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Mrs. K. from CA is requesting sports & exercise equipment through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Choose to Move 1,000 Minute Challenge

My students need scooter boards, balls, stilts and other items for active play in order to complete our "1,000 Minutes" physical activity challenge designed to get children to choose to move.

  • $640 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

My Students

My students are energetic, inquisitive and enthusiastic. They enjoy learning through hands-on experiences. This year, due to construction issues at our school, I share a classroom with another kindergarten teacher. We team teach a class of forty-seven children. Our students come from a variety of cultural and linguistic backgrounds, and many are learning English as a second language. The majority of our students speak either Spanish or Punjabi at home.

Our school has a STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Math) focus and our curriculum is hands-on and project based.

Our classroom is an active one where hands-on learning is the norm.

My Project

During this year's parent conferences, I was surprised to learn that the most frequent concern parents had was about our PE program. This year I have quite a few overweight students, and the parents are concerned about their children's health. We only have scheduled PE activities twice a week due to time restraints. This isn't enough time to make a real difference for children who are inactive during the rest of the school day and often at home as well. This project is designed to get children to choose to be active during the school day and at home.

This project will allow me to purchase PE equipment and timers so that children can complete a 1,000 minute "choose to move" challenge during which they attempt to log 1,000 minutes of physical activity by the end of the year.

The emphasis will be on encouraging children to choose to be active. This can occur during recess when items purchased through the project like scooter boards, soccer balls, footballs, basketballs, jump ropes, and stilts can help motivate children to be active. Children can "choose to move" during free time in the classroom using the American Heart Association's exercise iPad app: NFL Play 60 and using items purchased through the project such as wrist ribbons for dancing. Children can also choose to log minutes at home, "choosing to move" by walking, running or cycling instead of less active free-time options. Students will use timers, purchased through the project, to keep track of the minutes they log at school. Parents will be able to "send in" home minutes with children's returned homework packets each week. At the end of the year, those who have completed the 1,000 minute challenge will be recognized during kindergarten graduation.

Mrs. K.
Grades PreK-2
  • Next Generation Steam Academy
  • Lathrop, CA
  • This project will reach 24 students.

    3 donors have given to this project.

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
BC641BU - Scooter Board - Blue • Lakeshore Learning Materials $19.99 6 $119.94
Foam Basketball • Kaplan Early Learning Company $10.16 6 $60.96
SOCCERBALL -FOAM COATED SIZE 3 - SPORTIME • School Specialty $9.58 6 $57.48
BALL PG 8.5 INCH - SET OF 6 - SPORTIME • School Specialty $25.55 2 $51.10
Platform Stilts - 6 pair • Kaplan Early Learning Company $31.41 1 $31.41
HH828 - Children’s Timer - Set of 6 • Lakeshore Learning Materials $29.99 1 $29.99
Foam Turbo Football • Kaplan Early Learning Company $4.21 6 $25.26
DD127 - Lakeshore Wrist Ribbons - Set of 12 • Lakeshore Learning Materials $24.99 1 $24.99
FB188X - Swivel-Handle Jump Ropes - Set of 6 • Lakeshore Learning Materials $22.99 1 $22.99
LA702 - Best-Buy Color Cones • Lakeshore Learning Materials $14.99 1 $14.99
UB90 - Drawstring Ball Bag • Lakeshore Learning Materials $4.99 3 $14.97

Materials cost

$454.08

Vendor shipping charges

$10.86

Sales tax

$41.55

3rd party payment processing fee

$6.81

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$543.30

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$95.88

Total project goal

$639.18

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$639.18

2 Donors

-$319.59

Donations toward project cost

-$271.66

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$47.93

match offer

-$319.57

Match offer toward project cost

-$271.63

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$47.94

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$0.01

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$0.00

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