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Ms. Kerai from Salem, MA is requesting educational kits & games through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Let’s Give Them Something to Talk About!

Help me give my students these cooperative games and building toys to help with social skills and language.

FULLY FUNDED! Ms. Kerai's classroom raised $245

This project is fully funded

My Project

Students struggle with conversation with their peers. Unfortunately quarantining during COVID did not help language development or social skills. The board games and building toys I have chosen will help aide discussions among students and give the struggling students a place to start their conversations and a topic. My goal with these games and LEGOs is to build community within my classroom that will make our classroom family strong. By doing so we will help our school community in the larger sense by being role models with this endeavor. Everyone wants to feel like them belong and this will be our first building block to making that happen.

Ms. Kerai Horace Mann Laboratory School Grades 3-5

Equity Focus

This project directly supports students at a historically underfunded school. Learn more about our Equity Focus.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Salem, MA 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

24 students impacted 7donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
LEGO Creative Brick Set - 45020 • Kaplan Early Learning Company $99.95 1 $99.95
Perfection Game - Beat the Clock • Kaplan Early Learning Company $35.96 1 $35.96
Mindware Qwirkle Board Game Grades Kindergarten - 6 (MWA32016W) • Staples $24.49 1 $24.49
1087- Pay Day Board Game • AKJ Education $14.60 1 $14.60

Materials cost

$175.00

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$2.62

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$207.62

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$36.64

Total project goal

$244.26

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$244.26

6 Donors

-$240.73

Donations toward project cost

-$207.62

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$33.11

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$3.53

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$0.00

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