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Ms. K. from Santa Cruz, CA is requesting educational kits & games through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Kids Learn Through Play

Help me give my students some quality furniture for our class dollhouse made from natural materials that will hold up through the years.

  • $282 goal

This project expired on October 1, 2023.

This project expired on October 1, 2023.

My Project

“In addition to promoting curiosity, exploration and creativity, play provides children with the opportunity to practice important executive function and self-regulation skills like paying attention, inhibiting their impulses and remembering and updating information,” according to Professor Stephanie Jones at Harvard University.

Play is especially important in my foreign language immersion classroom where I am trying to build bridges between my Spanish speaking and my English speaking students.

I need help to supplement the materials we have to promote those skills. I've been gifted a sturdy wooden dollhouse, and now we need furniture to go with it so students can use it together.

Ms. K.
Grades PreK-2

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Lakeshore Classic Dollhouse Furniture • Lakeshore Learning Materials $189.00 1 $189.00

Materials cost

$189.00

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$17.29

3rd party payment processing fee

$2.84

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$239.13

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$42.20

Total project goal

$281.33

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