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Ms. Castaneda from Jacksonville, FL is requesting educational kits & games through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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The Earth Has music For Those Who Listen

Help me give my students the ability to identify bird sounds from our environment and others around us. We want a Bird Feeder that takes pictures of our birds, Bird song Identification tools, activity mats, and bird toys!

FULLY FUNDED! Ms. Castaneda's classroom raised $840

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 a music teacher working with kindergarten through 5th grade students within both the inclusion and self contained settings. Our school is fortunately surrounded by beautiful subtropical pine rock forest. Florida's weather and landscape provide the perfect climate and environment for these precious members of our ecosystem to come all the way to our school and visit us. We will be studying our local birds and their bird calls in our project to listening to music and the world around us.

The birds of hope are singing, all you have to do is listen.

We have noticed that our school is almost like a haven for these birds and that they feel safe to sing and eat around our windows all hours of the day.

We have engaged in a variety of birdwatching activities in our school that have made our love for conservationism truly blossom. Just last week we spotted a bird that at one point was at risk of becoming extinct and because of the efforts of other conservationists alike, we still have them around. I told our students that they could have lived a lifetime without seeing that bird, the same way they will never see a real dinosaur, but instead we actually got to see it alive and thriving and eating our feed! They now understand the importance of the nature around them and appreciate their local environment so much more. The children worry about the birds during storms and think about them gliding effortlessly on the breeziest of days. My love of birdwatching has overlapped with my love of music and identifying sounds and now my students are just as interested in supporting them as well as identifying them visually and aurally.

Ms. Castaneda Kernan Trail Elementary School Grades 3-5

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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.

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More than three‑quarters 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

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
ECR4Kids SoftZone Patchwork Activity Mat, Folding Playmat, Assorted • Amazon Business $111.45 1 $111.45
ECR4Kids SoftZone Turning Tiles Activity Mat, Colorful Soft Toddler Crawling and Tummy Time Foam Mat, Padded Infant Floor Mat, Safe Active Play for Babies, Foldable Design - Assorted Large • Amazon Business $99.99 1 $99.99
ECR4Kids SoftZone 123 Look at Me Activity Mat, Folding Playmat, Assorted • Amazon Business $99.99 1 $99.99
Factory Direct Partners 10393-AS SoftScape Rainbow Activity Mat for Infants and Toddlers, Tummy Time for Babies, Colorful Soft Foam Play - Assorted • Amazon Business $98.91 1 $98.91
NUOTUN Smart Bird Feeder Camera - Bird Feeder with PIR Motion Detection - 1080P Auto Capture Photo&Video - Night Vision Bird House Camera - with Hummingbird Feeder & Mounting Accessories - 32G Card • Amazon Business $63.99 1 $63.99
Identiflyer, Bird Song Pocket Identification and Learning Tool, 40 Bird Lyrics (Original Version) • Amazon Business $44.59 1 $44.59
Bird Songs: 250 North American Birds in Song • Amazon Business $38.49 1 $38.49
Wild Republic Audubon Birds Collection with Authentic Bird Sounds, Hummingbird, Blue Jay and Baltimore Oriole, Bird Toys for Kids and bird watchers • Amazon Business $32.28 1 $32.28
Wild Republic Audubon Birds Collection with Authentic Bird Sounds, Northern Cardinal, American Goldfinch, Chickadee, Bird Toys for Kids and Birders • Amazon Business $30.24 1 $30.24
Kleenex Disposable Paper Hand Towels, Paper Hand Towels for Bathroom, 6 Boxes, 60 Hand Towels per Box (360 Total Towels) • Amazon Business $18.99 1 $18.99
BACKYARD BIRDSONG GUIDE WESTERN NORTH AM (cl) (Cornell Lab of Ornithology) • Amazon Business $17.41 1 $17.41
The Little Book of Backyard Bird Songs • Amazon Business $16.99 1 $16.99

Materials cost

$673.32

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$10.10

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$713.42

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$125.90

Total project goal

$839.32

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $839.32

2 Donors

-$346.44

Donations toward project cost

-$294.47

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$51.97

Matching donations from our partners

-$492.88

Match offers toward project cost

-$418.95

Match offers to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$73.93

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 $0.00

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