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Ms. Silva from Goodyear, AZ is requesting art supplies through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Help Me Transform My Classroom to Keep My Students' Engaged!

Help me give my students a vivid classroom , manipulatives they can use in class and at home. I have a focus and a data wall. With the cricut I want to make it engaging for my students.

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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

My students are creative, thoughtful and full of questions! They absolutely love hands-on, active, engaging projects and challenges that allow them to think outside the box to find solutions! They come to school each day ready to try new things and take brave chances in order to grow both personally and academically. Truly, they are my inspiration!

Many of my students come to me, telling me how they would like to have the fraction tiles, counters, unit cubes, base ten block and son on that we use in class at home.

Many of them also can't buy their basic school supplies that they need in class because of their parents were on unemployed and live with their extended families.

Each child in my classroom absolutely loves learning, although the method and environment in which they learn best vary greatly. We incorporate a variety of learning strategies, group work, and hands on learning to ensure that each student's needs are met, right where they are! They are truly an incredible group, and I am so lucky and thankful to have a new group of learners that are excited and ready to learn.

My Project

My school is a title one school and many of the students struggle with buying the school supplies they need. Many of them come to school with out a binder, paper, pencil, markers, and so on. I have managed to keep my classroom supplies a float. It's been difficult, but I have managed. My students' have asked if they can take the manipulatives home to do their homework. As much as I want to say yes, I can't. I have to use them for the next Math class. I Teach Math 5th grade and I teach 70 students daily. I have to make sure I have enough manipulatives for each student. We do a lot of hands on with math and would like to provide these items for students to check out and use at home as needed.

I also want to make my classroom more alive and vivid to help engage my students.

I have a data wall, word wall, and focus wall that needs more color and life. having the Cricut will help me create anchor charts and math groups become more visual for the students to see and use. The Word wall is made for students' to reference back to math strategies we have learned. It also has Math vocabulary words listed. The data wall is a visual of each students growth by number and color. I would like to create vinyl colored coded numbers to re-use each year. A certain color and number is assigned to each student and they can see their growth from the beginning of the year to the end of the year. Each student has their personal goal and this is a reminder and it encourages them to try harder on their benchmark test. Many of my students look forward to this.

Ms. Silva Desert Star Elementary School Grades 3-5

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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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Goodyear, AZ View local requests

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

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Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Cricut Maker 3 - DIY Machine Compatible with Matless Cutting Cricut Smart Materials | Professional Level Vinyl, HTV Iron On, and Leather Projects | Easily Make Custom Christmas and Holiday Decorations • Amazon Business $397.32 1 $397.32
hand2mind Plastic Double-Sided Decimal and Fraction Tiles, Montessori Math Materials, Fraction Manipulatives, Unit Fraction, Fraction Bars Math Manipulatives, Homeschool Supplies (15 Sets of 51) • Amazon Business $110.86 2 $221.72
Torlam 131 PCS Base Ten Blocks for Math - Place Value Blocks, Plastic Base 10 Math Manipulatives 1st Grade, Math Counters, Number Blocks, Math Cubes, Counting Cubes for Kids Math • Amazon Business $26.99 4 $107.96
Cricut Smart Iron On - 13in x 3ft - Heat Transfer Vinyl for HTV Projects - Compatible with Cricut Explore 3/Maker 3 - Yellow • Amazon Business $10.38 4 $41.52
Cricut Premium Vinyl - Removable, 12in x 15ft Vinyl for Indoor/Glasss Decal Projects - Black • Amazon Business $20.59 2 $41.18
Sharpie Tank Highlighters, Chisel Tip, Assorted Color Highlighters, Value Pack, 36 Count • Amazon Business $18.99 2 $37.98
Learning Resources Giant Magnetic Base Ten, Magnetic Base Ten, Use with Magnetic Surfaces or Whiteboards, 131 Piece Set • Amazon Business $24.97 1 $24.97
Cricut 2006696 Tools Essential CORE Color, Assorted • Amazon Business $22.60 1 $22.60
Amazon Basics Sheet Protector - Non-Glare, 200-Pack • Amazon Business $11.00 2 $22.00
HTVRONT HTV Vinyl Rolls Heat Transfer Vinyl - 12" x 20ft Red HTV Vinyl for Shirts, Iron on Vinyl for All Cutter Machine - Easy to Cut & Weed for Heat Vinyl Design (Red) • Amazon Business $21.49 1 $21.49
HTVRONT Royal Blue Permanent Vinyl Roll - 12" x 50 FT Blue Adhesive Vinyl for Cricut, Silhouette, Cameo Cutters, Blue Vinyl Roll for Signs, Scrapbooking, Craft, Die Cutters • Amazon Business $19.89 1 $19.89
Learning Resources Magnetic Rainbow Fraction Tiles, Visual/Tactile Learning, Soft Foam Magnetic Tiles, 51 Pieces, Ages 6+ • Amazon Business $8.51 2 $17.02
tiptopcarbon Wallpaper Smoothing Tool Kit for Adhesive Contact Paper Application Window Film Craft Vinyl • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99

Materials cost

$981.64

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $70.19

3rd party payment processing fee

$14.72

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$1,096.55

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$193.51

Total project goal

$1,290.06

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $1,290.06

8 Donors

-$496.69

Donations toward project cost

-$422.19

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$74.50

match offer

-$793.36

Match offer toward project cost

-$674.36

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$119.00

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