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Mrs. Hirschmiller from El Cajon, CA is requesting art supplies through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Flying Into STEM-Spring Style

Help me give my students a butterfly garden, insect peepers, a STEM butterfly science kit, butterfly scratch cards, a bug toss, and spring themed gems and jewels for counting.

FULLY FUNDED! Mrs. Hirschmiller's classroom raised $759

This project is fully funded

Celebrating Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

Celebrate Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.

My Project

Transitional Kindergarteners are curious hands-on learners. They need repetition and lots of practice to master foundational skills like, scientific observation, geometry, counting and number sense. Utilizing STEM activities and counting collections gives them this important practice. Counting Collections is a structured opportunity for children to count a collection of objects. They might count the items one by one, skip-count by groups, or sort and count the sorted groups they make. After the children have organized and counted the collection, they record how they counted the objects in the collection.

When students have the opportunity to physically observe scientific phenomena, explore physics, and handle and count objects in a collection, they build science skills and number sense which strengthens math and science process skills like observing, communicating, classifying, measuring, inferring, one-to-one correspondence, cardinality, conservation, subtilizing, estimating, skip-counting, and flexible thinking.

Your donation to this project will provide students in this classroom with a butterfly garden and creature peepers for students to physically observe the life cycle of a butterfly, a magnetic bug toss counting game and variety of spring themed beads, gems, and figurines, for students to count. These counting collections will give students a variety of materials to physically hold, move, count, organize, and sort. This hands-on practice will help them master the most foundational skill in mathematics, counting. The butterfly scratch cards will help students explore the geometric idea of symmetry, and the Crayola STEM kit lets students learn about the physics of capillary action as colorful inks are absorbed into the wings of paper butterflies!

Mrs. Hirschmiller Johnson Elementary School Grades PreK-2

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

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

El Cajon, CA View local requests

Nearly all 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

24 students impacted 5donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Insect Lore Creature Peeper - Preschool-Early Childhood - Toddler - Durable • School Specialty $8.99 8 $71.92
Zalaxt Acrylic Assorted 120 pcs Ocean Sea Shells, 6 Styles Mixed Marine Life, Acrylic Vase Fillers for Wedding Prop, Plastic Table Scatter, Acrylic Gems Home Decor • Amazon Business $12.99 5 $64.95
LYFJXX Acrylic Gems Crystals Assorted Color Cartoon Butterfly for Vase Fillers,Table Scatter, Party Favor, Wedding Decoration, Table Vase Centerpiece, DIY Arts Crafts Pendants(Butterfly) • Amazon Business $11.88 5 $59.40
Crayola Paper Butterfly Science Kit, STEAM Toy, Gift for Kids, Ages 7, 8, 9, 10 • Amazon Business $26.99 2 $53.98
120 Pcs Easter Vase Filler, Multicolor Pearl Beads Candy Cane Floating Pearls for Vases Home Table Centerpiece Party Decor • Amazon Business $9.95 5 $49.75
100 Pcs Pirate Treasure Jewels Bling Diamonds Jumbo Acrylic Large Fake Gems Vase Filler Halloween Multicolor Plastic Gemstones for Party Table Scatters Decorations Pirate Party Favors, 6 Styles • Amazon Business $9.79 5 $48.95
Royal Imports Acrylic Gems Ice Crystal Rocks for Vase Fillers, Party Table Scatter, Wedding, Photography, Party Decoration, Crafts, 3 LBS (Approx 580-600 gems) - Gold • Amazon Business $22.76 2 $45.52
Entervending Acrylic Gems - Vase Filler -Small Plastic Cubes - Approx. 10.6 Oz Fake Jewels - Assorted Color Plastic Gemstones - 14 mm Plastic Gem - Table Scatters Crystals - Aquarium Jewels • Amazon Business $8.99 5 $44.95
Lakeshore Magnetic Bug Toss • Lakeshore Learning Materials $39.99 1 $39.99
Insect Lore Products Butterfly Garden Set • Kaplan Early Learning Company $28.76 1 $28.76
MTLEE 2106 Pieces Easter Vase Fillers Pearl for Vases Fillers Vase Filler Easter Filler for Vases Candles Centerpiece Easter Party Decor for Easter Home Table Party Decor(Rabbit Style) • Amazon Business $15.99 1 $15.99
MTLEE 2106 Pieces Easter Vase Fillers Pearl for Vases Fillers Vase Filler Easter Filler for Vases Candles Centerpiece Easter Party Decor for Easter Home Table Party Decor(Rabbit Style) • Amazon Business $15.99 1 $15.99
Deekin 72 Pieces Butterfly Scratch Cards Rainbow Spring Scratch Crafts Butterfly Party Favors with 36 Pieces Bamboo Stylus for Girls Boys Classroom Games DIY Crafts Home Ornaments, 12 Styles • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99

Materials cost

$549.14

Vendor shipping charges

$7.19

Sales tax

$50.25

3rd party payment processing fee

$8.24

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$644.82

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$113.79

Total project goal

$758.61

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$758.61

4 Donors

-$218.94

Donations toward project cost

-$218.94

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$0.00

match offer

-$501.04

Match offer toward project cost

-$425.88

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$75.16

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$38.64

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$0.00

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