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Ms. McCarthy from Glassport PA is requesting educational kits & games through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

A New Way to Explore Dramatic Play

Help me give my students some creative new materials to explore dramatic play!

  • $507 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

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My Students

I work with a great group of preschool students who come from varying ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds. Our students come in every morning enthusiastic and ready to learn. They are a very energetic, talkative and fun-loving group who love to ask questions. Our school is located in a low income community. We strive to provide a safe learning environment for our students.

Hands-on learning is what our energetic students need to succeed.

We are trying to provide more of this learning style to prepare our students for higher grades to come. Our goal is to provide our students with a preschool learning experience that they will carry with them for years to come.

This year has brought some changes to our classroom dynamic! We are still able to service 19 students, but 10 will be in person and 9 will be virtual, with everyone being virtual on Fridays. To help prepare our students learning at home, we are trying to give them the supplies they need at home and in the classroom to still have fun while learning in this new preschool setting!

My Project

We are looking for new materials to use for our Dramatic Play area. We are unable to use most of the materials we have because they are made of wood or cloth and the students can't share them safely. These new materials will help our students explore some fantasy and dramatic play with materials that we can safely clean on a daily basis.

We all need some creativity in our lives!

The students will be able to play together with these materials. They can go on adventures to kingdoms and castles, explore a world under the sea, learn about community helpers and take a journey into prehistoric times. We can't wait to see how the students learn using these new materials!

Ms. McCarthy
Grades PreK-2

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
DD797 Royal Kingdom Adventure Castle • Lakeshore Learning Materials $59.99 1 $59.99
DD808 UnderTheSea Mermaid Palace • Lakeshore Learning Materials $49.99 1 $49.99
TT411 RealAction Fire Engine • Lakeshore Learning Materials $49.99 1 $49.99
TT451 Fairy Land Playset • Lakeshore Learning Materials $49.99 1 $49.99
DC346 Classic Dinosaur Collection • Lakeshore Learning Materials $49.99 1 $49.99
PP779 Play Explore Rocket • Lakeshore Learning Materials $39.99 1 $39.99
GM298 Build Play Dinos • Lakeshore Learning Materials $34.99 1 $34.99
VR201 I Can Build It • Lakeshore Learning Materials $29.99 1 $29.99
RR724 Lakeshore Magnetic Fishing Set • Lakeshore Learning Materials $29.99 1 $29.99

Materials cost

$394.91

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$5.92

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$430.83

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$76.03

Total project goal

$506.86

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$506.86

11 Donors

-$260.00

Donations toward project cost

-$221.00

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$39.00

match offer

-$246.86

Match offer toward project cost

-$209.83

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$37.03

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$0.00

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