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Mrs. Schirding from Los Angeles, CA is requesting educational kits & games through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Building Community With LEGOS

Help me give my students an opportunity to image and collaborate with their peers while encouraging positive behavior.

FULLY FUNDED! Mrs. Schirding's classroom raised $190

This project is fully funded

Celebrating Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

Celebrate Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.

My Students

Our Kindergarten students are wonderful and caring children with a bright educational future ahead of them. I want to provide my new students with the right start they need and deserve when they begin their educational careers. My goal is to make their first school experience a tremendous one.

Our students are motivated to learn, play, and achieve success!

Our school has made tremendous gains over the past 12 years, moving from one of the lowest-performing schools in the area to achieving the honor of being named a Distinguished School! We are an example of a community of students, teachers, parents, and staff, all working together for academic achievement. Our hope is that many of our students will be the first generation in their family to go to college!

My Project

Everyone loves LEGOs! Creating, building, imagining. The possibilities are endless.

These LEGOs are going to encourage my students to be kind and have positive behavior.

Students will get a LEGO when they demonstrate making good choices or an act of kindness. They will get to tap into their creativity while picking a LEGO piece and when deciding where to put it. Students will get to add their LEGO to our classroom base. It will be really fun and interesting to see what the students create while they are working together.

Not only will the Class LEGO Creation encourage positive behavior, it will also be linked to our Science and Engineering and well as writing standards. Students will be asked to explain why they put the LEGO in a certain place. Once we are out of pieces, students will be asked to write or dictate what the object is and what it will be used for.

Mrs. Schirding Garvanza Elementary School Grades PreK-2

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This project directly supports students at a historically underfunded school. Learn more about our Equity Focus.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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More than three‑quarters of students from low‑income households Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more

24 students impacted 1donor

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
LEGO Classic Large Creative Brick Box 10698 Build Your Own Creative Toys, Kids Building Kit (790 Pieces) • Amazon Business $47.99 1 $47.99
LEGO Classic Large Creative Brick Box 10698 Build Your Own Creative Toys, Kids Building Kit (790 Pieces) • Amazon Business $47.99 1 $47.99
LEGO Classic Green Baseplate Supplement for Building, Playing, and Displaying LEGO Creations, 10 x 10 inches, Large Building Base Accessory for Kids and Adults • Amazon Business $5.69 4 $22.76

Materials cost

$118.74

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$10.86

3rd party payment processing fee

$1.78

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$161.38

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$28.48

Total project goal

$189.86

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$189.86

1 Donor

-$189.86

Donations toward project cost

-$161.38

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$28.48

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$0.00

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