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Mrs. Kleven from Milwaukee WI is requesting supplies through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Is a Puzzle Still a Puzzle Without All the Pieces?

My students need puzzles to increase fine motor, early learning skills, attending, self-hep skills, and independence.

  • $273 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

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Celebrate Black Teachers and Students

This project is part of the Black History Month celebration because it supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of the students are Black.

My Students

In my classroom, we live by one mantra: "Start where you are, Use what you have, Do what you can." While my students with special needs have many obstacles to overcome, they will be able to make great gains with the appropriate teaching and tools.

My students are creative, enthusiastic, and love to learn.

In our classroom, we foster a love for learning while providing 3, 4, and 5 year olds with disabilities the opportunities to develop skills that will build the foundation of learning for many years to come. My students are diagnosed with a variety of disabilities including autism, orthopedic impairment, significant developmental delays, brain trauma, and lead poisoning, but like most young children, they love to learn, have fun, get messy, and play with their friends. Our school is located in a large urban school district in Wisconsin and over 95% of the children in my room come from a home in poverty. My students face many challenges at school and in the community, but are always laughing and smiling.

My Project

Puzzles are essential to the Early Childhood classroom because they teach so many skills. Many of my students with special needs need extra practice to learn the skills necessary to complete this task like their peers. We are able to use puzzles to promote early learning skills like matching, shapes, and sizes. Puzzles also strengthen fine motor skills and teach children to work independently. My students also get a lesson in self-help and responsibility because they are expected to get the puzzle, use it, clean it up, and put it in its proper place. Finally, puzzles can foster language development and social skills as the kids talk with their friends or an adult about what they are doing. We use puzzles almost daily and currently only have puzzles that are very old, broken, or missing pieces. This would be a welcome addition in our classroom.

Having bright, engaging, and complete puzzles would be a huge improvement to our classroom environment.

We use puzzles through out the day for both free time and center work. These puzzles would not only provide endless learning opportunities but also give my students the joy of getting to experience a brand new, age appropriate today, which many of them do not have access to in their homes.

Mrs. Kleven
Grades PreK-2

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
PP190 - Lakeshore Preschool Puzzle Library with Rack • Lakeshore Learning Materials $199.00 1 $199.00

Materials cost

$199.00

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$2.98

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$231.98

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$40.94

Total project goal

$272.92

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $272.92

5 Donors

-$203.51

Donations toward project cost

-$176.73

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$26.78

match offer

-$65.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$55.25

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$9.75

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$4.41

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 $0.00

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