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Mrs. Mancini from Waterbury, CT is requesting educational kits & games through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Learning Through Sensory Play

Help me give my students the craft and pretend play materials needed to be able to learn hands on.

FULLY FUNDED! Mrs. Mancini's classroom raised $282

This project is fully funded

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Celebrate Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.

My Students

I teach in a co-taught special education Pre-K classroom that consists of 42-3 year old students. Half of the students in the class have special needs while all of them come from very low income families. They all have diverse backgrounds including family structure and the different languages spoken. The one thing they all have in common is that when they enter my classroom, I am their very first teacher and this school year will be there first ever school experience.

My students are loving, energetic, insightful, inquisitive and hard workers; they are our future inventors, mathematicians, scientists, gardeners, and doctors.

My Project

"Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn." Benjamin Franklin.

Sensory or hands on play, benefits a child's learning and enhances cognitive and social-emotional skills, language and physical development as well as enhances their creativity.

As students learn through hands on play, its important to incorporate into the various daily learning activities that I do. Shaving cream has become a staple in my classroom. We use it in multiple activities: as a play prop, an accent for an art activity, or for a hands on learning activity to make learning a fun experience. The students absolutely love to use in on their trays as they are learning how to write or draw their shapes, letters or numbers. We mix it with paint to add color or dimensions.

I am excited to add in the fruit as well as pots and pans to our kitchen area. The students love to pretend to cook and with the addition of the pots and pans, it will make this learning activity more realistic.

Mrs. Mancini Bucks Hill Elementary School Grades PreK-2

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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.

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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

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
AB216 - Paint Craft Trays - Set of 6 • Lakeshore Learning Materials $24.99 2 $49.98
VR154 - Squish Squeeze Sensory Beads • Lakeshore Learning Materials $15.99 2 $31.98
FV526 - Fruit Vegetable Cut-Ups • Lakeshore Learning Materials $29.99 1 $29.99
GG560 - Doctors Office • Lakeshore Learning Materials $29.99 1 $29.99
HH642 - Indestructible Pots Pans Playset • Lakeshore Learning Materials $29.74 1 $29.74
Gillette Foamy Regular Shaving Foam, 11 oz (Pack of 12) • Amazon Business $21.84 1 $21.84
FA219 - Big Tape Measure • Lakeshore Learning Materials $12.99 1 $12.99

Materials cost

$206.51

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$3.10

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$239.61

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$42.28

Total project goal

$281.89

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $281.89

2 Donors

-$187.92

Donations toward project cost

-$159.74

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$28.18

match offer

-$93.97

Match offer toward project cost

-$79.87

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$14.10

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 $0.00

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