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Mrs. Simons from Colorado Springs CO is requesting reading nooks, desks & storage through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Learning Through Symbolic Play in Preschool Centers

Help me give my students a block cabinet, a dollhouse, and a kitchen play set for students' cognitive and language development through intentional play.

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My Project

Preschoolers are continually active and busy students. It takes a lot to keep their focus and attention. Our classroom centers need some replacements for old and broken things as well as some brand-new classroom items. Our block center and dramatic play centers are busy places in preschool. The play in these centers are sometimes rough and the materials there are very worn out. The plates, pans, and dollhouse will replace our damaged or lost items and will be enjoyed and played with on a daily basis. The block cabinet will organize our soft block set and make more room in the block center for other materials.

By donating to this project, you are giving so many learning materials for our dramatic play and block center for our preschool for students to develop social and language skills.

The students learn so much when interacting with these materials. They learn to use their imagination, take turns, self-regulate, and best of all - make friends. Thank you so much for supporting early childhood education.

Mrs. Simons
Grades PreK-2

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Lakeshore Unit Block Storage Cabinet - Starter Set • Lakeshore Learning Materials $399.00 1 $399.00
Lakeshore Giant Classic Dollhouse • Lakeshore Learning Materials $279.00 1 $279.00
Lakeshore Just Like Home Kitchen Playset • Lakeshore Learning Materials $32.99 1 $32.99

Materials cost

$710.99

Vendor shipping charges

$35.55

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$10.66

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$787.20

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$138.92

Total project goal

$926.12

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$926.12

1 Donor

-$50.00

Donations toward project cost

-$42.50

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$7.50

PNC Grow Up Great® match offer

-$50.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$42.50

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$7.50

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$826.12

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