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Ms. Pandiani from Harahan, LA is requesting educational kits & games through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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We Play to Learn: Hands on Materials for ESL

Help me give my students highly engaging games and activities to learn English and make classroom connections!

  • 12 donors
  • $208 still needed

expires Jan 19

  • 12 donors
  • $208 still needed
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My Project

This year, in ESL, some of my newcomer students are really struggling to gain listening and speaking skills in English. After doing an assessment of their English proficiency in listening and speaking, we discovered our students really need more opportunities to practice speaking and listening in English in the sheltered environment of the ESL room. At that point, we decided to seek out games and activities to engage and motivate the students to practice listening and speaking skills . The one game I had last year for speaking the students really loved and we definitely saw them dropping their shyness and taking risks speaking more in English and practicing

In this project, I would like to repeat this process and help students make even more progress in speaking and understanding (listening) in English with these high quality engaging games and activities.

Items like the Guess Who games, Sequencing Activities, and Positional Word games will better enable students opportunities to practice speaking and listening in English.

My students are special because they speak a 2nd language in addition to English! They work very hard and continue to keep a positive attitude. I'd like to reward my students for their hard work by giving them high quality learning materials that they are excited to work with.

My students love surprises and rewards so I can not wait to see their reaction to the new learning materials and the progress they make in English after we have this project funded.

Ms. Pandiani Harahan Elementary 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

30 students impacted 12donors

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Sequencing Cards, Picture Cards, Storytelling Cards, Speech Therapy Materials, Home School Supplies, ESL, ELL, Social Skills, Combo Set • Amazon Business $67.95 1 $67.95
Learning Resources Fox-In-A-Box Position Word Game, Ages 4 to 10 - Preschool-Early Childhood - Toddler • School Specialty $44.77 1 $44.77
The Fidget Game Ultimate Reading Bundle - Flashcards and Pop Fidget Toys for Kids Pre-K to Third Grade - Learning Activities and Games for High-Frequency Dolch Sight Words - Includes Mats and Dice • Amazon Business $44.09 1 $44.09
Positional Words Resource Box • Lakeshore Learning Materials $29.99 1 $29.99
Learning Resources Elephant in the Room - Positional Words Activity Set • Kaplan Early Learning Company $19.76 1 $19.76
Hasbro Gaming Guess Who? Animal Friends Game | 2 Double-Sided Animal Sheets | 2-Player Board Games for Kids | Back to School Gifts | Ages 6+ (Amazon Exclusive) • Amazon Business $16.53 1 $16.53
Guess Who? Board Game with Classic Characters by Winning Moves Games USA, Classic Children's Mystery Board Game of Deduction for 2 Players, Ages 6+ (1191) • Amazon Business $14.99 1 $14.99

Materials cost

$238.08

Vendor shipping charges

 $4.48

Sales tax

 $20.83

3rd party payment processing fee

$3.57

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$296.96

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$52.40

Total project goal

$349.36

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $349.36

10 Donors

-$94.50

Donations toward project cost

-$84.83

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$9.67

Matching donations from our partners

-$42.00

Match offers toward project cost

-$35.70

Match offers to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$6.30

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$5.30

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

 $207.56

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