You're on track to get doubled donations (and unlock a reward for the colleague who referred you). Keep up the great work!
Take credit for your charitable giving! Check out your tax receipts
Donate
To use your $50 gift card credits, find a project to fund and we'll automatically apply your credits at checkout. Find a classroom project
Menu
Skip to main content

Help teachers & students in your hometown this season!
Use code HOME at checkout and your donation will be matched up to $100.

Your school email address was successfully verified.

Edit classroom photo

Ms. Alvick’s Classroom Edit display name

Your custom url is https://www.donorschoose.org/ms-alvick

View your stats
Track donations »
Edit
My students are a lot of things. They are engaged explorers, traveling to far-off lands in their reading during language arts. They are historians, archaeologists, and anthropologists in social studies, making hypotheses about ancient humans based on evidence they find. And they are creators, writers, authors, and poets, using words to define themselves and the worlds they live in. But in order to do anything in these domains sufficiently, they need the right language, and the tools to incorporate that language. Right now, I am unable to provide them with those tools, namely, dictionaries. My students lack the experience to know how to find words they do not recognize, and my current supplies are not sufficient to cover the whole class. We work with vocabulary regularly, as having a wide breadth of words to work with, especially content-specific ones, is an important part of developing language skills. I want to give students time to explore language, and dictionaries are a huge part of that. I barely have enough right now to let students share with a partner, and most are working in groups of three. Adding 15 dictionaries would allow me to give students more time to work with them for reading, writing, and social studies alike.

About my class

My students are a lot of things. They are engaged explorers, traveling to far-off lands in their reading during language arts. They are historians, archaeologists, and anthropologists in social studies, making hypotheses about ancient humans based on evidence they find. And they are creators, writers, authors, and poets, using words to define themselves and the worlds they live in. But in order to do anything in these domains sufficiently, they need the right language, and the tools to incorporate that language. Right now, I am unable to provide them with those tools, namely, dictionaries. My students lack the experience to know how to find words they do not recognize, and my current supplies are not sufficient to cover the whole class. We work with vocabulary regularly, as having a wide breadth of words to work with, especially content-specific ones, is an important part of developing language skills. I want to give students time to explore language, and dictionaries are a huge part of that. I barely have enough right now to let students share with a partner, and most are working in groups of three. Adding 15 dictionaries would allow me to give students more time to work with them for reading, writing, and social studies alike.

Read more

About my class

Read more
{"followTeacherId":4849097,"teacherId":4849097,"teacherName":"Ms. Alvick","teacherProfilePhotoURL":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp4849097_272x272.jpg?width=136&height=136&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1510086028859","teacherHasProfilePhoto":true,"vanityURL":"ms-alvick","teacherChallengeId":21016113,"followAbout":"Ms. Alvick's projects","teacherVerify":-1309722918,"teacherNameEncoded":"Ms. Alvick","vanityType":"teacher","teacherPageInfo":{"teacherHasClassroomPhoto":true,"teacherHasClassroomDescription":true,"teacherClassroomDescription":"","teacherProfileURL":"https://www.donorschoose.org/classroom/ms-alvick","tafURL":"https://secure.donorschoose.org/donors/share_teacher_profile.html?teacher=4849097","stats":{"numActiveProjects":0,"numFundedProjects":4,"numSupporters":14},"classroomPhotoPendingScreening":false,"showEssentialsListCard":false}}
Supporting teachers and students since 2000

DonorsChoose makes it easy for anyone to help a classroom in need. Public school teachers from every corner of America create classroom project requests, and you can give any amount to the project that inspires you.

We've earned the highest possible ratings from Better Business Bureau, Charity Watch, Charity Navigator, and Guidestar.