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Mrs. Gauci from East Palo Alto, CA is requesting instructional technology through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Laminating Machine and Pouches for Our Vocabulary Words and Pictures

Help me give my students a laminating machine and pouches to make our vocabulary word cards and pictures usable and reusable for continued use with our writing, reading, and spelling practice.

  • $443 goal

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Mrs. Gauci has another project! Donate to The Human Body to help her classroom.

$474 - complete this project and be a hero

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 Project

My students have a reusable word wall that they use to write in their journals. They can go to the wall, grab the word they need, and bring it to their desk. They write the word and return it to the word wall in alphabetical order. Looking up at a board and back down to a paper then looking up to find your word again is a difficult and time consuming task. Children often start one word and finish the letters of a different word. Having the ability to bring the word card next to them makes writing easier, more enjoyable, and allows for more accuracy in writing. It also gets them out of a sitting position to move and think.

A laminating machine and pouches will help me to protect these word cards and picture cards which will allow the children to use and reuse the words continually, multiple times in a day, all year long.

I will save these word cards for future years. Over time, I will need less pouches as words will be repeated in years to come. I can reuse these same cards while creating new words for the different interests of next year's students.

These pouches will also allow me to preserve my students' beautiful works of art and final writing projects so that they can be proud of and have their accomplishments for a lifetime.

Thank you for considering my class for your donation.

Mrs. Gauci Costano School & 49Ers Academy 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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East Palo Alto, CA View local requests

More than three‑quarters 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

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Fellowes Laminating Pouches, Letter, 5mil, Pack of 200, CL - Water Proof - Durable • School Specialty $125.09 1 $125.09
Fellowes Saturn 3i 125 Thermal & Cold Laminator 12.5 Width Silver/Black (5736601) • Staples $111.98 1 $111.98
Fellowes Laminating Pouches, 9 x 11-1/2 Inches, 3 Mil, Pack of 200 • School Specialty $59.24 1 $59.24

Materials cost

$296.31

Vendor shipping charges

 $18.43

Sales tax

 $27.11

3rd party payment processing fee

$4.44

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$376.29

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$66.40

Total project goal

$442.69

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $442.69

2 Donors

-$207.52

Donations toward project cost

-$195.14

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$12.38

match offer

-$213.12

Match offer toward project cost

-$181.15

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$31.97

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$22.06

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 $0.00

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