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

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From Dull to Shine: Motivating Good Writing

My students need centers and activities to help them acquire and enhance the skills they need in order to be able to be successful writers and close the achievement gap.

  • $378 goal

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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

"From here to eternity" that is a phrase from a romantic movie. Well, that is how much I want to impact my students. I want them to become successful writers and take those skills throughout their life. But, I need help because I do not have enough resources to help them acquire these skills.

I work in a title 1 school located in a poor neighborhood in the South Bronx.

Our students come from very low income families whom some of them live in shelters. Our community is growing and with that our students population. We are receiving students that are new to the country and coming to school for the first time. Many of these children are non-English speakers. I am striving to help them acquire the skills they need to succeed in school, writing, and life.

My Project

I can envision my students using all these wonderful resources that a very kind soul is going to provide us with. I can see them working in groups of four to five helping each other learn the alphabet, penmanship, phonemic awareness, and sentence writing. Those are the skills they will be working on at their own pace since they will be needing them to be successful writers and closed the achievement gap.

Getting my project funded, will make a tremendous impact in my classroom because these wonderful materials will help my students be the great writers I know they can be.

By acquiring strong writing skills now, will help them apply them through their whole life.

Ms. Almonte PS 43 Jonas Bronck Grades PreK-2

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This project directly supports students at a historically underfunded school. Learn more about our Equity Focus.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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Bronx, 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

257 students impacted 2donors

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
LL588 - Flip, Feel & Write Alphabet Boards • Lakeshore Learning Materials $24.99 2 $49.98
TR717 - Lakeshore Magic Board - Each • Lakeshore Learning Materials $8.99 4 $35.96
TT194 - I Can Build Simple Words! • Lakeshore Learning Materials $29.99 1 $29.99
EE188 - Simple Sentences Instant Learning Center • Lakeshore Learning Materials $29.99 1 $29.99
Velcro(r) Feltboard Panel • Kaplan Early Learning Company $27.16 1 $27.16
Dry Erase Mitts • Kaplan Early Learning Company $12.71 2 $25.42
Big Box of Sentence Building • Kaplan Early Learning Company $21.21 1 $21.21
Gingerbread Boy • Kaplan Early Learning Company $16.96 1 $16.96
DD105 - Black Write & Wipe Markers - Thin-Line - Set of 4 • Lakeshore Learning Materials $3.99 4 $15.96
Sentence Building • Kaplan Early Learning Company $13.56 1 $13.56
Reusable Dry Erase Pockets (Set of 5) • Kaplan Early Learning Company $10.16 1 $10.16
Word Families Pocket Chart Cards • Kaplan Early Learning Company $10.16 1 $10.16

Materials cost

$286.51

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$4.30

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$320.81

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$56.61

Total project goal

$377.42

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $377.42

2 Donors

-$377.42

Donations toward project cost

-$320.81

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$56.61

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