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Mrs. Kunze from San Jose, CA is requesting supplies through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Help Hands-on Learning

My students need math manipulatives to help maximize their learning. They also need dry erase boards and clipboards to be mobile learners.

FULLY FUNDED! Mrs. Kunze's classroom raised $611

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

My students are becoming self aware learners and are questioning why and how they learn. They are being challenged to explain why things work as they do, especially in math. I do not want them to do the operations but to know why and how the operations work and how they can use this information.

My students are very creative fifth graders that love school.

We are in a Title 1 school in a low income area with few resources available from the district or parents. All of the parents try to give what they can; they are involved in their children's learning and support their children's education to the best of their abilities. This is further hindered due to the fact that I am a first year teacher and am lacking in many materials in the classroom. Unfortunately our district does not even provide basic supplies, other than 2 cases of paper a year, so a lot of my financial resources have been poured into providing the basic supplies like pencils, glue, scissors, binder paper, paper clips, and so on. My students deserve access to more materials to increase their overall learning.

My Project

Imagine walking in from recess to begin math for the day. You are studying fractions, a very hard subject for most of us. All you have to understand fractions is a textbook, a power point presentation put together by your teacher with some pictures, and paper fraction strips. Not an ideal way to learn! My students would love some hands-on fraction materials to make fractions more concrete. With their dry erase boards they could solve problems with me as I demonstrate on the board, they could then take turns solving problems with a partner. When it is time to study for the test, they will use their clipboards to have a scavenger hunt around the room. Then, when it is time for Reading Language Arts, I will have more comprehension materials to use and help all my students, especially the English Language Learners better understand what they are reading.

With your donations to this project, my students will have hard surfaces; clipboards and dry erase boards as mobile surfaces so they can learn and write in places other than their desks.

They will have hands-on materials to help them understand fractions. You will help make abstract fractions a concrete and real thing that they can touch and see in order to help them understand. Fractions are concepts we encounter as adults everyday, help them encounter fractions with a grin and not a groan!

Mrs. Kunze Linda Vista Elementary School Grades 3-5

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This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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More than three‑quarters 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

29 students impacted 13donors

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
BOARD MAGNETIC DRY ERASE UNLINED 9X12 PACK OF 12 • School Specialty $57.94 3 $173.82
KIT RESOURCE FRACTION AND DECIMAL • School Specialty $61.74 1 $61.74
CLIPBOARD MASONITE LETTER - SCHOOL SMART • School Specialty $1.51 30 $45.30
MARKERS DRY ERASE GREAT ERASE BLACK FINE PACK OF 12 • School Specialty $11.49 3 $34.47
ERASERS MAGNETIC WHITEBOARD 2 X 2 PACK OF 12 • School Specialty $10.54 3 $31.62
PENCIL DIXON NO. 2 SOFT YELLOW PACK OF 144 • School Specialty $14.24 1 $14.24
BOOK 50 REPRODUCIBLE STRATEGIES FOR INDEPENDENT READING 96PG • School Specialty $17.09 1 $17.09
BOOK FUNNY AND FABULOUS FRACTION STORIES 88PGS • School Specialty $12.72 1 $12.72
PASSAGES- HI LO TO BUILD COMPREHENSION • School Specialty $10.16 1 $10.16
PEN BALLPOINT ROUND STIC RED MEDIUM 1.0MM PACK OF 12 • School Specialty $1.42 3 $4.26

Materials cost

$405.42

Vendor shipping charges

 $40.54

Sales tax

 $37.10

3rd party payment processing fee

$6.08

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$519.14

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$91.61

Total project goal

$610.75

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $610.75

9 Donors

-$434.28

Donations toward project cost

-$391.64

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$42.64

match offer

-$150.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$127.50

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$22.50

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$26.47

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 $0.00

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