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Ms. Palmer from Pensacola FL is requesting other through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Learning Through Listening

My students need these headphones in order to use computers, listening centers and other devices in my classroom.

  • $445 goal

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My Students

Some of the most engaging learning centers for first graders are computers and listening centers, but it is frustrating for both the teacher and students when they are unable to be used properly due to something as simple as headphones!

My students are sweet 6- and 7-year-old children that have few resources available to them.

They attend a Title I school in Florida, where the great majority of the students are on free or reduced lunch and ALL of the students receive free breakfast. The school has been wonderful in providing a few computers in each classroom, but they seem unable to keep up with the upkeep and headphones for these computers. The majority of these students do not have computers or Internet access at home, and the only opportunity they have to experience the technology so many of us take for granted is in our classroom.

My Project

We have some computers in our classroom but we have constant issues with the headphones for these computers. Currently the computers that have headphones either only have sound in one ear or the sound in the earphones goes in and out. The other computers do not have headphones at all. This makes for a very noisy and frustrating classroom environment. The students at the computers, and listening centers, cannot hear the program or story they are working with, and the students that are working at their seats or in a small group with me cannot concentrate because we have extra classroom noise from computers and listening centers without headphones. These resources will make my classroom a better learning environment for everyone.

The reason I have decided to ask for headphones now is that I have recently gotten a new student with severe hearing loss.

He is going to be fitted for a hearing aid soon, and I am concerned that the extra noise is going to be very overwhelming for him. This student is already going to be hearing sounds he hasn't heard before and I want our classroom to be the best learning environment for him and all of the other students. Please help my students have the best possible learning environment!

Ms. Palmer
Grades PreK-2

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
DELUXE STEREO BLUE • School Specialty Inc. $17.09 18 $307.62

Materials cost

$307.62

Vendor shipping charges

 $30.76

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$4.61

Fulfillment labor & materials

$35.00

Total project cost

$377.99

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$66.70

Total project goal

$444.69

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $444.69

10 Donors

-$334.69

Donations toward project cost

-$284.49

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$50.20

Matching donations from our partners

-$110.00

Match offers toward project cost

-$93.50

Match offers to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$16.50

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 $0.00

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