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Mrs. Phillips from Chesterfield VA is requesting educational kits & games through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Encouraging Cooperative Play in Preschool

Help me give my students hands-on materials to help them build fine-motor strength and increase cooperative play skills.

  • $173 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

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My Students

I teach 3-4-year-old preschool children with a variety of developmental and physical delays in our elementary school's Early Childhood Special Education program. My students are focusing their time in school on increasing social, cognitive, adaptive, and communication skills. My students range from non-verbal to limited communication skills.

My children are eager to learn new things.

Some of my students are learning basic communication, social, and functional skills, while others are working on preparing for the transition to kindergarten. The work in my classroom prepares my students to be able to participate in activities with their general education peers.

My Project

My preschool students are working on increasing their independent play skills in a cooperative group setting. Many of their personal IEP goals include participating in a cooperative activity by sharing and exchanging materials. We are working on skills such as taking turns, building, and creating items with their peers.

Students will be able to work together to create and build as well as working on increasing fine-motor strength.

By donating to our project, you will not only help to improve social and play skills, you will ultimately help to increase their ability to interact and participate in activities as their typically developing peers.

Mrs. Phillips
Grades PreK-2

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Magnet Build Deluxe 100 Piece 3D Magnetic Tile Building Set Extra Strong Magnets and Super Durable Tiles, Educational, Creative, Assorted Shapes and Vibrant Bright Colors • Amazon Business $39.99 2 $79.98
Kinetic Sand Dino Dig Playset (Amazon Exclusive) • Amazon Business $20.21 1 $20.21
Kinetic Sand Beach Sand Kingdom Playset with 3lbs of Beach Sand (ages 3+) • Amazon Business $14.99 1 $14.99

Materials cost

$115.18

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$1.73

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$146.91

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$25.93

Total project goal

$172.84

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$172.84

3 Donors

-$87.00

Donations toward project cost

-$73.95

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$13.05

match offer

-$85.84

Match offer toward project cost

-$72.96

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$12.88

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$0.00

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