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Mrs. Buckley from Blytheville, AR is requesting educational kits & games through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Play, Laugh, & Learn

My students need a 10-drawer storage cart, a learning carpet, pencils, and various interactive learning materials to increase reading and reading comprehension skills.

  • $596 goal

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Celebrate Black Teachers and Students

This project is part of the Black History Month celebration because it supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of the students are Black.

My Students

My students are always eager to learn! My students love hands-on learning. They enjoy working in groups and on shared projects. They take responsibility for their own learning. They put their best foot forward do whatever necessary to learn. I am so proud of them. They come to school each day ready to try new things and take brave chances in order to grow both personally and academically.

Many students in my classroom struggle with reading and comprehension.

They are two or something three years behind in their reading level. Making reading fun is always a challenge. Some of the student don’t have the basic phonemic awareness need to read and to comprehend what they have read. I am trying all I can to make sure they don’t fall through the cracks. I am continuously finding ways to make learning fun and for the student who are behind to not feel behind or inferior.

I have a very diverse group of students each year. I incorporate a variety of learning strategies, group work, interventions, and learning options to ensure that each student's needs are met. I am always excited with every group of students each year!

My Project

Many of my students are struggling with reading and reading comprehension. Although students learn at different rates, all students master basic skills in a similar sequence when first learning to read, from recognizing sound to decoding words. These item are for centers in my classroom and will allow students to learn while having fun.

Students need several skills to master reading and reading comprehension including listening skills, rhyme and alliteration, syllable blending and segmenting, patterns sentence segmentation, and phonemic awareness.

Decoding Flashcards, Junior Learning Phonological Awareness, Phonics Flashcards With Pictures and Blending Words, will be used as a short intervention tool to help students who difficulty matching sounds and letters, which can affect reading and spelling. Also students who decode in a labored manner or have trouble reading and spelling phonetically benefit from small group intervention made fun through using these items.

Students will use Grammar In a Jar and Figurative Language in A Jar to figure out what words (adjectives, adverbs, pronouns, or prepositions) to use in the blanks to complete the sentences and to answer multiple-choice questions to explore the use of metaphors, similes, and idioms. These items will be used as center activities as well as for inside recess. Students struggle with recognizing and learning new vocabulary words. Edupress Vocabulary Game Teaching Materials, Eureka Tub of Word Tiles, 3rd and 4th Grade Vocabulary Flash Cards, as well as, 1100 Words You Need to Know Flash Cards will be used during center time to help student who struggle with vocabulary terms and definitions. Also included is several comprehension games and pencils. Students love taking part in their own learning. Student will be able to make connections, and determine the importance of text by playing fun games with their friends.

Mrs. Buckley
Grades 3-5

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Learning Carpets US Map Carpet LC 201 • Amazon Business $49.99 1 $49.99
AmazonBasics Pre-sharpened Wood Cased #2 HB Pencils, 150 Pack • Amazon Business $12.49 3 $37.47
Seville Classics 10-Drawer Organizer Cart, Pearlescent Multi-Color • Amazon Business $35.68 1 $35.68
Key Education Big Box of Word Chunks Educational Board Game • Amazon Business $22.35 1 $22.35
Rory's Story Cube Complete Set - Original - Actions - Voyages • Amazon Business $21.99 1 $21.99
Educational Insights Blurt! • Amazon Business $19.99 1 $19.99
Edupress Vocabulary Game Teaching Material (EP62093) • Amazon Business $12.99 1 $12.99
Learning Resources Reading Comprehension Cubes • Amazon Business $12.35 1 $12.35
3rd Grade Vocabulary Flashcards: 240 Flashcards for Improving Vocabulary Based on Sylvan's Proven Techniques for Success (Sylvan Language Arts Flashcards) • Amazon Business $11.99 1 $11.99
1100 Words You Need to Know Flashcards • Amazon Business $11.72 1 $11.72
Junior Learning Phonological Awareness Flash Cards • Amazon Business $11.69 1 $11.69
Melissa & Doug Smarty Pants 5th Grade Card Set - 120 Educational, Brain-Building Questions, Puzzles, and Games • Amazon Business $11.59 1 $11.59
Melissa & Doug Smarty Pants 3rd Grade Card Set - 120 Educational, Brain-Building Questions, Puzzles, and Games • Amazon Business $11.45 1 $11.45
4th Grade Vocabulary Flashcards: 240 Flashcards for Improving Vocabulary Based on Sylvan's Proven Techniques for Success (Sylvan Language Arts Flashcards) • Amazon Business $11.04 1 $11.04
Edupress Reading Comprehension Practice Cards, Inference, Blue Level (EP63064) • Amazon Business $10.99 1 $10.99
Edupress (EP-3067) Reading Comprehension Practice Cards, Cause & Effect, Red Level • Amazon Business $10.99 1 $10.99
Edupress Reading Comprehension Practice Cards, Cause & Effect, Blue Level (EP63068) • Amazon Business $10.99 1 $10.99
Edupress Reading Comprehension Practice Cards, Author's Purpose, Blue Level (EP63425) • Amazon Business $10.99 1 $10.99
Edupress Reading Comprehension Practice Cards, Context Clues, Blue Level (EP63072) • Amazon Business $10.35 1 $10.35
Zobmondo!! You Gotta Be Kidding Card Game • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
Grammar In a Jar® • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
Spot It! • Amazon Business $9.95 1 $9.95
Reading Dice, Word Family Dice, Phonics Game • Amazon Business $9.93 1 $9.93
Decoding Flashcards • Amazon Business $9.79 1 $9.79
Edupress Reading Comprehension Practice Cards, Reading for Detail, Blue Level (EP63062) • Amazon Business $9.19 1 $9.19
DK Games: Silly Sentences • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
Figurative Language In a Jar® • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
You Gotta be Kidding! The Crazy Book of "Would you Rather" Questions • Amazon Business $7.60 1 $7.60
Eureka Tub Of Word Tiles, 160 Tiles in 3 3/4" x 5 1/2" x 3 3/4" Tub • Amazon Business $7.50 1 $7.50
Phonics Flashcards with Pictures and Blending Words • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99

Materials cost

$433.51

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$35.76

3rd party payment processing fee

$6.50

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$505.77

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$89.25

Total project goal

$595.02

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$595.02

6 Donors

-$306.62

Donations toward project cost

-$260.78

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$45.84

Matching donations from our partners

-$288.22

Match offers toward project cost

-$244.99

Match offers to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$43.23

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$0.18

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$0.00

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