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Ms. Smith from New York, NY is requesting reading nooks, desks & storage through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Guided Reading POPS in Kindergarten! (Phonemic Awareness/Organization/Phonics)

Help me give my students a Honey-Can-Do Rolling Storage Cart, Three Drawer Organizer, and Sounding Out The Sight Words Phonics Book to help them master phonics and phonemic awareness skills needed for reading proficiency.

  • $461 goal

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Ms. Smith has another project! Donate to Who's Ready to Recharge And Read This Summer? We Are! to help her classroom.

$474 - complete this project and be a hero

My Students

My kindergarten students are vibrant, funny, inquisitive little humans who love learning about the world around them. They are eager to learn. They love to play. They love reading books, participating in dramatic play, using technology, and participating in outdoor activities to help them learn and grow. Even though the last few months have been unprecedented and extremely challenging, learning remotely due to the pandemic, my students are trying to learn and work in this new normal. I’m so proud of how resilient they are.

My students love school.

For many of them, our school is a safe haven. It's where they come to feel safe, feel love, build relationships, and to learn. Part of my responsibility is to provide a nurturing and rich environment that allows them to grow, inquire, learn, and question the world around them. At the same time, I provide them with love and push them to be the best human beings that they can possibly be. They often rise to meet and exceed my expectations when the right materials and tools are at their fingertips. Oh, the places they can go to!

My Project

These materials will help me make a huge difference in how my students learn phonics, phonemic awareness, and reading skills. Phonics, phonemic awareness and sight words are crucial for kindergarten students to learn to read (and write).

These materials will allow me to gather, collect, and store the necessary books, tools, and manipulatives that my kindergarten students will need to increase their literacy skills, boost excitement for reading, model the importance of organization, and encourage a love for books, learning, and literacy.

The Honey-Can-Do Storage unit will be used for Phonics and Phonemic Awareness literacy center activities. Scholars will be able to choose their own activities to meet their literacy needs. The Three Drawer Organizer will be used for guided reading books, leveled readers, bookmarks, finger pointers, and highlighting tape. The Sounding Out Sight Words book has excellent strategies and fun activities that will not only allow my students to practice their sight words, but have fun and foster independence while learning.

All of these materials will work together to help me teach my kindergarten students reading and promote a love for reading, words, and language.

Ms. Smith PS 92 Mary McLeod Bethune Grades PreK-2

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

Equity Focus

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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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

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
HOMZ 3 Drawer Medium Storage Cart, Set of 1, Purple • Amazon Business $51.85 4 $207.40
Honey-Can-Do Rolling Storage Cart and Organizer with 12 Plastic Drawers • Amazon Business $64.71 2 $129.42
Sounding Out the Sight Words: An Alternative to Rote Memorization • Amazon Business $19.33 1 $19.33

Materials cost

$356.15

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$5.34

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$391.49

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$69.09

Total project goal

$460.58

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $460.58

8 Donors

-$388.58

Donations toward project cost

-$330.29

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$58.29

match offer

-$72.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$61.20

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$10.80

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 $0.00

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