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Ms. Costa from Greenbelt MD is requesting supplies through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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We Love Creativity!

My students need these items for their centers. The items that we are requesting include craft supplies, independent math activities, and reading instruction tools.

  • $865 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

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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 Students

"The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives." -Robert M. Hutchins Each and every day I have the opportunity to prepare my second grade scholars on how to grow as an independent thinker and learner.

I have the best group of students in my entire elementary school!!!

My second grade students love learning and they love coming to school! Close to seventy-five percent of my students are reading on or above grade level. They love math and math centers! Everyday my students are reminded to try their very best in school and to make their teacher and families proud. I am honored to work with these seventeen intelligent, motivated, entertaining scholars and their families. Our school is one of 207 schools in the district. Our school is Title I, high-poverty, and most of our students are bilingual, speaking both Spanish and English.

My Project

The materials I am requesting will assist my students with their center tasks. When I am teaching a small group of students their reading strategies, my students who are not with me at this time are engaged in independent activities at their center. I have several different centers that students work through within the week. Our classroom's centers include math, reading, phonics, spelling, writing, social studies, science, computer, art, and listening. Paint is one of the materials I am requesting. My students love to paint! I plan to add paint to the spelling, art, and math center. My students could paint their spelling words or represent their math problems by painting a picture. Other resources that are on the list include items that will help my students in their math center such as subtraction quiz cards, paper money, and number line boards. The book shelf will help store and organize their books for the reading center/ classroom library.

The donations to this project will improve our classroom by allowing my students the opportunity to have more choices of materials to use during their center time.

The donations to this project will also assist by helping my students express their creativity and support their independent learning.

Ms. Costa
Grades PreK-2

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
JJ798 - Classroom Space-Saver Bookcase • Lakeshore Learning Materials $179.00 1 $179.00
FF524 - Small-Group Teaching Easel • Lakeshore Learning Materials $79.99 1 $79.99
LC1170 - Self-Teaching Math Machines - Complete Set • Lakeshore Learning Materials $69.99 1 $69.99
BS525Z - Washable Watercolor Set - Dozen • Lakeshore Learning Materials $32.99 1 $32.99
EE530X - Hear Myself Sound Phone Centers - Complete Set • Lakeshore Learning Materials $39.99 1 $39.99
AA768 - Find the Evidence! Clips • Lakeshore Learning Materials $19.99 1 $19.99
PX80 - Superbright Liquid Tempera Paint - 10-Color Set • Lakeshore Learning Materials $19.50 1 $19.50
LL696 - Number Line Slider Boards - Set of 10 • Lakeshore Learning Materials $29.99 1 $29.99
GG299 - Fill-In-The-Blank Phonics Stamps - Set 1 • Lakeshore Learning Materials $29.99 1 $29.99
RA521 - Paper Money • Lakeshore Learning Materials $29.99 1 $29.99
LK936 - Economy Paintbrush Assortment - Set of 24 • Lakeshore Learning Materials $9.99 2 $19.98
CS519 - Giant Twist-Up Crayons - Set of 50 • Lakeshore Learning Materials $16.99 1 $16.99
LL159 - Lakeshore Scissors Set - Pointed-Tip • Lakeshore Learning Materials $16.99 1 $16.99
BX532 - Easy-Clean Craft Trays - Set of 4 • Lakeshore Learning Materials $14.99 1 $14.99
CC738 - Paint & Collage Caddies - Set of 4 • Lakeshore Learning Materials $12.99 1 $12.99
TA5314 - Watercolor Paper • Lakeshore Learning Materials $10.99 1 $10.99
BD230 - Hot Dots Power Pen - Each • Lakeshore Learning Materials $10.99 1 $10.99
TS108 - Rainbow Scratch Paper • Lakeshore Learning Materials $9.99 1 $9.99
BD804 - More Subtraction Hot Dots Quiz Cards • Lakeshore Learning Materials $9.99 1 $9.99

Materials cost

$655.32

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$39.32

3rd party payment processing fee

$9.83

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$734.47

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$129.61

Total project goal

$864.08

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$864.08

8 Donors

-$662.32

Donations toward project cost

-$564.47

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$97.85

match offer

-$200.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$170.00

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$30.00

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$1.76

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$0.00

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