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Ms. Chabus from Brooklyn, NY is requesting other through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Help Me Learn My Letters

My students need a phonics and language arts program. I look at zoo-phonics and think their phonics program would be perfect for my students.

  • $439 goal

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My Students

I am a Pre-K teacher in East New York, Brooklyn. Many of my students come to school with very little letter knowledge. In Pre-K we don't have any formal phonics program. The materials that are available come from a variety of resources.

I truly have the best job in the world.

I get to get up every morning and teach the best 4 year olds in the world. My students are the most eager learners I've ever met. They come from homes where learning is not a priority. The majority of them enter school without any letter or phonics background.

My Project

Having Zoo-phonics in my classroom will give my students the leg up they need for kindergarten and the rest of their academic career. Zoo-phonics is a method developed to make children strong readers and spellers using a “phono” (hearing), “oral” (speaking), “visual” (seeing), “kinesthetic” (moving), and “tactile” (touching)—whole brain approach. Students actually learn the sounds of the alphabet and advanced phonemic concepts through an easily understood, concrete method of presentation. If I am able to give my students a strong letter and phonics background before they enter into kindergarten, their teachers will have a much easier time teaching them everything else they need to learn.

I can't begin to tell you the difference a strong phonics program in early childhood education would make.

A program like this will give them the strong foundation they need to be successful readers for life.

Ms. Chabus PS 202 Ernest Jenkyns Grades PreK-2

Celebrate Black teachers and kids! This project supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of students are Black.

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At this school, more than 50% of students are Black, Latino, and/or Native American, and more than 50% come from low-income households. Learn how your donation to this school supports a more equitable education.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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Brooklyn, NY View local requests

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

18 students impacted 3donors

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Kits & Zoo-pers Pre-k • zoo-phonics $299.95 1 $299.95

Materials cost

$299.95

Vendor shipping charges

 $33.00

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$4.50

Fulfillment labor & materials

$35.00

Total project cost

$372.45

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$65.73

Total project goal

$438.18

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $438.18

2 Donors

-$438.18

Donations toward project cost

-$372.45

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$65.73

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