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Mrs. Ridgeway from Detroit, MI is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Flashy First Graders!

Help me give my students a successful year of learning in 1st grade!

FULLY FUNDED! Mrs. Ridgeway's classroom raised $776

This project is fully funded

My Students

My students are inquisitive and love to learn new things. They are my fantastic first graders. Many of them are having their first face to face school experience this year after being virtual students for the past 18 months. Our school is located in an urban area. We are a Title I school as well.

My Project

As a first-year teacher, I have been blessed with an amazing group of first grade students. They have a strong desire to learn, but are having difficulty with key reading, writing, and math concepts. I want to enhance my students' academic abilities with new reading and writing tools along with new math manipulatives. I would like to keep my students actively engaged and improve their reading, writing, and math skills this year with hands-on materials.

My students need a personal set of flash cards and an abacus to help them learn to add and subtract two-digit numbers.

The dry erase pockets and sentences building puzzles will be used in small group sessions to enhance their reading and writing skills. These materials will be used in our classroom to help my students become successful in reading, writing and math this school year.

Mrs. Ridgeway Gompers Elementary Middle School Grades PreK-2

Celebrate Black teachers and kids! This project supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of students are Black.

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.

Detroit, MI View local requests

Nearly all 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

25 students impacted 1donor

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
hand2mind Mini 100-Bead Wooden Rekenrek Abacus, Abacus for Kids Math, Wooden Counting Math Manipulatives, Bead Counters for Kids Math, Learn Counting and Numbers, Homeschool Supplies (Set of 25) • Amazon Business $236.38 1 $236.38
School Zone - Get Ready Flash Cards Alphabet & Numbers 2 Pack - Ages 4 to 6, Preschool to Kindergarten, ABCs, Uppercase and Lowercase Letters, Numbers 1-100, Counting, and More • Amazon Business $5.99 25 $149.75
School Zone - Get Ready Flash Cards Addition & Subtraction 2 Pack - Ages 6 to 7, 1st Grade, 2nd Grade, Addition, Subtraction, Early Math, Problem-Solving, and More • Amazon Business $5.99 25 $149.75
Key Education Sentence Building for Kids—Sight Word Builder for Early Reading, Speech, Writing, Language, Literacy Resource for Kindergarten-2nd Grade • Amazon Business $15.99 2 $31.98
Key Education Big Box of Word Chunks—Puzzle Game for Beginning Readers, Sight Words, Word Families, Digraphs, Color-Coded Letter Puzzle Pieces, Ages 6+ (220 pc) • Amazon Business $23.48 1 $23.48
Gamenote Dry Erase Pockets 30 Pack with Rings - Oversized Reusable Plastic Sleeves Shop Ticket Holders Sheet Protectors Teacher Supplies for Classroom Organization (Black) • Amazon Business $18.39 1 $18.39
Tracing Numbers 1-100 For Kindergarten: Number Practice Workbook To Learn The Numbers From 0 To 100 For Preschoolers & Kindergarten Kids Ages 3-5! • Amazon Business $5.95 1 $5.95
200 Essential Sight Words for Kids Learning to Write and Read: Activity Workbook to Learn, Trace & Practice 200 High Frequency Sight Words • Amazon Business $3.99 1 $3.99

Materials cost

$619.67

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$9.30

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$658.97

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$116.29

Total project goal

$775.26

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$775.26

1 Donor

-$775.26

Donations toward project cost

-$658.97

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$116.29

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

$0.00

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