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Grand Opening of the Kindergarten Grocery Store

The cost of the materials for the grocer store is $206, including shipping and <a target="new" href="http://www.donorschoose.org/html/fulfillment.htm" onclick="g_openWindow('http://www.donorschoose.org/html/fulfillment.htm', 300, 800, 'fulfillwindow');return false;">fulfillment</a>.

  • $218 goal

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Celebrate Black Teachers and Students

This project is part of the Black History Month celebration because it supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of the students are Black.

I am a first year Kindergarten teacher in a brand new school in Chicago's West Inglewood neighborhood. The activity I am proposing will be the culmination of an upcoming unit about nutrition. I want to capture my students' energetic imaginations by creating a grocery store in our dramatic play center. This project will not only help my 24 students learn about nutritious choices they can make while shopping; but also about counting and exchanging money, two skills we have been practicing for the past few weeks. Unfortunately, our math series did not provide play money with its manipulative kit, and the only coins available are ones I buy at the bank. Throughout the year, I have noticed that my students learn best with hands-on experience. One of their favorite activities was estimating how many seeds we would find in our Halloween pumpkin, which we carved and placed in the water table for an oozing sensory experience. I believe the upcoming nutrition unit to be extremely important for my students, whose idea of a good breakfast includes pop and Flamin' Hot Cheetos. I know that having a class grocery store, complete with cash register, play money, dramatic play word cards, and play food will be the perfect culminating activity for this exciting unit!

Mrs. Flores
Grades PreK-2

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
RR390X - Let?s Go Shopping Food Baskets - Co • Lakeshore Learning $69.95 1 $69.95
DA623 - Real-Working Cash Register • Lakeshore Learning $24.95 1 $24.95
LC887 - Lakeshore Classroom Money Kit • Lakeshore Learning $19.95 1 $19.95
LC1308 - Extra 500 Coin Set • Lakeshore Learning $14.95 1 $14.95
GG631 - Grocery Store Writing Box • Lakeshore Learning $12.95 1 $12.95

Materials cost

$142.75

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

3rd party payment processing fee

Fulfillment labor & materials

Total project cost

$178.35

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$39.15

Total project goal

$217.50

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $217.50

1 Donor

-$179.00

Donations toward project cost

-$179.00

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$0.00

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$39.29

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 $0.00

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