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Ms. Nardi from Camden, NJ is requesting educational kits & games through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Dramatic Play Shapes Little Minds

Help me give my students a way to foster their ability to pretend play and learn social-emotional, language, and life careers!

  • $438 goal

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My Project

The specific materials I am requesting will make a difference in the student's learning because they will help build their cognitive and social-emotional skills to pretend to play and interact with their peers. In my classroom, the students really like the dramatic play center, however with these extra materials they will explore even more! They will be given examples of actual professions in the dramatic play outfits and will be able to explore potentially what they want to be when they grow up.

My goals for this project are to transform the dramatic play center in my classroom by having the materials that will be funded to show them life, empathy, friendship, and pretend play skills!

My goals for the project are to give the students a sense of wonder, curiosity, and creativity through these materials listed. They will be able to interact with each other and build friendship skills through the sense of nurture based materials in this post and learn empathy as well through helping and taking care of each other and the materials in the center. They will also use the sweeping set to learn how to properly clean up after themselves and my students are fascinated by brooms so they will love this new addition. Lastly, the students will use the laundry machine to learn how clothes are supposed to be washed and dried.

My students are special because they are very curious and passionate about learning. They love to learn and are working on building their friendship, social emotional, and language skills to succeed in life. They have grown so much this year and these materials listed will help shape their 3-5 year old minds to think creatively, symbolically, and show them that they can be any profession they want to be someday!

Ms. Nardi Riletta T Cream Family School Grades PreK-2

Celebrate Black teachers and kids! This project supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of students are Black.

Equity Focus

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

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

More about Ms. Nardi

Camden, NJ View local requests

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

13 students impacted 5donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Kaplan Early Learning Dramatic Play Garments - Set of 5 • Kaplan Early Learning Company $179.96 1 $179.96
Melissa And Doug Melissa & Doug Deluxe Dust! Sweep! Mop! Set, 11 Pieces - Wood - Preschool-Early Childhood - Toddler • School Specialty $76.42 1 $76.42
Small World Toys Scrub-a-Dub Washing Machine with Lights & Sounds • Kaplan Early Learning Company $37.76 1 $37.76
Playgo Discovery Toddler Phone • Kaplan Early Learning Company $11.66 3 $34.98

Materials cost

$329.12

Vendor shipping charges

$7.64

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$4.94

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$371.70

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$65.59

Total project goal

$437.29

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$437.29

3 Donors

-$216.44

Donations toward project cost

-$187.72

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$28.72

match offer

-$216.45

Match offer toward project cost

-$183.98

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$32.47

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$4.41

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$0.00

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