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Ms. Ortiz from Houston, TX is requesting educational kits & games through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Teaching Our Foreign Babies English

Help me give my students resources to learn English as a Second Language with English Alphabet Books, an Alphabet Games Learning Tablet, Alphabet Sounds Picture Magnets, and Mini Rainbow Sentence Strips. Thank you.

FULLY FUNDED! Ms. Ortiz's classroom raised $488

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 Project

Resources for teaching English as a Second Language

TEACH MY FOREIGN BABIES ENGLISH

Thanks for reading my project! I am the ESL Specialist and the ELD (English Language Development) Interventionist at a Title I Early Learning Center located in the International District of Houston. 73% of our babies are Emergent Bilingual, we have student’s whose first language is Spanish, Yorubu, Swahili, Vietnamese, Cambodian, French & Mandarin.

We are looking for resources to help develop their ABC’s, Numbers, Shapes, Vocabulary & Literacy in English to prepare them for Kinder. Our students are super eager to learn English and try their very best.

We will be using these materials, English Alphabet Books, an Alphabet Games Learning Tablet, Alphabet Sounds Picture Magnets, and Mini Rainbow Sentence Strips, when doing "Push-in Interventions" during Centers in each of the classrooms where we will be servicing our students who need interventions. Materials will be used around the whole school. Each student has different needs. Some need to improve their numbers, others learn their ABC's and shapes, and all have to develop their vocabulary.

The different resources will be used to tend to specific student's needs. All resources asked for align with the Pre-Schools Curriculum. Our main goal is to teach our ESL students to learn English and improve their academic knowledge. I say we, because these resources will be shared with our Special ED Interventionists as well as with any teacher in need of extra resources. Our common goal is too help our students be successful for next school year.

Ms. Ortiz Martinez Early Learning Center Grades PreK-2

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This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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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

294 students impacted 3donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
GG837 - English Alphabet Books • Lakeshore Learning Materials $59.99 1 $59.99
Magnetic Letters & Numbers Set • Kaplan Early Learning Company $50.36 1 $50.36
AA238 - Spanish/English Building Language Photo Library • Lakeshore Learning Materials $49.99 1 $49.99
ZZ219 - Alphabet Games Learning Tablet • Lakeshore Learning Materials $29.99 1 $29.99
Numbers Sound Puzzle - 21 Pieces • Kaplan Early Learning Company $29.66 1 $29.66
LL248 - Alphabet Sounds Picture Magnets • Lakeshore Learning Materials $27.99 1 $27.99
Smart Snacks(r) Counting Cookiestm • Kaplan Early Learning Company $26.96 1 $26.96
Magnetic Tabletop Pocket Chart • Kaplan Early Learning Company $26.06 1 $26.06
Self Correcting Number Puzzles • Kaplan Early Learning Company $20.66 1 $20.66
DE191 - Reusable Write Wipe Pocket • Lakeshore Learning Materials $2.49 5 $12.45
Colors, Shapes, & Numbers Flash Cards - Set of 96 • Kaplan Early Learning Company $11.66 1 $11.66
Tactile Number Cards • Kaplan Early Learning Company $10.76 1 $10.76
Numbers Bingo Game • AKJ Education $8.02 1 $8.02
KT1100 - Basic Skills Practice Ring • Lakeshore Learning Materials $7.99 1 $7.99
NF9767 - Mini Rainbow Sentence Strips • Lakeshore Learning Materials $5.99 1 $5.99

Materials cost

$378.53

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$5.68

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$414.21

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$73.10

Total project goal

$487.31

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$487.31

2 Donors

-$487.31

Donations toward project cost

-$414.21

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$73.10

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$0.00

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