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Ms. Crain from Nampa ID is requesting educational kits & games through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

ABC Letters for Kindergarten Readers

Help me give my students twenty sets of magnetic lowercase letters (a class set).

  • $289 goal

This project expired on March 28, 2021.

This project expired on March 28, 2021.

My Students

Every day, I have the joy of creating memories of success, failure, and perseverance while teaching kindergartners the joys of learning.

My kindergartners want to be the best that they can, yet our state is 51st in school funding.

We are a Title I school, where everyone receives free breakfast and most receive free or reduced-price lunch. Many of my students come from trauma-filled backgrounds, low-income​ families, and will be the first to go to college. Despite these struggles, my five-year-old scholars are still inquisitive. They are full of questions, from the iconic "Why is the sky blue?" to the question I was asked the other day, "Why do apples come in different colors?" I want my students to further their curiosity by learning how to read, write, do math, and be knowledgeable about the world. Furthermore, I want them to go home and share their learning with their families.

My Project

We are returning to remote instruction, but it doesn't mean we stop learning to read.

The requested magnetic letters will allow my students to build, read, and blend CVC words (consonant-vowel-consonant words, such as bed or cat).

The requested letter sets also have enough vowels for my higher ability students to build and read words with long vowel sounds (like lake or mule).

Reading is a critical skill I teach in kindergarten, and these magnetic letters will make it easy for my students to chain words- for example, bed-bad-mad-man, changing one sound at a time to work on their phonemic awareness skills.

Ms. Crain
Grades PreK-2

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
LC357 Word Building Magnetic Letters Lowercase • Lakeshore Learning Materials $9.99 20 $199.80

Materials cost

$199.80

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$12.09

3rd party payment processing fee

$3.00

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$244.89

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$43.22

Total project goal

$288.11

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