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Mrs. Mahinan from Los Angeles, CA is requesting supplies through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Fun with Learning Centers!

My students need hot dots learning centers with quiz cards to keep them actively engaged during small group instruction.

FULLY FUNDED! Mrs. Mahinan's classroom raised $240

This project is fully funded

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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

"Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves." ~Abbé Dimnet My students are learning to work independently during small group instruction. The learning centers will keep them actively engaged.

My first grade students are eager to learn and love to work along side each other.

Collaboratively, they grapple with new ideas and relearn concepts with excitement. They live in a lower socioeconomic area where resources are limited. Many are struggling with basic reading and math skills. While other students need to be challenged.

My Project

The learning centers I am requesting will provide meaningful independent work during small group instruction. The quiz cards and hot dot pens will reinforce the concepts learned from previous lessons. It will give them more practice with consonants, vowels, digraphs, blends, addition, subtraction, money and time. These are skills needed in our daily lives. The hot dot pen will provide accurate feedback as they work on their own. The junction box will allow up to eight students to work at the listening center. They will listen to children's literature to build on their comprehension and vocabulary skills.

Your donation to this project will give my students the resources needed to build their reading and math skills.

These learning center tools will give students the opportunity to reinforce concepts during independent work time in an engaging and and meaningful manner.

Mrs. Mahinan Alta Loma 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.

Los Angeles, CA 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

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
LA803 - 8-Station Junction Box Without Volume Controls • Lakeshore Learning $16.95 1 $16.95
DS176 - Variant Vowels and More Quiz Cards • Lakeshore Learning $14.95 1 $14.95
DS174 - Blends and Digraphs Quiz Cards • Lakeshore Learning $14.95 1 $14.95
DS173 - Vowels Quiz Cards • Lakeshore Learning $14.95 1 $14.95
DS172 - Consonants Quiz Cards • Lakeshore Learning $14.95 1 $14.95
BD808 - Money Quiz Cards • Lakeshore Learning $9.95 1 $9.95
BD807 - Telling Time Quiz Cards • Lakeshore Learning $9.95 1 $9.95
BD803 - Subtraction Quiz Cards • Lakeshore Learning $9.95 1 $9.95
BD801 - Addition Quiz Cards • Lakeshore Learning $9.95 1 $9.95
BD210X - Hot Dots Power Pens - Set of 4 • Lakeshore Learning $36.00 1 $36.00

Materials cost

$152.55

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$13.96

3rd party payment processing fee

$2.29

Fulfillment labor & materials

$35.00

Total project cost

$203.80

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$35.96

Total project goal

$239.76

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$239.76

2 Donors

-$183.05

Donations toward project cost

-$174.05

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$9.00

match offer

-$35.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$29.75

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$5.25

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$21.71

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$0.00

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