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Mrs. Potter from Van Nuys, CA is requesting instructional technology through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Laminating and Preserving a Moment in Time: Pre-School

Help me give my students a laminating machine and laminating pouches in order to preserve student work samples and classroom visual aids!

  • $373 goal

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Mrs. Potter has another project! Donate to Building a STEM Center for Transitional Kindergartners to help her classroom.

$419 - complete this project and be a hero

My Students

We have an amazing preschool program that requires essential materials to maintain a quality classroom experience. Specifically, for this project, we hope to obtain a laminating machine that can help preserve student work samples, as well as learning aids such as letter and word flashcards and pictures that support vocabulary development.

My preschool program is called Expanded Transitional Kindergarten/Preschool Collaborative Classroom (ETK/PCC).

It includes eight students with disabilities and sixteen students without disabilities. This is an innovative and inclusive preschool model where students with special needs learn, play, and grow alongside their typically-developing peers. Research has shown time and time again that these inclusive classrooms are beneficial to both students with and without disabilities, while building a culture of compassion, acceptance, and friendships without boundaries.

We are a Title l school that receives federal funds to support at-risk students living at or near the poverty line. Title l aims to bridge the gap between low-income students and other students.

My Project

Pre-school is one of the most important - if not the cutest - year of a student's life. Rapid growth and progress occurs during this critical time period as children begin to develop their ability to color, cut, paint, draw, expand their creativity and thinking skills, and so much more!

Students and their families can preserve special memories and evidence of growth with work samples that are carefully and lovingly laminated.

These work samples - or snapshots in time - will be a tangible reminder to children of how persistence and hard work can pay off, as they see and keep evidence of their own progress. A laminating machine will also help us preserve learning materials such as flashcards and pictures to support vocabulary development.

Mrs. Potter Erwin Elementary School Grades PreK-2

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

24 students impacted 1donor

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
XC341 - Classroom Laminating Machine • Lakeshore Learning Materials $129.00 1 $129.00
XC344 - Classroom Laminating Pouches - Set of 100 - 11 1⁄2" x 17 1⁄2" • Lakeshore Learning Materials $49.99 2 $99.98
XC343 - Classroom Laminating Pouches - Set of 100 - 9" x 11 1⁄2" • Lakeshore Learning Materials $29.99 1 $29.99

Materials cost

$258.97

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $23.70

3rd party payment processing fee

$3.88

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$316.55

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$55.86

Total project goal

$372.41

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $372.41

1 Donor

-$316.55

Donations toward project cost

-$316.55

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$0.00

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$55.86

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 $0.00

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