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Mrs. Jacquie Hoyos from Hartford CT is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Readers Need Ink to Write About Real Life Topics

Help me give my students nonfiction Scholastic News literature and a printer.

  • $302 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

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Celebrating Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

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 Students

My students are very optimistic children who enjoy learning despite hard times and situations. Most of the students at our school are from the inner city. They are from one of the most impoverished areas of our state.

Even at a young age, these kids have to face the difficulties and stress of financial insecurity, school budget cuts, and limited resources as a result.

Many of them are also from a different country and therefore encounter language and social barriers. To combat this, we emphasize the importance of community. This was demonstrated when we grew vegetables in the classroom to help the parents' budgets. Not only did this project provide an inexpensive alternative to using money for groceries, but it initiated conversation among the children and other members in their community. It brought out the enthusiasm to help the people they love and displayed the innate warmth existing within them.

My Project

All we want is to connect our children with real-life topics, since we don't have the resources to take them on field trips. You may be thinking so what? Why nonfiction is so important?

Common Core standards are addressing the need to have our students exposed to 50% nonfiction and 50% fiction.

Nonfiction is the backbone for background knowledge which account for 33% of reading achievement. Nonfiction helps develop the ability to understand more complex texts. After reading, the students write a short essay about different topics. For this task, we need a printer, plus ink. Children have the opportunity to learn typing skills along with graphics, text features, and other skills necessary for today's challenges in the workforce. At the end , students print and published their work. The pride they take in their final work is worth a million dollars!

Mrs. Jacquie Hoyos
Grades PreK-2

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
HP Deskjet 3755 All-in-One - multifunction printer - color • Best Buy Education $65.29 1 $65.29
Scholastic News, Grade 2 (min. 10 subscriptions per order) • Scholastic Magazines and Book Clubs $5.75 10 $57.50
What Do Living Things Need? • AKJ Education $6.29 7 $44.03
HP 65 - 2-pack - dye-based tricolor, pigmented black - original - ink cartridge • Best Buy Education $28.22 1 $28.22
100 Words Skills Book: Grade 1 (min. 10 copies) • Scholastic Magazines and Book Clubs $1.99 10 $19.90

Materials cost

$214.94

Vendor shipping charges

 $7.74

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$3.22

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$255.90

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$45.16

Total project goal

$301.06

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $301.06

6 Donors

-$257.90

Donations toward project cost

-$247.40

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$10.50

match offer

-$10.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$8.50

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$1.50

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$33.16

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 $0.00

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