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Ms. Heisler from Warsaw IL is requesting educational kits & games through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Building a Future with Magna-Tiles

Help me give my students Magna-Tiles, their favorite toy in the classroom.

  • $191 goal

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My Students

The students in my Pre-K elementary school are a mixture of 3-, 4- and 5-year-olds, including children with special needs who have been identified as affected by autism, ADHD and learning and physical disabilities. Many of the children receive speech services also. The children all live in a rural community. The population of our town is 1,700.

The students are very enthusiastic about learning through play.

The children with autism benefit from social stories and picture systems (PECS) to help develop their speech and language delays along with communicating with their teachers and peers. Because they can not read yet, the children often rely on pictures labeled with words to develop reading skills.

My Project

The Magna-Tiles in our classroom are the all-time favorite toy in our classroom. The children play with these every single day. Because they play with them so much, they are worn out and starting to crack. We currently only have one set, which makes it difficult for many children to play with them at a time.

The children will be excited to have more tiles so that they can build bigger and better structures.

This will also give more children the opportunity to play with them. We currently only let 2 children play with them at a time because they build such elaborate structures, and our supplies are limited. But this would allow us to let more children work together because it would give us more tiles to build with.

Ms. Heisler
Grades PreK-2

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Where Your Donation Goes

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
DG547 MagnaTilessupsup Master Set • Lakeshore Learning Materials $129.99 1 $129.99

Materials cost

$129.99

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$1.95

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$161.94

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$28.58

Total project goal

$190.52

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $190.52

1 Donor

-$95.26

Donations toward project cost

-$80.97

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$14.29

match offer

-$95.26

Match offer toward project cost

-$80.97

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$14.29

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 $0.00

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