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Ms. Torres from Baldwin Park, CA is requesting art supplies through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Scrapbooking Our Family’s History: An Opportunity to Grow New Roots

Help me give my students the scrapbooks, and paper materials needed to make a beautiful professional looking family scrapbook celebrating their family history, which most cannot afford.

FULLY FUNDED! Ms. Torres's classroom raised $881

This project is fully funded

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 largely low income and immigrant. Our school is a Title I school, which speaks to the degree of my student's poverty, where over 85% of my students have free or reduced lunch.

As a teacher in a high poverty, largely Latino, public urban school, I have the added challenge of developing and fostering a high learning environment in my classes with students who may have been conditioned to believe they can't achievement because of our community's poverty.

My Project

Scrapbooks are used by many for special occasions, but rarely made for lack of time and money. My students will create a piece of their own family history through making a family scrapbook based on family interviews. They will interview at least three family members and gather their answers looking for family themes and ideas about what makes them unique or the special traditions they have as a family unit. In other words, after hearing stories, students will use selections to tell their family history by selecting themes or traditions they've discovered.

Oral history is a method of gathering and preserving historical information through interviews.

Family stories help to provide valuable perspective and understanding of the past and the present, as well as strengthen family ties across the ages. For families, it is a wonderful way for young people to interview older relatives about their personal stories, family history, and cultural traditions. Through oral history interviews and conversations, older relatives give children a better understanding of who they and their family are and the forces that shaped the family's identity.

Allowing students to discover the valuable things their family has or has had in the past is of utmost importance to me as a historian. Students discovering more about themselves and their families is an amazing self-empowering tool. Sometimes they may not have all the tools to create the mater pieces they've discovered. The monetary value isn’t important, it’s self discovery that is of utmost important. But sometimes its nice to give my low income students as much resources as possible. For this reason, I am asking for the supplies to help them create long lasting pieces that can become part of their family's history and something special teenage students can keep for many years.

Ms. Torres Sierra Vista High School Grades 9-12

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This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Baldwin Park, CA 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

40 students impacted 13donors

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
MCS MBI 13.5x12.5 Inch Fashion Fabric Scrapbook Album with 12x12 Inch Pages with Photo Opening, Blue (802511) • Amazon Business $12.95 7 $90.65
Scrapbook Photo Album 80 Pages Handmade DIY Album Craft Paper, 12.4"L x 8.27"W for Memory Book Wedding Guest Book, Anniversary,Valentines Day Gifts (Black) • Amazon Business $10.56 7 $73.92
Nibro 4 Rolls x 55 Yards Double Sided Adhesive Tape Double Stick Tape Craft Gift Adhesive Tape for Arts, Crafts, Gifts, Scrapbooking, DIY, Office School Stationery Supplies(5mm/ 10mm/ 12mm/ 15mm) • Amazon Business $9.99 6 $59.94
MCS MBI 13.5x12.5 Inch Fashion Fabric Scrapbook Album with 12x12 Inch Pages with Photo Opening, Red (802513) • Amazon Business $14.47 4 $57.88
Self Adhesive Photo Album Magnetic Scrapbook Album 40 Magnetic Double Sided Pages Fabric Hardcover DIY Photo Album Length 11 x Width 10.6 (Inches) with A Metallic Pen (Black) • Amazon Business $17.99 3 $53.97
Dahle 15e Vantage Paper Trimmer, 15" Cut Length, 15 Sheet, Automatic Clamp, Adjustable Guide, Metal Base with 1/2" Gridlines, Guillotine Paper Cutter • Amazon Business $45.80 1 $45.80
MCS MBI 13.5x12.5 Inch Earthtones Collection Scrapbook Album with 12x12 Inch Pages and Photo Opening, Blueberry (860099) • Amazon Business $15.32 2 $30.64
MCS MBI 13.5x12.5 Inch Fashion Fabric Scrapbook Album with 12x12 Inch Pages with Photo Opening, White (802519) • Amazon Business $15.00 2 $30.00
MCS MBI 13.5x12.5 Inch Fashion Fabric Scrapbook Album with 12x12 Inch Pages with Photo Opening, Hot Pink (802516) • Amazon Business $14.99 2 $29.98
MCS 12x12 Inch Vintage Travel 20 Page Scrapbook and 3.5x3.5 Inch Cover Opening (86008) • Amazon Business $13.49 2 $26.98
Metallic Markers Glitter Paint Pen Calligraphy Brush Pens, Ohuhu Set of 10 for DIY Birthday Greeting Gift Thank You Card, Scrapbook Photo Album, Rock Art Painting, Brush Tip Back To School Art Supply • Amazon Business $7.49 3 $22.47
Chicano Folklore: A Guide to the Folktales, Traditions, Rituals and Religious Practices of Mexican Americans • Amazon Business $21.82 1 $21.82
Driak 10mm (R10) Corner Rounder Paper Punch Photo Cutter Tool Craft Scrapbooking • Amazon Business $9.21 2 $18.42
Fine-liner Colored Pens, Journal Planner Pens for Bullet Journal Writing, Sketch Drawing, Coloring Books, Calendar, Scrapbooking, Pens Fine point(0.4mm), 24 Colors Pens, School Season Office Supplies • Amazon Business $8.99 2 $17.98
ColorBok 73470B Designer Paper Pad Mixed Media, 12" x 12" • Amazon Business $5.88 2 $11.76
ColorBok 71876B Cardstock Paper Pad Marble, 12" x 12" • Amazon Business $5.00 2 $10.00
Colorbok Designer Paper Pad, 12" x 12", Vintage Treasures • Amazon Business $5.00 2 $10.00
Colorbok Designer Paper Pad, 12" x 12", Wild & Free • Amazon Business $5.00 2 $10.00
27 Rolls Washi Tape Set, DIY Gift Wrapping Scrapbooking and Craft, Sticky Adhesive Paper Masking Tape with Lovely Printed Patterns and Long-Lasting Colors • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
La Llorona / The Weeping Woman (English and Spanish Edition) • Amazon Business $7.95 1 $7.95
ColorBok 61308C Smooth Cardstock Paper Pad Bright, 12" x 12" • Amazon Business $5.00 1 $5.00
Colorbok Neutral Smooth Cardstock Paper Pad, 12" x 12", • Amazon Business $5.00 1 $5.00

Materials cost

$649.15

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $59.40

3rd party payment processing fee

$9.74

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$748.29

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$132.05

Total project goal

$880.34

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $880.34

12 Donors

-$712.69

Donations toward project cost

-$646.29

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$66.40

match offer

-$120.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$102.00

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$18.00

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$47.65

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