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Ms. Whitaker from Pittsburgh PA is requesting educational kits & games through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Groovy Fingers At Work!

Help me give my students a chance to work on their fine motor skills.

  • $405 goal

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My Students

I work with low income families. To see the look on their faces when you introduce them to something new is priceless. The joy they get from learning new things daily is a great feeling. Our families are unable to help with items that we need in class to do a great project and let the kids have fun. Our school is located in Knoxville, and most of our families and kids live around violence daily.

I would like to give them as many good experiences as I can while teaching them daily.

Receiving materials to help with this concept would help out tremendously.

My Project

My students need to work on their fine motor skills. They can use the materials to build, use their imagination and create awesome things. The feeding games will help them use the tweezers to feed the animals and practice fine motor skills. The other items will help them be creative as well as work on fine motor skills. I would like for them to use their imagination while working on this skill. The manipulatives we have don't really give them the opportunity to work on their fine motor skills. Hopefully with newer toys in our class they will get the chance.

Ms. Whitaker
Grades PreK-2

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
RA468 - 3-D Magnetic Builders - Starter Set • Lakeshore Learning Materials $54.99 1 $54.99
RA181 - Best-Buy Jumbo Building Bricks - Starter Set • Lakeshore Learning Materials $39.99 1 $39.99
DD561 - Lakeshore Counting Cones • Lakeshore Learning Materials $29.99 1 $29.99
FF209 - Young Architects Design Blocks - Starter Set • Lakeshore Learning Materials $29.99 1 $29.99
LK467 - Crystal Climbers • Lakeshore Learning Materials $24.99 1 $24.99
RE214 - Lakeshore Pipe Builders • Lakeshore Learning Materials $24.99 1 $24.99
DB251 - Playstix® • Lakeshore Learning Materials $24.99 1 $24.99
EE602 - Feed-The-Monkey Fine Motor Game • Lakeshore Learning Materials $21.99 1 $21.99
EE601 - Feed-The-Dog Fine Motor Game • Lakeshore Learning Materials $21.99 1 $21.99
RR938 - Candy Jar Counting Box • Lakeshore Learning Materials $19.99 1 $19.99
SW769 - Slot-Together Snowflakes • Lakeshore Learning Materials $14.99 1 $14.99

Materials cost

$308.89

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$4.63

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$343.52

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$60.62

Total project goal

$404.14

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$404.14

10 Donors

-$205.75

Donations toward project cost

-$174.89

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$30.86

match offer

-$198.39

Match offer toward project cost

-$168.63

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$29.76

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$0.00

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