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Ms. Sample from Saint Louis MO is requesting technology through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Help Ignite Our Budding Reading Skills With Kindle Fires!

My students need 3 Kindle Fire HD tablets to support and reinforce beginning reading and phonics skills.

  • $499 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

My Students

Paper books can be heavy. Turning pages without losing your place can be especially difficult for a young student still building fine motor control. Finding new and exciting stories at your reading level helps build interest and stamina in beginning readers. Kindles meet all these needs and more.

We are a Title I public elementary school in a large urban community in Missouri.

Many of our families are English Language Learners. In the 2015-2016 school year, I have a split class of Kindergarten and first grade boys. Our classroom library has limited paper books for these grade levels.

My Project

My students are beginning readers. Imagine having words read or defined for them with Kindles when that extra support is needed during independent reading. These Kindles will be a wonderful tool to help build reading fluency! The tablets will give my students access to websites and downloadable apps that will allow them to select stories to read and help them develop and strengthen their reading comprehension, letter sounds, and phonics skills.

The possibilities with Kindle Fire HD tablets are endless and the anticipated impact immeasurable.

Our technology resources are very limited, so the addition of these new Kindle tablets to our classroom would make a world of difference to my students.

Ms. Sample
Grades PreK-2

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Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Fire HD 6, 6" HD Display, Wi-Fi, 8 GB - Includes Special Offers, Black • Amazon Business $99.99 3 $299.97
Amazon FreeTime Kid-Proof Case for Fire HD 6, Green • Amazon Business $19.99 2 $39.98
BoxWave Charger Direct - 5V, 2A Micro USB Wall Charger Kindle Charger - Compatible with ALL Micro USB devices - Amazon Kindle Fire, Fire HD 6, HD 7, HDX 8.9, Paperwhite, Voyage and more! • Amazon Business $9.20 3 $27.60
Amazon FreeTime Kid-Proof Case for Fire HD 6, Blue • Amazon Business $19.99 1 $19.99

Materials cost

$387.54

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$5.81

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$423.35

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$74.71

Total project goal

$498.06

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $498.06

3 Donors

-$478.65

Donations toward project cost

-$410.60

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$68.05

Matching donations from our partners

-$15.00

Match offers toward project cost

-$12.75

Match offers to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$2.25

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$4.41

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

 $0.00

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