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Mrs. Burgess from Riverton, UT is requesting educational kits & games through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Spark The Fire Of Reading

Help me give my students some engaging decodable books and phonics games that will help them learn to read while having fun!

  • $1,000 goal

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My Students

Welcome to the boisterous excited imaginative world of my first-grade students! Every day is an adventure with a room filled with 20 students who walk in each morning and can't wait to greet each other and wonder what will we do and what will we learn today! They are eager students who can literally jump off of their seats at the mention of the words rubber bands, a new reading game, or the prospect of learning while outside!

My students come from all kinds of families and situations and I wish I could wave a magic wand so that they all had support and stability in their young lives!

My class is full of young students who are not only learning to read and write but who are learning the ins and out of how they fit in with their peers and how to navigate this new journey of sharing opinions, sharing crayons, eating lunch, and playing on the playground. They are resilient and they keep trying even when learning new things is so challenging for them. They are six and seven-year-olds who can give and take and forgive each other when they make mistakes.

My Project

About half of the students in my first-grade class did online Kindergarten due to Covid in which they struggled to learn the basic phonological awareness and basic phonics concepts. Therefore, they have struggled mightily in being able to read and to catch up this year due to the loss of their in-person learning. It is heartbreaking to see how some of these young students are already giving up on themselves and believe that they are not smart or capable. I have never experienced seeing students that are this young choosing to give up and not try. I believe that they just need more time, exposure, and confidence in their abilities and to see how much progress they are making.

I have selected resources that focus on early phonics skills such as word family flip books, decodable books, sight word books, phonics games, timers, and game buzzers.

These items will help students be able to practice and master these early phonics skills so that they can begin to read books, recognize sight words, and discover that they are smart and can read! It will also give my students new alternatives to practice and apply phonics skills.

Mrs. Burgess Riverton Elementary School Grades PreK-2

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Riverton, UT View local requests 20 students impacted 1donor

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
LL628X - Double-Sided Magnetic Write Wipe Board - Set of 10 • Lakeshore Learning Materials $88.99 1 $88.99
GG365X - Touch Read Phonics Word Match- Complete Set • Lakeshore Learning Materials $85.00 1 $85.00
TT302 - Phonics Flip Books • Lakeshore Learning Materials $79.99 1 $79.99
EA210X - Giant Sand Timers - Complete Set • Lakeshore Learning Materials $69.99 1 $69.99
EE417 - Word Family Flip Books • Lakeshore Learning Materials $59.99 1 $59.99
TT795X - Sight-Word Sentence Puzzles - Complete Set • Lakeshore Learning Materials $55.00 1 $55.00
TT536 - Lakeshore Fiction Sight-Word Readers - Level 2 • Lakeshore Learning Materials $49.99 1 $49.99
EE667 - Lakeshore Word Family Readers • Lakeshore Learning Materials $49.99 1 $49.99
LM390X - Splash Reading Games - Complete Set • Lakeshore Learning Materials $49.99 1 $49.99
TT557 - Lakeshore Nonfiction Sight-Word Readers - Level 1 • Lakeshore Learning Materials $49.99 1 $49.99
TT235 - Lakeshore Fiction Sight-Word Readers - Level 1 • Lakeshore Learning Materials $49.99 1 $49.99
DD489 - Student Word Building Board • Lakeshore Learning Materials $4.99 6 $29.94
PP374 - I Know the Answer Game Buzzers • Lakeshore Learning Materials $19.99 1 $19.99
LE271 - Giant Stencils Set • Lakeshore Learning Materials $19.99 1 $19.99
DD779 - Suncatchers Craft Kit • Lakeshore Learning Materials $19.99 1 $19.99
LL628 - Double-Sided Magnetic Write Wipe Board • Lakeshore Learning Materials $8.99 2 $17.98
AD576 - Pony Beads • Lakeshore Learning Materials $10.99 1 $10.99

Materials cost

$807.79

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$12.12

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$849.91

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$149.98

Total project goal

$999.89

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $999.89

1 Donor

-$999.89

Donations toward project cost

-$849.91

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$149.98

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