2.13.2009

14 New Computers

Read about your dollars at work! The Foundation recently purchased 14 new computers for the computer lab which brings the lab to 34 computers which will allow Kindergarten, 4th & 5th to get a full hour of computer lab time and no longer will classes have to split their hour of computer lab time into half hour sessions.

The Foundation received a thank you letters from Gretchen de la O (senior instructional assistant) and the 4th and 5th grade classes. The letters were well written, typed, formatted and printed. There are too many letters to copy here but I've included Gretchen's letter and excerpts from a couple of our students:

I'm a 5th grader in Mrs. Grahams's class and I would like to thank you for buying fourteen new computers for our computer lab. It will help us get more work done. I know that computers can cost a lot of money! You have worked very hard to get these computers. I know how much work you did to raise the money to get these computers.

This gives us a whole bunch of abilities in the computer lab. This gives us twice the time to work on the computer. We can work on our keyboarding skills, work with PowerPoint, do multimedia projects, and use the Internet. The work we will get done in the time I have left at this school is the amount of time we would have spent in the entire year. Next year fourth and fifth grade will be very lucky. Mrs. de la O also thanks you for your help.
- Ian Scott

I am a fourth grader in Ms. Gabelman's class. I wanted to take this opportunity to thank you for buying all those awesome computers for Pleasant Hill Elementary. I think you are really cool for doing that. Now instead of our class having to take turns and only having thirty minutes we get to go at the same time and have a whole hour. And if we have a a whole hour we can have more time to do really cool stuff and of course work and creative stuff. Oh and of course Mrs. de la O is happy about it too. - Dillon Young