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Ms. S. from Houston TX is requesting technology through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Sing To Learn

My students need a 30GB pink Zune mp3 player.

  • $296 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Celebrating Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

Celebrate Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.

I am a Teach for America teacher teaching 20, Pre-K students from a low income community. I have one English Language Learner and one student with a language disability.

Many of my students face the problem of highly limited language in an area where speech therapy and services are scarce. My students are exemplary of the "word gap," which often persists in low-income communities, wherein students simply have fewer words in their vocabulary as compared to their higher-income peers. At the beginning of the year, one of my students had a vocabulary of five words. However, I often hear her singing songs about our academic concepts in the classroom, including songs about counting, patterns, the weather and the alphabet. The same is true of many of my other students. Furthermore, research indicates that young children learn best from music, which I have found to be true of my students.

My students and I need an MP3 player for our classroom. I teach and they learn so much through music. They have short attention spans and I often lose them in the time it takes to change a CD and find the right track. Additionally, they love to "help" and their fingerprints on the Cd's often makes the CD player go crazy, wasting more precious instructional time. An MP3 player would save us so much time and help them learn so much!

Your help will make it possible for my students to learn more readily and increase their vocabulary through fun and practical methods! You will empower my students with a stronger vocabulary through a means that research demonstrates is most powerful for young children.

Ms. S.
Grades PreK-2

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
30GB ZUNE-PINK • Best Buy $199.99 1 $199.99

Materials cost

$199.99

Vendor shipping charges

$20.00

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$5.00

Fulfillment labor & materials

$17.00

Total project cost

$242.00

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$53.12

Total project goal

$295.12

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$295.12

5 Donors

-$284.28

Donations toward project cost

-$242.99

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$41.29

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$12.05

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$0.00

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