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Ms. Tan from San Jose, CA is requesting supplies through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Learning Through Games

My students need fun math and language games during group work and independent time.

  • $626 goal

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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

Don't you get excited to play board games? Paper and pencil can get boring every minute of the day. With fun board games that promote language and math standards, my students will be begging to play these games.

My students are 100% minority students who live in a low socioeconomic area in downtown San Jose.

The majority of them are on free and reduced lunch. Despite the challenges that they face, they love school. The school that they attend is a safe place for them, where they can be with friends, learn, and be themselves.

My Project

I am requesting board games that the students can use individually and in small groups to help reinforce skills and key concepts in language and math. The board games that I am requesting will specifically help the students practice their multiplication facts, learn new vocabulary, work on synonyms and antonyms, among other high power standards. Having little access to resources and educational games/materials at home, my students will truly benefit from these games because not only will we work on specific key standards in math and language arts, but we are also promoting cooperative learning. The students will learn to take turns, work together, and all at the same time have fun!

The academic and social skills that my students will benefit with these materials will carry with them into adulthood.

Children learn how to share and get along together through these types of resources. With these fun, new games the students will not only reinforce their knowledge of high power standards, but will also foster lifelong interpersonal skills.

Ms. Tan Selma Olinder Elementary School Grades 3-5

Equity Focus

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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San Jose, CA 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

20 students impacted 18donors

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Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
DD269 - At-My-Desk Vocabulary Activities - Complete Set • Lakeshore Learning $199.00 1 $199.00
DD540 - Vocabulary Building Games Library - Gr. 4-6 • Lakeshore Learning $95.00 1 $95.00
GG464 - Mountain Bike Mania! Sight-Words Game - Gr. 4 • Lakeshore Learning $24.95 1 $24.95
TT673 - Multiply, Divide & Conquer Game • Lakeshore Learning $24.95 1 $24.95
FF974 - Archaeology Adventure: Operations Word Problem Game • Lakeshore Learning $24.95 1 $24.95
LC1169 - Division Machine • Lakeshore Learning $19.95 2 $39.90
LC1168 - Multiplication Machine • Lakeshore Learning $19.95 2 $39.90

Materials cost

$448.65

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $41.05

3rd party payment processing fee

$6.73

Fulfillment labor & materials

$35.00

Total project cost

$531.43

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$93.78

Total project goal

$625.21

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $625.21

11 Donors

-$514.62

Donations toward project cost

-$446.43

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$68.19

Matching donations from our partners

-$100.00

Match offers toward project cost

-$85.00

Match offers to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$15.00

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$10.59

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 $0.00

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