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Ms. Mc Cullagh from Philadelphia PA is requesting educational kits & games through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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New Beginnings for the Children!

Help me give my students the gift of a new start in their new home.

  • $472 goal

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My Project

I am a middle school ESL teacher in an urban K-8 school. In the past weeks, we have had many new ESL students arrive from war-torn countries in Central America. Despite the fact that they are in middle school, many of them have not attended any formal schooling and instead they had to go straight to the workplace to help provide food for their families. Being a teenager in the USA is difficult enough, but being a teenager who cannot speak English or read or write in any language is extremely difficult.

What can we do to help?

As I am the teacher responsible for pulling these students out and helping them learn English. As I am the first person to meet these students, I have seen how scary it is for them. They are so eager to learn and I am so honored to be the person to help teach them. In order to do this effectively, I need to have some materials that will help me teach the basics.

The materials that I am requesting (word family flipbooks, sight word sentence center, and ELD activity cards) are ones that will help the students with the basics of learning the English language, skills like sight words and phonemic patterns. With this background, they can work on creating sentences and making conversation in their new language. With access to the materials I am requesting, I will work hard to ensure the transition to the next chapter of their lives will be an enjoyable one filled with new words, friends, and opportunities.

Ms. Mc Cullagh
Grades 6-8

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
EE417 - Word Family Flip Books • Lakeshore Learning Materials $69.99 1 $69.99
TT550 - Creating Sight-Word Sentences Center • Lakeshore Learning Materials $59.99 1 $59.99
HH706 - Flip Read Sight-Word Sentences • Lakeshore Learning Materials $49.99 1 $49.99
LL572 - English Language Development Activity Cards - Level 2 • Lakeshore Learning Materials $49.99 1 $49.99
TT180X - Sight-Word Bingo Library • Lakeshore Learning Materials $39.99 1 $39.99
FF468 - Magnetic Sight-Word Sentence Board • Lakeshore Learning Materials $34.99 1 $34.99
GG369 - Touch Read CVC Words Match • Lakeshore Learning Materials $29.99 1 $29.99
GG367 - Touch Read Blends Digraphs Match • Lakeshore Learning Materials $29.99 1 $29.99

Materials cost

$364.92

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$5.47

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$400.39

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$70.66

Total project goal

$471.05

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $471.05

6 Donors

-$471.05

Donations toward project cost

-$400.39

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$70.66

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