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Ms. Gillespie from Santa Rosa, CA is requesting educational kits & games through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Phonics Word Builders

Help me give my students phonics games, word builder cards, word builder cubes, and a word building pocket chart tent.

FULLY FUNDED! Ms. Gillespie's classroom raised $166

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 Project

I am always in admiration of the perseverance and grit I see in my students and their families. Our school community is a lovely group of hard-working people who come together to create and provide the best we possibly can for our kids. While some families may not have the ability to provide things like books and art supplies for their kids in their homes, they are providing love and strong family bonds for them. I am so lucky to arrive each day at a job I love, with smiling kids whose parents support and value education in the ways that they can.

My students deserve access to the same materials and opportunities that students in more affluent areas receive.

Our school is a Title I school, and most of my students participate in the free lunch program. Many of our students are second language learners and struggle academically and quite a few reside in homeless shelters and foster homes.

These items (phonics cubes, phonics word cards, letter names game, roll-a-word game) will be so helpful to reinforce phonics skills previously taught! I will use many of these activities in my small reading groups to practice encoding and decoding words. I will also have them available in centers for students to use during that collaborative time.

Ms. Gillespie Steele Lane 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.

Santa Rosa, CA View local requests

More than half 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

26 students impacted 4donors

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Junior Learning JL175 Tri-Blocks Tub • Amazon Business $25.61 1 $25.61
Learning Resources Alphabet Island, Letter & Sounds Game, Language Development Toy, Alphabet Learning Toys, ABC Board Games for Kids, Ages 4+ • Amazon Business $23.99 1 $23.99
Junior Learning Word Families • Amazon Business $20.99 1 $20.99
Junior Learning CCVC Builder Cards, Multi • Amazon Business $19.43 1 $19.43
Junior Learning Roll a Word Develop Spelling and Word Formation Dice, Multi • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99

Materials cost

$100.01

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $9.15

3rd party payment processing fee

$1.50

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$140.66

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$24.82

Total project goal

$165.48

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $165.48

2 Donors

-$156.58

Donations toward project cost

-$134.08

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$22.50

match offer

-$7.74

Match offer toward project cost

-$6.58

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$1.16

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$1.16

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

 $0.00

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