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Mrs. Crespo from Queens, NY is requesting reading nooks, desks & storage through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Reading and Exploring Stem Activities

My students need a small group/guided reading table to better meet their needs, as well as experience with stem activities.

  • $653 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

As a teacher in a low-income/high poverty school district, my students are faced with several challenges both in and out of the classroom. Despite the many challenges they face, I am looking to provide positive and meaningful learning experiences.

My students are caring, eager to learn and motivated.

They require various support in place to meet their needs. I provide academic, social and behavioral support by providing a caring, inviting and enriched learning environment. I want to instill the love of learning, promote inquiring minds and produce active learners. When they walk in the door of my classroom, I focus on greeting them with a smile and providing a positive outlook in today’s learning.

As their teacher, I am one to provide all that I can to make this happen, but at times it is difficult because of financial constraints. So, I decided to put it out there in hopes to make this an even better place to learn. My class is in need of a guided reading table for small group instruction. We also need leveled reading books in English and Spanish. We would love some STEM activities to explore! Thank you from tomorrow’s leaders.

My Project

My students have demonstrated eagerness and willingness to learn with what I have been able to provide them with. They deserve to have a classroom that can offer all that is needed to access their fullest potential. By having a designated table for small group instruction, it will provide an opportunity to maximize their learning. This table would be a concrete learning station for students needing one to one support in literacy and math. It would become part of our already established routine.

We are a bilingual special ed class with very limited Spanish resources.

My students are encouraged to read in both languages, but we have limited in read-aloud books and leveled readers so I am desperately asking to build our Spanish classroom library with a few books to start. Providing the means to explore Stem activities will enable students’ critical thinking and perhaps spark tomorrow’s leaders. Since magnets are a prefer activity in my class, I would like for my students to utilize the Engineer-A-Coaster to encourage hands-on exploration and learn about magnetism and engineering which this stem activity offers. This activity needs a magnetic board big enough to build the various structures. Unfortunately, we only have a teacher easel that is utilized all day long by two teachers. The Learn & Store chart stand would enable my students to explore Stem activities independently. Also, it can be used for multiple purposes in the classroom, such as a center, small group instruction, and of course stem activities. My students will benefit tremendously from this project. Please help me build tomorrow’s future leaders.

Mrs. Crespo PS 19Q Grades PreK-2

Equity Focus

This project directly supports students at a historically underfunded school. Learn more about our Equity Focus.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

More about Mrs. Crespo

Queens, NY View local requests

More than half 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

12 students impacted 10donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
CN321RD - Rainbow 36" x 72" Group Table - Red • Lakeshore Learning Materials $269.00 1 $269.00
AA320 - Learn & Store Chart Stand • Lakeshore Learning Materials $169.00 1 $169.00
LL570 - Engineer-A-Coaster Activity Kit • Lakeshore Learning Materials $49.99 1 $49.99
Bilingual Fairy Tales (5 Books) Spanish • AKJ Education $14.93 1 $14.93
El otoño (Fall) • AKJ Education $2.50 1 $2.50
El verano (Summer) • AKJ Education $2.00 1 $2.00
Que Hacen los Maestros? • AKJ Education $2.00 1 $2.00
Un día nublado (A Cloudy Day) • AKJ Education $2.00 1 $2.00
Un día con viento (A Windy Day) • AKJ Education $2.00 1 $2.00
The Sweet Story of Hot Chocolate! • AKJ Education $1.85 1 $1.85
Snow • AKJ Education $1.75 1 $1.75

Materials cost

$517.02

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$7.76

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$554.78

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$97.90

Total project goal

$652.68

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$652.68

9 Donors

-$398.86

Donations toward project cost

-$346.53

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$52.33

match offer

-$245.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$208.25

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$36.75

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$8.82

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$0.00

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