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How many times have you heard a child say they hate math? My goal is to turn that hate into love with fun math centers! It's time to turn math into something fun and exciting! It's time to get...
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My students need math center activities that will enhance their independent math skills.

Do you remember math being boring? That's how I remember math as a kid. My students love math, but we need more manipulatives to make our lessons more hands-on. I try to incorporate math...
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My students need color chips, number tiles, counters, headphones for a listening center, and labels for the classroom so they can find everything!

Reading and writing can be difficult and boring if the lessons are not fun and interactive. Interactive notebooks will help the kinesthetic student prepare for the Common Core Standards. <br /> My...
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My students need materials for building their interactive notebooks for English class.

Have you ever tried learning a new language and gotten so frustrated you just give up? This is the struggle my 15 first grade, native Spanish speaking, students go through each and every day. Only...
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My students need a set of phonics-based listening centers, to improve and support their understanding and mastery of the English language.

What's life like outside of Arizona? My fourth grade students are craving to learn more about the world around them! With little time for social studies, my students are fascinated when current...
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My students need 30 subscriptions to TIME for Kids to read during literacy centers.

Have you ever wished you had help reading a story? If you had a CD of the story to read along with, the story would be so much more enjoyable. I teach 30 4th graders at a Title I school. Many of...
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My students need 4 portable CD players to improve their reading and comprehension skills.

Have you ever felt powerless? My students feel it everyday. My students live in a state that does not value their culture and background and are faced with challenges that no 13 year old should...
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My students need a class set of Hunger Game books so we can complete a unit about rising above and struggling to get power in useless situations.

What is the difference between an oral presentation and a filmed video performance? For my fifth graders, it is the difference between apathy and excitement. My students are gifted fifth graders...
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My students need a camcorder, memory cards, and a tripod for making videos to extend their learning and creativity.

Do you remember what it was like the first time you read a book that you couldn't put down? My students need the Leap Frog TAG learning system to help them read books independently. My students...
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My students need 4 leap frog tag reading systems and 8 tag books to help them enjoy reading books independently.

Most of us remember the lessons we learned and the wonderful teachers we had in Elementary School, but few of us remember how many times a 7-year-old has to go to the bathroom. A reminder... it's...
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My students need toilet paper, a basic need that my school is about to run out of!

My students are beginning to view and form opinions and beliefs about the world around them. However, most have had very limited exposure to the events and people of the past. My students need...
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My students need 4 historical nonfiction books that introduce them to important people and events from the past.

My students are a group of bright, creative, and involved middle school children chomping at the bit to interactively solve every math problem possible. I also teach special needs students that...
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My students need a Livescribe smart pen and notebook paper to assist with student assessments and math instruction.

Budget cuts have prevented our school from purchasing much needed science equipment. I work at a high poverty public school in Arizona. My students' families do not have money for the basic...
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My students need 2 Electricity Labs and a Power Surge game to perform hands-on electricity experiments.

One of the more discouraging things in reading, is to come across a word and not know what it says. You try your best to sound it out, only to realize that the rules don't apply to this word. ...
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My students need 6 Tag Reading Systems with a storybook.

My students are just learning to love reading, and I want them to continue to grow as readers and writers with their own reading and writing notebooks. My students are the amazing third grade...
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My students need 2 notebooks for our reader's and writer's workshop.

GET LOST! When it comes to reading I want my students to just leap into every book they can. Unfortunately for some of them, reading is difficult, unexciting, and down-right painful. Help me push...
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My students need these 4 Leapfrog Tag School Readers to "get lost" while reading, get excited about it, and become successful independent readers.

Right now we have two computers in our room, both of which are more years than we can guess old, and freeze constantly doing basic assignments online. With laptops at each desk, we could work more...
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My students need 4 netbooks so they can do more online assignments and research, and gain 21st century work and technology skills.

Wouldn't you enjoy reading a good book on a Nook Tablet, instead of an old book that is falling apart. I teach 28 fifth grade students in a Title 1 school district. Many of my students do not have...
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My students need two Nook Tablets because they will make their reading more enjoyable.

The best part of teaching students that are so young is that they are all still eager and love school. My goal as a teacher is to encourage that love of learning and help it to continue by...
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My students need basic school supplies, like pencils, glue and crayons, to finish out the school year.

We have used, used and reused our games, floor puzzles and books for more than 5 years. They are simply falling apart because we love using them. My students are the most amazing students in the...
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My students need new books, games and floor puzzles that will help teach them social and character skills that will make them the best they can be!