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Mrs. Polo Oates from El Paso, TX is requesting educational kits & games through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Learning How to Read!

Help me give my students blends and digraphs teaching tubs and sound sorting boards, please!

FULLY FUNDED! Mrs. Polo Oates's classroom raised $250

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 school has five hundred and twenty-seven students and is a Title I school!

My first graders are full of energy and are ready to learn!

My students are always eager to want to know and learn more! They ask many questions, they talk a lot, they are curious and so much more! We are discovering, learning manners, social skills, academics, and tons more!

Most of our students are English language learners and the majority of our students qualify for the free or reduced-price lunch program.

My Project

Students come into kindergarten not knowing many letter names and sounds. The learning tubs and magnetic pictures will allow my students to touch the magnetic pictures and objects that begin with that letter and learn to sort and be able to identify that letters make different sounds.

Even though kindergarten is not required in this state, it is a very fundamental grade that builds all others because this is where they learn letter sounds and leave knowing how to read.

The students can use the tubs to sort items into the correct beginning sound. and learn that blends and digraphs make different sounds when they are together. They will also use the magnets to match beginning and ending sound picture cards to alphabet letters, and learn rhyming words.

Mrs. Polo Oates Herrera Elementary School Grades PreK-2

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This project directly supports students at a historically underfunded school. Learn more about our Equity Focus.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

El Paso, TX View local requests

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

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
LL435X Magnetic Sound Sorting Boards Complete Set • Lakeshore Learning Materials $99.50 1 $99.50
LA374 Blends Digraphs Teaching Tubs • Lakeshore Learning Materials $79.99 1 $79.99

Materials cost

$179.49

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$2.69

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$212.18

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$37.44

Total project goal

$249.62

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$249.62

3 Donors

-$161.39

Donations toward project cost

-$148.43

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$12.96

match offer

-$75.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$63.75

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$11.25

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$13.23

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$0.00

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