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Ms. Levy from Alameda, CA is requesting supplies through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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The Benefits of Batteries!

My students need 44 watch batteries, a set of paint your own piggy banks, and an assortment of books and flashcards covering time and money management.

  • $459 goal

This project expired on December 21, 2008.

This project expired on December 21, 2008.

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Ms. Levy Lum Elementary School
Alameda, CA Grades PreK-2

In light of our recent economic downturn, children need a firm foundation in the management of time and money! When should this instruction begin? Now...with my first grade classroom located in California. We are a middle-class neighborhood school that provides education to 500 diverse, elementary students.

As the recent housing crisis and economic downturn indicates, our students need the skills to manage their money and understand time now more than ever. They need savvy problem solving skills and knowledge of time and money concepts to make good decisions about loan payments, interest, and other financial matters. In first grade, we are building the foundation for the more complex math that will be necessary to make informed decisions. Money and time are very abstract concepts that require a lot of instruction and practice. Each year, this unit continues to be difficult for my students to understand. This grant would help students get more in-depth instruction and practice with these difficult concepts.

I've procured 2 class sets of beginner wrist watches. I just need some battery power to get them going. Students will wear these watches during class time so we can get familiar with the movement of the hands on the analog clock. Children are intuitively curious about time and these watches make an extra special reminder as they sit handsomely on their wrists. Through this grant, we will have many games to play to practice these difficult concepts in addition to wonderful trade-books to supplement our main math texts. To get children interested in money, we will begin our study by painting our own ceramic piggy banks. Throughout our study, children will be awarded plastic coins to add to their bank. We will discuss budgeting and the importance of allocating funds for savings and donating to worthy causes (like DonorsChoose.org). The culmination of our unit will be for children to purchase items at a classroom store, save some funds for future parties or class purchases, and to donate money to the Heifer Project to buy an animal for a village or family.

Your donation will make it possible for my students to be a part of these engaging and interesting projects. These activities will create a foundation of informed money and time management!

More than a third of students from low‑income households

80 students impacted
Ms. Levy Lum Elementary School Grades PreK-2 Alameda, CA View local requests

More than a third of students from low‑income households Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more

80 students impacted

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Paint Your Own Ceramic Piggy Banks - Box of 12 • Nasco $13.44 2 $26.88
Imaginative Inventions: The Who, What, Where, When, and Why of Roller Skates, Potato Chips, Marbles, and Pie (and More!) Charise Mericle Harper, Charise Mericle Harper (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $15.29 1 $15.29
My Piggy Bank Thomas Lewis, K. L. Darnell (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $14.35 1 $14.35
Money and Telling Time Flip-Open Flash Cards Scholastic • Barnes and Noble $13.49 10 $134.90
Story of Money Betsy Maestro, Giulio Maestro (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $15.30 1 $15.30
Time/Money Learning Horizons Staff (Editor) • Barnes and Noble $3.15 1 $3.15
Time and Money School Zone Publishing • Barnes and Noble $2.51 10 $25.10
I Can Tell Time and Count Money Manufactured by School Specialty Publishing • Barnes and Noble $3.55 1 $3.55
Berenstain Bears' Dollars and Sense Berenstain • Barnes and Noble $3.59 1 $3.59
Coin Counting Book Rozanne Lanczak Lanczak Williams • Barnes and Noble $7.15 1 $7.15
The Kids' Money Book: Earning Saving Spending Investing Donating Jamie Kyle McGillian, Ian Phillips (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $5.35 1 $5.35
DURACELL WATCH/ELECTRONIC 1.5 VOLT SILVER OXIDE BATTERY -- Duracell Specialty Batteries; Watch/Electronic 1.5-Volt Silver Oxide Battery D389/390 • Quill Corporation $0.89 44 $39.16
Time and Money Elizabeth Flikkema, Susan Morris (Editor), Erin Seltzer (Editor) • Barnes and Noble $6.29 1 $6.29

Materials cost

$300.06

Vendor shipping charges

 $30.01

Sales tax

 $21.75

3rd party payment processing fee

$7.50

Fulfillment labor & materials

$17.00

Total project cost

$376.00

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$82.54

Total project goal

$458.54

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