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Mrs. Rivera from New York, NY is requesting supplies through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Help Jump-Start The New School Year!

My students need these back-to-school materials to help us start the school year off right! Notebooks, pens, pencils, paper, reading materials- PLEASE HELP!

  • $1,188 goal

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Celebrating Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

Celebrate Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

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

A typical day in our classroom consists of literacy time in the morning, which includes word study, story time and reading & writing workshop. After lunch we move on to Math & Social Studies and I often like to end the day giving the students opportunities for independent work.

The school is located on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in the Chinatown area.

Our school serves a large population of emerging bilinguals. My students consist of an unique group of children with diverse needs as they emerge as Chinese-speaking bilinguals. They often speak a variety of dialects both at school and at home, while learning an additional language, English, outside of the home. These young children often serve as the main connection to the Chinese speaking parents and grandparents at home. Due to this, the children and their families take their roles in school very seriously and do their very best to ensure they excel in all areas of academics in school. I know what it was like to be from a large, low income family and struggle to obtain quality school supplies for the year. I am requesting these supplies in the hopes to ease the financial burden on the families I will serve this year. I want to be able to provide some of these very basic essentials for my students.

My Project

Budget cuts from the Department of Education often equates to the lack of essential supplies such as no paper, no crayons, pencils or scissors. Teacher resources will also aid my students in their language development because I used a few of the Evan Moor Daily Review books last year and my students liked the activities and they actually transferred the skills they learned doing these activities to other areas of their school work. I am confident that those teacher resources will improve the quality of their learning, particularly their language skills. The Scholastic & Time for Kids weekly readers provide the students with wonderful opportunities for interesting, non-fiction reading appropriate for their grade-level. With the writing journals, I hope to motivate the children into writing more by providing them with a "special place" to share their thoughts and stories. My ultimate goal is to use all these materials to create an exciting environment for the school year.

Donations to this project will improve my classroom significantly.

To a young child, there is often nothing more exciting than the very first day of school. I really want to start the school year off being able to provide my students and their families the supplies and resources they need. It will be a major benefit for my families because having these supplies will be less of a financial burden on them. It will also make my work easier because these are not supplies I have to buy on my own.

Mrs. Rivera PS 42 Benjamin Altman 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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More than half of 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

25 students impacted 10donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Scholastic News, Grade 2 + Science Spin (min. 10 subscriptions per order) - 32 Issues of Scholastic News and 8 Issues of Science Spin / Min. 10 Subscriptions / Grade 2 • Scholastic Classroom Magazines $5.74 25 $143.50
TIME For Kids - Grade 2 - 28 issues / Minimum of 10 subscriptions • Time for Kids $4.91 25 $122.75
12 PACK Mead MEA09956 Primary Journal K-2nd Grade • Amazon $32.62 2 $65.24
Crayola 800CT Regular Size Crayons 16 Colors Classpack • Amazon $51.78 1 $51.78
Case-it Large Capacity 3-Inch Zipper Binder, Black, D-146-BLK • Amazon $22.92 2 $45.84
Scotch Thermal Pouches 8.9 x 11.4 Inches, 200-Pack (TP3854-200) • Amazon $32.75 1 $32.75
Pilot G2 Retractable Premium Gel Ink Roller Ball Pens, Fine Point, Blue, Box of 12 (31021) • Amazon $10.55 3 $31.65
BOOK DAILY GEOGRAPHY PRACTICE- GRADE 2 • School Specialty $31.34 1 $31.34
Fiskars 5 Inch Blunt-Tip Schoolworks Kids Scissors, 12 Piece Class Pack (153520-1004) • Amazon $15.48 2 $30.96
GP Spectrum Multi-Use Paper, 8.5 x 11 Inches, 3-Ream Pack (1500 Sheets) (998606) • Amazon $14.99 2 $29.98
School Smart Vertical Pencil Sharpener - 6 x 4 inches - Electric • Amazon $29.98 1 $29.98
BOOK DAILY READING COMPREHENSION GR 2 • School Specialty $29.44 1 $29.44
BOOK DAILY ACADEMIC VOCABULARY GRADE 2 • School Specialty $28.49 1 $28.49
BOOK LANGUAGE FUNDAMENTALS GR 2 • School Specialty $28.02 1 $28.02
BOOK DAILY PARAGRAPH EDITING GRADE 2 • School Specialty $21.84 1 $21.84
BOOK NON FICTION READING PRACTICE GR 2 • School Specialty $21.37 1 $21.37
Paper Mate 70521 Pink Pearl Premium Erasers, Large 12-Pack • Amazon $6.89 3 $20.67
Sharpie 37001 Ultra Fine Point Permanent Markers, Black (Box of 12) • Amazon $6.83 3 $20.49
BOOK BUILDING MATH FLUENCY- GRADE 2 • School Specialty $19.47 1 $19.47
Scotch Magic Tape, 3/4 x 1000 Inches, Boxed, 12 Rolls (810K12) • Amazon $18.76 1 $18.76
Sharpie Permanent Markers, Fine Point, Black, 12 Pack (30001) • Amazon $6.13 3 $18.39
Pendaflex 1521/3ASST Pendaflex 2-Tone File Folders, 1/3 Cut, Top Tab, Letter, 4 Asst Colors, 100/Box • Amazon $15.89 1 $15.89
BOOK DAILY WORD PROBLEMS GR 2 • School Specialty $15.67 1 $15.67
BOOK BEGINNING GEOGRAPHY • School Specialty $15.19 1 $15.19
BOOK PARAGRAPH WRITING GRADES 2-4 • School Specialty $14.72 1 $14.72
BOOK WRITE A SUPER SENTENCE • School Specialty $12.91 1 $12.91
Elmer's Washable No-Run School Glue, 4 oz, 1 Bottle (E304) • Amazon $1.00 10 $10.00

Materials cost

$927.09

Vendor shipping charges

 $38.20

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$13.91

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$1,009.20

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$178.09

Total project goal

$1,187.29

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $1,187.29

6 Donors

-$329.54

Donations toward project cost

-$292.11

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$37.43

Matching donations from our partners

-$843.64

Match offers toward project cost

-$717.09

Match offers to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$126.55

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$14.12

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