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Mrs. Guajardo from Aransas Pass, TX is requesting educational kits & games through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Making Students’ Writing Come to Life!

Help me give my students a custom plush designed after the book character they created!

  • $3,124 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

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 are very unique as throughout their education they have learned to overcome trauma time and time again. They endured the trauma of the relentless global pandemic that took hold of our nation. Many of my students continue to suffer trauma. School is my students' safe place; they look forward to being at school. My goal as a teacher has always been to first and foremost ensure my students are safe and loved at school. I need my students to not only love coming to school but to also connect with their peers and find value in what they are learning. In order to achieve this, I have taught explicit lessons about perseverance. My students know perseverance means never giving up. In order to intertwine my philosophy of students loving school and instilling perseverance, an idea was born.

My students are in the process of writing individual stories that will be pieced together to create a class book about perseverance.

Students Treasures Publishing has allowed my class to write a book. We are going to publish our class book with the theme of aliens learning to persevere in a short story; each student has created their own alien from their imagination and written a story about it learning to persevere.

I want my students to really connect to their stories and find value in what they are creating. That’s where Budsies comes in. Budsies is a wonderful company that takes a child’s 2D drawing and turns it into a 3D stuffed animal. I want each of my students to have a customized Budsie that is created after the character in the story they wrote that learns to persevere.

Mrs. Guajardo
Grades PreK-2

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Budsie • Budsies $111.20 22 $2,446.40

Materials cost

$2,446.40

Vendor shipping charges

 $141.90

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$36.70

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$2,655.00

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$468.53

Total project goal

$3,123.53

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $3,123.53

31 Donors

-$2,432.94

Donations toward project cost

-$2,256.75

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$176.19

match offer

-$468.53

Match offer toward project cost

-$398.25

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$70.28

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$222.06

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