You're on track to get doubled donations (and unlock a reward for the colleague who referred you). Keep up the great work!
Take credit for your charitable giving! Check out your tax receipts
Donate
To use your $50 gift card credits, find a project to fund and we'll automatically apply your credits at checkout. Find a classroom project
Menu
Skip to main content

Help teachers & students in your hometown this season!
Use code HOME at checkout and your donation will be matched up to $100.

Your school email address was successfully verified.

Edit classroom photo

Ms. Peña-Castro’s Classroom Edit display name

Support her classroom with a gift that fosters learning.

  • Monthly
  • One-time

We'll charge your card today and send Ms. Peña-Castro a DonorsChoose gift card she can use on her classroom projects. Starting next month, we'll charge your card and send her a DonorsChoose gift card on the 17th of every month.

Edit or cancel anytime.

cancel

Support Ms. Peña-Castro's classroom with a gift that fosters learning.

  • Monthly
  • One-time

We'll charge your card today and send Ms. Peña-Castro a DonorsChoose gift card she can use on her classroom projects. Starting next month, we'll charge your card and send her a DonorsChoose gift card on the 17th of every month.

Edit or cancel anytime.

Make a donation Ms. Peña-Castro can use on her next classroom project.

Your custom url is https://www.donorschoose.org/a-penacastro

View your stats
Track donations »
Edit
Organization in the classroom is a mixture of elements that allow student success. These elements include easily accessible materials, creating a positive learning environment, and the physical set-up of the classroom. Easily accessible materials and supplies can eliminate delays, disruptions, and confusion as students prepare for daily activities. Help me give my students book bins, caddies, and a Pocket Chart Stand to keep our supplies and books organized. To achieve this, my ELLs need the “Neon Help-Yourself Book Bins” to have an organized classroom library to display picture books and the “Heavy-Duty Paper Trays” to keep student worksheets, assignments, and other papers organized. They need the “Neon Connect & Store Book Bins” to organize classroom books and easy toting to reading stations and to our small group table. The “Neon Heavy-Duty Book Bins” will store and organize books and school supplies and the “Neon Classroom Supply Caddies” will keep our school supplies neat and organized. My students will use the “Classroom Carry-All” to organize their multi-colored highlighters used during Close Reading and the “Adjustable Pocket Chart Stand” to display pocket charts with our weekly sight words and anchor charts. They will use “Magnetic Display Shelves” to display books and our stories of the week.

About my class

Organization in the classroom is a mixture of elements that allow student success. These elements include easily accessible materials, creating a positive learning environment, and the physical set-up of the classroom. Easily accessible materials and supplies can eliminate delays, disruptions, and confusion as students prepare for daily activities. Help me give my students book bins, caddies, and a Pocket Chart Stand to keep our supplies and books organized. To achieve this, my ELLs need the “Neon Help-Yourself Book Bins” to have an organized classroom library to display picture books and the “Heavy-Duty Paper Trays” to keep student worksheets, assignments, and other papers organized. They need the “Neon Connect & Store Book Bins” to organize classroom books and easy toting to reading stations and to our small group table. The “Neon Heavy-Duty Book Bins” will store and organize books and school supplies and the “Neon Classroom Supply Caddies” will keep our school supplies neat and organized. My students will use the “Classroom Carry-All” to organize their multi-colored highlighters used during Close Reading and the “Adjustable Pocket Chart Stand” to display pocket charts with our weekly sight words and anchor charts. They will use “Magnetic Display Shelves” to display books and our stories of the week.

Read more

About my class

Read more
{"followTeacherId":4723325,"teacherId":4723325,"teacherName":"Ms. Peña-Castro","teacherProfilePhotoURL":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp4723325_272x272.jpg?width=136&height=136&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1503777490723","teacherHasProfilePhoto":true,"vanityURL":"a-penacastro","teacherChallengeId":20989953,"followAbout":"Ms. Peña-Castro's projects","teacherVerify":-175237971,"teacherNameEncoded":"Ms. Peña-Castro","vanityType":"teacher","teacherPageInfo":{"teacherHasClassroomPhoto":true,"teacherHasClassroomDescription":true,"teacherClassroomDescription":"","teacherProfileURL":"https://www.donorschoose.org/classroom/a-penacastro","tafURL":"https://secure.donorschoose.org/donors/share_teacher_profile.html?teacher=4723325","stats":{"numActiveProjects":0,"numFundedProjects":1,"numSupporters":6},"classroomPhotoPendingScreening":false,"showEssentialsListCard":false}}
Supporting teachers and students since 2000

DonorsChoose makes it easy for anyone to help a classroom in need. Public school teachers from every corner of America create classroom project requests, and you can give any amount to the project that inspires you.

We've earned the highest possible ratings from Better Business Bureau, Charity Watch, Charity Navigator, and Guidestar.