Donors Choose

I am really excited about this coming week in our classroom!  A few months ago, a teacher friend of mine in the eastern part of the state, told me that she had great success with a website called Donors Choose.  If you are not familiar with Donors Choose click here.  The site is a crowd sourcing site. The idea is a non-profit group (teachers, charities) writes a proposal, Donors Choose approves it and then people sponsor the request.  If you want to check my Donors Choose page you can click here to see it.

I had done executive lapbooks before Christmas (I'll take pictures and post that later) and they were a great success.  I wanted to do another lapbook but file folders, glue sticks, paper and scissors are expensive- especially for 90 students.  I decided to give Donors Choose a whirl and within three weeks my project was totally funded!  All I need to do is take pictures of the students working on lapbooks and send a thank you note.  I will get that done this week.

Here are the pictures of my newly arrived supplies.

I am also hoping we can do an Economics lapbook.  I'll have to start brainstorming on that one.  If you have any ideas I would love to know!