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Ms. Melby from Woodland Park, CO is requesting technology through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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A New Listening Center

My students need need a new listening center and headphones to replace the ones that are broken and no longer working.

FULLY FUNDED! Ms. Melby's classroom raised $243

This project is fully funded

My Students

They are growing and learning in a small, and inviting school community that allows them to develop strong relationships and experience a variety of opportunities. They are dreamers, thinkers, talkers, and questioners. They are mini inspirations to themselves and others around them, even if they don't know it yet. They are budding ambassadors, world travelers, scientists, entrepreneurs, teachers, architects, and so much more. They are our future and I want to give them a great start to their long successful career.

My Project

Students need to spend time listening to reading to not only help improve their comprehension but their fluency and expression as well. Have a listening center that works all of the time causes less disruption and allows students to have more opportunities to engage in this vital part of reading.

In my classroom, I value the amount of time students spend reading and listening to quality literature.

A new listening center will help increase the amount of books that are read aloud to them and give them richer experiences in reading.

Donating to this project will not only help the listening center run smoothly, but it will provide kids with just the reading practice they need.

Ms. Melby Columbine Elementary School Grades PreK-2 Woodland Park, CO 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

20 students impacted 3donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
FF280X - Best-Buy Listening Center • Lakeshore Learning Materials $99.50 1 $99.50
FN2924C - Listening Center Headphones - Each • Lakeshore Learning Materials $15.99 4 $63.96

Materials cost

$163.46

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$10.46

3rd party payment processing fee

$2.45

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$206.37

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$36.42

Total project goal

$242.79

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$242.79

3 Donors

-$235.73

Donations toward project cost

-$206.37

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$29.36

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$7.06

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$0.00

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