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Ms. Pierro from Brooklyn, NY is requesting classroom basics through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Multisensory Reading Instruction in a Backpack

Help me give my students their very own set of tools for multisensory reading instruction to use at home while I guide them through distance learning.

  • $625 goal

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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 Students

My students are from a large, urban community that welcomes families from all over the world. We are a Title I school in a low-income community. To go bags of breakfast and lunch are available to every child in our building each day. In the fall, as we move to a blended learning model, each student will only be in the school building for approximately 1/3 of the time that they normally would attend. Hence, the majority of their learning will still take place remotely. My students are a combination of English Language Learners and children with language based learning disabilities. While we are learning on the 2D platform of a computer, my students need multi-sensory language experiences that they can touch and feel.

My Project

As an ESL and Title 1 Reading provider, the majority of my instruction will be delivered to students via distance learning in the fall. My students are entering 2nd grade.

Due to the Covid pandemic the incoming second graders have missed out on a great deal of the multisensory word work that makes 1st grade so important.

Many early elementary grade students learn to spell and decode words by receiving instruction with magnetic letters. Students can feel and manipulate these letters as they move them around on a magnetic board. Magnetic letters are eventually replaced by ones that are written with dry erase markers on the same boards. As one can imagine this is a difficult process to replicate through distance learning when students do not have these materials in their homes. This project would allow each student to receive a backpack that contains a set of magnetic letters, markers and a magnetic board to take home. If students do not return to school I will deliver these backpacks to student homes.

Ms. Pierro PS 503 the School of Discovery Grades PreK-2

Equity Focus

At this school, more than 50% of students are Black, Latino, and/or Native American, and more than 50% come from low-income households. Learn how your donation to this school supports a more equitable education.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

More about Ms. Pierro

Brooklyn, NY View local requests

Nearly all 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 11donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
LC357 Word Building Magnetic Letters Lowercase • Lakeshore Learning Materials $9.99 21 $209.79
RR621X Magnetic Write Wipe Lapboard Set of 10 • Lakeshore Learning Materials $68.99 2 $137.98
DD103 Write Wipe ThinLine Markers Set of 4 Colors • Lakeshore Learning Materials $3.99 20 $79.80
DRAWSTRING SPORTS PACK, LIME GREEN • School Specialty $2.99 20 $59.80

Materials cost

$487.37

Vendor shipping charges

$5.98

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$7.31

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$530.66

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$93.65

Total project goal

$624.31

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$624.31

7 Donors

-$374.66

Donations toward project cost

-$318.46

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$56.20

Matching donations from our partners

-$249.65

Match offers toward project cost

-$212.20

Match offers to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$37.45

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$0.00

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