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Mrs. Bretz from Mesa, AZ is requesting computers & tablets through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Mrs. Bretz Technology Wish

Help me give my students iPads and personal CD players to enhance their love for reading and turn them into confident readers.

  • $2,897 goal

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My Students

I teach first grade in Mesa, AZ. Our school is located in a great neighborhood with involved families and wonderful parent support.

My classroom is a place where student's can come to feel loved and take risks.

Student's come in each day with an excitement to learn something new. They have inquisitive minds that keep us going all day. In first grade we never stop learning! We work hard to learn about the world around us in many different ways.

My Project

Students will be able to interact with new apps, games and websites with these new iPad's. This will help enhance their reading and math skills and allow them to apply their whole group learning in class into 1:1 time with the ipads. They will be able to listen to books on CD through picture books and follow along with personal CD players. They will get exposure to thousands of new online readers and books, both fiction and non fiction on the iPads. An example of a lesson we would use the iPads for would be introducing a new phonics skill as a class. Then as a follow up students would play a game independently to see how they applied the knowledge of the new phonics skill. Finally, I could assess their level of understanding and confidence by having the students record themselves reading a passage or digital story on the iPad and be able to go back and listen to their oral reading fluency.

This is the perfect way for kids to get excited about their learning and make it fun at the same time!

Kids love technology and having it at their fingertips will be so motivating for them! Kids try new apps and games at school and are excited to go home and tell their parents about what they are learning at school and try it at home.

Mrs. Bretz MacArthur Elementary School Grades PreK-2

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Mesa, AZ View local requests 19 students impacted 2donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Apple - 10.2-Inch iPad (Latest Model) with Wi-Fi - 32GB - Space Gray • Best Buy Education $330.00 4 $1,320.00
Apple - 11-Inch iPad Pro (Latest Model) with Wi-Fi - 128GB - Space Gray • Best Buy Education $799.99 1 $799.99
Memorex - Portable CD Player - Black • Best Buy Education $23.71 5 $118.55

Materials cost

$2,238.54

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $160.06

3rd party payment processing fee

$33.58

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$2,462.18

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$434.50

Total project goal

$2,896.68

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $2,896.68

1 Donor

-$2,462.18

Donations toward project cost

-$2,462.18

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$0.00

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$434.50

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 $0.00

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