass a test. \r\n\r\nHelp my voracious readers conquer the 30 million word gap! These electronic dictionaries will help students look up words they are using in their reading and writing. This real world vocabulary acquisition is the best way for students to learn. Traditional dictionaries remove my students from their practice; they are cumbersome and time consuming when you have to look up a lot of a words. However, these exciting and fun electronic versions will help my students seamlessly integrate vocabulary into their work! | null | null | My students need you to help them learn new words. Promote authentic vocabulary acquisition with these electronic dictionaries! | 2 | 1 |
27,506 | p244530 | 7d05b0be2f2ba461f2a4cf72b29273a0 | Mrs. | OK | 2016-06-14 09:53:17 | Grades PreK-2 | Literacy & Language | Literature & Writing | Writing Toolboxes | Do you have a desire to travel or to become something? Through writing my students have the opportunity to travel anywhere or to be anything they want to be. My students need only to be limited by where their imaginations can take them, not by the lack of materials. As a classroom teacher I work hard to meet my students where they are and to help them grow academically. \r\n2nd graders have such potential to grow and develop their understanding of the world around them. One way of doing this is by making sure that everyday when they enter my classroom they will have at their fingertips tools to excite them and get the gears spinning in their heads. | Your donation to this project will support the work that my school district has already begun by putting an emphasis on writing in the classroom, not just in our upper grade levels, but by growing and developing writers at a younger age. The materials requested will allow my students to create a Writer's Toolbox. We always begin writing in our notebooks to develop a rough draft and connect to our reading with ideas. From that point we move to revising and editing.\r\nThe significance of the Writer's Toolbox is that my students will have at their fingertips the materials needed to improve and develop their own writing. In this toolbox students will have the use of pens for writing improvements into their story, highlighters for identifying key/main ideas, and post-its for writing long and extending their thinking. All the beautifully, colored paper will be for producing nice, neat final drafts that are appealing to the eye. This is so much better than plain white paper, and oh, boy does it get students excited to see color!\r\nAs our year progresses these student writings will be displayed on the wall outside our classroom for all to enjoy, especially the parents, as they bring their child in each morning. These writings will be saved throughout the year for the students to create Writing Portfolios. At the end of the year, I send each child home with their portfolio. I encourage them to keep up with their portfolio, so they have something to look back at as they continue to improve their writing abilities in the grades to come. | null | null | My students need toolboxes, along with various writing supplies to create Writing Toolboxes that will support their imaginations in our writing adventures during the school year. | 3 | 1 |
119,104 | p087867 | c3103ca2989a321e46408c9334858eb5 | Mrs. | SC | 2017-03-13 12:48:32 | Grades PreK-2 | Literacy & Language | Literacy | Cozy and Quiet Reading | I teach first grade at a Title One school. My students are awesome! They come to school every day excited to learn and love to work together to gain understanding of academic concepts. We have so much fun together!\r\n\r\nAlthough my students are small, they have BIG dreams. I love to provide project-based learning experiences for my students. In those teachable moments, I can catch a glimpse of future engineers, farmers, health care workers, teachers, veterinarians, construction workers, and much more. | I have a really big problem. I have too many books! Too many books and no where to put them. My baskets are all overflowing. Students want to trade out books, but we have no where to put them. \r\n\r\nMy book area looks like an episode of Hoarders! My students need new shelves and storage cubes to move half of the books to. Right now, the books are so crammed together, students can't flip through them very well to choose books for their independent reading time. The new shelves will hold many books and the bins are sturdy enough for the massive amounts I have collected over the past 17 years.\r\n\r\nNew book bins will allow students their own space to put leveled books in for independent reading. A whisper phone will be included in their baskets so that they can hear themselves read and won't disturb others. Self-correction while reading will be made easier with the whisper phones as well.\r\n\r\nWhen the classroom is disorganized and cluttered, students tend to be disorganized and create more clutter. Having these supplies will not only assist in a clutter-free classroom, but it will help create a cozy, quiet space that encourages reading. \r\n\r\n | null | null | My students need 24 whisper phones, storage bins, storage containers, and shelves for a cozy, quiet, reading corner. | 32 | 1 |
39,934 | p019640 | fe9bec5af8ef0ae8f5ca6db263e59c03 | Mrs. | NC | 2016-12-05 13:34:17 | Grades PreK-2 | Literacy & Language | Literacy | Guided Reading: How We Encourage Fluent, Skilled Readers\r\n | As a teacher in a low-income/high poverty school district, my students are faced with many hardships both in and out of the classroom. ESL students make up 52% of our school's population and over 90% of our students receive free and reduced lunch. \r\nDespite the hardships these students face daily, they come to school wanting to learn and to be loved. They are so incredibly amazing. They overcome more obstacles in one day than anyone should have to. Most of our children start school without early literacy skills, have high rates of absenteeism and transiency and much more. They deserve for someone to fight for their education as much as anyone else. | Implementing guided reading in my classroom is one of the best ways for me to assure that ALL of my students will show at least one year's growth in reading. Meeting with small groups of 4 to 6 students on their independent reading level will help improve their fluency, make instruction more personalized, enable the children to develop and use strategies of an independent reader, allow children to gain confidence in their ability to read on their own, and allow for close observation of each student while reading. To meet with students in individualized guided reading groups, we will need leveled books with 4 to 6 copies of each title.\r\n\"The ultimate goal in guided reading is to help children learn how to use independent reading strategies successfully.\" (Fountas & Pinnell, Guided Reading) \r\n\r\nWithout the help of generous donors, we cannot afford for my classroom to have multiple copies of leveled text. Please help me to get books for my students on their level so that they can grow into successful, independent readers. | null | null | My students need high interest books on their independent reading levels so that I can support them in guided reading. | 0 | 1 |
12,626 | p123618 | da8719f17ea9f739b53e5b8979613340 | Mrs. | CA | 2016-08-02 17:35:04 | Grades PreK-2 | Math & Science, Literacy & Language | Health & Life Science, Literacy | Nonfiction News for New Readers | This fall I will have a classroom filled with 30 new first grade students who would have recently graduated from their half day kindergarten program. I work in Santa Ana, California where all of the students receive free breakfast/lunch. All the students are eager to learn, but many come with limited skills. \r\n It is my job to teach them how to read and write in 180 days. Many, if not all, of these students are technologically savvy and are ready to learn how to read longer texts with a beginning, middle and an end. Reading materials at their homes are limited, so it is always beneficial to be able to send home reading material that they can keep and reread. It is my goal to help them reach their literacy goals by the end of first grade. \r\n | First grade students need a multitude of reading opportunities to help them become independent readers. Scholastic News and TIME for Kids have a number of activities that reinforce the stories/articles that the students read on a weekly basis. Because the articles can be taken home, they will be able to practice the skills they have learned as part of their homework. \r\n \r\nThe articles in the readers, will keep students abreast of current events, holidays and special people while reinforcing their fluency. Students need to be exposed to various types of text to help them expand their vocabulary. My first graders will enjoy reading Scholastic News and TIME for Kids! | null | null | My students need more nonfiction materials to read on a daily basis to help them with their fluency and comprehension. | 4 | 1 |
152,469 | p054620 | da3ba835667fdadea36d1720abbbfe34 | Mr. | NY | 2016-08-10 00:28:43 | Grades 9-12 | Literacy & Language | Literacy, Literature & Writing | Expanding Independent Reading | My students are a hard-working group of young women who strive to get into college and make a better future for themselves and their families. Their commitment to their education is second to none, with some of them traveling more than an hour by train or bus to get to school every day. However, many of my students come from low-income households, and their families struggle to make ends meet. Their parents often work two or three jobs to cover general living expenses, leaving my students to self-motivate themselves to get their schoolwork done every day. Needless to say, they inspire me each and every day. | Most of my students come to our school reading far below grade level -- often they are reading at about a third grade level in ninth grade. To help them improve their reading abilities, I try to provide a variety of texts of varying difficulty to keep them engaged with the difficult task of becoming readers. \r\nLet's be honest, most of us can identify one seminal text that changed our lives as students. For me, it was the Harry Potter series. Most of my students have yet to encounter a book that makes them fall in love with reading. I hope that these books will be the harbinger for many of my struggling readers. | null | null | My students need a variety of books to read to keep them engaged with reading. | 25 | 1 |
2,914 | p234519 | e029a6128e68462866f7e6018f22eef8 | Ms. | SC | 2016-06-07 10:42:34 | Grades PreK-2 | Health & Sports, Math & Science | Health & Wellness, Mathematics | We Like to Move It, Move It! | Walking into my classroom this year will be a little different. I have been giving an amazing opportunity to loop up with my second graders, and teach them again in third grade! I am excited to take the knowledge taught last year, and continue to help my students grow for 180 more days! I have an energetic group of students who are full of questions, enthusiasm, and a love for learning! \r\n\r\nI teach in a small rural town, which makes my classroom full of diverse learners. Third graders are like sponges, and each day is spent helping them soak up new knowledge. Whether it is reading a picture book to review and apply new skills, practice math concepts using games and manipulatives, or sharing new ideas, learning is always taking place in my classroom! | Thanks to donations from Donor's Choose, I received eleven wobble stools for my classroom last year. It has been amazing to see how just a little movement from students make a difference in their ability to stay focused longer. This project will allow for more students to have the opportunity to move while still being fully-engaged in learning. Third graders are active, and often learning is hindered by their inability to sit in a seat all day. \r\n\r\nMy students need an alternative seating choice that allows movement, interactions with peers, and an outlet for their natural for their energy. Through this project, I hope to be able to provide a new approach to learning, while showing students that movement is welcomed in my classroom! \r\n\r\nChart paper is used daily in my classroom. Skills that are taught are always shown on chart paper for review or during the lesson, and students are given paper and markers at least one a week to show me in their own way skills they have learned. Not only does chart paper allow students to visually learn new concepts through examples and classroom interactions, but it allows them a fun, new approach to assessments and reviews. | null | null | My students need six wobble stools to help stay focused during the day. Chart paper is also needed in my classroom to teach and review math concepts being taught. | 3 | 1 |
67,592 | p233780 | cf9544566141deb2af0730232722bf2e | Ms. | MI | 2017-04-05 08:14:02 | Grades PreK-2 | Applied Learning, Special Needs | Early Development, Special Needs | Germs Germs Go Away, I Have School Today | My class is full of 4 years olds with lots of personality and enthusiasm for learning. \r\n\r\nThey are creative little people full of wonder and endless possibilities. My students qualify for my Preschool class because of their parents income is low to extremely low based on federal poverty guidelines and other risk factors. I am normally their first teacher outside of their parents. Our school is a priority school in the inner-city which means our test scores are in the bottom 5 percent in our State.\r\n | Asthma is a leading cause of school absenteeism. I currently have students in my classroom who suffer from some type of respiratory illness. \r\n Although triggers that cause an asthma episode vary among individuals, there are several common triggers.\r\n• Allergens such as pollen, animal dander, dust\r\nmites, cockroaches, and molds\r\n• Irritants such as cold air, perfume, pesticides,\r\nstrong odors, weather changes, cigarette\r\nsmoke, and chalk dust\r\n• Respiratory infections such as a cold or the flu\r\n• Physical exercise, especially in cold weather\r\nWe live in an area that experiences all seasons and therefore my students are exposed to all of the listed triggers. We the items listed I can ensure that my students have a safe classroom environment. | null | null | My students need a steam carpet cleaner, humidifier, vacuum, and duster. | 3 | 0 |
6,817 | p176778 | 8a3266f22779fdfaf6ea6b60b1734399 | Mrs. | LA | 2016-12-26 19:06:10 | Grades 3-5 | Math & Science | Mathematics | Cruising with Chromebooks! | I have two classes - the Rockstars and the Buccaneers. A typical day in my classroom usually involves laughter, lots of discussion, and a whole lot of learning. To keep it interesting, we like to throw in some class projects, experiments, and group activities, too.\r\n\r\nMy Third graders work really hard while at school. They are always up for whatever challenge I present to them and they strive to be the best. Although they are diligent workers, they also know how to have a good time! I am continually impressed with their passion and drive as well as their fun-loving, sweet nature, and compassion towards others. They really do know how to \"keep their dear teacher happy!\" | My students absolutely love using technology in the classroom, but we just don't have enough computers available to reach every student. With Chromebooks in the classroom, they will have greater access to websites that will enhance their reading and math skills! This will allow fun, innovative ways for students to further their knowledge and push them farther, helping them to cruise through Third grade and to take off in Fourth grade!\r\n\r\nYour donation will truly make an impact on my students academic life as well as their personal life. They will not only get more hands-on practice with important reading and math skills, but also have more confidence in their own abilities to use technology independently and to take control of their own learning! Having these Chromebooks in the classroom will empower my students to willingly further their education, become lifelong learners, and have fun doing it! | null | null | My students need 2 Chromebooks to use in the classroom to advance their math skills in a fun, interactive way. | 1 | 1 |
66,105 | p070801 | 7e3317101a68088ee707ad187ea7b284 | Mrs. | NH | 2016-09-01 12:52:51 | Grades 6-8 | Literacy & Language, Music & The Arts | Literature & Writing, Visual Arts | Interact, Create, Share, and Produce Great Writing | My students are part of the largest school district in NH, Manchester. We proudly boast the highest ethnicity and language diversity in the state! My students belong to one of four middle schools in Manchester, NH and have a large diversity of socio-economical backgrounds. \r\n\r\nWhile being part of such a diverse school district gives my students advantages, they also have to deal with many challenges as well. Many times funds for simple classroom supplies are not available on a per-family basis. Some of my students are also refugees, immigrants, or transient due to family situations. While this gives them a world of personal experience and often makes them stronger than the average person, it also makes it difficult to focus, learn another language, and fill in pieces of curriculum that many be missing. \r\n\r\n | These supplies will help my students see all parts of the writing process in full color, which will help with learning, memory retention, and creativity. We will use all four types of learning styles (kinesthetiic or physical, auditory, visual, and linguistic) to engage in writing and creating interactive writing notebooks.\r\n\r\nMy students' interactive writing notebooks will come to be resourceful works of art that each student can cherish and take with them into college. They will cut out and glue notes, ideas, pieces of writing we are analyzing, their own writing pieces, pictures, etc. into their notebooks. Students will then further analyze writing using colors, highlighters, post-it notes, and flags. \r\n\r\nEvery young author wants to share their works of art, creativity, and ideas with the class. Having the ability to do this in full color, vivid for all to see is the final piece of the writing process. The document camera allows students to be able to share with the whole class the work that he or she is proud of. The \"present\" portion of the writing process is something that is often neglected in the classroom, but the most important for authors. By allowing my students to present their writing and notebooks on the document camera, I am helping them finalize their goals as young authors. \r\n | null | null | My students need colors, folders, and a document camera to create and share their interactive writing notebooks and writing projects. | 0 | 1 |
2,826 | p180811 | 7efa8511e79cc63a03e3bda7993a7652 | Ms. | NV | 2017-01-13 01:33:07 | Grades PreK-2 | Literacy & Language, History & Civics | Literacy, Social Sciences | Technology in the Classroom | I teach in a high poverty, surburban area where more than half of my class is on free reduced lunch. Students come and go each month. It makes it very difficult to see student progress from start to end.\r\nDespite their circumstances, my students are hardworking, caring individuals who are curious about the world around them. This year my group is highly interested in informational text. They enjoy learning about history and influential people. Access to technology is limited to some students.\r\n | The world is ever so changing. It seems hard to keep up at times. My classroom has outdated computers. It takes forever for programs to load. To keep up with the 21st Century learning, my students need iPads to enhance their learning experience. \r\nThere are several ways I would incorporate technology into the classroom. One way would be to have students listen and read books online at their instructional level. Having a wide range of readers, students can access a wide variety of genres and read what interests them. Secondly, I would show the students how to use the iPad as a resource tool. I would teach them how to look up information on the internet to help them complete a research project. Finally, students could use the iPad to take pictures on what they are learning in the classroom. They could use those same pictures and make their own digital portfolio to share with their family at the end of the year.\r\nThere are so many ways my students would benefit from having technology in the classroom. Please consider donating to my project and watch us soar into the next century. Thanks again for your consideration! | null | null | My students need two iPads to be a successful 21st Century learner. | 8 | 1 |
47,969 | p199009 | 4f367af9d0d0a045c262e213b425264e | Ms. | CA | 2016-11-25 02:05:05 | Grades 3-5 | Warmth, Care & Hunger | Warmth, Care & Hunger | Backpacks for School Brings; It's a Success Kind of Thing! | We are a Title I, performance improvement school with the majority of our students participating in the free lunch program. Many parents rely on a single income and some even work two jobs and still struggle to support their family. But what my students do not have in material things, they make up with their desire to learn and do well in school. \r\n\r\nLearning how to organize materials and have their work ready for school each day is not part of the standards that we teach, but are still much-needed life skills that make their academic journey a bit easier. My fifth grade students have a desire to learn and want to do well, but don't always know how to organize their work and properly store their materials, and many do not have a backpack that would help them in their efforts in being prepared for school everyday. For the majority of my students, school is where they take their first steps in acquiring these life skills before they head out to middle school. | My students are required to organize their materials in a way that is easy for them to begin and transition throughout the instructional day, as well as prepare their backpacks to successfully complete homework at home. In order to prepare them for their middle school years, my students will need backpacks to organize their materials which they need to carry to and from school. It is not uncommon to see students holding bunched up papers in their hands and struggling to carry books in their arms, so as teachers we know the importance of helping our students to be organized and foster a mind-set needed for academic success. This project will definitely aid my students as they begin their transition during the second half of our instructional year into their middle school year. The backpacks they will receive from this project will help them end their 5th grade year and begin the 6th grade successfully. | null | null | My students need backpacks to help keep their materials organized and help them be prepared for school each day as part of their academic mind-set for success. | 10 | 1 |
40,318 | p032381 | 48389d15d91bf8f325f6338a9db13232 | Ms. | CA | 2016-12-09 12:25:12 | Grades PreK-2 | Music & The Arts, Special Needs | Music, Special Needs | We Like to Move It!! | We are a 100% Title I school that qualifies for 100% free school lunches. I have a Preschool for All Learners (PAL) program.. We are part of a K-5 grade school located in Southern California. \r\n\r\n\r\nMy 11 students are preschoolers (ages 3-5) with Autism and other developmental disabilities. The students have limited communication skills. Many of the students come to school eager to learn and surprise me everyday with their progress. I am looking to provide my students with creative and meaningful learning experiences. For most of my students this is their first school experience.\r\n\r\n | We Like to Move It! Music and movement is one of the most enjoyable parts of the day within our preschool classroom. Our classroom is in need of new and fun musical instruments. We are also in need of a teach and store center to store our musical instruments. The teach and store center will be the center of our circle time and music & movement. Our class is also in need of portable speaker to pair with our classroom IPod. It will allow us to clearly hear the songs and take with us outside to listen to our favorite tunes while we play. | null | null | My students need new musical instruments, a teach & store center to store the instruments during circle time, and a speaker to listen to their favorite songs. | 20 | 1 |
121,185 | p067360 | 75ab05748a4622a73103e81341cc0160 | Mrs. | SC | 2017-03-24 08:51:02 | Grades 3-5 | Special Needs | Special Needs | My SPECIAL Classroom Needs! | I serve young students with disabilities. Most of these students come from low income homes. Their houses all look different as well as the people that live in those houses. Some of their stories are really sad. Their disabilities range from ADD/ADHD, Emotional Disabilities, Brain Injuries, Seizures and Autism. They are sweet boys and girls. They all want to do their best however there are struggles. They love to come to school so that they can learn and spend time with their friends. \r\n | Since my students have difficulties focusing, my wish list includes items that can be used to tune out sounds as well as hear sounds. Students are interrupted by their peers movements and talking (even if it is at a whisper). We have tried ear buds for their computer work, however it does not keeping out the sounds of their neighbor working at the computer next to them. Their bodies are never still, they are constantly rocking their chairs which is a safety hazard. I am worried that they will fall. The fidget items and wobble chairs can help them continue moving but still complete their work. | null | null | My students need items in the classroom to help them concentrate on their school work and not their disability. | 1 | 1 |
57,369 | p021887 | 58360100f4327e458f47e05d5cca7fca | Mr. | IL | 2016-06-12 13:26:19 | Grades 3-5 | Math & Science | Mathematics | Supplies for 100 Students | Next year I will enter a new adventure in teaching math to fourth and fifth grade students.The upcoming school year, I will have the pleasure of working with 100 amazing 4th and 5th grade students with varying academic abilities.\r\nTheir levels range from “exceeds” expectations to “academic warning”. Every day I work to the best of my ability to ensure that all my students receive the quality instruction that they deserve to increase their knowledge in math. My students need a variety of materials that are rich in content, promote higher order thinking skills, and expose them to different math skills. Having access to these resources will help increase their scores on benchmark and standardized assessments. \r\n | These donations will make a difference because I have students who usually do not supplies for class. Students have a lot of worry about and I do not want my students to worry about not having supplies to learn. I want my students to come to school to learn. Having the notebooks will allow my students to take notes and keep a math journal of rigorous, higher order problems to prepare them for PARCC. I use Word Problem of the Day and Find the Error. These problems will help my students in PARCC and increase their math skills and scores. | null | null | My students need notebooks and pencils to have a productive day in math. | 11 | 1 |
5,752 | p076730 | 322497f549ab660b9e5faa7a22471b03 | Ms. | WA | 2016-10-08 19:48:13 | Grades PreK-2 | Health & Sports, Literacy & Language | Health & Wellness, Literacy | Dress for Success! | The students in my first grade class are interested in science, Pokemon, making friends, art, and cats. They want to succeed even though they think or have been told they are not good at reading or math. They speak Amharic, Arabic, Spanish, Somali, Vietnamese, and English. \r\nMy students are inquisitive, hilarious, honest, ambitious people.\r\nMore than half of them receive free or reduced-cost lunch and yet they have so much drive to learn. With all of those interests and challenges, our school works hard to know each student's name and need. | In speaking with our school nurse, I realized that there are students who go without clothing basics or fear disciplinary documentation for being out of uniform when their caretakers cannot afford to buy new clothes. \r\nIn order for my students to focus fully on learning, they need to feel comfortable and cared for. Pants, underwear, and shirts which align to our school's uniform policy will send the message to these children that we want to support their success in every way. Access to these basics will allow these inquisitive, caring leaders to grow the skills necessary to fulfill their potentials. | null | null | My students need shirts and pants which fit with our school's uniform policy and underwear to ensure basic needs are met. | 4 | 1 |
117,894 | p036698 | 8ddbff642e5addb5f99f8d2d30f1e131 | Mrs. | IN | 2016-06-28 09:02:30 | Grades 9-12 | Math & Science | Mathematics | Fidget, Focus, and Flourish\r\n\r\n | As a teacher in a small rural school district, my students in my 10th grade ISTEP Remediation classes are full of energy and excitement. They like to move, love lots positive attention and are thankful for the care and respect I give them.\r\n\r\nI treat each student with the same love and respect that I give my own children, while also having high expectations for each of them and myself. I know the value of a high school diploma, so I am continuously pushing each child to do his/her best. \r\n\r\nI love math and am very enthusiastic about it in my classroom which helps hook my students into \"buying in\" to the topics.\r\n\r\n | I personally bought 2 Bouncy Bands last year. I could not believe how beneficial the Bouncy Bands were. Students who could not sit for more than a few minutes were sitting and engaged while using the Bouncy Bands! I knew I had to find a way to purchase more. \r\n\r\nBouncy Bands help students stay focused in class so they can do a better job completing their work when they have a way to get stimulation at their desk instead of daydreaming or getting off task. \r\n\r\nStudents loved them so much that they told other teachers about the Bouncy Bands in my class. These teachers came to my room to check them out and of course wanted some for their room as well!\r\n | null | null | My students need Bouncy Bands to help them\r\nrelease extra energy, anxiety, and tension while they work quietly at their\r\ndesk. Students have fun working when they can move! | 0 | 1 |
104,130 | p243684 | 22ea6654218b942b31c4ed22f69aad27 | Mr. | MA | 2016-08-17 16:23:02 | Grades 3-5 | Literacy & Language, Math & Science | Literature & Writing, Mathematics | Basic Supplies EVERY Student Should Have! | Everyone remembers what your first day back to school was like. No matter if you're 15 or 50, you recall the first day jitters. Who will be in my class this year? What will my friends be wearing? Will I like my teacher? Will I have all the supplies necessary to succeed in school? \r\n\r\nThese are all questions my incoming 3rd graders from Dorchester/Roxbury MA will be asking themselves too in the next couple weeks. However the last question about supplies is rarely considered by students or parents at my school. Unfortunately many struggle to purchase new uniform pants and shirts as their children rapidly outgrow their old uniforms. Therefore, sending their child to school with supplies is not a priority, although parents wish they could. \r\n\r\nThis will be my 6th year teaching at this school, which had made huge gains over the last few years despite being an inner city school with over 90% receiving free or reduced lunch. Our administration notified us that supplies are extremely low as we expand the school to be prek-8. Please help me supply my 25 students with the materials necessary to succeed just like we had growing up. Thank you so much! | Without basic supplies, children can't learn. My daily lessons are more effective when my students can design a poster to teach their classmates or cut out pieces of paper to represent different fractions.\r\n\r\nIt is the hands on activities that teach children various concepts, but more importantly, these activities will be better retained in their minds over time . Without some of the supplies I'm asking for, these hands on activities can not take place. \r\n\r\nI foster children to be creative in my class and to think about an idea in different ways whether it be a math problem, a reading skill, or solving an issue amongst students. Any help we can get to receive the necessary supplies to make these activities happen will be so much appreciated! | null | null | My students need some basic supplies our school isn't able to provide to start the year out right! | 1 | 0 |
4,924 | p098876 | b29923cf90c4cdc98e35a416135f92d8 | Mrs. | MI | 2016-08-19 20:50:27 | Grades PreK-2 | Health & Sports | Gym & Fitness | Romping at Recess | My classroom is a pre-kindergarten class of sixteen at-risk students in a rural setting. \r\nOur students are in the program to provide an engaging social and academic experience to start their educational journey. Our pre-kindergarten program is grant funded in an all day setting in an elementary school building. We use a HighScope curriculum to create and promote a classroom community that focuses on developmentally appropriate experiences in literacy, math, social emotional skills, science, socials studies, technology and approaches to learning. \r\n\r\n\r\n | My energetic students love to play with balls! We have a limited selection of playground balls and sensory balls and exercise mats to use daily during our two 30 minute long outdoor exercise play times. This limits the amount of students tha can play together at one time. \r\nMy students have asked for a variety of balls to play with as well as more exercise mats. They also love playing with different sizes and textures as they explore. Providing enough balls in a variety of shapes, sizes and textures will provide all students with a ball to play with at their developmental level as they play with peers or on their own. Having enough exercise mats will allow more students to play together. | null | null | My students need exercise mats as well as playground and sensory balls indoor and outdoor recess. | 16 | 1 |
109,865 | p069139 | 0dcffdf876bfcd3ef7ca0e2acedcfdc7 | Mrs. | AL | 2016-12-01 11:36:36 | Grades 6-8 | Literacy & Language | Literature & Writing | Headphones: Getting the Most from Technology | Our school is in a rural area near a larger city. We are a Title I school. We have minimal resources as our county doesn't really get money from sales tax (not many places to buy from) however, community and parental support if amazing! Students like anything that puts them in charge of their own learning. Students are in grades 6-8. These students are motivated to learn and give outstanding effort.\r\n\r\nMy students and their families value education and are a blessing to me to teach. | My students need headphones to be able to use the computers in the computer lab with sound, but without distracting one another. The computer programs we have invested in are very helpful for student learning and individualized learning paths. \r\n\r\nStudents need headphones to fully utilize the programs without causing distractions to one another. We do have headphones, but they rotate to different classes on a cart. It would be really helpful to be able to have my own set for student use in the computer lab. \r\n\r\nThis seems like such a basic need, but it would really help students' success in utilizing these programs. | null | null | My students need headphones to use in the computer lab to minimize distractions. | 0 | 1 |
16,821 | p255777 | 51d1ccdc8e464d895cbf1efe17268a18 | Teacher | NC | 2016-08-08 10:39:36 | Grades 3-5 | Literacy & Language | Literacy, Literature & Writing | Book Boxes For Miss Haley's Class | My fourth grade classroom has a large range of ability levels. Reading levels range from a kindergarten level through sixth grade, and many students come from Spanish speaking homes. Being a Title 1 school means that a lot of these students don't have access to many resources at home. Having a large class size also makes differentiation difficult.\r\n\r\nA lot of my students don't have access to books and reading materials at home. This is something they desperately need. I want my students to get excited about reading and have materials in the classroom that can act as their own while they are at school. | Fourth grade is a crucial time for students to be interested in their reading and learn how to be organized. My students have had a hard time with a lack of storage space in the classroom and books are constantly getting damaged or lost. Students will begin a book, place it on the classroom bookshelf, and then are not able to find it when they want to continue reading it. Book boxes for each student would be a great asset to the classroom as students can keep them in their cubbies. It will give me (the teacher) easy access to see what they are reading and add books to their individual boxes as I find ones that suit their reading levels and interests. It will give students more of a sense of ownership of what they are reading and allow them to keep track of their books much easier. | null | null | My students need book boxes to organize their books for their guided reading groups and easily be able to access the books that they are reading. | 0 | 1 |
59,926 | p078025 | 0cf015445a5973fdba7dcfc2f2667e99 | Mrs. | GA | 2016-09-04 15:30:35 | Grades 3-5 | Math & Science | Environmental Science, Mathematics | Printing to Make Our Research Come Alive | We are a Montessori classroom, with students from both fourth and fifth grades. A variety of native languages and nationalities are represented, and some students are now finding academic success that has eluded them in the past.\r\n\r\nWe have created a community that sees itself as a family. My students are hard-working, passionate about learning, and are growing in independence. They are unafraid to take risks, and are beginning to see mistakes as learning opportunities. I am proud to teach them each day. | With my students, the more they learn, the more they want to learn. Their curiosity is beginning to take the form of research questions. As they become ready to begin their research, I want them to have the ability to publish their findings. Right now, the ability to do so at school is very limited.\r\nBeing able to print their research findings, models, and data tables, will enhance the learning of the entire class. The displays will refine thinking, make their learning visible, and highlight the next steps. I envision my students as being agents of change, and the ability to publish their work is a part of this process. | null | null | My students need a Samsung Xpress color laser printer and toner cartridges to support their research endeavors in the classroom. | 7 | 1 |
36,911 | p084550 | 075125dae2729063ca98841d3cdae7d1 | Ms. | NE | 2017-03-31 17:07:36 | Grades 3-5 | Math & Science | Mathematics | Headphones for Hearing! | My students are growing up in a high poverty and high needs area of Omaha. They are also growing up in an age where technology rules the world. They struggle with remaining engaged and focused throughout each and every day, all day long. They are great kids and need to feel the support behind them and believed in!\r\n\r\nThese kids are judged and stereotyped based on where they live, which far from describes the truly amazing students that they are. | I work in an area where it is very hard for kids to stay focused on curriculum due to the noises and commotion of other classrooms around us, due to the open concept of our rooms. We do a lot of online work with the times changing for more technology, which does allow for increases in engagement, but it is hard for them to be focused on their work when they can barely hear the volume of the activities. I have gone out and bought ear buds for them, however they do not hold up all year long and I do not have the money to go buy 20 sets of headphones that can keep up. Other headphones in our building are big and bulky that look like they are left over from the 1960s-70s. I am hoping that someone will help to provide us with quality headphones that my students will be excited to use and that are more visually appealing for my students to want to take better care of them and be proud of their own personal school property. | null | null | My students need headphones to complete their computer work and online activities without disrupting others while learning and to help remain focused. | 4 | 1 |
48,818 | p002247 | 25f05d3a9f3c0fc7e45d129c21f37f8b | Mrs. | LA | 2016-09-01 00:02:36 | Grades PreK-2 | Literacy & Language, Math & Science | Literature & Writing, Mathematics | \"Booking\" Our Learning Future | My students are developing and emerging readers, full of energy and creativity! Our Title 1 students learn through manipulating, moving, and discussing. A big area of reading and math growth has occurred through their use of guided technology lessons and activities. They are a sponge for new information and now is the time to get them reading and doing math, but most importantly LOVING it. Our neighborhood is mainly urban and our school focuses on leadership. Future creators, inventors, innovators, and artists inhabit my classroom. \r\nMy students are always looking for new ways to show their thinking and explore the world around them. My second grade students are so excited to come to school every day to face new ideas and tackle challenges.We are in a school with both high poverty and high performing students. My students love to take a topic and explore every level of learning. From thematic units on Johnny Appleseed, our Earth and Sun, to discovering animals and habitats, we try to take learning to a whole new level of experience. \r\n | Our school's ability to update classroom technology isn't currently able to keep them motivated to explore new topics. We could use additional resources like these Chromebooks to allow them different experiences and ways to learn and explore. Everything from math concepts, research, art, and literature can be explored with a Chromebook. It can be used as a laptop for writing and research as well as flipped over for tablet and App use. They can also create and show their learning with new and motivating ways in the classroom- presentations, games, puzzles and self-assessments are all possible with this type of technology. My students need two Chromebooks, with Google Management Licenses to maximize efficiency and ease of use in the classroom.\r\n\r\n I know that my students are the ones that will change the world with their drive for new knowledge and zest for innovation.\r\nHowever, our world is completely technology-driven and our schools simply cannot keep up with the developing technologies that are out there. We were thrilled to receive Nexus tablets in the past, but feel that Chromebooks will only increase our productivity and expand our boundaries!\r\n\r\n\r\n | null | null | My students need 2 Acer Chromebooks to maximize learning in Reading, Language Arts and Math. | 3 | 1 |
176,546 | p024171 | 6e008a353e23d275f4960af26ee48fba | Ms. | VA | 2016-05-23 16:30:54 | Grades PreK-2 | Applied Learning, Special Needs | Early Development, Special Needs | Connecting the Mind and Body to Create Lifelong Learners! | Our Title I school is located in an urban environment, with over 75% of our students qualifying for free and reduced lunch. Many families in our school have to move around the city for one reason or another, and students don't often complete their elementary school from Kindergarten through Fifth Grade in the same school. Many of our school families benefit from community donations, food pantries, and partner organization donations. \r\n\r\nEach student in my Kindergarten class has a unique story. As such, they all have different learning styles and different needs as the school year progresses. Research has shown that allowing students to be comfortable while learning increases their learning potential. We don't know many five year olds who want to sit still for long! My hopes are to show my students that learning can be fun and comfortable and I'd like to inspire them to be lifelong learners! | With a variety of flexible seating options, my students will feel more comfortable and in-control of their learning environment. Traditional table and chair modeled classrooms work for few students today. With increased testing, all the way down to Kindergarten, students are asked to sit in a chair more often than their bodies will allow comfortably. This also often leads to increased negative behaviors. \r\n\r\nFlexible seating offers a fun and successful way to engage students physically so that they are also engaged mentally. Students in my class will have the opportunity to experience all seating options and choose what works best for them. If a student finds that an option that once worked no longer works, they have to opportunity to try something new.\r\n\r\nStudents will use this seating at their independent work, while on computers, and at their teacher-led centers. | null | null | My students need multi-sensory seating options to best serve their needs. When students have the power to choose how they learn they take ownership over their education and their own success! | 0 | 0 |
123,288 | p069323 | 1627ae064e9d78de2e32fd1b3cc5dd61 | Mrs. | AZ | 2016-08-07 13:38:11 | Grades PreK-2 | Health & Sports | Health & Wellness, Nutrition Education | Growing Healthier Eaters | My students are second graders from a high poverty school. Many of them don't have the opportunity to grow their own food, or know what types of food choices to make. They think that a good snack is a bag of chips. I want to help them change that. I want my students to learn about how we grow food, how we can compost to help our food to grow, and how to make smart food choices. With the help of our cafeteria manager the student will be able to prepare the foods we have grown and eat them. | My students want a garden that they would take care of. This would become a vertical learning garden. Students would plant the seeds, water, compost, prune and eventually harvest and eat the items from their garden. They will be working with the garden not only for Science, but also for Math (measurements) and Language Arts (writing). \r\n\r\nStudents in 2nd grade will be responsible for the creation and maintenance of the garden. They would journal about what they see, the amount of water we have, the weather changes we experience and about the final plants and how they taste. I hope to show them that they can also grow these at home, and help their families to become healthier eaters as well. | null | null | My students need vertical gardens, a composter, soil and books about gardening so that we can create our vertical garden and learn how to grow good food so that we can become healthy eaters. | 40 | 1 |
38,514 | p102437 | 4ba1d91d2e412cbeceaf24eed524ab22 | Ms. | UT | 2017-03-15 11:03:02 | Grades PreK-2 | Math & Science | Mathematics | \"Shape\" Up Or \"Graph\" Out! | My students are funny, smart, and try so hard to learn and please their teacher. My class is diverse, there are many students whose first language is not English so having hands on tools available to them is crucial to the success of their learning. They get so excited when I tell them, \"We will be learning something new today.\"\r\n\r\nNelson Mandela once said, \"Education is the most important weapon to change the world.\" I hope that through the education I give my students, this is a lesson they take away at the end of the year. \r\n\r\nMy students especially love it when I bring out the hands-on learning tools available in our classroom. It is so fun to watch their minds grow and expand as they are manipulating objects that help to solidify the difficult concepts taught in first grade. \r\n\r\nIn addition to teaching my students content from the core, I am trying to teach them that education is powerful, that it will get them anywhere they want to go, and that it will help them to change the world. \r\n\r\n | My students need Geoboards and extra rubber bands to help them understand the attributes of shapes during our shapes unit. These items will be used in whole group instruction as well as during small group instruction to help make learning about each of the shapes more interactive and fun. My students also need the Giant Measurement and Data Stamps and Giant Stamp Pads to help enhance their learning experience during our data and measurement lessons. This will also help me to create fast, easy self-starts for morning work. The stamps will also be fun to use in small groups to help reinforce the measurement and data concepts taught during whole group instruction. | null | null | My students need Best Buy 6\" Geoboards, Extra Rubber Bands, aGiant Measurement & Data Stamp Set, Giant Ink Pads, and Graphing Paper. | 30 | 1 |
31,038 | p234458 | 48788284cea666fe2337af244708ec80 | Mrs. | OK | 2016-09-28 17:04:28 | Grades 3-5 | Health & Sports, Literacy & Language | Health & Wellness, Literature & Writing | Focus Your Energy | I have 2 sections of 26 fifth graders (both boys & girls). These large classes make movement within the classroom difficult, but create enough energy to power a rocket into space!\r\n\r\nMy classroom is a place where approximately 60 very energetic kids meet to learn and socialize. Unfortunately, many students come to school with so much energy built up inside, they are unable to focus which keeps them from learning.\r\n\r\nI work in a rural community with a population of 3500.\r\n\r\nOur school is a Title 1 school with approximately 27% of students below poverty level. | Stability cushions help students sit up straight and engage the muscles and the parts of their brains needed to remain balanced. Stability classroom chair cushions will provide benefits ranging from quieter classrooms to more attentive students. A study concluded that the students who use stability devices tended to focus better than when using chairs.\r\n\r\nMy school district has eliminated some extra curricular courses which utilize students' energy appropriately.\r\n\r\nMy students rotate between computers and physical education and band every other day. Some of the band students are only able to attend physical education one time per week. The lack of daily activity has a negative effect on their learning and our classroom environment. I teach 52 students who rotate between 2 teachers. My fifth graders are eager to learn, but their attention span creates distractions within themselves and their classmates. | null | null | My students need stability chair cushions to help relieve them of extra energy and help them focus. | 5 | 1 |
54,442 | p192373 | aeaaad353e3985512a27c763ea6c075e | Ms. | NY | 2016-06-24 14:53:29 | Grades PreK-2 | Special Needs | Special Needs | Finding Their Voices: Students with Autism Need Communication Devices | My students attend a special education school. This means that they have specific disabilities or diagnoses that interfere with their ability to attend a regular education program. They require teachers, related service providers (speech, occupational, and physical therapists) who are specialized and have experience working with students with special needs. They also require adapted equipment such as modified chairs or desks that have more support, use of objects and pictures to convey information, equipment for the related service providers, and communication devices that help my students speak and express themselves.\r\n\r\nMy students have special needs such as autism, intellectual disabilities, motor-speech disorders, genetic syndromes, etc. They have a lot of difficulty with language and communication. This means that many of the students cannot speak or speak in one-two sentences. These students use an alternative form of communication such as an augmentative device or laminated picture cards. Most have language delays that affect their ability to understand, express themselves, and interact with peers. This may also lead to issues with frustration or expressing themselves through behaviors. | My students needs tablets and one speech-generating device. A majority of my students have difficulties with communication. It can be due to muscle weakness, neurological disorders, or for an unknown reason. Therefore, my job as a speech teacher is to help them develop an alternative means of communication. I will use the 3 Dragon i8 Tablets and Quicktalker 23+ with my student so they can find their voices. On the tablets, I can download a few applications that use pictures that \"talk\" for those who cannot. \r\n\r\nWhen I am working with students, I trial them with a variety of augmentative and alternative communication systems such as sign language, exchanging pictures, and speech-generating devices. When the child finds a system that works, they take off. They take ownership of their \"voice\" and take it everywhere with them. It becomes their way of connecting with others. The students start to interact more with peers, have more control over their environment, and are able to express themselves. It is amazing to see the transformation when they have the ability to communicate quickly and effectively. | null | null | My students need 3 Dragon i8 Pro Windows tablets and a Quicktalker speech-generating device to use for augmentative communication. | 9 | 1 |
45,074 | p167070 | 3830ab8303022922cf1bea350bc2f472 | Ms. | IA | 2016-06-27 02:12:18 | Grades PreK-2 | Literacy & Language, Math & Science | Literacy, Mathematics | Having Fun While Learning? Who Knew! | As I reflect on my first year of teaching, I am continuously finding ways to better my instruction for my students. My main goal for this upcoming year is to make my independent small group work meaningful yet fun. I will do whatever it takes to create the best learning environment for my students. They are the reason that I am constantly working to be the best educator possible.\r\n\r\nThe school that I teach at is very unique. Nearly every student at our school comes from a poverty stricken family, many of them being children of refugees. This past year over half of my students were English Language Learners. Regardless of their background, these students will stop at nothing to reach their goals-- which is why I am asking for help to help my next class realize how much fun learning can be. | Like I mentioned above, my main goal for this upcoming school year is to make independent work meaningful. I want my students to realize that they can be learning while having fun. Who knew?! I am asking for a variety of independent games that will be used as work stations while I am meeting with my guided reading & math groups.\r\n\r\nI meet with each student, every day, at least once for both guided reading and math. The groups that are not meeting with me will be working independently with their group at various stations. One station is technology and the other station will be one of my requested games (depending on the learning objective for that day). Every game will be used weekly depending on the levels of each particular group.\r\n\r\nI spent a lot of time researching the best games that will make the content stick. My goal is that the students will eventually forget that they are learning since they will be having so much fun. :) These educational games will also be help with those essential social skills since they will have to take turns, work together, and be patient throughout the games. | null | null | My students need an assortment of fun learning games to play independently during guided reading and math. | 1 | 0 |
21,096 | p255062 | 8d02a947bf08a33dd9876f7e41ca563d | Mrs. | SC | 2017-03-01 15:56:19 | Grades 3-5 | Math & Science | Mathematics | Flexible Seating: Making Learning Comfortable! | I teach a wonderful group of 4th graders at Anderson Mill Elementary School in Moore, South Carolina! We have a diverse group with a variety of learning styles and abilities. \r\n\r\nMy students are very eager to learn and are full of energy and life. They look forward to new challenges they face in my class each day. Their spirits shine bright with anticipation of new learning! These students have every opportunity for success, and I want to open the doors for them!\r\n\r\n | These flexible seating options will greatly improve my students' learning environment and will help them focus on the tasks at hand. Many of my students just need to MOVE! Sitting still at a desk isn't always comfortable for them, so they sometimes lose focus on the task in front of them. The wobble stools will allow my students to move in small groups while learning core content and holding discussions about skills/concepts. The wobble cushions will give them an opportunity to explore Reflex math and Matific anywhere in the room while being comfortable in their choice of locations. The balance balls will allow my students to move/bounce/balance while doing independent work and/or working with partners to share new learning opportunities. | null | null | My students need flexible seating options to complete our math workshop rotations each day. | 0 | 1 |
87,156 | p163481 | 81f78a78ddc366c4b8b605e9882731d1 | Mrs. | FL | 2016-08-19 23:12:13 | Grades 3-5 | Health & Sports | Health & Wellness | Rocking and Moving Readers | My fourth grade students are enthusiastic and passionate learners.\r\nEach day they come into the classroom, with bright smiles and open minds. They are learning how to develop a growth mindset and to set and reach for goals. At our school we work very hard to inspire students to become lifelong readers. \r\n\r\nWhen I asked my students what they would like to be able to do more often, they said that they love being able to sit in various areas around the room during reading time. | Being able to have flexible seating allows my students to get up and move around. We have several special chairs, but are in need of more \"beans\" to refill our flattened bean bag chairs. Although we have flexible seating, it is all stationary. My students want to move! Specifically, my students have asked to have seating that will allow them to move while they are seated. The Hokki stools will be perfect for allowing this!\r\n \r\nIn addition, my students have voiced that the florescent lighting is too bright for reading, so the floor lamps would provide more appropriate lighting. I know having access to more flexible seating will help students to be active throughout the day and combined with adequate lighting, will create a more comfortable and inviting reading environment. | null | null | My students need Hokki stools, bean bag chair refills, and floor lamps. | 11 | 1 |
51,502 | p101215 | 3dfc51c90d37e3e2e1a688647010e466 | Ms. | FL | 2016-07-09 09:17:43 | Grades 3-5 | Music & The Arts | Music, Performing Arts | Now Watch me Uke. Now watch me lele. | We are one of many located in a large area of underprivileged schools. Because of this, we are extremely blessed to have music in our school and much less the resources needed to provide students with a quality music education. Despite our lack of musical resources provided, my students are incredibly eager to learn and master whatever is placed before them. They seek to assist their peers in achieving success as well. Though I have only been at the school for a short period of time, I love my students and I hope to share my love for music education with them for many years! I strive to provide my students with the quality of music education that I received while growing up. I strongly believe that by my students being able to experience as much as they can in music, on top of their present eagerness to learn, they will soar in several other areas of their lives! | My students love to play instruments. Because our classroom has a limited supply of instruments, having ukuleles would be incredibly beneficial to their learning and understanding of the different instruments that we have today. Rather than just watching videos regarding the ukulele and other string instruments, my students will each get multiple hands-on experiences in playing them. In addition, my students music reading skills will improve. They will learn to follow a musical score suited for ukulele in the elementary music classroom and they will be able to join their love for singing AND instruments for their parents and peerss to enjoy. | null | null | My students need 13 Ukuleles to improve their elementary musical experience! | 0 | 1 |
67,416 | p086492 | 6376927834706742fb0f7ac6bd81daef | Mrs. | CA | 2017-02-13 19:28:28 | Grades 3-5 | Math & Science, Applied Learning | Applied Sciences, Parent Involvement | School to Home Connection With Digital Portfolios. | I work with 4th and 5th grade students at a Title 1 school. Our rural location make my students extra special. My students are kind, caring, and genuine. They have high family values and connect well with the community. Students of all abilities are in my classroom. Students with disabilities are included by all within our group. The positive interaction that students have for each other is amazing. \r\n\r\nTechnology is a luxury not all students have at home. Students are excited to use technology. They know at school learning is always at their fingertips. What is really amazing is how they love to share what they learn with others. For them to teach others is helping students become better learners.\r\n\r\nHaving technology only adds to what the classroom teacher can do each day. It is a luxury I would like to be able to supply to my students. Tablets would be a positive addition in my classroom. | Having tablets in the classroom will allow my students to create a digital portfolio that only their family can view through the app Class Dojo.\r\n\r\nStudents love technology! With a tablet, my students will be able to share an important part of their day with their family. They can take a picture, write a note, or send a video and instantly show what they are learning to any family member that is connected to their Class Dojo account. The excitement makes children want to learn. \r\n\r\nKids love to share! How exciting that technology has enabled us to do so within our classroom. | null | null | My students need tablets to create their own digital portfolios that they can share with their families. | 3 | 1 |
45,462 | p113273 | 7df917259470998e35093894797f7e8e | Mrs. | TX | 2016-10-20 13:03:17 | Grades PreK-2 | Math & Science | Applied Sciences, Mathematics | Reading Through Math and Science! | Dyslexia students face my challenges in their lives and in the classroom. They often feel like they lack the necessary support and confidence they need to be successful learners. Dyslexia students need to have a multi-sensory approach to learning in order to succeed in the classroom and become lifelong learners.\r\n \r\n\" It takes a entire school to build a family.\"\r\n\r\n My dyslexia students come from a high-poverty neighborhood where they often lack the essential supplies they need for learning. Many come from single parent homes and life is a day to day struggle for making ends meet. Attending school is the only positive outlet for most of my dyslexia students. My students are very appreciative of the resources we have for learning, but I would love for them to be able to experience how the generosity of others could impact their lives.\r\n \r\n | My dyslexia students struggle with having resources that will connect with their multi-sensory style of learning. I want to instill the love of reading through math and science. Many of my students do not have the advantage of having new resources at home and by having new puzzles, hands-on science and math games, and various reader books, they will develop a passion for reading and learning new concepts. \r\n\r\nMath and Science can pose a challenge to many dyslexia students in the classroom. By being able to have a variety of new resources that would allow students to be engaged and interact first hand with a variety of games and colorful books, my students will share a passion for math and science through reading. Dyslexia students can make great strides through the use of interactive math games, non-fiction reader books, and various science activities. I greatly feel that new math and science resources would help them feel more confident in the classroom and in their overall school life. | null | null | My students need math and science resources to provide a multi-sensory learning approach with their dyslexia reading disability. | 9 | 1 |
78,713 | p132515 | dfa94aef090e1534b61caa59f2cfc38f | Mr. | CA | 2016-09-01 00:00:20 | Grades 6-8 | History & Civics | History & Geography, Social Sciences | Expanding Our Printing Station | Our new group of students love the printing station that we have set up in the back of the classroom. In fact, a couple of them have already started using them to print out assignments. Many of them marveled at how fast a laser jet could print, while others commented on how their work came in color.\r\n\r\nAs I have recounted in our previous projects, our school truly is one of the most diverse schools in the city. Some of our students may live near the school, while others may need to wake up earlier in order to catch a long bus ride to our school site. In fact, a great percentage of our students qualify for free lunch while those who live around the school may come from a more affluent background. Although they may have drastically different socioeconomic backgrounds, their dreams of succeeding in school and ultimately in life can be very similar. \r\n | We actually have around four computers in the back of the room that serves as our mini computer lab. Two of them can't connect to the printers that we have. So there is really only two computers that can actually print assignments or materials. It is our hope that this new desktop will allow more students to use the back of the classroom to print their materials and assignments. It will also replace one of the two computers that are currently now used to print. By freeing up those two computers, we can give the two other computers to our neighboring classrooms. | null | null | My students need an all in one desktop for our mini printing station. | 17 | 0 |
175,050 | p228824 | 4169169abbe4f5f4c8f8a14d8f1cec16 | Ms. | FL | 2017-03-21 19:56:29 | Grades 3-5 | Health & Sports | Gym & Fitness, Health & Wellness | Working on our Fitness! | I work at a very enthusiastic Title One school in the heart of Orlando. As the Physical Education teacher, I have over 400 students to educate in health and fitness each year. My students range from the very gifted with boundless athletic abilities to students with special needs and physical impairments. Regardless, I’ve dedicated my life to creating unique learning situations for all of my kids, so that each and every one feels proud of their accomplishments and empowered to live a healthy lifestyle. As a teacher, it is the most touching and heartwarming moment of a lifetime to see my young “Olympians” help, support, and cheer on my special needs students. Meanwhile, my students themselves learn the virtues of respect, friendship, sportsmanship, empathy, and compassion, all while practicing the invigorating and fun skills that they get to practice at P.E.\r\n\r\nMy students want to learn and are excited whenever they are introduced to something new, but the majority of my students are socioeconomically disadvantaged, and many are not exposed to exercise and healthy habits. Some are discouraged from going outdoors for safety reasons. | The materials here will help my students be exposed to fitness equipment that they will be exposed to throughout their lives if they wish to follow a healthy lifestyle. My students are low income and are only exposed to the resources that our school is able to provide them. The students have standards that ask for them to perform a fitness test, and the district only provides a minimal about of supplies for this. I would like to avoid having my students wait in long lines in order to use equipment when completing their fitness tests. \r\n\r\nA lot of our equipment as also become older and brittle, it no longer works properly due to overuse. My hope is to get my students as much of an education as those in the affluent communities. Our school no longer has a PTA due to lack of parental support and this equipment will be very exciting for our students and their willingness to learn. I hope to be able to have the students practice using different muscles in their bodies, this way they are able to reach their fullest athletic potential. | null | null | My students need Fitness related equipment that not only help them to assess their fitness, but to also teach them how to improve their fitness. | 3 | 0 |
177,440 | p185207 | 922965ff1d89ea76f40d0703d76c201a | Ms. | NY | 2016-08-22 14:07:21 | Grades PreK-2 | Literacy & Language, Special Needs | Literature & Writing, Special Needs | My Environment | I have been a NY teacher for students with special needs for the past four years. I work in east New York teaching kids of different age, cultures and ethnicity. My school building contains five classrooms, offering Pre-K to first Grade classes with the age group of 3 - 7 years old. Most of our students are non-verbal and mostly come from low economic background with less family support. Our students require full prompting, physical prompting and always visual supports | This non-fiction unit of study leads students to understand how reading impacts our daily lives in functional and literary ways. We identify print in our environment: restaurant logos, posters, street, and room and door signs. We match our spoken words to text and illustrations. Teachers can support the early acquisition of conventional reading through environmental walks to read the environment and through interactive and guided reading activities. This is the time to set up the routines for daily reading that students will follow all year long.\r\n\r\nThis unit of study also focuses on recognizing the importance of writing in our environment, and helps students to notice that writing is all around us. Throughout writing for ‘My Environment’ we will focus on ways that writing helps us find things (signs and labels), get organized (lists), and remember to do things (reminders). We post our students’ labels around our classrooms and hallways as a way of celebrating their accomplishments and reaffirming the importance of print in our world. | null | null | My students need hand on manipulative to learn and explore about the topics in our school. As teachers we adapt all the materials and try to bring the unit to life in our classroom. | 1 | 0 |
2,962 | p141036 | e7453b1b416b8abc793f674bc53fc242 | Ms. | NY | 2016-06-17 09:44:39 | Grades PreK-2 | Literacy & Language, Special Needs | Literacy, Special Needs | Special Education Reading Project | I teach special education students K-2 grade. All most students are at least 2-3 years behind in their academics. They have serious speech and comprehension problems. I work in a community with a high poverty level. I will say that at least 90% of the families are immigrants that work hard to provide for their children while learning English. Many of my students are English Language Learners that struggle to learn both the English language as well as reading, writing, math, science and social studies. | I am requesting the Instant Learning Center Complete Set and the Learning Sight Words Activity Chest. My students will benefit from these tools due to the fact that it will give them the opportunity to learn in a hands on manner. Since thiey have so many delays and need a lot of drilling and visuals in order to understand and follow routines. Centers are a way for them to learn these skills in a manner that is not boring and allows them to have fun while thier learn. Please help my special education students to succeed in these precious years! | null | null | My students need Language Instante Learning Center Complete Set and Learning Sight Words Activity Chest. | 0 | 1 |
50,005 | p015394 | 3c0e66cf49d418bc41adff6a9ec8d540 | Mrs. | CA | 2016-05-20 14:24:13 | Grades 6-8 | Special Needs | Special Needs | Autism and Technology | “If a child can't learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn.” –Ignacio Estrada All of my students have Autism, but they vary in academic levels from kindergarten to fourth grade. They are not typical children and so use an alternative curriculum and require alternative teaching methods.\r\nMy students all have Autism. They range in grade from sixth to eighth but are all on the Alternative Curriculum. In addition to Autism, they are all considered Intellectually Disabled and some have further issues such as speech and orthopedic challenges. Despite their challenges my students love to learn and are particularly engaged by visuals and interactive lessons. My class is on a general education middle school campus in a special day classroom. We are the only class using an Alternative Curriculum on our campus. The school is primarily Hispanic with an overall low economic status. My students participate with the general education students for homeroom, lunch, assemblies, and one elective class. The students are kind and accepting of my students and work hard to include them. Overall we have a great school, but technology in my classroom is extremely limited and we have no budget for technology. | My students are all very visual and extremely motivated by technology. I would use the apple TV along with my classroom ipad to help my students learn academic content as well as develop social skills. \r\nApple TV has AirPlay. AirPlay is Apple’s technology that will stream a live view of whatever is on an iOS device's screen. \r\n\r\nWith iPad mirrored onto a large screen, I can demo how to use an app, zoom into maps, show what’s under iPad’s camera, and display questions. \r\nWith the apple TV I can stream videos to help my students better understand a concept. I can also use it to wirelessly attach to my ipad so I can project apps and interactive lessons for the whole class to see. This would help me students to engage in interactive whole group lessons that would make learning both fun and engaging. Because the connection is wireless so I can sit in front of my class and move from student to student to allow them to interact with the ipad while the other students watch. Finally, I can use it to turn my ipad into a docureader so I can project student worksheets or books on the board to help my students. Donating an apple TV to my classroom would completely revolutionize the way I teach and the way my students learn.\r\n | null | null | My students need an apple TV to project apps and educational videos so they can more fully engage in the learning process. | 6 | 1 |
98,288 | p013734 | 48ce135c324c50419e63d85a71d62cf6 | Mr. | AZ | 2016-12-30 13:52:35 | Grades 6-8 | Health & Sports, Math & Science | Health & Wellness, Mathematics | One Small Step for Students, One Giant Leap for Learning | My Gifted students are an outstanding example of representing our school community with pride and academic excellence. I teach over 100 gifted or advanced students in grades K-6. Their hard work and commitment are one of the reasons our school is a National Title I School of Excellence and is recognized as an A++ elementary school. This year we are implementing STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Mathematics) curriculum and instruction across all grade levels. I am looking forward to my students using their gifted talents and skills in new and exciting ways this school year. | As a 3-6 grade Advanced Math teacher and District Basketball Director, I stress the importance of being a student athlete to excel in the classroom and on the court. Many of my students are not gifted athletically, but using pedometers as a hook to healthy living and real life data tracking will engage all learners.\r\nStudents will be highly motivated to record, analyze, and evaluate their pedometer data because they are personally responsible for creating it. My students will learn to better estimate and understand ratios and proportions by setting weekly goals and checking progress daily. The numbers generated from the pedometers will also be great for review of basic operations and creating individualized problems to meet students' needs.\r\nWe are also interested in discovering the health benefits that will result from increased physical activity. Students will work together to determine various health factors they want to investigate and then conduct a 2 to 3 month study. Following the study, student groups will use technology to present their findings to the class. | null | null | My students need pedometers to track and analyze real life data in our Advanced Math classes. | 6 | 1 |
115,811 | p034365 | a33bb5593967468b50083f25d2da7e23 | Mrs. | TX | 2016-12-20 23:54:08 | Grades 6-8 | Math & Science | Applied Sciences | Science Art. | As a teacher in a low-income/high poverty school district, my students are faced with several challenges both in and out of the classroom. Despite the many challenges they face, I am looking to keep things simple and provide my students with creative and meaningful learning experiences.They love to draw and search on the internet for new ideas. I do my best with the supplies we have in science class but it's the experiences that make a difference. I'm hoping to make more experiences worth remembering. | My students will use the paper for foldables and bigger scissors are needed to cut them out for my 8 th graders.They like to create and we are limited on paper sometimes. The dry erase markers are for the art work of vocabulary for better understanding and to help my creative students be able to express themselves on the black lab tables they have. I feel it will help improve the understanding of the science vocabulary and fun for the students.The windows markers are for students to use and to help them remember. Thank you for helping my students experience science differently. | null | null | My students need this for foldables for vocabulary and note taking. The dry erase markers are for the black lab tables in our science class. So the students can draw to show knowledge of science vocabulary. | 0 | 1 |
148,184 | p162528 | 920c64edf01d2d847af7f84351c2a06b | Ms. | ME | 2016-09-19 19:04:44 | Grades 3-5 | Literacy & Language, Math & Science | Literacy, Mathematics | Board Game Brilliance! Boosting Skills Through Word and Math Games! | Our city has become a destination for immigrant and refugee families from around the world. As a result, our school system comprises students who represent more than 60 languages, as well as a vast range of socioeconomic standings. Our classroom is a microcosm of this population; among the 20 students in our class, there are six cultures represented beyond the native English speakers: Syrian, Vietnamese, Cambodian, Hispanic, Chinese and Japanese. Parents of my current students range from non-English-speaking newcomers who work themselves to the bone at the fish docks or local factories, to successful attorneys, nurses and business owners.\r\n\r\nBridging learning gaps, celebrating diversity, and making instruction accessible to each member of our class are our ultimate goals. This is a wonderful - if challenging - mixture of children, and I believe that they learn as much from one another each day as they do from their teachers! I wish I had been so lucky as to grow up around the diversity that has become their normal. They are truly a representation of their future worlds. | A need for word games arose in my class last school year, when our school's fourth and fifth graders competed in a Bananagrams tournament of epic proportions! Through this experience, I saw the spelling and dictionary skills in my classroom skyrocket. Students were engaged, learning, and communicating/problem solving effectively. The problem was that I had no Bananagrams games, so I made my own tiles on card stock! We also borrowed a neighboring teacher's jumbo Bananagrams set and worked in teams to build our boards and compete as a class. This was a huge hit. \r\n\r\nI am in need of REAL games, both in literacy and numeracy, to best keep my students talking, thinking and growing during their \"down\" time! | null | null | My students need literacy and numeracy practice in a fun, interactive, off-the-beaten-path way that gives them the occasional break from our mathematics, reading and writing programs! | 0 | 0 |
69,588 | p250821 | c76cfec940364a6c9d3e4ffd55fea501 | Mrs. | FL | 2016-12-16 10:35:34 | Grades 3-5 | Literacy & Language, Math & Science | Literacy, Mathematics | IPad for Learning | Every morning my students come to school with the mindset today is the day to learn something new and make a difference in there lives. \r\nWe are a Title 1 School located in Groveland FL. I have a class of 22 amazing who are very special to me. This is my second year of teaching and loving these students. This set of students come from different backgrounds and home lives, but yet they all love each other and they know that this class is their family and that they are safe.\r\n | In our school the students are required to complete time on certain programs which is very hard in my classroom, I only 4 working computers and 22 students to rotate through the program.\r\nIn a title 1 school the students normally don't have access to computers and or Ipads at home to complete their time on the program. So having another form that the students can log on to would be a great help to our class. I'm only asking for one right now, but would love to have 5 of them. I had to go with Apple product because the computer program when it comes to tablets can only be down loaded from the apple store. | null | null | My students need another source to complete required computer time with school related programs, I only have 4 working computers in my classroom, and have 22 students who need time to complete programs | 0 | 1 |
74,074 | p171985 | fb0e65756fbbc5e7514ecaa8ab22fbc0 | Mrs. | CO | 2016-08-11 23:29:31 | Grades 3-5 | Music & The Arts | Music, Performing Arts | A Great, New Instrumental Ensemble Needs Orff Instruments! | My 425 students are eager, diverse students, some coping with poverty and special needs, all reaching out to become capable young musicians in an exciting new music program! Our school serves both regular and special-education children in a modest neighborhood setting. They have loved their choral performance experiences, but they now have a great new opportunity to perform in an Orff instrumental ensemble! Our students come from a variety of cultural backgrounds, but share a strong interest in music education. | We've never had one! Now we have a chance! My diverse students, many from modest backgrounds in a school with significant poverty, have a new music director/teacher who has won State-wide recognition for instrumental ensemble success. The students are eager, hard-working music lovers, and their passion to make music and to succeed is simply inspiring. They bring such joy and creativity, but we simply do not have the xylophones needed for this ensemble. Our instruments are 30 years old, or older, and lack sonority and tonal beauty. I am working to improve their sound through instrumental repair and adjustments, but we very much need some centerpiece instruments to bring warmth and beauty to our sound, so that students and audiences can hear the musicality of their work. \r\n\r\nWe are so hopeful that our instrumental ensemble will become a reality in the coming weeks as we open the school year with this exciting vision for excellence in music education. Our learning community will be thrilled with the results if our project is financed. | null | null | My students need an alto xylophone as a strong and sonorous addition to our new instrumental ensemble. | 30 | 1 |
104,199 | p024256 | 6e15bb0fde16aa9addc768c307dcc8e1 | Mrs. | CO | 2017-04-21 13:43:03 | Grades 3-5 | Literacy & Language | Literacy | Literacy helps Students Connect to the World Around Them | My school works together with parents and the community to empower and nurture gifted and advanced learners to build 21st century skills through leadership and innovation. With creativity, critical thinking, communication, inquiry, problem-solving, and collaboration, we foster global citizens who will make a positive impact on a rapidly changing world.\r\n\r\nMy students love to learn things at a deeper and more complex level and these articles provide this opportunity. They love to make real world connections to what they learn. They all come from very diverse backgrounds, but work together as a wonderful team inside the classroom. | Scholastic and Story Works magazines will provide my students with opportunities to make real world connections to the world around them. \r\n\r\nUsing these magazines as a resource will help all of my students be engaged readers, critical thinkers and global citizens!\r\n\r\nI would like these to use in my weekly reading groups to engage and develop community conversations. The students love to connect, debate, analyze and question, all which the articles in these magazines provide. These magazines also provide an opportunity for my students to read from a different text material, which is an important skill for them to practice to become life long learners. \r\n\r\n\r\n | null | null | My students need these magazines to provide them the learning opportunities to connect to the world around them while utilizing a different text material. | 0 | 1 |
15,947 | p159526 | ee1114d746ffc16f7f30c10a7b464478 | Ms. | CA | 2016-05-23 16:11:31 | Grades 3-5 | Health & Sports | Health & Wellness | It's Getting Hot In Here...Please Help Cool Us Off!!! | The students in Room 18 are an incredible & diverse bunch! Each student brings special qualities to the classroom environment, and they all work together to make a truly great community. They work hard each day to make every moment count. They support one another, respectfully work through differences, and strive to gain the tools and independence that prepares them for the big move to middle school. They are quite amazing and I aim to do all I can to keep them headed for success.\r\n | I attended Chabot Elementary from 1987-1993, and I enjoyed every aspect of my educational experience. Since then, Chabot has maintained its dedication to elementary education, and it is a pleasure to be a teacher at this school. After my first year here, I have worked hard to provide these children with the same positive experience I remember. There is one factor that complicates our class' learning experience. Temperatures in the Bay Area are rising, and continue to do so. Our classroom reaches 83-85 degrees during the hottest days, and it makes learning (and teaching) a challenge. Each subject and each lesson teaches vital skills, and with a portable A/C in our room, we can maintain a more reasonable temperature in our room and help the students focus on what is important. | null | null | My students need a cooler environment during the hotter days to stay focused on their learning. | 0 | 1 |
134,391 | p018448 | 3daeea5d00475fa2b1b1f9ab1e738b84 | Mrs. | IN | 2016-06-12 22:53:28 | Grades 3-5 | Applied Learning | College & Career Prep | Protecting our Fire! | We have a very high mobility rate and rarely have a student that has gone to our building for grades K-6. \r\nWe are an urban school with a large shelter (homeless and/or domestic violence) population.\r\nThis means we have students with a massive range of skills and experiences. As a staff, we know that our students can succeed if given the opportunity. We provide a wide range of services including a food, clothing, and school supplies pantry, health care services, and tutoring both during and after school. | We recently acquired 5 Kindle Fire tablets to use in our class. Because I want to give all my students the opportunity to use them, I also want them to be protected. I believe this will help my students feel a sense of responsibility while learning too by using this charging station to make sure the devices are ready to use every day.\r\n\r\nI want to give my students any opportunity to grow as a learner and being able to protect these tablets will help me succeed in doing so. \r\n\r\nI truly believe putting this protected technology in my students' hands will enhance their learning experience! | null | null | My students need 5 Kindle Cases and a Charging Stations to protect technology in the classroom. | 6 | 1 |
162,717 | p051146 | 4578f4788f863c80be161af56d2ca78a | Ms. | PA | 2016-10-27 14:57:14 | Grades PreK-2 | Literacy & Language, Math & Science | Literacy, Mathematics | Kindles for First Graders! | My students come from all over Pennsylvania to attend our school. The children are from a variety of backgrounds but they all have one thing in common - their families made the choice to send them here. Currently I have 26 students in my first grade class. These kids are especially wonderful since I was able to \"loop\" with them from Kindergarten. This group really loves to learn, especially using technology. Using donorschoose.org has been very beneficial for our classroom before and I can't wait to use it again! | Our class was lucky enough to receive 4 kindle fire tablets using donorschoose.org. We are already LOVING being able to read independently on our various levels. It is much easier to have our own because our names pop right up (more user-friendly than shared chromebooks.) Once we started using them daily I realized that if we had four more we'd have an entire reading center's worth of leveled books. I am so excited to try this again and possibly have enough technology for class centers. The best thing about the kindle fires is how durable they are - they don't break if dropped (yay!) | null | null | My students need kindle fires for leveled reading in the classroom. | 5 | 1 |
151,123 | p234544 | e7c9d5b94ae13c6d373794e8d33c77d1 | Mrs. | GA | 2016-07-20 00:21:52 | Grades 6-8 | History & Civics | Civics & Government, Social Sciences | Election 2016 Here We Come! | Our class of highly-motivated achievers loves to read and discuss current events, and they especially enjoy choosing topics that directly affect their lives. Students spent much of last year learning about the conflicts in the Middle East and how economic and political decisions in Asia and Europe are affecting the USA. Now these students are ready to dive into our political processes and the events/people that shaped our bicameral system.\r\n These students need current information so they can be informed voters in our mock presidential election and in our study of US and state government. With this knowledge, we can be assured these 8th graders will be informed voters. In just four short years they can really cast votes and need to see the value of their voice in government decisions. These rural students need knowledge to become better citizens in the processes and branches of government. | By diving in the election process, my students will become more informed citizens in the current Presidential election, and they will certainly gain skills needed for when they vote in 2020. Students will first study the events that shaped our government and then will use current events to understand how amendments are changing the living document we call the Constitution. \r\n These materials will allow the classes to create political parties, vote in primary elections, and create campaign slogans/logos that reflect party goals. Classes will also analyze the purpose of the electoral college and debate the need for this provision in our current political climate.\r\n | null | null | My students need the Scholastic election materials to understand the election process. Students will use art supplies to create campaign posters, campaign slogans, and campaign logos/symbols for mock political parties they create. | 0 | 0 |
36,786 | p183090 | b25b1a97c0e1bd8f8f0e67405861db20 | Ms. | NC | 2017-03-30 12:53:16 | Grades 9-12 | Math & Science | Applied Sciences | Flexible Seating For My Energetic Class | My students come from a variety of backgrounds. Everywhere from rural farms to inner city areas are represented in my classroom. The school is Title I and many of my students come from very low income households. Despite obstacles they may encounter at home my students are a joy to work with. They are bright and engaged and endlessly entertaining. They are curious and full of questions about the topics that interest them. My students are also full of energy and don't like being tied to an assigned seat! I try to do a variety of activities that keep students moving and interested in what they are learning. | My students tend to wander around the room when they are tired of sitting in their desk chairs. By providing an alternative space in which my nomads can work they are able to switch up their seating without disturbing others in the classroom. Many of my classes need extrinsic motivation to stay on task and a flexible seating area could be used as a reward for those students! Research has shown that alternative or flexible seating is good for blood circulation in students and improves posture along with academic performance. Students will also be able to work collaboratively and share in order to decide when to trade seats with other students. The classroom also has four sink/countertop areas that no longer function but are attached to the floor in odd places. So unfortunately I can't seat students in an ideally collaborative way, and my seating arrangements are limited because of large class sizes. By having an area for flexible seating students will be able to work together more easily than they would in their desks and I have extra seating for my larger classes. | null | null | My students need flexible seating so that they aren't sitting in the same desk for 7 hours a day! | 0 | 1 |
75,142 | p074330 | 3a9ead458cfcdbc02387262b40139676 | Mr. | AZ | 2016-07-18 22:04:10 | Grades 6-8 | History & Civics | History & Geography, Social Sciences | New Textbooks of Knowledge | As students walk into my classroom my goal is to make them want to be there, since the desire to be somewhere has a huge impact on what they will get out of where ever they are. Then I work with them to help them understand facets about history, geography, government, and economics within US history.\r\n\r\nThese students who are 8th graders in a rural Arizona town originally established as a mining town. Many of my have a lot going on in their personal lives, and seeing that so many still show up every day makes me strive to be able to give them a classroom that they deserve and an education that can be beneficial. | A textbook is only as good as the content within it's pages, and also the condition that it is in (because a textbook in bad condition is not going to last long, and that is lost learning when a student can't read it).\r\nOur current textbooks are becoming unusable, they have ripped cover (some have no covers at all), almost all have writing/graffiti/coloring on the inside of the front & back covers (if they're still attached, and on the pages between. \r\nAll of those things are distracting, and take away from the time that a student has to read the material, and that is lost learning. | null | null | My students need new copies of our textbook History of Our Nation: 1865 to the present, current ones have ripped covers, or pages, graffiti throughout the inside front & back covers and on pages | 0 | 1 |
94,720 | p009981 | 7b46e708a81750c32ef272dfa1e25c76 | Mr. | WV | 2016-05-27 11:24:51 | Grades 6-8 | Music & The Arts | Music, Performing Arts | Samsung 360 Will Surround Us With Sound | My students are very talented young musicians who are given an opportunity at my school to learn about music. They are very sincere and frank people who enjoy learning new things.\r\nMy students are very excited about music and technology. They utilize iPads and other equipment in their studies.\r\nMy students play many different band instruments, including flute, clarinet, saxophone, trumpet, euphonium, and percussion. Students often take band from 6th grade through 8th grade. Some even go on to high school band. | My band students need a good quality sound system to enable them to train their ears, improve their listening skills, and therefore become better performers.\r\nMy students deserve high-quality equipment. That is why it is so important that they have good sound equipment to help advance their education.\r\nThis speaker will give students the opportunity to have this high-quality sound, and it's portability means it can easily be used in the music classroom as well. This widens the number of student who can use this speaker to not only include the band and choir students, but the general music students as well. | null | null | My students need the Samsung 360 speaker to help them have a high-quality sound system to listen to great recordings of band music and to get the best quality for the class. | 0 | 1 |
98,486 | p233809 | 441acf4a65ddc6a3b1b2eeb74dbe0e2b | Mrs. | NV | 2016-12-03 21:53:16 | Grades 6-8 | Math & Science | Mathematics | Manipulating Math for a Better Understanding | Special needs, unable, autistic.... The list can go on for terms I hear others refer to my students as. In Room 304, my students aren't disabled. They are not unable. They are students.\r\nIn Room 304, we are all human, a group of people who come together daily to learn to become the best we can. All of my students do have a distinct set of challenges to overcome daily. My goal is to minimize these so that school is not one. \r\nRoom 304 is an Autism classroom in a Title 1 school in Las Vegas, Nevada. Our school is located in an area that receives low community outreach and consequently, few local fundraising projects have been successful. With your help, my class and I would like to see our luck change and our room receive the items we need to create a more dynamic learning environment for my diverse class. | Due to my extraordinary class, my students need to learn with a more hands on approach. Materials on my list will provide that hands on component that I am not able to currently. Place value sets will provide a visual of what is happening as they work through a variety of operations such as adding or dividing. My class also has very little experience with how to work with fractions and decimals as well as what these strange numbers even mean. Other materials on our list such as the hands on fractions and fraction and decimal kits can be used by students to make connections and understand relationships between fractions and wholes as well as fractions to decimals. Linking blocks can also provide another way to create visual relationships and will be used in a variety of other ways including STEM projects and to build sight words.\r\nYour donation to our project will create an irresistible learning environment for my students in which they can develop their love and understanding of difficult math concepts. Students learn best when they can discover learning in a multitude of ways. Your gift will provide hands on opportunities that will optimize their learning potential. Please help me fund this project to ensure a successful math program for the autism class at Brinley Middle School. | null | null | My students need a variety of math manipulatives in order to learn basic math skills in a variety of ways that makes sense to them. | 0 | 1 |
130,349 | p100727 | 06d66a19510bc064a198aaca2a1eabd1 | Mrs. | WA | 2016-08-16 00:01:08 | Grades PreK-2 | Math & Science | Environmental Science | Help us blow our tops!\r\n | My students come from many diverse and economic backgrounds. I teach 2nd grade and have 25 students to start the year. They are smart, enthusiastic and ready to get their hands on any activity where they can create and learn. One of our favorite subjects in school is science. I try to give my students as many hands on projects as possible for them to explore. My students depend on me for their supplies as many of them cannot afford to buy materials for projects. I try to make sure all students have the same materials so everyone has an equal chance to create their volcano. | Our new Next Generation Science Standards explore how the earth can change quickly or slowly. My students want to learn about these changes by hands on building of their own volcano landscape. Our class needs air dry clay to build and mold our volcanoes. We also need acrylic paints so we can paint our volcanoes as accurately as we can. By providing students with these materials they can take ownership of their project and become involved in the learning process of fast land change. Once students have finished, we will then watch our volcanoes in action. Students will then take their volcanoes to other classes so they can share their observations and knowledge of fast land changes. | null | null | My students need air dry clay and acrylic paints to make their volcanoes and landscape. | 2 | 1 |
70,777 | p105091 | 7dc2d83e15cedca6423e1d637ef5464c | Ms. | CA | 2016-08-14 20:59:03 | Grades PreK-2 | Applied Learning | Early Development | Colorful Carpet Needed For Kinders | I am a first year teacher and am so excited to start this week! The school I am teaching at is in a low income district and the children often come from very challenging backgrounds. The students are extremely diverse and I believe that they deserve a fully stocked classroom with opportunities for a quality education. I want my students to have everything they need to start the year and not be hindered by the fact that I am a new teacher and limited on supplies. | As a first year teacher it has been a struggle the past month trying to make my classroom into everything I think my students deserve. I want my students to feel welcome and excited when they enter the classroom and a colorful carpet will help me achieve that. I want each student to have their own spot on the rug so that they can focus on their learning and not be smooshed on top of each other. This carpet will help with classroom management as well as facilitate maximum learning. I know this will help complete my classroom and I am sure that my students would appreciate it. Thank you in advance!! :) | null | null | My students need a carpet during instruction on the floor. They are currently sitting on felt squares duct taped to the floor and this will help with classroom management and learning. | 0 | 1 |
95,539 | p037940 | 9b93da67b08ea28c845ad04ef5bf40d4 | Mrs. | LA | 2016-08-29 10:47:44 | Grades PreK-2 | Literacy & Language, Math & Science | Literature & Writing, Mathematics | Rebuilding Our Class Library and Math Centers | I teach 22 energetic and enthusiastic second grade students. They love to read chapter books and informational books about their favorite topics. Our classroom library is an essential part of our classroom. \r\n We have a \"Math Corner\" that is dedicated to daily calendar activities, math resources for the students, and math skill games. Students are able to choose the materials they need to complete the activities they are working on. \r\n Both of these centers are major parts of the classroom that greatly impact student learning on a daily basis. | Our school was devastated by the recent flooding in Louisiana. Most of the classrooms lost large amounts of their contents. My classroom was one of those. I am trying to rebuild our classroom for my wonderful second grade students. My classroom library plays a huge role in the students' learning experiences through out the day. Students go there to read independently and research topics of interest.\r\nWe lost most, if not all, of our math manipulatives and games for the math centers. My students use the \"Math Corner\" on a daily basis and it is essential to math instruction and the way my classroom functions. | null | null | My students need picture books and chapter book for our class library and math activities for our \"Math Corner.\" | 0 | 1 |
153,138 | p121567 | ac9b71ce494eff9dc67831ec175b88b7 | Ms. | IA | 2016-10-20 17:20:20 | Grades PreK-2 | Literacy & Language, Math & Science | Literature & Writing, Mathematics | Putting Technology into Little Hands | My students come from a wide variety of homes. We have different languages being spoken at home and at school. I have a wide variety of academic skills in the room ranging from far below grade level to above grade level. We are a low SES school in rural Iowa. \r\n\r\nThis classroom is always in motion no matter what the subject matter is. Students love to be hands on with their learning and with the materials. They enjoy the wide variety of activities that are available to them in each subject and would like to have more. | Technology is becoming a more and more necessary skill for students to become productive citizens. With budget restraints we are not able to get all of the technology that we would like to put into students hands. Adding an iPad to our room is small step in the right direction.\r\n\r\nSome of my students have trouble with fine motor skills. Some of them have a harder time using an iPad mini and get very frustrated when trying to use one. Adding a full size iPad would help reduce some of the stress of these students and allow them to enjoy the technology with their peers. | null | null | My students need more access to technology. I have some with fine motor skill issues. When using an ipad mini they get easily frustrated with the smaller size. | 1 | 1 |
177,802 | p028102 | 83e392a75ae7042b5503c94e7dd72010 | Ms. | FL | 2016-08-02 18:06:23 | Grades 3-5 | Literacy & Language, Math & Science | Literacy, Mathematics | Techno-savvy Learners | I teach in a low to moderate income neighborhood, where we service a predominately Haitian population. Many of the kids come to our school speaking Creole as their first language. They are special because they are excited to learn but they don't always have the materials and experiences outside of school that can further their learning. Technology is one of the best tools to support their growth throughout the school year because they are able to work at their own pace. | Donations will be greatly appreciated, as I will be able to help students work at their own pace through district approved learning websites. By increasing the technology in the classroom, I will be able to assist the individual needs of students at a faster pace. I can tell from previous years that students gravitate towards technology-based learning. The apps and sites that we use in the classroom, help them to apply what I teach. Some of these sites are tenmarks, iready, and Kahoot.it. They are able to monitor their own growth and become responsible for their own learning. Thanks you for your support. | null | null | My students need iPads to support technology and independent learning in the classroom. | 0 | 1 |
26,237 | p239830 | 16a3d1c6a6b831ac493a72ccb6575635 | Ms. | IL | 2016-12-21 08:40:50 | Grades 3-5 | Literacy & Language, Math & Science | Literature & Writing, Mathematics | Technology Needed for Deserving Students | I teach a diverse group of learners that come from a wide range of backgrounds. Over 60% of the students at my school come from low-income households. Many of my students do not have access to quality texts or technology when they leave school. \r\n\r\nIt is important to me that regardless of the economic status of a family that all children are given access to the tools that will help them to succeed. School is a place where students are given opportunities to grow and reach the fullest potential. I want to ensure that each and every one of my students is given that opportunity each day they come to school. | Having access to chrome books in our classroom will greatly increase the access to different learning opportunities for my students. Students will be able to incorporate more interactive learning at their individual levels each day. My plan is to use the chrome books during our Independent Reading Rotations as well as during Independent Math time.\r\n\r\nStudents who do not have access to computers or technology at home will have more time to interact with learning websites that engage them at their individual level.\r\n\r\nThis will allow them to have the same access to learning as other students. In addition, it gives us more opportunities to incorporate technology skills into our daily routines. Students will have more time to practice typing skills, research skills, and other computer skills that are becoming more and more important as technology becomes more essential for their daily lives. | null | null | My students need chrome books to increase their access to technology. | 2 | 1 |
106,018 | p005830 | dd1a1bffe2c83ee6dc509e7538e400c2 | Mrs. | MA | 2016-05-31 12:16:13 | Grades PreK-2 | Literacy & Language | Literacy | Soaring through the News! | My students are mixed salad of non-English, special education, exceptional, funny, and creative. My students live in an inner city that is rather large but their experiences often all happen with the four walls of my classroom. We are a very poor population with the richest of spirit. These children are oblivious to their situations and so they come to school every day ready to take on the world. \r\n As their teacher it is my responsibility to build their back round knowledge and to give them beneficial experiences. | Donating to my project will put scholastic magazine in the hands of 25 smart children. This magazine will expose our children to current events. It will also provide them with reading materials to bring home. Many of my students do not have books at home. this magazine is a great medium to expose children to current events and the news. Many of my students do not know what a news paper is and this project will help bring the news to life. Scholastic magazine also offers an online piece which provides vocabulary. Donating to this project with enhance their reading and make a connection to the world. | null | null | My students need scholastic magazine to further their experiences of the world. | 0 | 1 |
53,133 | p045433 | 99adbc80c9f63254213ef8bd1fbc554e | Mrs. | TX | 2017-03-21 22:38:15 | Grades 3-5 | Math & Science | Mathematics | Those Crazy Fractions | Upon entering our elementary school, you will be embraced with warm inquisitive smiles who seek engaging opportunities to foster knowledge. \r\n\r\nOur school serves grades 2-4 for the entire community, yet you will find a very diverse population with many students learning the English language due to migrant work.\r\n\r\nIn addition, many of our other students qualify for free and reduced lunch. Our school is one of the constants they can count on every day. Even though we are a diverse population, we strive for passion, purpose, and pride within our school and to enrich their lives for future success.\r\n\r\n | When working in pairs and in small groups students need hands on activities. Allowing students a tool to manipulate will assist them in better understanding of the needed math skills.\r\n\r\nFraction tiles are a wonderful tool that students can use for a wide variety of mathematics skills. We use these tiles to better understand fractions, compare fractions, simplify fractions, add and subtract fractions and so much more. \r\n\r\nStudents will be able to work in a partnership and share the tiles to better understand the needed skills with fractions. When working in a small group of 4-5 each student will have their own tiles to manipulate. The large magnetic strips will be a wonderful interactive way for students to learn how the tiles are used. | null | null | My students need fraction tiles in order to better understand fractions. | 3 | 1 |
172,622 | p032215 | ac5da5ec00d386c8972bb40f01b8f48c | Ms. | MA | 2016-07-29 01:16:48 | Grades 9-12 | Literacy & Language, Special Needs | Literature & Writing, Special Needs | The Fire to Read and Write | I work with a variety of high school aged students who have various learning disabilities and individual education plans in place to help their educational needs. As a result, my students receive educational services in either a sub-separate class or a resource room setting due to their reading and/or writing skills not being on grade level. They are struggling readers and writers who, with the right tools and support in place, can make adequate progress during the year.\r\nWorking in an urban setting, our school is comprised of students from a variety of backgrounds which includes English language learners . They are a lively group of scholars and it is never a dull moment working with them. It's a pleasure to work with teens who want to do the neccessary work to overcome challenges they come across in the classroom. Even though they have learning disabilities, my student have drive and are destined for success past high school and beyond college. Everything is attainable as long as things are placed within one's reach. As a society that is geared towards technology, it would be a disservice not to make this same technology accessible to these students as well. | Your donation will positively impact the lives of students who have already been labeled as academically behind their peers in reading and/or writing. Through the use of kindle fires, we can provide students with the technology platform that drives the youth of today in an effort to improve these skills. Students will be able to highlight difficult text while reading as well as tracking pages read through book marking their digital location. Text to speech capability helps struggling readers and ELLs to access the text that their peers are reading. This also allows for a boost in students' self confidence while improving their academic skills. | null | null | My students need kindle fires with protective covers and charging stations to help them use technology as a tool to improving their reading and writing skills. | 1 | 1 |
115,606 | p171687 | 6a2301e36a5bcf26591520f1985da4d9 | Mrs. | OR | 2016-12-20 18:35:25 | Grades 3-5 | Health & Sports | Health & Wellness | Wiggle While We Work | Imagine an active classroom full of students who enjoy learning, love their school, and collaborate happily with their classmates. I love to watch them move throughout the classroom, seeking information from books, classmates, computers and mentors. We move frequently. \r\n\r\n We like to move it, move it - we like to move it! We NEED to move. We take frequent brain breaks, moving to keep our brains and bodies active and to help us focus. My students are too old to sit on the floor comfortably, and too young to sit calmly in uncomfortable plastic chairs. Sometimes they need to stand, or lay on the floor, and sometimes they need to sit in a chair, but they need to move while they sit - their 5th grade bodies are growing and student seats can be hard, uncomfortable and ill-fitting to their bodies. It is my hope that by creating a classroom focused on students' physical needs as well as their academic and emotional needs, I will create a classroom where students can eagerly and comfortably negotiate the path to academic excellence. | Peeking into my classroom you would observe active children choosing from a variety of places to study so they can learn successfully. I have recently transitioned from standard student desks to hexagonal tables. At first the tables were all the same size, but over time I've transitioned to three different types of tables: tables tall enough that students that struggle to sit still are able to stand while studying, rectangular tables that are low in order for students to sit cross-legged on pillows and study, and tables that are a standard size with standard student seats. These options provide a more student-centered environment, but there are still students that need to sit to study AND also need to move! Every day these students rock their chairs in order to move, occasionally tipping over. With stools that wiggle, more students will be able to move, even while sitting, AND they'll be able to do so safely!\r\n\r\nTeachers aspire to meet the individual needs of each and every student.\r\nIt is my dream to differentiate, not only my instruction, but also the physical needs of my students within the classroom. Many of my students need to move in order to focus. Active Learning stools would assist them in maintaining focus for longer periods of time, increasing learning and productivity. With the addition of these stools to my classroom, they will be able to meet their individual physical needs, leading to happier students more prepared to learn. | null | null | My students need six active learning (wiggle) stools so they will be able to meet their individual movement needs while learning. | 1 | 1 |
166,519 | p092141 | 562dbda973bd7c9f3beae0e9b5097095 | Mrs. | AL | 2016-10-19 14:14:24 | Grades PreK-2 | Applied Learning | Early Development | Balance, Wiggle, Move, and Learn! | Walking into our Kindergarten classroom will put a smile on your face. Vibrant students who are excited and eager to learn greet me each morning with a hug and a hello! Each individual child brings a special gift into our classroom family. \r\n\r\nThe 21 students in my classroom come from many different backgrounds. They come from many different socioeconomic backgrounds. I have several bilingual students who speak a language other than English in their homes. Some of my babies are quiet and reserved while others are full of energy all of the time. But the one thing they do have in common is their enthusiasm for learning! \r\n\r\nWhile spending my days with a classroom of 5 and 6 year old kiddos, there is never a dull moment. Our classroom mission statement says, \"In Mrs. Cameron's Kindergarten, we will love, listen, learn, and lead.\" It is my goal to instill these values in my students in everything that they do in and out of the classroom this year and in years to come. | There has been a significant amount of research done on the effects of a student's movement in the classroom being directly correlated to their ability to stay focused and pay attention. I would love to have a variety of seating options for my students. They would be able to use these as needed at their tables, at small group time, during whole group learning, as well as during collaborative work time. \r\n\r\nAllowing different seating options such as wobble chairs and balance balls will give my students opportunities to move while they are working. \r\n\r\nWobble chairs and balance balls require student balance, engaging their core and in turn, the alert system in their brain. | null | null | My students need balance balls and wobble chairs to help them wiggle and focus while reaching their full potential in the classroom. | 1 | 1 |
45,969 | p145395 | d860988451cd231e71e544653a8930ed | Mrs. | CA | 2016-09-13 21:26:42 | Grades PreK-2 | Music & The Arts | Music | Music in the classroom | My students come from a wide range of backgrounds. Many of them are from single parent households. They enjoy working together on projects. Most of them do not get the chance to get out of their low income neighborhoods. Providing them with opportunities to see that there is more out there for them in the world would be extremely beneficial. They don't have a lot of background knowledge about subjects we are learning about in class because of lack of experience or exposure. I have 80% of my class on the free lunch program. I would love to provide my students with opportunities in my classroom that they would never get at home. | I would love to teach my students about rhythm and music. They do not get exposed to music until fourth grade. Even when they do, there are very few instruments available to borrow. I would love to introduce my students to instruments. \r\nWe make up songs about core subjects areas. \r\nHaving instruments to play during this time would be a blessing. Students would also benefit from instruments because they would have a basic understanding of music when they go to third grade. Students will also benefit from instruments in the classroom because they will learn how to keep a rhythm. | null | null | My students need Instruments. Music helps students in all areas of learning. Band doesn't start until fourth grade and even then there are few instruments that students can borrow. | 0 | 1 |
52,664 | p198379 | 48dcb2cc4aab45d782e7ba1c1f6d0558 | Mrs. | GA | 2016-06-06 19:58:42 | Grades PreK-2 | Health & Sports, Literacy & Language | Health & Wellness, Literature & Writing | Let's Get Moving! | Our class is a diverse group of first graders who are excited about learning. They are always eager to share what they have learned and are always ready for the next challenge. \r\nThey love to move and love to learn. Many of them are on free or reduced lunch and have difficulties that could impede their leaning. It is imperative that I do everything in my power to help them achieve all that is possible despite the obstacles that they face. | Research shows that students learn best when they are moving. Movement is an essential component in a child's cognitive and physical development, yet it is missing in many of today's classrooms.First graders are naturally energetic and always on the go, and the health benefits of movement are numerous. Obesity is a serious problem among today's children and the more we can get students moving the better. In addition, studies have shown that movement and exercise have a direct correlation to students' mental health. My students need seating options that will help keep them moving in the classroom to increase learning, healthy living and fun! | null | null | My students need flexible seating options to help promote learning for active students. I am requesting desk exercise peddlers, balance balls, stability mats, and a teacher resource book to keep my kids moving. | 0 | 0 |
106,585 | p039311 | fb0cba59eb388ac3981cd388c7b1ca61 | Ms. | MT | 2016-12-06 14:15:49 | Grades PreK-2 | Math & Science, Literacy & Language | Health & Life Science, Literature & Writing | Creative Expressions | Our students are fantastic people with a multitude of strengths. My school is a Title I school with all students receiving free lunch. Despite their economic challenges, my students love to learn. They are sponges that are curious and excited. Unfortunately they lack many life experiences that help students understand abstract concepts. \r\n\r\nOur school strives to provide as many experiences and learning challenges as we can. And our students rise to the challenge. They are particularly intrigued when they are able to see how their learning will help them succeed in the future. \r\n | Students show learning through a variety of mediums. I would like to provide students with the option of illustrating their understanding, literally. To do this we need art supplies! This project is a request to add basic art supplies, like crayons and washable markers. These supplies can be used for students to illustrate their understanding of fiction - drawing a made up monster or rainbow colored lion and informational - coloring a zebra with black and white stripes. Further, students can learn about the animals, drawing their habitat, predators and prey to show their understanding of these topics as well. The art supplies can be used for many different projects. They provide students another way of expressing their knowledge. | null | null | My students need art supplies to create! They love art, let's allow students to illustrate their learning. | 18 | 1 |
67,744 | p134533 | 21607af4542f5741f738ef66d1820515 | Mrs. | UT | 2016-09-08 00:46:07 | Grades 3-5 | Music & The Arts | Music, Performing Arts | Music, Smiles and Singing with Children! | We are a K-12 public charter school in Utah. We are an excelling Title I school with over 40 percent of our students on free and/or reduced lunches. Our students come from a variety of backgrounds but work together for the success of all.\r\nAs a school, we excel annually, testing as one of the top schools in the state on standardized tests. We do more with less and are proud of it. My students are eager to learn, and it shows! | The beautiful children at my school love to sing and learn music.\r\nThey are so happy to get together and learn songs about America\r\nand songs from the past. The songs bring excitement and happiness to all children. \r\n The children are given opportunities to express themselves through their voice. Music is an opportunity to learn a language that everyone can be a part of. The keyboard is needed to play the music for the songs that the children will sing.\r\nWe will also be learning the basics of music through music theory\r\nand rhythms and actions of songs. \r\n This keyboard will be used to all grades of our school and also for performances that will be for audiences of other children, their parents and their teachers. | null | null | My students need an electronic keyboard for the children's choir and singing group that we are creating for our classroom. | 18 | 1 |
48,382 | p040039 | 86eb5bbd54e9c2207fc4fa9db90719bb | Mrs. | MD | 2016-08-12 20:30:50 | Grades 3-5 | Literacy & Language | Literacy, Literature & Writing | Bring the World to Our Class | I teach 60 wonderful students with various backgrounds. There are many challenges my students face daily. Whether it be a medical conditions, military parents, or learning disabilities. With all of the adversity in the classroom my students show up everyday willing and ready to learn.\r\nMy students show up everyday ready to learn. We pack everyday with lessons that challenge our minds. I have seen the excitement of past students faces when these magazines arrive monthly. We love Scholastic News. | Donations to this project will improve my classroom because you will be helping increase my students connections to the curriculum with fun and interesting articles and activities. The magazines are a fun and exciting way to learn these subjects. With a class subscription my students will be able to access Scholastic News at home or in school with interactive tools that are included. In addition, eight times a year, the students will also receive Science Spin delivered right in the Scholastic News bundle. Each issue is a supplement to the main classroom magazine with colorful features on real-world science and the latest scientific advancements. | null | null | My students need Scholastic News with Science Spin. Scholastic News connects current events to the Fourth Grade curriculum. Each issue includes vocabulary, geography, reading comprehension and test preparation. | 20 | 1 |
114,734 | p072163 | 958306f98ce18bf5114cacb47e451b61 | Ms. | PA | 2016-05-14 13:50:51 | Grades PreK-2 | Literacy & Language | Literacy, Literature & Writing | Writing Everywhere!! | This is an active, noisy and fun kindergarten. We are very busy in all areas. We work in pairs and small groups all over the class room. | We are an inner city neighborhood school. This kindergarten is five and six year olds, many of whom have never been in school before they entered my room. We are a Title One school which means most of our families are below the poverty line. My parents are very supportive. My kids love school and it's my biggest priority to keep this live alive. | This project is designed to help us write everywhere! We need to use dry erase, paper, crayons and markers to express our questions and ideas. With paper, index cards and sentence strips we will be able to make notes to make connections between subject areas. For example, we will use reading skills to find answers to questions that pop up during math lessons. | Pencils, markers and crayons let us express ideas, questions and dreams. We will write on dry erase boards, sentence strips and index cards which will increase our writing and reading abilities. These materials will let us grow in all subject areas. These crayons and markers will help add color to our world. The pencils and paper will let me track the growth. This will let me strategyze all future lessons. More growth is the end result. | My students need materials to write in all subject areas. | 16 | 1 |
53,339 | p051837 | 35db7b0957c1fc67a845f01e515a558f | Mrs. | MO | 2016-06-21 11:59:26 | Grades 3-5 | Literacy & Language, Math & Science | Literacy, Mathematics | WIGGLE While You WORK!!! | As I look back at my teaching career, students have always been seated at desks with chairs, and my voice consistently reminds them how to sit “the right way.” Recess is slowly being taken away from students, thus removing any opportunity they have to get out their “wiggles.” How do I fix this problem? \r\nProvide them with a choice. My summer school students are helping me launch flexible seating in our classroom. My students love being able to choose where they want to work. They love having comfy spaces and places in the room that inspire them and keep their minds focused and engaged. Creating an environment that inspires their bodies to have all of the movement it requires while letting their brains engage in the learning you want is ESSENTIAL! Students are working hard and are excited to make a CHOICE to promote their learning!\r\n | Every child is unique, as is how they learn best. I would like to implement these flexible seating options into my classroom next year to provide choice and teach responsibility. \r\nThese wobble chairs, wobble cushions, and lap desks will give my students more opportunity to choose how to work in the classroom to the best of their ability, comfortably. Your generous donations will make a difference in our classroom because it will give my 5th grade students a comfortable space that meets their learning needs while teaching them to be responsible with choosing the right environment and learning space for their success. \r\nUsing these wobble chairs, cushions and lap desks, my students will be able to wiggle, wobble, or twist while working. Much research has shown that when students are given these opportunities for flexible seating they are not only academically successful but they are also more socially and emotionally successful.\r\n | null | null | My students need 4 Kore WOBBLE chairs to be able to wiggle while they work, 4 Stability Wobble Cushions, and 4 lap trays for working around the room | 0 | 1 |
167,517 | p180484 | 2da69c6676ccdf5fbd168e97fd83ae15 | Ms. | NC | 2017-03-06 21:16:53 | Grades 3-5 | Literacy & Language, Math & Science | Literature & Writing, Mathematics | Unlocking Learning with Breakout EDU | My schools are title 1 schools, located in a rural area. Every student in school receives free breakfast and free lunch. \r\n\r\nEach school year offers them opportunities they may never have without school. This year I would like to offer them more time to problem solve and use critical thinking skills. While using their \"Leader In Me\" Habits, students will work together to be successful in unlocking their Breakout EDU boxes as well as complete classroom curriculum.\r\n\r\nThis project will reach my Academically Gifted students as well as nurtured students within 3 schools. These students come to school eager to learn and excited about what each day may bring. | Using Breakout EDU boxes will allow my students to work with the curriculum or review content in a new and exciting way. Working in teams, students must use clues and puzzles and work collaboratively to solve the mystery. Breakout EDU uses locked boxes in different styles, a wide variety of locks, such as directional, word, and digit locks, invisible ink and UV flashlights to read the ink to engage students in the learning as they work together to succeed in unlocking the box.\r\n\r\nThis Breakout EDU kit will allow my students to become better problem solvers, creative thinkers, and leaders.\r\n\r\nIt also allows for more participation and student engagement. Throughout the game, students will need to work on tasks that involve ELA, math, science, social studies, music, art and technology. Communicating effectively is another skill worked on in this activity. In the end, with all these positive reasons to play Breakout EDU, it seems to be a no-brainer. I want to make my lessons more exciting and more relevant and Breakout EDU is exactly the way to do it! | null | null | My students need a Breakout EDU kit to enhance problem solving and critical thinking skills. | 0 | 1 |
70,689 | p021708 | 7baf73bf2e16c65455e5df2be878ad0b | Mrs. | MA | 2017-04-03 10:23:23 | Grades 3-5 | Math & Science | Applied Sciences, Mathematics | With Technology the Possibilities are Unlimited! | My students are seekers of knowledge. They are curious and eager to learn new things. My students are excited about math and science. They love to create and share their knowledge using many different mediums.\r\n\r\nMost of all my students have so much potential and a growth mindset to set the world on fire! These kids are unstoppable. Our classroom is active and my students are constantly in need of ways to seek out answers. \r\n\r\nWe are a diverse community of learners. Many of my students are living in poverty. Their potential is limitless and education is the solution.\r\n\r\n\r\n | Having the set of chromebooks will allow for different structures of learning in my classroom. During guided math, I provide small group instruction while other students work independently. Independent work is online and the chromebooks provide access to our math curriculum at PearsonRealize.com. \r\n\r\nThe possibilities are endless with technology in the classroom.Math apps can be used for various math practice skills for a math center, which would allow me to have activities for both my highest performing and most struggling students. Jognog is a wonderful science app, students can access while in the classroom. \r\n\r\nHaving technology provides differentiation in instruction to all my students. Text books are outdated and inadequate in providing for the many needs of my students. Chromebooks bring excitement and up to date information into my students' hands!\r\n | null | null | My students need five chromebooks to access the math and science curriculum. | 1 | 1 |
145,229 | p043330 | 5bc4bfd6f7ebddad611259c157783fd3 | Ms. | FL | 2016-09-03 22:28:58 | Grades 3-5 | Literacy & Language, History & Civics | Literature & Writing, Social Sciences | Working For A Cause | Every class begins with us reciting our class preamble (Room 206 Preamble). Room 206 Preamble is displayed on our classroom door. Everyday I choose a teacher of the day to lead our promise to each other. After just two weeks of school my students recite our class preamble with pride and dignity. It represents what we strive to be everyday (innovators, lifelong-learners, independent thinkers, and productive citizens). \r\n\r\nMy students are very expressive and intellectual individuals. They are aware and concerned students. With the upcoming election, I want my students to be knowledgeable about the presidential election and what both candidates plan to deliver for the upcoming term. We began discussing in social studies about good presidential characteristics. We used Channel One News and BrainPop Jr. to drive our discussion. Channel One News is hosting a \"OneVote\" mock election campaign in October. I plan for my students to participate in this election and keep them informed with current events during the social studies block. | My project is split into two parts. The first part consists of whole classroom instruction where teacher and students read and learn new skills together. For this project I am requesting an Elmo. An Elmo is essential to students learning because it allows me to work along with my students. My students that are seated in the back of the room are having difficulty seeing what is being projected on the board. An Elmo will make the screen more visible and allow me to provide explicit instruction while writing along with them. \r\n\r\nThe second part of my project is to utilize a program for Social Studies. We currently do not have social studies texts and implementing social studies standards is quite challenging. I am requesting a year subscription to Channel One News. Channel One News is a digital content provider. The daily news program broadcast to approximately 5 million students in upper elementary schools, middle schools, and high schools across the United States. Implementing Channel One News during our Social Studies block will allow my students to stay aware with current events that effects them today and in the near future. We will watch the newscast daily and write about one event in our social studies journal. Subscribing to Channel One News will also give us access to additional resources and lesson plans in other content areas.Most importantly, we will receive updates about the current election and full access to \"OneVote\" mock election this October. A year subscription is $199.00. | null | null | My students need an Elmo and a year subscription to Channel One News. | 0 | 1 |
106,696 | p118039 | f575a4980668be4db6a48f0c34a3af61 | Mrs. | MI | 2016-08-02 16:31:32 | Grades PreK-2 | History & Civics, Literacy & Language | History & Geography, Literacy | Bringing the World Into Our Classroom!!! | My students come to school each day hungry to learn. They strive for greatness and always give their best effort. I teach in an extremely low-income area of Detroit. My students are strong. They have overcame things in their life that no child should have to endure.\r\n\r\nMy students are products of their experiences. They want to learn and grow. They love trying new things and always accept any challenge. My students work together to not only challenge each other, but to help each other. We are a family. | My students love learning new things. They enjoy learning about other places, cultures, and animals they have never experienced in person. My students love to expand their knowledge through magazines. \r\n\r\nBoth of these magazines will help my students to learn about world news, different places, and allow them to gain experiences not possible through travel. Many of my students have never left the city. These magazines will help them to experience new places and to learn about what is happening in the world today. My students are bright and love a challenge. These non-fiction magazines will help increase fluency and comprehension. | null | null | My students need 30 copies of both Scholastic News and TIME For Kids. | 44 | 1 |
80,093 | p164357 | f7d3a48b0b63a65a45bce46719776c4d | Ms. | FL | 2016-10-15 18:46:58 | Grades 3-5 | Literacy & Language, Math & Science | Literacy, Mathematics | Centers and Supplies for Ms. McDonough's 3rd Grade Class | I currently have 16 students, all with very unique personalities as well as needs. They love to be engaged in hands on activities and they enjoy working together as a team to accomplish their goals. I like to give them opportunities to take charge of their own learning, so Centers time is a huge part of our day! I feel as though they learn best when they are pushing themselves and reflecting on their own thinking and reasoning with the help of their peers. My students are teaching me as much as I am teaching them. They are a wonderful group of kiddos and I am extremely lucky to be their teacher! | Learning can be brought to life when children are given the chance to become independent thinkers. Having these differentiated centers in my classroom will allow me to meet the needs of all of my different learners, while making each of their experiences meaningful and enjoyable! I am also in need of classroom supplies to help keep things neat and organized for my kiddos! \r\nMany teachers, including myself, purchase classroom items out of their own pockets. To me, authentic learning and joy is worth every penny. It can be pretty difficult, however, to do this alone! Please consider donating to my Centers and Supplies project so that I can continue to make my classroom a lively and inviting place where my students can take pride in their learning and be encouraged to challenge themselves. | null | null | My students need games and materials for Reading and math centers! I am also in need of supplies that we can use in the classroom to enhance our 3rd grade experience! | 0 | 0 |
127,375 | p110832 | a67f2ced45850ad65c4d36ca2469b3e7 | Ms. | GA | 2016-12-07 12:02:31 | Grades 6-8 | Math & Science | Applied Sciences, Environmental Science | Wind, Water, Sun--Energy Solutions for the Long Run | Water purification systems. Paper roller coasters. Urban gardening. Inventing and pitching a product. These are just a few of the design challenges I've given my 7th and 8th grade STEM students. They thrive on engineering and design challenges. And honestly? I do too! I am constantly amazed at the ingenuity and creativity of these students. When there is no one right way to solve a problem, it's amazing to see where their imagination takes them.\r\n\r\nSTEM can scare students because they think it is going to be too difficult. My goal is to show every student that they have what it takes to solve problems and design solutions.\r\n\r\n | The purpose of this project is to challenge students to develop innovative ways to produce and store electricity. The Carolina Biological STEM kits listed below are a quick and convenient way to gather the materials they can test for use in their individual design solutions. \r\n\r\nThe energy decisions we make today are shaping the world these kids will inherit. These kits will let them experience using alternatives to fossil fuels to generate electricity. Giving them the problem-solving tools they will need will not only make them confident, self-motivated learners, it will also prepare them for the challenges of the future. | null | null | My students need resources to design and test renewable energy sources. | 0 | 1 |
127,790 | p167655 | b1f00805f3e80db0da371d61f8d35c98 | Mrs. | OK | 2016-10-02 14:31:10 | Grades PreK-2 | Literacy & Language | Literacy | Bring on the Learning | Our school district is in rural Oklahoma, and the state is in a major education budget crisis. Our students come from a variety of backgrounds, however, many of the students come from high poverty homes. Though our students may have different home environments, they are always eager to learn, and I am always eager to provide them with new resources for that learning. These children are our future and I would love to prepare them in the best way possible. | Having these iPads will allow for small cooperative learning groups as well as individual work for differentiated learning. \r\nUsing the iPads in small groups and individually is a great learning tool to keep them engaged and excited about learning. I love that each student's individuals needs can be met. The skills they need additional work on can be individualized for their specific need. In small group work they work together, helping each other towards a specific goal. Children love working on electronic devices, but not all students have the opportunity to use them except at school. I want my students to have every chance available to them to succeed. These iPads help them to rise to their fullest potential. | null | null | My students need an iPad Pro and iPad Pro SUPCASE durable protective case for literacy centers. | 1 | 1 |
61,526 | p019773 | 538ba6ee23c6e8e868efcc14f7f6ec75 | Mrs. | MO | 2016-10-16 22:44:58 | Grades 3-5 | Literacy & Language | Literacy, Literature & Writing | Kick Back & Read | We have about three classes per grade level with a total population of about 400 at my school. We are a suburban school in a large school district. \r\n\r\nMy school has a diverse socio-economic population that has changed immensely during the 18 years that I have taught there. Student socio-economic status range from lower class to upper-middle class. Our free and reduced lunch percentage has risen considerably while I have taught at this school. \r\n\r\nThe educational levels of our families range from high school drop outs to doctors. Our goal is to have each student finish high school and many attend college. \r\n\r\n | Our district is moving toward alternate seating for students. This project would allow my students to have a durable place to sit. The goal is to provide the students with a choice in seating. \r\n\r\nStudent would be able to have a place to \"kick back and relax\" as they are completing their work. The goal will be to have the students eager to read and learn. The alternate seats will give the students a voice and choice in their learning. \r\n\r\nMy students will have the the opportunity to collaborate with other third grade students as we complete our daily assignments. This unit will also provide us much needed storage.for our classroom library. \r\n | null | null | My students need durable alternate seating options. The Read and Relax Book Station would allow both alternate seating and storage. | 1 | 1 |
22,968 | p192857 | 8e6c46ff08fdb73c5019950a86c463a0 | Ms. | CA | 2016-07-28 04:08:39 | Grades PreK-2 | Literacy & Language | Literacy | Learning about the power of Growth Mindset | My students are like little sponges in the classroom; they love learning.\r\nThey are sweet, funny, curious, and kind. They are always excited to read something new and be read to. Some of them happen to live in a high-poverty neighborhood, attend a Title I elementary school, and qualify for free lunch. Given the socioeconomic status of some of them, they are only exposed to reading materials when they are at school. Many of their parents work long hours and are focused more on basic survival than on cultural enrichment. As my students' primary classroom teacher, I feel responsible and committed to offer them the best and most well-rounded education I can offer.\r\n\r\n | My Project\r\n Like Carol S. Dweck says \" Becoming is better than being\"\r\nResearch on the growth mindset shows that students who believe they can grow their basic abilities have greater motivation and higher achievement than do students who believe their abilities are fixed, and that teachers and parents can influence students’ mindsets. The beginning of this new school year will be a great time for us to establish our classroom as a growth mindset environment.\r\n Through using these the students will learn what the power of \"yet\" means. They will learn that with persistence and effort they will end up being successfull. These resources will help them become great citizens that are prepared for the rest of their lives and help bring happiness and emotional wellness to others.\r\n\r\n The speakers will help make a listening center for students who struggle with reading. Many students come to second grade insecure with their reading abilities a listening center would help provide confidence and boost their self-esteem skills! | null | null | My students need books to learn about Growth Mindset and speakers for the listening center. | 7 | 1 |
99,096 | p244202 | cef45f1634fd22754a4d696ac7b2bad7 | Mrs. | WI | 2016-10-24 14:15:01 | Grades 3-5 | Literacy & Language | Literacy | Great Books - Our Window to the World! | Our school is a culturally diverse school with 80% of our students receiving free-or-reduced lunch. They come from a variety of backgrounds and experiences, and truly appreciate any assistance with their needs, as sometimes even an $8 fee for a field trip is a difficult amount for them to contribute. \r\nThe students in my class are hard-working, eager to please, and they and their families have high goals for their future. Consequently, we learn to work hard, be kind, have fun, and move forward in our education. | Every day, the fourth graders in our class spend 25 to 30 minutes reading independent, self-selected books. Our classroom has many books to choose from, but only a single copy of each, so the more popular books have a long waiting list. \r\nWe need to boost our selection of current, high-interest books so that students will have several books to choose from to read and to put on their \"Books I Want to Read\" list. Graphic novels, popular series, and popular authors all are the currency that builds excitement for reading independently -- at fourth grade, a year to build a strong foundation to becoming life-long book lovers. | null | null | My students need more high-interest books so that they may read and lose themselves during Independent Self-Selected Reading time! | 0 | 1 |
94,397 | p243172 | f2d72ca5c8f3ef1d4a20ebe38e4e9f1e | Mrs. | MN | 2016-07-27 23:56:19 | Grades 3-5 | Math & Science, Special Needs | Mathematics, Special Needs | STAY PUT! | The students in my classroom are inquisitive, caring, and energetic. We are a room full of different learning styles and behaviors. Their struggles include anxiety, attention and sensory issues, and a variety of learning challenges. Their strengths are their ability to accept each others differences, cooperatively work together and help others, and an overall concern for the greater good. \r\nWe are a small rural community school with dedicated teachers and staff but a limited budget for classroom materials and curriculum. | The students in my classroom have a variety of learning styles and abilities. The wobble stools will give them the opportunity to rotate, rock, and not fall over which can be a challenge for an 9 - 11 year old. The stool is mobile so the student can move around the room to the various learning stations. A student that is becoming inattentive or needs to move can have the option to stand at the standing desk and continue their work. \r\nThe flexible seating provides an energetic student the opportunity to move yet focus and not disrupt other student's learning. | null | null | My students need a variety of flexible seating options to enhance their learning experiences in the classroom. | 0 | 1 |
20,220 | p034517 | 8569e40d8bcc4621735d311c97303c4e | Mrs. | KY | 2016-08-28 14:19:28 | Grades PreK-2 | Literacy & Language | Literacy | Skills for Success with Texts, Fluency and Confidence, Oh My! | My students are chosen to work with me based on data that shows they need to make catch up growth to meet benchmark for our district reading cut offs and read on grade level by the end of third grade. I work with students in kindergarten through second grade in all areas of literacy. Just like anyone who has met a hard task, it takes a lot of encouragement to help see the positive outcomes for hard work. Engagement is key in helping students find purpose in trying something that is hard to overcome challenges. \r\n\"We can do hard things\" is our motto to overcome any fixed mindset and/or challenges in the classroom. Some of these students work with me for multiple years to find success and close the achievement gap for themselves by third grade.\r\n\r\nOur school does not meet the requirement for federal funding, so most of our resources are obtained out of teacher pocket. Each year I evaluate my ever-changing cliental in the intervention room. Our district has begun a Third Grade Pledge ensuring all students read on grade level by 3rd Grade. This means my second grade students need access to text to get them there! | With new sight word magnets and engaging new leveled book titles/series students will be more engaged in accessing reading to help meet their reading goals by the end of the year to not only learn to read, but to become stronger readers. The use of reading trackers and timers allow special tools to help students focus on specific skills like accuracy and fluency to improve their reading stamina and strength. \r\nThe use of the micrphone machine will provide students a stage to help build their confidence and fluency as they perform their skills for their peers in an engaging Reader's Theater way.\r\nMy second grade readers are all trying to close the achievement gap and to meet grade level benchmarks and accomplish the skill of reading before they are left behind in the third grade.\r\n | null | null | My students need engaging leveled books, reading trackers, timers, and a microphone machine to help them accomplish multiple skills in order to reach their second grade reading goals! | 3 | 1 |
135,657 | p237982 | 3e3d62c4906cf1627790040c9133a2af | Mrs. | LA | 2016-08-25 23:45:25 | Grades PreK-2 | Literacy & Language | Literacy | Rebuilding a Classroom | I teach 20 kindergarten children to include ESL students. Many students qualify for free or reduce lunch. Our community has been impacted by the great flood of 2016 in Louisiana. Our school and classroom has flooded and destroyed teaching supplies and materials. Many families are displaced living in shelters, travel trailers, hotels or with family and friends.\r\n These loving and wonderful children deserve a quality education. My goal is furnish our classroom with stimulating materials to facilitate each child's education. | These materials will be begin our centers. The canopy tents and rug make an extra cozy inviting place to read. The shelf provide ample space to store books and ease of selection. The children will select books at their level of reading to assure success. The toy kitchen and props help create opportunities for creativity and social skill development. I envision the children writing recipes and taking an order for food to prepare. \r\n\r\nThese materials will provided a stimulating environment to facilitate learning in my kindergarten students. Once the environment feels like home and safe, the children will flourish and grew as I prepare then academically in all areas. | null | null | My students need a safe place to learn how to read, write, investigate, and problem solve. | 0 | 1 |
47,960 | p001471 | 55f52e9e962a2e0d5f55583da5a0d623 | Mrs. | FL | 2016-08-25 15:53:20 | Grades PreK-2 | Health & Sports | Health & Wellness, Nutrition Education | Yummy, Yummy in My Tummy | My students come to school wanting to learn and be loved by everyone that they meet. Most of my students come from very low income households, and many do not have the necessary skills that they need in order to learn. We work very hard in our classroom to help the students overcome any obstacles that they come with and help prepare them for kindergarten and beyond. A lot of the skills we focus on are in socialization, cooperation, and language. | I asked my students what they needed in order to be more active and to learn about healthy, nutrient dense foods. They told me that they wanted a new kitchen to pretend cook in and new books about healthy foods. They also told me that they wanted the kitchen so they could store their play milk which makes them strong and healthy. \r\n\r\nWhen I asked them why they needed these tools to learn about being healthy and active they told me that they have to eat yummy foods to make them strong and healthy. They learn so much about being healthy during free centers because each student has their own ideas of what being healthy means and they share that with their classmates. They also told me that they wanted the seek-a-book game to get more active because they could run around the room looking for the pictures on rainy days. Since we do live in Florida, there are a lot of rainy days where we can't go outside. This game would be great for getting my students more active on those rainy days. | null | null | My students need an all-in-one kitchen, book set about healthy meals, and a Seek-A-Boo game to promote active learning. | 35 | 1 |
4,854 | p044497 | 2d2268fffbb3ba4830c61da1c7ae6fdd | Mrs. | CA | 2017-04-07 19:09:23 | Grades PreK-2 | Health & Sports | Gym & Fitness | Tossing Up Some Fun!!! | I teach a wonderful group of eager students who are enthusiastically increasing their knowledge. They have grown so much in their understanding of the content throughout their experience in first grade.\r\n\r\nThe students are eager learners that yearn to learn more each day.\r\n\r\nStudents from this school come from around the local area. We are located by the Port of LA. The students enjoy attending school. The school is a supportive environment that seeks to spark the love of learning. | I’m asking for some p.e. equipment to help create exciting experiences as my students practice their gross motor movements in tossing and jumping. Development of these skills help to practice bilateral skills, hand-eye coordination, timing, sequencing, motor planning, and attention. Many of these skills can transfer to their classroom learning. \r\n\r\nThese outdoor activities provide the students with time to socially interaction, improve their emotional well-being, and provides a sense of unity as they play games with their classmates. Please help motivate my students to cooperate, grow as a team, and motivate them to get out and do more physical activities.\r\n | null | null | My students need these physical education equipment to practice underhand throwing fleece balls and bean bags to their classmates. | 10 | 1 |
68,756 | p177098 | cd53268242a7804e36bee17f3a0508f6 | Ms. | NJ | 2017-03-27 09:57:24 | Grades 9-12 | Math & Science, Applied Learning | Applied Sciences, Extracurricular | Industrial Strength Rolling Cart for FIRST Robotics Team | I have students from many cultures and backgrounds. Many are on free or reduced lunch. I have a large amount whose parents speak a language other than English at home. Many have both parents working and they are taking care of siblings as well after school. \r\n\r\nI am working with the robotics team and their families to help them raise their academic scores, fundraise for their trips, and create a greater sense of community in our incredibly diverse town. These students spend 40 hours a week after-school and on the weekends building a robot to compete in the FIRST STEAMWorks challenge and they need an entire community to support them. It definitely takes a village to raise a child. Most of the students will be the first generation to attend a 4-year university. | The Mechanical Mustangs FIRST Robotics Challenge team travels around the country to compete. We have a set of rolling cabinets but over the last two seasons they have been destroyed. We desperately need an industrial strength cart to hold our tools and supplies. \r\nThis cart will be used 365 days a year; we will take it to workshops, community service activities, and it will become our main storage cabinet for our supplies. The drawers are very high strength and can hold up to 400 lbs. \r\nThe team will use this and be able to roll in into the pit area and into our trailer. Since we only have a 10 ft x 10 ft space, it will fit perfectly in one of the corners. | null | null | My students need Industrial Strength - Heavy Duty - Rolling Cabinet for our competitions. | 32 | 1 |
124,002 | p078999 | 5b5e7abff999b8bf7f0872b153ad812a | Mrs. | CA | 2016-08-24 16:05:00 | Grades PreK-2 | History & Civics, Literacy & Language | Civics & Government, Literacy | What TIME is the News On? | I remember loving every Friday in school when we were able to read our own special magazine, Time For Kids. We all felt so grown up and could not wait to get home to share what we read with our families.\r\n\r\n The majority of my students are language learners. Most of them do not have access to a computer at their homes. They come from homes where both parents work long hours and their parents do not have time to drive them across town to go to the public library to use the local Internet. Also they do not have many opportunities to go beyond their own neighborhood to see how others live. | By having a class subscription to Time For Kids, my students will get a broader look at our world. They will be reading about other cultures, learning about our environment, researching important people in our society, investigating math and science problems and many more topics. They will also have enriching informational text to read.\r\n\r\n By having this project funded my students will be able to learn about the world outside their home, school and neighborhood.\r\n\r\nMany of them just go to school and home, they have no interaction with others who may be different from them or from different places around the world. | null | null | My students need the magazine, Time For Kids for second graders.. | 59 | 1 |
123,242 | p077522 | bf8b33d7cc955b450b7167482c0592d3 | Ms. | WI | 2016-09-11 22:09:17 | Grades PreK-2 | Health & Sports | Health & Wellness | Catch This: Playground Equipment Needed | I have a first and second grade Special Education classroom. We are looking for some materials to make our classroom library more comfortable and inviting for the students. We have an old rug in our classroom library, but a new fun rug will make our library more fun and inviting to the students. My students are excited to have a more comfortable seating area in the classroom library. In addition, we need more storage for all the fun books we have recently received. I know the students will get a lot of use out of their newly updated classroom library. | The students who will use the equipment are in first and second grade. They are still learning how to throw and catch a ball. The balls with visuals that show the students where to put their hand to throw the ball will help. Trying to explain to the students where to put their hands, is hard for the students; however, these balls will help the students. \r\nThe students love playing basketball and football during recess and they need some new basketballs and footballs to play with. The soccer balls will help the students learn a new sport. In addition, the two mesh bags will be great for storing the new equipment. | null | null | My students need new playground equipment. My students are in first and second grade and they are still learning how to throw and catch a ball. | 4 | 0 |
178,391 | p058407 | 9b2e1ac4d5cb33064677c884eaf3572c | Mrs. | SC | 2016-11-14 11:45:21 | Grades 9-12 | Warmth, Care & Hunger | Warmth, Care & Hunger | Backpacks, Please! | My students are faced with several challenges both in and out of the classroom. All students at our school receive free lunch. Despite the many challenges they face including Hurricane Matthew and flooding, I am looking to keep things simple and provide my students with basic school supplies like backpacks.\r\nI try to supply as much as I can afford like pencils, paper, binders, and the essentials. We live in a high poverty area and we have students that lost everything including their homes during during storm and flooding. | I am the lead special education teacher at our school. I would like for all the special education students who don't have backpacks to receive one. Many of our students barely have the essentials to get by in their daily lives.\r\nI would like to help our students by supplying them with a backpack. The students have away of organizing their textbooks, assignments, and etc. This will make it easy for transporting their stuff from classroom to classroom and then to home and back. I would like them to have the essentials to be a successful student and life long learner. \r\n | null | null | My students need backpacks to help them stay organized and transporting books and assignments to each classroom and home. | 4 | 1 |
38,864 | p099970 | e43985166f90d7f347c06bbbb0ff7967 | Mrs. | CA | 2016-11-07 20:44:41 | Grades 3-5 | Special Needs | Special Needs | Getting a Grip on Things: Independence Through Fine Motor Activities | My students are range from grades 1st to 7th and are located in Carmichael, California near Sacramento. They are all have cerebral palsy, orthopedic impairments, cortical vision impairment, and cognitive delays. They are a wonderful group of kids who love to play, explore and learn in their own special way.\r\n\r\nJust like other students their age they like to listen to stories, play, and learn lots of new things. Learning, walking, and playing can be difficult, but not impossible for them to do. They just need lots of help and patience. | Most of us take for granted that we are able to pick up items using our thumb and forefinger. Imagine a work where you could not. Everyday things like holding a spoon, signing your name, or a holding a paint brush will be difficult if not out of the question.\r\n\r\nMy students will be able to access the things around them if they are able to have fine motor activities to gain strength in their hands. These fine motor activities require adapted equipment that we do not have on our campus. They also need a place to store it and access it. | null | null | My students need adapted fine motor equipment because of their orthopedic impairments and an easily accessible place to store it. | 1 | 0 |
62,628 | p167614 | 58186e8808c496314d7b0d7f91177216 | Mrs. | OH | 2017-03-19 22:14:59 | Grades 3-5 | Math & Science | Applied Sciences, Mathematics | Document Camera for Our Class | This year I have 120 awesome students! They come to school eager to learn and strive to be successful. \r\n\r\nThe majority of our students are high poverty and do not have the necessary supplies needed for school. Most of my homeroom students are struggling readers and are on IEPs. Being able to provide these students with as many interactive experiences as possible is very important to me. My students look forward to Science because they can learn while having fun. | We are in desperate need of a document camera. Two of the classes that I teach have students who are lower functioning. These students benefit so much from modeling and guided work. At the beginning of the year I was able to use a document camera borrowed from the library on occasion, but with many teachers wanting to check it out, it is very difficult to obtain. I would love to have a document camera of my own to keep in the classroom to be able to model work and go over assignments with my students. I know they would benefit from this a great deal! | null | null | My students need a document camera in order to complete guided assignments and to go over work. | 6 | 1 |
38,536 | p217612 | 698eaeadead03de8f6719a79c36686fa | Mr. | NY | 2016-10-22 14:52:37 | Grades 3-5 | Music & The Arts | Music | My students need holiday hats for their show! | We have a great group of students. Many of the students at my school qualify for free lunch. They are a very enthusiastic group of musicians. Each year, my school organizes a great music program for the students. The students receive top notch music education that enables them to put on great performances for the school community. The parents come out and really enjoy the performances. \r\n\r\nIn order to add excitement to the concerts, we need holiday hats for our winter show! Your donation to this project will go to a good cause. | These holiday hats will make a huge difference in the lives of the children. Each year, we put on a winter show for the school community. A number of years ago, we had the children put on these holiday hats for the show. They are always a huge hit with the children and the entire school community! It adds warmth and excitement to our winter show. The children wear them all around the school on our concert days. They are so very proud. These hats will be provided for our chorus, band, orchestra and guitar club. They will be a lot of fun. | null | null | My students need holiday hats to add excitement to their winter concert. | 46 | 1 |
101,485 | p036896 | 22694567a7e80009ebf2a14e399d2180 | Teacher | IL | 2016-08-03 13:47:34 | Grades 3-5 | Health & Sports | Gym & Fitness, Health & Wellness | Bouncing Into Our Lesson | I teach at a CPS with low income students with special needs in a self contained classroom. I have 12 students who are functioning below grade level and require intensive support academically, emotionally, and behaviorally. Although my students are below grade level they are always eager to try their best. \r\n\r\nMany of my students do not get the recommended 60 minutes of daily activity which hinders their ability to focus in class. Brain breaks and a quick set of jumping jacks help students get back into the groove of learning! | Sitting still and focusing in a classroom for more than five hours can be very difficult for students with special needs. I try to provide movement breaks, but for some students it is not enough. By donating you are providing my students with a new outlet for staying on task. \r\n\r\nBalancing balls will improve the learning in my classroom while reducing obesity by making children more active while actively learning. It's a win, win situation and I know the bouncy balls would be a great tool to have in my classroom! I want to thank you in advance for your support. | null | null | My students need five balance ball chairs to help manage their ADHD and sensory issues. | 2 | 1 |
20,474 | p248154 | b959b5a186bc4def0f204773e8b2a383 | Mrs. | SC | 2016-08-02 00:47:16 | Grades PreK-2 | Applied Learning | Character Education, Early Development | Housekeeping Center Needs | My class is full of smart, creative, and inquisitive four and five year olds. They are full of laughs, questions, and love. \r\nMy four and five year olds love to play in centers with each other and learn from each other. \r\nA lot of the students in my classroom have no siblings or younger siblings, so when they come to school they are thrilled to see their friends. \r\nMy students attend a PreK-2nd grade Title I school in a rural area. \r\n | The housekeeping center is one of the students' favorite centers. In this center children can pretend to be so many things. They can be doctors, farmers, barbers, etc. Housekeeping centers provide children numerous dramatic play experiences. \r\nHousekeeping center allows children to improve their social and communication skills, while allowing them to role play, pretend, and make-believe. \r\nChildren develop socially, physically, cognitively, emotionally, and linguistically while they are playing in the housekeeping center. The housekeeping center is so much more than just a time for children to play. They are working on many skills that will help prepare them for their future education and possibly a future career. | null | null | My students need supplies such as baby dolls and pretend food so that they can allow their imagination to soar in housekeeping center. | 2 | 1 |
50,184 | p137210 | 5cd6a76f491a28cc272d17b30e81b14c | Ms. | PA | 2016-07-28 08:37:09 | Grades 6-8 | Math & Science | Environmental Science, Mathematics | No Germs Allowed | My sixth grade students attend a Title I school which means all of my students are at or below the poverty level. They come to school carrying piles of stress and tragedies on their shoulders. They face more troubles in their short lives than I would never hope to face in a lifetime. Yet, despite their hardships, they continue to amaze me. \r\nMy students attend school in a building that is over 100 years old with a lack of resources and technology, yet they harness the potential to change the world. They just need access to resources to reach and realize their full potential. \r\nNow, that is where amazing people like you come in... | On their school supply list, I only ask for the necessities (books, pencils, erasers, etc.) in order to ensure their success. Due to financial struggles and differences within my school community, I do not ask for any of the \"extras.\" However, to be sure that we remain focused on learning and to reach our full potential- we must be in a clean learning environment. Student attendance is essential to growth and understanding. Avoiding colds and illness will help my students maintain strong attendance records. Tissues, hand sanitizer, Lysol wipes, and disinfectant spray will allow us to combat any germs that try to invade our learning space. | null | null | My students need tissues, hand sanitizer, Lysol wipes, and disinfectant spray in order to keep the focus on learning and away from germs. | 37 | 1 |
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