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Ms. Heiman from Irving, TX is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Fostering Effective Interactions Through Play!

Help me give my students tools to identify and articulate their emotions using different resources, such as the 24 Board Books - Solobo Toys focused on feelings, which will aid them in understanding themselves and others more effectively.

  • $678 goal

This project expired on October 3, 2025.

This project expired on October 3, 2025.

My Project

Social and Emotional Learning connects to numerous aspects of our lives. Kids who experience acceptance, security, and love from an early age tend to perform better academically.

Please help me in providing my non-verbal students with tools to identify and articulate their emotions using different resources, such as the 24 Board Books - Solobo Toys focused on feelings, which will aid them in understanding themselves and others more effectively.

Teaching students to recognize how they feel first, will help them to empathize with others later. These toys and books will help them to identify and understand those feelings. It is also a way for teachers to help name and validate big feelings in students when they don't know how.

I want to enhance emotional intelligence, developing positive coping strategies, and fostering effective interactions through play!

Ms. Heiman Clifton Early Childhood 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.

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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

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Case of 24 Board Books - Solobo Toys: FEELS: A simple book about complex emotions (social emotional learning, slide-the-tab, calming corner, SEL) • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $360.00 1 $360.00
Solobo Toys: 15-pack of EMOTION BLOCKS & MINI PLAY BOXES (social emotional learning, calming corner, SEL skill-building tools, fidget toys) • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $84.00 1 $84.00
Solobo Toys: EMOTIONS COIN DROP (calming corner resources; social emotional learning toy; sensory play) • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $40.00 1 $40.00
2 SEL Book Set: Can You Touch A Color? & I've Got Feelings (hardcover picture books) - social emotional learning & awareness, kindness • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $38.00 1 $38.00
Solobo Toys: FEELS: A Simple Book About Complex Emotions (board book, social emotion learning book, calming corner, quiet focus calm down tools) • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $16.00 1 $16.00

Materials cost

$538.00

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$8.07

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$576.07

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$101.66

Total project goal

$677.73

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