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Mrs. Arisco from Worcester, MA is requesting supplies through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Two Heads Are Better Than One, Let Learning Be Fun!

My students need various literacy games to help improve their reading and writing skills, through discourse, during literacy workstations.

FULLY FUNDED! Mrs. Arisco's classroom raised $991

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 Students

The children that I am fortunate enough to instill a love of learning in, come from very diverse backgrounds with various unique abilities. Most of my students come from economically disadvantaged homes. Our school is considered to be a Title I school, with all students receiving free lunch. Over 50 percent of the students in my classroom are English Language Learners.

Although my students face many challenges outside of school, their ability to persevere at school amazes me.

Our school currently uses the 365Z Kindness Educational Program to advocate acts of kindness throughout the school and community. My students exemplify what it means to be compassionate and thoughtful on a daily basis.

All of my students strive to become the best learners possible. Through rigorous and engaging activities, all students show outstanding growth in first grade.

My Project

An essential part of the first grade curriculum is being able to read fluently with good comprehension by the end of the school year. While I am instructing students at guided reading, the remaining students are paired and given hands on literacy activities. These literacy activities are also called my literacy workstations.

These workstations are geared toward improving various literacy skills including: sight word recognition, phonics, phonemic awareness, writing, and listening.

The Build-A-Word stamps, Phonemic Awareness Instant Learning Centers, Stack and Build Phonics Flip Books, CVC Spelling Board Games, and Word Hangman will be used in my ABC Workstation. In the ABC Workstation students are provided with hands on materials, such as these word building games, that allows students to practice their phonics and phonemic awareness skills with a partner. The Sight Word Magnets, Stamp and Write Sight Words, Beat the Clock! Sight Words Practice Boards, First 100 Sight Words Talking Boards, Fishing for Sight Words, Sight Word Skillet, Magnetic Sight Word Sentence Board, Sight Word String Ups, and the Sight Word Seashell game will all be used in my Sight Word Workstation. The Sight Word Workstation allows students to practice building and writing their sight words so that these words become more recognizable and automatic to them. The Storyteller Writing Box and Writing Prompt Cubes will be used in my Writing Workstation, which will help improve their writing skills.

The benefits of literacy workstations are that students have the opportunity to learn through discourse and have fun at the same time. The hands on materials that I've carefully selected will reinforce literacy skills being taught and also allow students to actively engage in these activities with one another. With these resources, my students will have the ability to choose various hands on activities to help improve their literacy skills.

Mrs. Arisco Union Hill School 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

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
EE820X - Phonemic Awareness Instant Learning Centers - Complete Set • Lakeshore Learning Materials $169.00 1 $169.00
GG310X - Sight-Word Magnets - Complete Set • Lakeshore Learning Materials $95.00 1 $95.00
TT800X - Stamp & Write Sight-Words - Complete Set • Lakeshore Learning Materials $85.00 1 $85.00
JJ890X - Beat the Clock! Sight-Word Practice Boards - Complete Set • Lakeshore Learning Materials $69.99 1 $69.99
AA162 - First 100 Sight-Words Talking Boards • Lakeshore Learning Materials $59.99 1 $59.99
TT510X - Fishing for Sight-Words - Complete Set • Lakeshore Learning Materials $47.99 1 $47.99
TT331 - Stack & Build Phonics Flip Books • Lakeshore Learning Materials $39.99 1 $39.99
TT309 - Sight-Word Skillet • Lakeshore Learning Materials $39.99 1 $39.99
GG927 - Build-A-Word! Lowercase Letter Stamps - Set of 48 • Lakeshore Learning Materials $29.99 1 $29.99
FF468 - Magnetic Sight-Word Sentence Board • Lakeshore Learning Materials $29.99 1 $29.99
Sight Words String Ups • Kaplan Early Learning Company $29.71 1 $29.71
CVC Spelling Board Games • Kaplan Early Learning Company $29.71 1 $29.71
LL904 - Storyteller Writing Box • Lakeshore Learning Materials $24.99 1 $24.99
Word Hangman • Kaplan Early Learning Company $11.86 1 $11.86
Writing Prompt Cubes • Kaplan Early Learning Company $11.01 1 $11.01
PP844 - Sight-Word Seashell Game • Lakeshore Learning Materials $9.99 1 $9.99
DD737RD - Extra-Wide Washable Stamp Pad - Red • Lakeshore Learning Materials $3.99 1 $3.99

Materials cost

$788.19

Vendor shipping charges

 $12.34

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$11.82

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$842.35

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$148.65

Total project goal

$991.00

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $991.00

4 Donors

-$495.50

Donations toward project cost

-$421.18

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$74.32

match offer

-$495.49

Match offer toward project cost

-$421.17

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$74.32

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$0.01

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 $0.00

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