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Mrs. Greenblatt from Hillside, NJ is requesting supplies through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Mrs. Greenblatt's classroom raised $509

Cooking Our Way Through the Kindergarten Curriculum

My students need mixing bowls, measuring cups, a slow cooker, and a counter top stove to experience preparing and cooking food as related to the content areas.

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Mrs. Greenblatt Abram P Morris ECC
Hillside, NJ Grades PreK-2

I am a kindergarten teacher in a high-need community. I teach in a facility that has no cooking facility which is an essential component of the early childhood curriculum.

The soup is boiling and the cookies are in the oven. The aromas of fresh food waft through the air and your taste buds begin to water. You envision a gourmet chef, standing before you. But wait, stop the video, there is no chef, no smells, just words and pictures from the literacy or science unit. Your students turn to you with those large eyes and you ponder, how can I make this unit come alive? Kindergarten today is not what it was years ago. The early childhood curriculum is centered around the content area of literacy, math, science and social studies. Today's kindergarten is comparable to first grade. There is great emphasis on reading, writing, math and science. What better way to make these areas come to life than through hands on activities, like cooking and baking.

In order to integrate cooking into my units, I need a few cooking essentials to get started. The five senses unit will come alive with a host of cooking and baking activities. The stove will help us bake the cookies and the mixing bowls and measuring cups will help with the preparation. The unit on fractions will have new meaning when we use measuring cups. In addition, the slow cooker will be used for our literacy units that talk about soup; along with preparing delicious dishes for our cultural celebrations. All these activities will endow the children with a host of writing activities for their journals.

I have been teaching for over 18 years and I have never been in an early childhood center that does not have a cooking facility. The cooking and baking activities that I propose will enhance our early childhood curriculum. It will help us understand concepts that otherwise are to be seen just in books and movies. For some, these experiences are lacking in their own homes because today's parents lack the time or interest, to bake or prepare a homemade soup. A longterm goal would be, that these memories will stick with the children forever, and they will be inspired to bake and cook with their own children.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

More than half of students from low‑income households

25 students impacted 13 donors
Mrs. Greenblatt Abram P Morris ECC Grades PreK-2

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Hillside, NJ View local requests

More than half 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

25 students impacted 13donors

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Kitchen Aid Counter Top Oven • Best Buy $149.99 1 $149.99
Kitchen Aid Measuring Spoons • Best Buy $8.99 1 $8.99
Kitchen Aid Spatula Scraper • Best Buy $7.49 1 $7.49
Kitchen Aid Measuring Cups • Best Buy $15.99 1 $15.99
Kitchenaid Mixing Bowls Set Of 3-Red • Best Buy $24.99 1 $24.99
Kitchen Aid 7 Quart Slow Cooker • Best Buy $132.99 1 $132.99
RUBBERMAID BOUNCER 2 QT MEASURE CUP,CLEAR -- Rubbermaid Bouncer Measuring Cups; 2-Quart • Quill Corporation $15.29 1 $15.29

Materials cost

$355.73

Vendor shipping charges

 $35.57

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$8.89

Fulfillment labor & materials

$17.00

Total project cost

$417.00

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$91.54

Total project goal

$508.54

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $508.54

12 Donors

-$472.94

Donations toward project cost

-$417.00

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$55.94

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$35.60

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 $0.00

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