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Mrs. Chichester from Stamford CT is requesting computers & tablets through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Tools For Growing Minds

Help me give my students the best classroom environment ever! An Apple Ipad and hands on educational kits will help enhance our classroom and bring learning to life.

  • $799 goal

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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

My students are an incredible group of enthusiastic, energetic, and adorable kindergarten children. They come to school every day with bright smiles on their faces and are excited to learn something new. Each one of my students brings their own unique style of learning to the classroom.

We belong to a school community that is a diverse neighborhood public school in CT.

The students in my school come from a wide range of family dynamics. We have a large population of lower economic families who receive free or reduced-price lunch. Even though my students come from different backgrounds they all share one thing, they want to come to school to be great learners, to be kind, and to please those around them.

We are constantly advancing in the world of technology and I would like to give my students the opportunity to use the Apple IPad to work on math and literacy programs that our district has given us access to. Students will use the iPad for interactive learning programs, listening to stories, and broadening their experience with the use of technology.

This year I would like to incorporate morning tubs into our classroom daily routines. The Counting Links Activity Kit, Nuts About Counting and the Learning Dough Mats will be for these tubs. Students will work more independently and gain confidence in the skills they're practicing while using the math and literacy kits in the morning tubs. Your donations will help my students become independent learners and achieve the goals they set out for themselves this year. Thank you!

Mrs. Chichester
Grades PreK-2

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Apple - 10.2-Inch iPad (Latest Model) with Wi-Fi - 64GB - Space Gray • Best Buy Education $330.00 1 $330.00
DD372 - Nuts About Counting • Lakeshore Learning Materials $34.99 3 $104.97
DD764 - Count Link Activity Kit • Lakeshore Learning Materials $27.99 3 $83.97
LA299 - Learn the Alphabet Dough Mats • Lakeshore Learning Materials $13.59 4 $54.36
LL688 - Learn to Count Dough Mats • Lakeshore Learning Materials $11.99 4 $47.96
BA8150 - Pom-Poms - Set of 300 • Lakeshore Learning Materials $8.79 1 $8.79
AD576 - Pony Beads • Lakeshore Learning Materials $8.79 1 $8.79

Materials cost

$638.84

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$9.58

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$678.42

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$119.72

Total project goal

$798.14

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$798.14

5 Donors

-$499.07

Donations toward project cost

-$424.21

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$74.86

match offer

-$299.07

Match offer toward project cost

-$254.21

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$44.86

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$0.00

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