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
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.

See this teacher's page

This teacher needs your help!

Ms. Toro from Chicago, IL is requesting supplies through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

See what Ms. Toro is requesting

Center Supplies Needed!

My students need tag readers, picture books, a CD player, headphones, building blocks, and write & wipe pockets.

FULLY FUNDED! Ms. Toro's classroom raised $1,083

This project is fully funded

Celebrating Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

Celebrate Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.

My Students

Hi there! I teach an amazing group of kindergarten students that come from diverse and unique ethnic backgrounds from around the city. My students are loving, dedicated and hardworking students who come into my classroom with a smile on their faces and a hunger for learning every day. They are always looking for ways to share their learning and help one another. As I prepare now for a new school year, I am anticipating another incredible group of students. Our school is a Title I Chicago Public School located in an urban environment with a tremendous school and amazing neighborhood community. Our staff, administrators, parents, and community members work together to provide the best education possible to our hard working and dedicated students.

My Project

Five- and six-year-olds are natural, enthusiastic learners. Their impulse to ask questions, to investigate, and to explore, examine, and experiment, comes from a burning curiosity about the world and a desire to understand things. They learn, grow, and internalize through interactive experiences with each other, with adults, and with real materials that uses all of their senses. For this reason, I spend careful time planning diverse learning centers, with open-ended activities and hands-on materials, to use throughout the year.

Learning centers are areas within the classroom where students learn about specific subjects by playing and engaging in activities.

This level of interaction in each center sparks creativity and develops key mental development, essential for their growth. It also happens to be my students' favorite part of day, participating in center time. Creating centers requires an abundant amount of materials and resources. Although we have limited resources at our urban K-8 school, I feel my students deserve to have the best learning materials.

My students are in need of headphones, a CD player, CDs and books to use in a listening center. Also, tag readers are an amazing way for students to practice reading in their listening centers. Students use the tag readers to highlight unfamiliar words that can be read to them, this improves students vocabulary skills and helps students learn to read. Additionally, my student are in need of supplies that allow them to simply play, such as, blocks, magnetic tiles and painting tables. Play is an active form of learning that involves the whole self. Even cognitive development, the primary focus in today's kindergarten, is achieved through child-initiated exploration and discovery.

Your donations will provide us with the materials we need to tremendously improve our listening, art and play centers for my students this upcoming school year.

Ms. Toro Goethe Elementary School Grades PreK-2

Equity Focus

This project directly supports students at a historically underfunded school. Learn more about our Equity Focus.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Chicago, IL View local requests

Half 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

19 students impacted 14donors

Boost your odds

Add a profile photo in addition to your classroom photo. If you add a photo, it'll show up right here on your project page.

You are more likely to receive funding if you put a face to your name.

Upload a photo

Top rated for efficiency and transparency.

You donate directly to the teacher or project you care about and see where every dollar you give goes.

Expand the "Where your donation goes" section below to see exactly what Ms. Toro is requesting.

See our finances

TEACHERS, FEELING INSPIRED?

You can start a project with the same resources being requested here!

Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
LeapFrog LeapReader Rading and Writing System • AKJ Education $44.99 5 $224.95
RE208X - Favorite Picture Book Read-Alongs - Set 3 • Lakeshore Learning Materials $209.00 1 $209.00
KidKraft Art Table with Drying Rack and Storage • Amazon Business $117.07 1 $117.07
Sony ZSRS60BT CD Boombox with Bluetooth and NFC (Black) • Amazon Business $87.94 1 $87.94
Mag-Genius Award Winning building Magnet Tiles Blocks Clear Colors 3D Brain Building Blocks Set of 108 +15 extra piece set bonus Includes 2 Cars And Free Storage Bin AGE 3 + • Amazon Business $64.79 1 $64.79
FN2924C - Listening Center Headphones - Each • Lakeshore Learning Materials $13.59 3 $40.77
110PCS Magnetic Building Blocks Magnet Tiles Educational Stacking Blocks Boys Grils Toys for Children Educational and Creative Imagination Development By Ailuki • Amazon Business $35.99 1 $35.99
Melissa & Doug Extra-Thick Cardboard Building Blocks - 24 Blocks in 3 Sizes • Amazon Business $16.99 2 $33.98
LeapFrog LeapReader Learn to Read, Volume 2 (works with Tag) • Amazon Business $24.59 1 $24.59
LeapFrog LeapReader Learn to Read, Volume 1 (works with Tag) • Amazon Business $19.99 1 $19.99
DE190 - Reusable Write & Wipe Pockets - Set of 10 • Lakeshore Learning Materials $18.00 1 $18.00

Materials cost

$877.07

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$13.16

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$920.23

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$162.39

Total project goal

$1,082.62

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $1,082.62

13 Donors

-$864.98

Donations toward project cost

-$750.23

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$114.75

match offer

-$200.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$170.00

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$30.00

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$17.64

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

 $0.00

Our team works hard to negotiate the best pricing and selections available.

View complete list Show less

Give the most requested basic supplies

See teacher requests

Give back to your community

Find opportunities to impact local needs by exploring a map of classroom projects near you.

See local area

Project Activity

Project Activity
Back to top

DonorsChoose is the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

As a teacher-founded nonprofit, we're trusted by thousands of teachers and supporters across the country. This classroom request for funding was created by Ms. Toro and reviewed by the DonorsChoose team.

See how DonorsChoose works
{"pmaHash":"","showProjectRecommendations":true,"leadGenEnabled":false,"hideTeacherDetails":false,"schoolState":"IL","teacherPossessivePronoun":"her","PMsManager":null,"schoolGradeType":{"id":1,"name":"Early Education"},"TeacherPMForms":{},"completingDonationAmount":0,"teacherHasClassroomPhoto":true,"proposalURL":"https://www.donorschoose.org/project/center-supplies-needed/2686425/","mayHaveReplacements":false,"numStudents":19,"isEquityFocusV1":false,"teacherScreenName":"Ms. Toro","isEquityFocus":true,"proposalHash":"1440243493","isApplePayMobileOnly":true,"progressBarPercentage":100.00,"monthlySchoolDonationEnabled":true,"photosPublished":false,"queryString":"","DonorPMForm":null,"shouldTrackEquityFocusV2":true,"schoolCity":"Chicago","teachersOnPage":[4621335],"isTeacherViewingTheirOwnProject":false,"minimizedLeadGenEnabled":false,"proposalId":2686425,"proposalMessageFormModel":null,"numActiveProjects":0,"verifyShowPhotos":"","eligibleToBeCopied":false,"schoolId":5574,"schoolName":"Goethe Elementary School","authorIds":{"4621335":{"owner":"Ms. Toro","donationSalutations":{}}},"displayedPercentFunded":1.0,"proposalsOnPage":[2686425],"pmaId":"","teacherProfilePhotoURL":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp4621335_272x272.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1502134120619","teacherHasProfilePhoto":true,"currentWorkflowStatusCode":19,"teacherChallengeId":20972675,"isApplePayEnabled":true,"fundedByTarget":false,"activeProject":null,"donorIdsForImpactPhotoCheck":[],"teacherId":4621335,"schoolCounty":"Cook","fullyFunded":true,"isStudentLed":false,"isExpired":true,"schoolStateObj":{"code":"IL","name":"Illinois"}}