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Ms. Amin from Charlotte, NC is requesting educational kits & games through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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If You're Happy and You Know It!

Help me give my students the ability to understand and express their feelings through the use of these social-emotional dolls.

FULLY FUNDED! Ms. Amin's classroom raised $402

This project is fully funded

My Students

Our Pre-Kindergarten program is designed to provide a child-centered, literacy-focused curriculum to prepare children for success in Kindergarten and beyond. Four-year-olds who have been identified through a screening and selection process participate in a full-day program. In our Pre-Kindergarten program, we utilize a creative curriculum for preschool, a comprehensive, research-based curriculum that features exploration and discovery as a way of learning. This program is fully aligned with our North Carolina learning standards.

Using exploration and discovery as a way of learning, our program enables children to develop confidence, creativity, and lifelong thinking skills.

My Project

Social and emotional learning is the process through which children understand and manage emotions, set and achieve positive goals, feel and show empathy for others, establish and maintain positive relationships, and make responsible decisions.

It entails taking turns, becoming independent in following routines, interacting more with peers, engaging in meaningful relationships with others, controlling emotions, and developing a positive self-image.

Sometimes it may be difficult for young children to self-regulate their emotions when they feel scared, angry or sad. That's why the Pre-Kindergarten classes have created a "safe space" in our classrooms. Safe spaces are places where children can go to calm down, be alone, and recharge so they are ready to learn. Experts know that when children don't feel safe or are in a state of emotional upset, they can't learn. Safe spaces are an effective way to help children return to a relaxed state that is optimal for learning.

Through warm and supportive relationships, teachers can assist children to make sense of and organize their feelings and teach them how to develop an understanding of their own emotional experiences. Ultimately, children have to learn how to self-regulate their own behavior so that they can feel happy and successful in the classroom environment. The feelings and emotions washable cloth dolls will help them learn to understand their own feelings -- and will help them recognize the emotions of others.

Ms. Amin Vaughn Academy of Technology at Parkside Grades PreK-2

Celebrate Black teachers and kids! This project supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of students are Black.

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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.

Charlotte, NC View local requests

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

18 students impacted 1donor

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Where Your Donation Goes

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
FF704 - Feelings & Emotions Washable Dolls • Lakeshore Learning Materials $95.00 3 $285.00

Materials cost

$285.00

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $22.23

3rd party payment processing fee

$4.28

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$341.51

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$60.27

Total project goal

$401.78

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $401.78

1 Donor

-$401.78

Donations toward project cost

-$341.51

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$60.27

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 $0.00

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