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Mrs. Vano from Mount Vernon, NY is requesting educational kits & games through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Today a Reader, Tomorrow a Leader!

My students need dice, blocks, stamps and puzzles that will boost their confidence while improving their reading skills!

FULLY FUNDED! Mrs. Vano's classroom raised $541

This project is fully funded

My Students

My students attend school every day excited to learn! They are sweet, smart and hardworking. These students are receiving RTI reading services because they have reading difficulties and don't read on grade level. Some read more than 2 grade levels lower than the grade they are in; although they would give anything to improve. We identify where the difficulties are and come up with a plan to get them up to speed!

My students come to school with many other challenges as well.

The Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACES) they suffer from include: difficult family dynamics, economic struggles and displacement. They often don't get the support they need from home. They love coming to school and appreciate all the support they get from the professionals around them. Teaching my students is such a rewarding and fun job!

My Project

These materials will provide my students with a fun way to improve their reading skills. On a daily basis, we work with a very basic reading program that needs more pizzazz! These supplemental materials provide more creativity and opportunity to collaborate with their peers. They will manipulate, build and create using the dice, blocks, stamps and puzzles! Theses materials address all their reading needs including: phonics, decoding, fluency and comprehension.

My students are very eager to learn, but these new classroom resources will make each day even more fun and engaging!

These materials will also encourage my students to take more risks with reading and work collaboratively. Thank you for reading about our very special project.

Mrs. Vano Cecil Parker Elementary School Grades PreK-2

Celebrate Black teachers and kids! This project supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of students are Black.

Equity Focus

This project directly supports students at a historically underfunded school. Learn more about our Equity Focus.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Mount Vernon, NY 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

35 students impacted 2donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
LL435X - Magnetic Sound Sorting Boards - Complete Set • Lakeshore Learning Materials $85.00 1 $85.00
EE940X - Reading Skills Giant Activity Dice - Complete Set • Lakeshore Learning Materials $69.99 1 $69.99
GG116 - Close Reading Early Readers - Kindergarten • Lakeshore Learning Materials $49.99 1 $49.99
LC926 - Classroom Magnetic Letters Kit • Lakeshore Learning Materials $44.99 1 $44.99
RA417 - Lakeshore Word Building Blocks • Lakeshore Learning Materials $39.99 1 $39.99
EE567 - Creating Sight-Word Sentences Center • Lakeshore Learning Materials $39.99 1 $39.99
GG184 - Sight-Word Daily Activity Journal - Set of 10 • Lakeshore Learning Materials $34.99 1 $34.99
TT814 - Stamp & Write Sight-Words - Level 2 • Lakeshore Learning Materials $29.99 1 $29.99
TC796 - Regular Magnetic Sentence Strip Pockets - Set of 4 • Lakeshore Learning Materials $14.99 1 $14.99
EE909 - Rhyming Sounds Learning Puzzles • Lakeshore Learning Materials $12.99 1 $12.99

Materials cost

$422.91

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$6.34

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$459.25

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$81.04

Total project goal

$540.29

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$540.29

2 Donors

-$540.29

Donations toward project cost

-$459.25

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$81.04

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$0.00

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