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Ms. Affatato from Chicago IL is requesting educational kits & games through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Hands and Numbers Always Go Together

Help me give my students hands-on and fun number and numeracy activity options!

  • $158 goal

This project expired on May 20, 2022.

This project expired on May 20, 2022.

My Students

My 22 kindergartners are from a very low-income, Spanish-speaking dominant community in Chicago in which various gang violence, child neglect, and transience sadly, exist. Some family members are often absent from my students' lives due to holding down multiple, minimum wage jobs, deportation, incarceration, or sadly, death.

I come face to face with my students' personal struggles on a daily basis and I need your support to navigate this.

I continue educating in this community despite the lack of support, respect, and funding because I firmly believe I make a positive impact not only on my students but their families and the community at large. I vigorously teach day in and day out so they can bridge the developmental and learning gap from their early childhoods. Your support through DonorsChoose empowers me to be a more successful, more resilient, and more mindful educator.

My Project

I teach kindergarten and this is prime time for young learners to master numeracy and have safe practice to manipulate numbers. Young students need to use their whole bodies when learning.

These math puzzles, games, and activities will fully engage my students' brains and bodies to aid in number identification mastery as well as qualities.

I am confident present and future students will love these math activities and choose to use them during our center time. I have had similar in the past, and they are a big hit! Thank you for your support!

Ms. Affatato
Grades PreK-2

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
LC127 - Unlock It Number Match • Lakeshore Learning Materials $39.99 1 $39.99
DD372 - Nuts About Counting • Lakeshore Learning Materials $32.99 1 $32.99
LL688 - Learn to Count Dough Mats • Lakeshore Learning Materials $14.99 1 $14.99
PP1102 - Number Train Floor Puzzle • Lakeshore Learning Materials $13.99 1 $13.99

Materials cost

$101.96

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$1.53

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$133.49

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$23.56

Total project goal

$157.05

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