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Ms. Chamblee from Baltimore, MD is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Listen Up!

My students need read-along books on CD to create a listening center in our classroom.

  • $453 goal

This project expired on July 28, 2012.

This project expired on July 28, 2012.

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Ms. Chamblee Cecil Elementary School 7
Baltimore, MD Grades PreK-2

My Students

My students are ready to "listen up!" Our Pre-K classroom has a variety of learning centers including art, math, library, writing, blocks and dramatic play. However, one thing I have been dying to offer my students is a listening center.

I teach 21 students attending an inner-city school in a low income community.

My students are in their first year of school, and are eager to learn about anything and everything. All of my students are OBSESSED with reading. At the end of each day my students rush to pack up their things quickly. This allows us extra time before dismissal to read one of their favorite story books from our classroom library.

My Project

I am asking for a variety of story books on CD because I want to provide my students with a listening center. I already have the CD player and headphones. I even have a headphone splitter so several students can listen at once, but we have no books on CD. By opening a listening center in our classroom, my students will develop essential literacy skills. Specifically, my students will be able to improve their listening skills, practice tracking print as they listen to a story, and be exposed to models of fluent reading.

Each book I have asked for in this project is one of our classroom favorites.

Giving my students the opportunity to listen to these texts during center time will keep them excited about reading and give them the opportunity to develop critical literacy skills. With your generous donations, I will be able to provide my students with a more literacy rich environment by creating a listening center in our classroom.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Nearly all students from low‑income households

21 students impacted
Ms. Chamblee Cecil Elementary School 7 Grades PreK-2

Celebrate Black teachers and kids! This project supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of students are Black.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Baltimore, MD View local requests

Nearly all 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

21 students impacted

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
RE747 - Where the Wild Things Are Read-Along • Lakeshore Learning $48.50 1 $48.50
RE758 - Tacky the Penguin Read-Along • Lakeshore Learning $38.50 1 $38.50
RE821 - Chicka Chicka Boom Boom Read-Along • Lakeshore Learning $44.50 1 $44.50
RE936 - Miss Nelson is Missing! Read-Along • Lakeshore Learning $38.50 1 $38.50
RE205X - Paul Galdone Read-Alongs - Set 1 • Lakeshore Learning $155.00 1 $155.00

Materials cost

$325.00

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $19.50

3rd party payment processing fee

$4.88

Fulfillment labor & materials

$35.00

Total project cost

$384.38

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$67.83

Total project goal

$452.21

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