Heartfelt Thanks

To all of you who made three of our four Donors Choose proposals a reality, thank you! Because of the donations, three classrooms are getting much needed tools for learning and developing imaginations.

We've even gotten a thank you note from one of the teachers we supported:

Thank you so much for your willingness to help my students. I've told them that we will be getting Time Magazine for Kids and we will be able to use them in both reading and social studies class. They are all very excited. My students and I are very fortunate to be able to count on wonderful people like you to help make learning more fun. Thanks again. Sincerely, Ms. Creech

Kudos to Niki for her great idea to do something special to celebrate Valentine's Day - a holiday that for some conjures a sickly feeling over all that red and pink and sweetness. It feels better to have used the holiday for good rather than evil. So thanks for sharing the love!

Big Hearts

The little thermometer to the the right has been steadily rising and two of our four Donors Choose proposals in the Bloggers Challenge have been fully funded - hooray! Now some deserving kids are going to get Time Magazine for Kids and a digital photo printing dock for their story projects. And now we've got just the two proposals left - which include another writing project and drama prop needs. So just a reminder to Share the Love before Valentine's Day arrives...

Share the Love

My brilliant almost-lawyer friend Niki suggested that we bloggers band together for a good cause this Valentine's Day instead of obsessing over heart-shaped boxes of chocolates and bouquets of flowers. Donors Choose is a great organization that allows teachers to submit proposals for funding for various classroom projects. Many of those classrooms are in schools with a high percentage of poverty-level students. And we - Niki, Andi, Megan, and the guys at Notes from the Muck - are asking you to help us fund four very worthy projects. You can read about our projects and make donations here. Our goal is $1,381. Helping us out will help some deserving kids with writing skills, theater productions and growing imaginations. For those of you in NC, two of the projects are a stone's throw from us. Fellow bloggers, feel free to link up to our challenge on your own blogs.

Please consider - yes, I'm going to say it - opening your heart and throwing in a few bucks. We'd all appreciate it. And I'll love you more than I already do.