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Ms. Hauser from Baltimore, MD is requesting supplies through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Learning to Read with Games!

My students need 16 language arts materials, including alphabet bean bags, Quizmo, puzzles and magnetic word ladders.

  • $525 goal

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I teach 1st grade in an inner city, high-need school. My students come from low-income homes with very little resources. Our school does not have the funding to provide essential tools to enhance and facilitate successful learning.

First grade is an essential time in every child's education. This is the year when reading becomes real to the students and essential skills are formed. Phonics, vocabulary, and sentence writing skills are a large part of our reading curriculum. Our lessons are very structured and can easily become mundane. When my students grow increasingly bored, our lack of resources makes it very difficult for me to provide them with exciting new approaches to learning.

The excitement that many of my students show about learning to read is easily squashed by a lack of supplies in our classroom. We do not have many books in our classroom library, and the one books we do have are old and damaged. The resources that come with our reading program are also old and used. My students would benefit enormously from brand new, colorful, comprehensive, fun, and exciting reading games. The 16 different games I am requesting vary from simple identification of sight words to giving students the tools to form complete and complex sentences.

Your donation will help my students become successful, fluent, and excited readers. I know they would love the opportunity to mix fun and reading through these educational, skill building games. My students exist in a world where new resources and materials are few and far between; your donation will bring new light and excitement to our daily routine!

Ms. Hauser Hazelwood Elementary Middle School 210 Grades PreK-2

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

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This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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Baltimore, MD 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 6donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Compound Words Puzzles • Kaplan Early Learning Company $9.42 1 $9.42
40 Sensational Sight Word Games • Kaplan Early Learning Company $10.28 1 $10.28
Sentence Building • Kaplan Early Learning Company $13.72 1 $13.72
Sight Words in a Flash Set 3 • Kaplan Early Learning Company $24.04 1 $24.04
Sight Words in a Flash Set 2 • Kaplan Early Learning Company $24.04 1 $24.04
Magnetic Mats Word Ladders Grades K-3 • Kaplan Early Learning Company $29.20 1 $29.20
Magnetic Mats Word Families Grade K-2 • Kaplan Early Learning Company $29.20 1 $29.20
Chunk Stackers • Kaplan Early Learning Company $26.62 1 $26.62
Alphabet Bean Bags • Kaplan Early Learning Company $28.34 1 $28.34
Quizmo: Language Arts Series • Kaplan Early Learning Company $72.20 1 $72.20
Let's Build Sentences • Kaplan Early Learning Company $21.46 1 $21.46
Alphabet Match-Me Game • Kaplan Early Learning Company $12.86 1 $12.86
Hands-On Learning Beginning Sound Puzzles • Kaplan Early Learning Company $11.14 1 $11.14
Hands-On Learning Vowel Puzzles • Kaplan Early Learning Company $11.14 1 $11.14
Hands-On Learning Rhyming Puzzles • Kaplan Early Learning Company $11.14 1 $11.14
CVC Spelling Board Games • Kaplan Early Learning Company $26.62 1 $26.62

Materials cost

$361.42

Vendor shipping charges

 $36.14

Sales tax

 $18.07

3rd party payment processing fee

$5.42

Fulfillment labor & materials

$9.00

Total project cost

$430.00

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$94.39

Total project goal

$524.39

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $524.39

5 Donors

-$524.39

Donations toward project cost

-$430.00

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$94.39

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