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Mr. De La Pena from El Paso TX is requesting classroom basics through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Environmentally Friendly Financial Literacy!

Help me give my students reusable Rocketbook Notebooks and FriXion pens to learn about financial literacy but also be environmentally smart about it!

  • $590 goal

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Hooray! 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

My students are in a self-contained, modified curriculum classroom that provides them with many extra accommodations and modifications to ensure they get optimal learning opportunities. Since the COVID-19 quarantine started, I have tried hard to get them everything they need to keep learning online while staying safe.

Social distancing is necessary to stay safe, but my students also need to use engaging resources to help keep them learning from a distance.

Financial literacy is always a super important subject and now more than ever during the pandemic for our low-income families. My students have to battle poverty and the extra complications that their learning disabilities can bring them.

My Project

Financial literacy is always a hard subject to teach and with my SPED students the subject is often even harder, but not impossible.

I think that if I find creative ways or use creative materials then difficult lessons become fun and a bit easier to understand!

With these reusable, environmentally friendly notebooks, financial literacy can be a fun lesson all year long and they can keep using them for years to come! This one project can essentially keep them learning and save them money on notebooks for their entire academic lives and beyond!

Mr. De La Pena
Grades 6-8

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Rocketbook Smart Reusable Notebook - Lined Eco-Friendly Notebook with 1 Pilot Frixion Pen & 1 Microfiber Cloth Included - Neptune Teal Cover, Letter Size (8.5" x 11") • Amazon Business $21.92 18 $394.56
PILOT FriXion Clicker Erasable, Refillable & Retractable Gel Ink Pens, Fine Point, Assorted Color Inks, 7-Pack Pouch (31472) • Amazon Business $9.99 7 $69.93

Materials cost

$464.49

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$6.97

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$501.46

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$88.49

Total project goal

$589.95

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$589.95

8 Donors

-$259.00

Donations toward project cost

-$250.75

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$8.25

match offer

-$294.95

Match offer toward project cost

-$250.71

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$44.24

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$36.00

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$0.00

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