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Ms. Derby from Cass Lake MN is requesting instructional technology through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Deep, Mindful, Conscious Listening!

Help me give my students the auditory support when it comes to learning reading.

  • $638 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

My Students

I teach first-grade students in a school that is located on a Native American reservation in northern Minnesota. Most of my students come from generational poverty, which can bring trauma. I do my best to create a classroom, online at this time for distant learners. I want my students to feel safe, successful and loved.

My students start each day out on a screen meeting each and every one of their first-grade classmates.

My job, as a teacher is to help each child reach their full potential in experiences online. I do my best to find engaging lessons that will help them grow academically. I am so grateful to be part of their life through their learning years.

My Project

My project is to help explore the mind in listening to words read through a story. My project is to focus on children hearing words from a page read to them when they can't read or don't have an adult to help them through these times.

I would love to use my listening center in school and my google classroom breakouts.

There the children can her books being read to them. Also in our breakout rooms, we can discuss what we hear in a story and where our imagination leads us as we listened.

Ms. Derby
Grades PreK-2

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
FLEX-PHONESAF BLUE WIRELESS CENTER WITH BOOM BOX • School Specialty $458.96 1 $458.96

Materials cost

$458.96

Vendor shipping charges

$45.90

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$6.88

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$541.74

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$95.60

Total project goal

$637.34

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$637.34

3 Donors

-$188.08

Donations toward project cost

-$180.58

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$7.50

match offer

-$424.89

Match offer toward project cost

-$361.16

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$63.73

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$24.37

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$0.00

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Project Activity

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