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Ms. Buchanan from Cleveland OH is requesting educational kits & games through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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My Sister's Keeper!

My students need the games, copy paper, notebooks, markers, and easel pad to build their social and emotional skills.

  • $498 goal

This project expired on March 25, 2018.

This project expired on March 25, 2018.

Celebrate Black Teachers and Students

This project is part of the Black History Month celebration because it supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of the students are Black.

My Students

My students live in a family oriented neighborhood. The students are eager to learn and are often times met with defeat due to the extreme emphasis and time spent on standardized testing. Despite that, the students come to school daily with an encouragement to expand their learning.

We are a universal free lunch school.

Students are eager to come to school each day and learn but are significantly lower than their national peers in their reading performance. Students' personal book libraries and technology access beyond the classroom are limited.

These students are thirsty to learn, research, and integrate technology into their education. My students enjoy creating PowerPoint projects, public service announcements, and research projects quarterly in their English language arts math, science and social studies classes. The students are in seventh grade.

My Project

The young girls turning into young ladies are struggling with being kind and respectful to each other. The students live in a world where everything is centered around technology. They can unfriend you on social media or turn off technology and ignore you. They turn on technology and tune out the world around them at dinner with families or at lunch with their friends.

This leaves the young ladies unable to build positive relationships or build their self esteem because they are not positively communicating with each other.

These young ladies need to be involved in a girl’s only group that focuses on self esteem, what it means to be a friend, working together, and community outreach.

Playing games while learning rules and boundaries can help the young girls begin to work together in a positive way. The girls will also use the notebooks and white copy paper and markers to create a journal that they will write in throughout our six week meeting time. The journals will allow them to express themselves in a positive way. The students will use the chart paper to write affirmation statements to post around the meeting and classrooms. These weekly meetings will help build student self esteem and promote a positive culture for the girls.

Ms. Buchanan
Grades 6-8

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Staples 1-Subject Wirebound Notebook, Wide Ruled, 70 Sheets, 10 1/2" x 8", 6/Pk • Staples Advantage $13.99 6 $83.94
Game of Life Electronic Banking • Staples Advantage $57.69 1 $57.69
Crayola Classpack Washable Markers, Broad Point, Assorted Colors, 200/Box • Staples Advantage $55.12 1 $55.12
Hasbro Connect 4 Game, 6 Years and Up • Staples Advantage $52.59 1 $52.59
Staples Copy Paper; 8-1/2x11", Letter Size • Staples Advantage $34.28 1 $34.28
Staples Stickies Restickable Easel Pad, 30 Sheets, 1" Blank, White, 30"H x 25"W, 2/Ct • Staples Advantage $25.55 1 $25.55
Hasbro Monopoly Junior Game • Staples Advantage $23.69 1 $23.69
Pressman Toy Board Game, Checkers • Staples Advantage $22.29 1 $22.29
Hasbro Jenga Classic Refresh Game • Staples Advantage $19.79 1 $19.79
Sharpie Fine Point Permanent Markers, Black, 12/pk (30001) • Staples Advantage $6.88 1 $6.88
Mattel UNO Card Game, Classic Card Game, Great Group Game, Fast Fun for Everyone!™ • Staples Advantage $4.99 1 $4.99

Materials cost

$386.81

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$5.80

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$422.61

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$74.58

Total project goal

$497.19

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