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Mrs. Tarpey from Centerville, OH is requesting classroom basics through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Let's Learn with Letters!

Help me give my students individual sets of magnetic letters to use in our lessons.

  • $163 goal

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My Students

My Ohio students are part of a literacy support program that helps struggling readers and writers gain the needed skills and strategies to become confident, independent learners.

Our students are enthusiastic, love to learn, have loads of potential, are diverse in many ways, and have some unique needs that keep me striving for fun and meaningful ways to accelerate their growth in reading and writing.

I thoroughly enjoy helping to foster a love of reading and writing that will benefit them for a lifetime.

My Project

One obstacle of in-person learning with young children is figuring out how to keep our environment and materials clean and safe for everyone. In an effort to do this, I have created individual kits for my students to house supplies, books, journals, etc.

Since we use magnetic letters often in lessons as a hands-on way to teach phonics, phonological awareness, spelling patterns, letter learning, and high-frequency words, I decided it would be best for students to have their own set.

An inexpensive way to keep them organized and easily accessible to students is to arrange them on metal stove top burner covers.

Mrs. Tarpey Centerville Primary Village South Grades PreK-2

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Centerville, OH View local requests 40 students impacted 1donor

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Reston Lloyd G-105-B Square Gas Stove Burner Covers, Set of 4, Black • Amazon Business $14.07 4 $56.28
Inspired Thinkers 240 Pcs Magnetic Letters Set - Classroom Educational Alphabet Magnets Kit, Movable Foam Lowercase and Uppercase ABC with Writing Board and Eraser, for Kids Ages 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 • Amazon Business $24.95 2 $49.90

Materials cost

$106.18

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$1.59

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$137.77

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$24.31

Total project goal

$162.08

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$162.08

1 Donor

-$162.08

Donations toward project cost

-$137.77

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$24.31

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$0.00

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