So I went back and looked at Saddle Up for Second Grade blog. Marcy has posted some interesting posts lately. One that caught my eye was Weekend Warriors: iPod Listening Center Organization. Over the summer Marcy was fortunate enough to have three iPods donated to her classroom through DonorsChoose.
I was unsure of what exactly DonorsChoose was, so I did a little research on it. What I found out about it was that it is an online charity that makes it easy for anyone to help students in need. Public school teachers post classroom project requests on their site and you can give any amount to the project that most inspires you. So when a project reaches its funding goal, DonorsChoose ships the materials to the school. What really caught my attention about this website is that Donors Choose website is completely free for teachers to use! Which is great.
Some public schools are in lower income areas, so it’s hard for teachers to acquire all of the tools that they need. This website is great for those areas because teachers are helping out teachers again, as well as individual people.
Another thing I would like to bring up that I found on Marcy’s blog was her Weekend Warriors Pinterest Board. Pinterest is a great website to get ideas from for your classroom. What Marcy did was create her own board that offers tips, tricks, and great ideas that she uses in her classroom.
Overall, from this blog I found two great websites that can be used later down the road when it is time for me to teach. I really like Pinterest because there are so many different boards out there for teachers to get ideas from. Just another example of teachers helping teachers!
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