Can You Help My Class?

I uploaded a couple projects to Donor's Choose the other night and I would love your help to fund them.  Both of these projects can have donations matched through December 29th.  Please make sure to use the code, "DISNEY" to double your donation.  Please help!     

Project #1 

Non Fiction Books Needed

I have a lot of fiction books in my classroom, but not that many nonfiction.  I would love to get a bunch of these Who Was series books for students to learn and research with.  I just need some help though!

   

Project #2

Technology Needed - An iPad Please!

My students have been blessed with one iPad through Donor's Choose - the issue is that it takes a LONG time to make it through a student rotation.  I've seen how great it works, how much it helps students, how motivated they are to work at their own pace.  I just would like another one to help the rotation go faster.  

If you are able to help out, please click the links above.  Remember the matching code will work until December 29th.  I would love to send you a thank you gift for donations over $5.  Just email me afterward and let me know which one of my new products you would like me to email you.  

When I Grow Up 

or What a Small World.  

Thanks so much for your support!  Have a great Christmas!  

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Donors Choose

I love this website.

Last Friday when I was all tired from the last day of school, I got on the computer and uploaded 2 projects.

Project 1 is Heavy Duty Book Boxes for my entire class. 

Project 2 is an iPad 2 for more internet access for my students.

I checked school email (yes, I check during summer), and found out that for the first week of the projects the site is matching donations.  I clicked on the iPad project, and then I blinked since my $570 project is $96 away from being funded.  I'm like - say what???  So excited!

I'm thankful for partnership funding - they want to help my class!!!

So - come Friday if it hasn't been funded, I will be coughing up the $48 with the code "Inspire" (to match) and then next year I'll get the iPad for my kiddos.

SOOO excited!!!

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Donors Choose

I just typed up my first 2 projects on Donors Choose. I'm excited but also skeptical of asking other people - strangers- to help out my classroom. At this point I'm waiting for them to post my projects on my profile. Has anyone ever done this before? How did it work out for your class?


My first project is a class set of Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing. All year I have been watching the Scholastic $1 books, hoping and praying that they would become affordable for my class. It didn't happen. I just can't afford to bring a class set myself into the classroom. This past year I used my bonus points and was able to purchase other class sets, but not the one that I like to start the year off with. I'm hopeful...


My other project is a class set of Owl Pellets. I know, I know... Owl puke is gross, but the kids learned so much from it last year. All about how energy flows through a food chain. So much of the time we have to focus on the textbook, that for once I want to give them an activity outside the walls of class. (Yes, we do this project outside because the pellets stink.)


So, will you help my class? If you can't then that's okay too. I just am hoping that somehow it will all work out for this coming year - more budget cuts you know. I added a link to my class profile here on this blog over to the right. When the project is posted I'll announce it on the blog's Facebook page too.


If you have a project that you would like to ask for help with, please consider heading over to Donors Choose and check them out. It is all explained very clearly on their site.


Sincerely,

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