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Mrs. Medved from Morristown, AZ is requesting educational kits & games through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Learning Made Fun With Educational Board Games!

Help me give my students educational games to support their learning and success while having fun!

  • $964 goal

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The more enjoyable a task, the more likely it is a student will want to engage in and complete it. Student's enjoyment of learning activities directly relates to their desire and willingness to learn. Reading games make learning to read a fun and enjoyable activity. The most effective students reading games are enjoyable for students to engage with from the start, and increate their motivation to continue and complete.

Learning through the use of literacy games is essential to the success of each and every student.

Literacy games provide differentiated instructions so every learner has the ability to succeed. These comprehensions, phonic, and phonemic awareness games and activities will help my students to gain the attention and desire to learn new literacy concepts. Making learning "fun" while still being educational leader to more interesting and better outcome for learning success.

Educational game allow teacher to add variety to the types of activities offered in the classroom, and games add a certain level of excitement to the classroom. Best of all, even though the games may be learning games, to students, games like these feel like play. This element of fun may mean students have more buy-in for the activity and are more apt to be attentive. As teachers, one of our goals is for students to learn as much as possible, and educational games are a great way to reinforce the concepts we've been working on in a focused way. In addition, for teachers who use games as part of a center or station rotation, these games allow the teacher to work with a small group, while another small group is busy playing a learning game.

It is my goal to use these games and activities within the classroom during our daily small group instruction and

Mrs. Medved Morristown Elementary School Grades 3-5

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Morristown, 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
Lakeshore Reading Comprehension Games Library - Gr. 1-3 • Lakeshore Learning Materials $179.00 1 $179.00
Lakeshore Reading & Writing Skills Folder Game Libraries - Gr. 2-3 - Complete Set • Lakeshore Learning Materials $159.00 1 $159.00
Lakeshore Math Folder Game Libraries - Gr. 2-3 - Complete Set • Lakeshore Learning Materials $159.00 1 $159.00
Lakeshore Grab & Play Reading Games - Gr. 3-4 - Complete Set • Lakeshore Learning Materials $149.00 1 $149.00
Lakeshore Elapsed Time Write & Wipe Boards - Set of 10 • Lakeshore Learning Materials $29.99 1 $29.99
Lakeshore Multiplication Grab & Play Game - Gr. 3-4 • Lakeshore Learning Materials $24.99 1 $24.99
Lakeshore Division Grab & Play Game - Gr. 3-4 • Lakeshore Learning Materials $24.99 1 $24.99

Materials cost

$725.97

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $51.91

3rd party payment processing fee

$10.89

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$818.77

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$144.49

Total project goal

$963.26

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $963.26

2 Donors

-$553.35

Donations toward project cost

-$553.35

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$0.00

Matching donations from our partners

-$312.26

Match offers toward project cost

-$265.42

Match offers to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$46.84

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$97.65

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 $0.00

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