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Ms. Bailey from Kankakee, IL is requesting educational kits & games through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Ms. Bailey's classroom raised $516

Letter Rip! Literacy Toys for Kinder

Help me give my students new play food for the kitchen area and letter toys to help them reinforce needed literacy skills for school success.

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Ms. Bailey Steuben Elementary School
Kankakee, IL Grades PreK-2

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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

Teaching kindergarten in the time of COVID-19 has brought challenges that I haven't faced in my 26-year career. The pandemic has resulted in so much screen time for kids, and they've forgotten the joy of reading.

My kids are all low-income students in an urban public school.

All of my students are English Language Learners, at risk for school failure without early intervention. My goal is to provide the best possible education for my students at a time when we need to address the whole child and all of their social-emotional needs. I know that they have all experienced trauma as a result of the pandemic and quarantine, so I have done training in Sunshine Circles and play-based learning to help them learn, while also attending to their social-emotional health.

This group of kids loves to hear stories, especially stories about animals. I hope that the child in you will be inspired to donate to this wonderful opportunity for my amazing children. It takes a village to raise a child!

My Project

My kids will be able to learn and practice letters and sounds while having fun and using their senses. My class loves rocks, so the letter rocks will be a welcome addition to the class materials.

My students will enjoy the tactile, sensory style of the rock letters as they dig for letters in kinetic sand or water.

These experiences give the body and brain new ways to make connections. This will help to solidify this learning in their little growing brains, and give them a great foundation on which to build the other crucial basic skills.

I'm so excited to open these materials in front of the kids to hear and see their excitement.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Nearly all students from low‑income households

27 students impacted 6 donors
Ms. Bailey Steuben Elementary School Grades PreK-2

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Kankakee, IL 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

27 students impacted 6donors

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Life-size Pretend Play Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner Meal Sets • Kaplan Early Learning Company $80.96 1 $80.96
Feels-Write Lowercase Letter Stones • Kaplan Early Learning Company $67.46 1 $67.46
Aluminum Scoops & Sifter Set for Discovery and Sand Table Play • Kaplan Early Learning Company $49.46 1 $49.46
Specimen Viewers - Set of 4 • Kaplan Early Learning Company $35.96 1 $35.96
Language and Literacy Skills Kit - Spanish Supplement • Kaplan Early Learning Company $32.95 1 $32.95
Uppercase Alphabet Pebbles • Kaplan Early Learning Company $29.66 1 $29.66
Lowercase Alphabet Pebbles - Set of 26 • Kaplan Early Learning Company $29.66 1 $29.66
Wikki Stix(r) Alphabet With Upper & Lowercase and Numbers & Counting Cards • Kaplan Early Learning Company $27.86 1 $27.86
Soft Doctor Kit • Kaplan Early Learning Company $26.06 1 $26.06
Upper and Lower Case English and Spanish Alphabet Felt Letters - 118 Pieces • Kaplan Early Learning Company $22.46 1 $22.46

Materials cost

$402.49

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$6.04

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$438.53

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$77.39

Total project goal

$515.92

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $515.92

3 Donors

-$171.96

Donations toward project cost

-$146.17

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$25.79

match offer

-$343.95

Match offer toward project cost

-$292.36

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$51.59

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