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Ms. Hawkes from Salt Lake City, UT is requesting supplies through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Learning in Color!

My students need pictures to help them communicate their wants and needs. I work with kids who take things literal and so I need a color printer to print pictures in color to help their understanding.

  • $157 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

I teach a Functional Life Skills classroom. The students in my classroom range from age 5-9 years old, Kindergarten through third grade. My students are my babies and they are amazing!

My students all have disabilities and those disabilities range from high-functioning Autism to low-functioning Autism, Down Syndrome, Intellectual Disabilities, and Cerebral Palsy.

They all have severe behavior, communication, and academic needs. In fact, my classroom is considered to be one of the most difficult classes within my school district in terms of academic and behavior challenges.

My Project

My students are all either non-verbal or have limited communication skills, therefore they use pictures as an alternative to verbal communication. My students take things literally and also are able to understand pictures from of images better when they are in color. This helps increase the literalness of what is being expressed in the pictures. I work in a Title 1 school with limited access to a color printer. My students need color images to help increase their understanding. This will help decrease classroom behaviors regarding communication. It will also help provide more academic opportunities to all of my brilliant students.

Ms. Hawkes
Grades PreK-2

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Canon PIXMA iP2820 - printer - color - ink-jet • Best Buy Education $52.59 1 $52.59
Canon PG-245 XL/CL-246XL Combo Pack with GP-502 - 2-pack - High Capacity - black, color (cyan, magenta, yellow) - original - ink cartridge • Best Buy Education $49.22 1 $49.22

Materials cost

$101.81

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$1.53

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$133.34

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$23.53

Total project goal

$156.87

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$156.87

1 Donor

-$156.87

Donations toward project cost

-$133.34

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$23.53

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$0.00

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