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Mrs. Nigro from Las Vegas, NV is requesting educational kits & games through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Pushing Through The Pandemic With My Friends!

Help me give my students teacher pay teachers gift cards and math and literacy resources!

  • $948 goal

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My Students

Take a moment to think about your kindergarten experience. Did you just get a feeling of nostalgia, too? Kindergarten is an amazing and fun time that teaches you the foundations of reading, writing, and math.

The children I teach are energetic, wonderful, hardworking students.

Some of them come from situations that no one should ever experience. They impress me every day with their awesome attitudes and desire to learn. We are a full-day kindergarten class at a Title I school. Most of our students qualify for the free breakfast and lunch program. The student population is 33% Caucasian, 26% Hispanic, 12% Asian, 11% African American, and 28% other.

My Project

Teaching kindergarten during a world pandemic is one of the most difficult things I have ever done in my life. It is now more important than ever that I develop and foster my students social emotional skills by setting a daily routine and allowing my students to work together with peers to accomplish daily tasks. I am going to do this by setting up engaging learning stations that will allow my students to work together as a team! As you know, team work makes the dream work!

My goal is to provide enough differentiated resources so my students can work together to master their foundational skills so they will be ready for 1st grade.

I have requested a multitude of literacy items that can be used throughout the year. I am requesting: Alphabet Soup Beginning Sound Sort, Lets Talk Conversation Starters, Alphabet Mystery Sounds, and Teachers Pay Teachers gift cards so I am able to purchase the 2nd edition of the successfully vetted guiding readers program. These items will help my students master the following standards:

ELA RF.K.3

ELA RF.K.3a

RF.K.3c

Speaking and Listening SL.K.1

Speaking and Listening SL.K.1a

Writing W.K.1

Writing W.K.3

I've also requested many math resources such as: Shape Sorting Center, Geostix, Lakeshore Counting Cones, Find the Number, and Squish and Squeeze Sensory Beads. These items will be very helpful and will allow my students to work together to learn the basic math foundations that are needed in order to be successful in their future math endeavors. These items also develop their fine motor skills. The items I have requested will support the following standards:

Counting and Cardinality K.CC.A.3

Counting and Cardinality K.CC.B.4

Counting and Cardinality K.CC.B.4a

Counting and Cardinality K.CC.B.4b

Shapes K.G.A.2

Shapes K.G.A.3

Shapes K.G.B.4

Please consider funding this project!

Mrs. Nigro Steve Schorr Elementary School 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.

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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

26 students impacted 1donor

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
RR630 - Draw Write Journal - Set of 10 • Lakeshore Learning Materials $39.99 3 $119.97
DS430X - Mad Mattr<sup>&reg;</sup> Sensory Dough - Set of 6 Colors • Lakeshore Learning Materials $76.99 1 $76.99
VR154 - Squish Squeeze Sensory Beads • Lakeshore Learning Materials $19.99 3 $59.97
Alphabet Soup Sorters • Kaplan Early Learning Company $58.46 1 $58.46
FF315 - Alphabet Mystery Box • Lakeshore Learning Materials $49.99 1 $49.99
LC126 - Alphabet Learning Locks • Lakeshore Learning Materials $39.99 1 $39.99
Alphabet Bean Bags • Kaplan Early Learning Company $34.16 1 $34.16
DD407 - Find the Number Activity Center • Lakeshore Learning Materials $29.99 1 $29.99
LC968 - Jumbo Magnetic Letters - Uppercase • Lakeshore Learning Materials $29.99 1 $29.99
DD561 - Lakeshore Counting Cones • Lakeshore Learning Materials $29.99 1 $29.99
GS364 - Geostix<sup>&reg;</sup> • Lakeshore Learning Materials $29.99 1 $29.99
LL248 - Alphabet Sounds Picture Magnets • Lakeshore Learning Materials $24.99 1 $24.99
LC744 - Write the Letter Activity Center • Lakeshore Learning Materials $24.99 1 $24.99
AA377 - Lets Talk Conversation Starters • Lakeshore Learning Materials $19.99 1 $19.99
Snap Together Letter Llamas - Letter and Color Matching Fine Motor Activity • Kaplan Early Learning Company $17.96 1 $17.96
LL917 - Shape Sorting Center • Lakeshore Learning Materials $16.99 1 $16.99
AC214 - Wikki Stix Alphabet Center • Lakeshore Learning Materials $14.99 1 $14.99
BK939 - Fill a Bucket Hardcover Book • Lakeshore Learning Materials $9.95 1 $9.95
POP for Letterstm Practicing Alphabet Recognition and Early Literacy Skills Game • Kaplan Early Learning Company $9.86 1 $9.86
Ladybug Letters • Kaplan Early Learning Company $9.86 1 $9.86

Materials cost

$709.07

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $55.66

3rd party payment processing fee

$10.64

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$805.37

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$142.12

Total project goal

$947.49

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $947.49

1 Donor

-$947.49

Donations toward project cost

-$805.37

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$142.12

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