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Mrs. Hawes from Summerville, SC is requesting educational kits & games through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Secretly Learning

Help me give my students the Secret Stories phonics tool class kit to help strengthen our phonics instructional time.

  • $176 goal

This project expired on August 1, 2025.

This project expired on August 1, 2025.

My Project

Phonics is not only how we start our instructional day, but also a very important foundation to support student learning in all areas of learning. Skills students build in phonics become the basis for both reading and writing (and we all know that reading spreads into all subject areas, even math)!

I am requesting a Secret Stories class kit to provide additional support to my everyday phonics instruction.

According to their website, Secret Stories are the “secret” reasons WHY letters get together and make the sounds that they do in words. These materials will provide logical explanations for letter-sound behavior and will make phonics more accessible and predictable for all of my learners.

Mrs. Hawes Knightsville 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.

Summerville, SC 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

20 students impacted

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Cool Pastel Class Kit • Marenem, Inc. c/o Secrect Stories Products $110.00 1 $110.00

Materials cost

$110.00

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$7.76

3rd party payment processing fee

$1.65

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$149.41

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$26.37

Total project goal

$175.78

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