Enter: Friday Fund Days. Book Riot readers have helped fund hundreds of classrooms over the last few years, and we’ll help bring funds to hundreds more. Each Friday, we’ll highlight two classrooms or other literacy-focused, important projects in hopes you’ll help them reach their goals to bring literature, advocacy, and education to others. Even if you can’t spare money, any social sharing you can offer to the projects each week absolutely helps: you never know who’ll find it and have the means by which to make the project’s fundraising goals reached. More, you’ll bring awareness to the unmet needs in communities around the world, as well as right in your own back yard. When all else feels hard or hopeless, remember that you can and do make a difference.
This Week’s Projects
A Functional Ceramics Studio, Hancock College Prep High School, Chicago, IL. $382
Help me give my students access to a slab roller, an essential piece of equipment for any ceramics studio, a cart to store their work, and new glazes to make their work shine!
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These essential pieces of equipment will serve students in future ceramics classes for years to come.
title: “Friday Fund Days Drop Some Dollars And Help Some Classrooms " ShowToc: true date: “2022-12-07” author: “Karen Loeffler”
Enter: Friday Fund Days. Book Riot readers have helped fund hundreds of classrooms over the last few years, and we’ll help bring funds to hundreds more. Each Friday, we’ll highlight two classrooms or other literacy-focused, important projects in hopes you’ll help them reach their goals to bring literature, advocacy, and education to others. Even if you can’t spare money, any social sharing you can offer to the projects each week absolutely helps: you never know who’ll find it and have the means by which to make the project’s fundraising goals reached. More, you’ll bring awareness to the unmet needs in communities around the world, as well as right in your own back yard. When all else feels hard or hopeless, remember that you can and do make a difference.
THIS WEEK’S PROJECTS
AES Great Ukulele Undertaking, Albertville Elementary School, Albertville, AL. $357
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Classroom Dividers, Thomas Page Academy, Cotati, CA. $102
Help me give my students more individualized attention and focus by creating more separate spaces with classroom dividers for small group interventions. My students are so talented! They are always up for a challenge and are able to exceed my expectations. Seeing my students smile when they have accomplished a goal is both exciting and rewarding. From playing instruments to using their singing voices, the students at AES are learning their personal potential to be successful. Students will learn skills including playing technique, chord structure and progression, tuning, and performance technique. Music allows students to be successful no matter their age, grade level, or abilities. Music education increases community among students, fosters learning in other subject areas, and increases students’ critical thinking skills. Learning to play the ukulele will motivate students to be successful while providing a fun way for students to learn more about the wonderful world of music!
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They continue to make growth every day and develop their love of learning! They try so hard to remain focused and I want to make sure their effort is rewarded with high engagement learning opportunities. Whether you can donate a dollar, donate fifty dollars, or donate a share on social media, you make a difference!
title: “Friday Fund Days Drop Some Dollars And Help Some Classrooms " ShowToc: true date: “2023-01-12” author: “Lucille Riggan”
Enter: Friday Fund Days. Book Riot readers have helped fund hundreds of classrooms over the last few years, and we’ll help bring funds to hundreds more. Each Friday, we’ll highlight two classrooms or other literacy-focused, important projects in hopes you’ll help them reach their goals to bring literature, advocacy, and education to others. Even if you can’t spare money, any social sharing you can offer to the projects each week absolutely helps: you never know who’ll find it and have the means by which to make the project’s fundraising goals reached. More, you’ll bring awareness to the unmet needs in communities around the world, as well as right in your own back yard. When all else feels hard or hopeless, remember that you can and do make a difference.
THIS WEEK’s Projects
SPECIAL EDUCATION STUDENTS NEED YOUR SUPPORT WITH BOOKS, BOOKS, BOOKS!, CURREN K-8 SCHOOL, OXNARD, CA. $249
Help me give my students a broad range of books that are not offered in their school library.
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My amazing students would greatly benefit from more books in our classroom, which normally would take years to purchase with limited funding. Your donation will give them this opportunity and in turn our society will benefit from kind, well read and grateful young community members.
LIGHT FOR CHILDREN WITH VISION IMPAIRMENTS, PROVO PEAKS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, PROVO, UT. $135
Help me give my students access to toys and sensory input. The switch activated light, and other light up toys help my students with vision impairments see what they are playing with and get more visual stimulation.
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Whether you can donate a dollar, donate fifty dollars, or donate a share on social media, you make a difference! They have a few extra stumbling blocks in their way, but I truly believe that with the right tools they can overcome those obstacles. There are many resources that my students will need to develop their academic, social, and behavioral skills that I don’t have access to. I want to provide them with a positive learning environment equipped with the tools they need to thrive in school. These light up toys and sensory toys will help my students develop more independence. Binders, page protectors, and other classroom items will help my students display their work and take pride in the things they create.
title: “Friday Fund Days Drop Some Dollars And Help Some Classrooms " ShowToc: true date: “2022-12-16” author: “Larry Thomas”
Enter: Friday Fund Days. Book Riot readers have helped fund hundreds of classrooms over the last few years, and we’ll help bring funds to hundreds more. Each Friday, we’ll highlight two classrooms or other literacy-focused, important projects in hopes you’ll help them reach their goals to bring literature, advocacy, and education to others. Even if you can’t spare money, any social sharing you can offer to the projects each week absolutely helps: you never know who’ll find it and have the means by which to make the project’s fundraising goals reached. More, you’ll bring awareness to the unmet needs in communities around the world, as well as right in your own back yard. When all else feels hard or hopeless, remember that you can and do make a difference.
This Week’s Projects
Ambassadors Of Music To The Puerto Rican Community, Central High School, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania $684
Help me give my students the experience of a lifetime as musical ambassadors to a community that has faced so much adversity, so they can share their passion for the arts with others!
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Building Fine And Gross Motor Skills Through Play, Fayetteville St Elementary School, Durham, North Carolina $100
Help me give my students items that will assist them with gross and fine motor skills during structured, indoor and outdoor play. They perform repertoire from a variety of styles, genres, and periods of music history. In turn, they discover new works that enlighten them, and they continue to bring joy to the school community. Our students will not only perform publicly but also engage in a side by side event with a local high school. They will participate in clinics at the San Juan conservatory of music. And they will also contribute through involvement with a community service event. This is the type of trip that will change a young person’s life in so many ways!
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I teach a preschool class with students who are autistic. They are between the ages of 3-5 years old. The students are beginning to understand the world around them. They receive Occupational therapy services to assist them with fine motor skills (grasping small items, picking up items and placing them inside of containers, etc.). They also struggle with gross motor skills (balancing, rolling, throwing and kicking balls, etc.). Currently our play ground area does not have equipment so students can gain gross motor skills. Therefore we need play equipment we can use indoors and outdoors, so the students can work on their gross and fine motor skills. By using these materials my students will also learn how to share, take turns and interact with their peers, which is also a very important skills for all children but especially children with autism. Whether you can donate a dollar, donate fifty dollars, or donate a share on social media, you make a difference!
title: “Friday Fund Days Drop Some Dollars And Help Some Classrooms " ShowToc: true date: “2022-11-18” author: “Leah Stevenson”
Enter: Friday Fund Days. Book Riot readers have helped fund hundreds of classrooms over the last few years, and we’ll help bring funds to hundreds more. Each Friday, we’ll highlight two classrooms or other literacy-focused, important projects in hopes you’ll help them reach their goals to bring literature, advocacy, and education to others. Even if you can’t spare money, any social sharing you can offer to the projects each week absolutely helps: you never know who’ll find it and have the means by which to make the project’s fundraising goals reached. More, you’ll bing awareness to the unmet needs in communities around the world, as well as right in your own back yard. When all else feels hard or hopeless, remember that you can and do make a difference.
This Week’s Projects
Learn To Love Reading, Charlotte High School, Punta Gorda, Florida. $400.
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Poetry Comes Alive: A Relevant Story Told With Poetry, West High School, Bakersfield, California. $271
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Whether you can donate a dollar, donate fifty dollars, or donate a share on social media, you make a difference! They are constantly improving and growing in their quest to be better. Teaching them is a real honor and pleasure. We can break each part of the story down by analyzing the poems and writing about them. Ultimately creating our own series of poems. The students will learn a lot from the decisions made in the story and hopefully be able to self examine their own.
title: “Friday Fund Days Drop Some Dollars And Help Some Classrooms " ShowToc: true date: “2022-11-18” author: “Tracey Schneider”
Enter: Friday Fund Days. Book Riot readers have helped fund hundreds of classrooms over the last few years, and we’ll help bring funds to hundreds more. Each Friday, we’ll highlight two classrooms or other literacy-focused, important projects in hopes you’ll help them reach their goals to bring literature, advocacy, and education to others. Even if you can’t spare money, any social sharing you can offer to the projects each week absolutely helps: you never know who’ll find it and have the means by which to make the project’s fundraising goals reached. More, you’ll bring awareness to the unmet needs in communities around the world, as well as right in your own back yard. When all else feels hard or hopeless, remember that you can and do make a difference.
This week’s Projects
Urban Classroom Garden, Bronx River High School, Bronx, NY. $292.
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Giving Hope to Those Without, Roseland Park Elementary School, Picayune, MS. $108.
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Whether you can donate a dollar, donate fifty dollars, or donate a share on social media, you make a difference! Living in an urban area, many of my students have not had the opportunity to grow flowers or their own food, yet the joy that they express when given the opportunity to do so in the classroom is palpable. With this greenhouse they will be able to grow plants and learn about their photosynthetic neighbors year-round. The greenhouse will be used for classroom lab activities, as well as for the gardening club to explore the world of botany. Through a grant, we make sure they have breakfast and lunch at school everyday. We have kids who walk to school and never miss a day because they may not get a hot meal at home. We send some of our students home with bags of food to get them through the weekend. We offer counseling services to students that need to discuss their home life. However, some never open up. Some of our toughest students just want to be heard. We listen, advise, give hope, stick with, and hug an awful lot. We are a family to these students and we teach them how to respect instead of disrespect, how to love instead of hate, and how to be safe instead of reckless. Providing some below grade level reading material to our students who are struggling will help them to learn about topics in a way that they can participate in conversations about that topic. Which will build confidence and encourage them to tackle harder reading material a little at a time. My hope is that with these materials, I will help students that are struggling at home and at school to build more confidence in themselves while at school so they may be able to deal with things that are happening at home.
