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.
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!
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
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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
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