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Mrs. Silvestry from Brooklyn, NY is requesting technology through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Please Help My Pre-K Students Learn Through Photography!

My students need a tough camera, memory books, ink, photo paper, and albums to learn important social and academic concepts through photography!

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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

How many of us have pictures from our very first year in school? Wouldn't it be wonderful to look back on our first journey into education and reminisce about the things we learned and the friends we made? I would love for my students to be able to do this!

I teach 18 wonderful and creative Pre-K students in a high-need area of Brooklyn.

We recently started sharing photos in class and making class books and they love it! They are very interested in learning through photography and I think it would be great to use a camera as a learning tool!

My Project

In the past, I have used photography as a tool for teaching and the kids loved it! We had one problem though, using a delicate digital camera with young children has resulted in broken cameras! We need a tough, waterproof camera that can last for years in our class. With a camera like this, the children can use it as well as adults! We will use our photographs to create class books about our year in Pre-K and put them in the memory books we are requesting as well. We will also learn about academic concepts in real life by using photographs we take and print out to make books about shapes, patterns, our community, etc. The possibilities of how we can learn through photography are endless! And when the year is over they will have wonderful books and photographs to always remember what they learned and the friends they made in their very first year of school!

You can help my class learn important academic concepts and make memories through the exciting art form of photography!

You can help them always have their memories of their first year in Pre-K. You may even inspire a child in our class to become a future professional photographer! Please donate to this worthy cause! Thank you!

Mrs. Silvestry PS 9 Sarah Smith Garnet Grades PreK-2

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Brooklyn, NY View local requests

More than a third of 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

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Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Panasonic Lumix DMC-TS25 16.1 MP Tough Digital Camera with 8x Intelligent Zoom (Red) • Amazon $157.00 1 $157.00
NEW 61 Ink Cartridge Combo Pack (Printers- Inkjet/Dot Matrix) • Amazon $34.24 1 $34.24
Photo Albums Craft Kit • Oriental Trading Company $12.50 2 $25.00
Itoya Art Portfolio Evolution 8 x 10" for Art and Photos, 24 Pages for 48 Views • Amazon $7.05 3 $21.15
Kodak Glossy Photo Paper, 8.5 x 11 Inches, 100 Sheets per Pack (8209017) • Amazon $13.99 1 $13.99
AmazonBasics Compact Camera Case (Black) • Amazon $4.99 1 $4.99

Materials cost

$256.37

Vendor shipping charges

 $2.50

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$3.85

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$292.72

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$51.66

Total project goal

$344.38

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $344.38

5 Donors

-$147.19

Donations toward project cost

-$125.11

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$22.08

Matching donations from our partners

-$197.19

Match offers toward project cost

-$167.61

Match offers to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$29.58

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 $0.00

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