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

Building Fine and Gross Motor Skills in the Classroom

Help me give my students flexible seating to build core strength and building materials to increase hands-on exploration.

  • $382 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

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My Project

Learning takes many forms in my classroom. It is interactive with real world applications. Students not only work on building their knowledge in the academic areas of math, reading, language arts, science and social studies, but we work on developing their fine and gross motor skills. Strengthen our bodies helps to increase student learning and development.

The flexible seating will help students to develop their core strength which impacts their writing as well as helps with focus.

Currently we have the traditional desk chairs so it is important to have additional seating options.

Students also benefit from hands-on learning opportunities and building with the magna tiles and sticks help to increase their understanding of concepts in math and science. It also sparks tremendous creativity.

Ms. Mills
Grades 3-5

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
DG547 - Magna-Tiles<sup>&reg;</sup> - Master Set • Lakeshore Learning Materials $129.99 1 $129.99
LC529BU - Flex-Space Balance Ball Seat - 22" - Blue • Lakeshore Learning Materials $29.99 3 $89.97
Hapinest Turtle Steps Balance Stepping Stones Obstacle Course Coordination Game for Kids and Family - Indoor or Outdoor Sensory Play Equipment Toys Toddler Ages 3 4 5 6 7 8 Years and Up • Amazon Business $39.99 1 $39.99
DB251 - Playstix<sup>&reg;</sup> • Lakeshore Learning Materials $29.99 1 $29.99

Materials cost

$289.94

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$4.35

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$324.29

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$57.23

Total project goal

$381.52

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $381.52

2 Donors

-$346.04

Donations toward project cost

-$324.29

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$21.75

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$35.48

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 $0.00

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