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Ms. Calzada Castillo from Pacoima, CA is requesting art supplies through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Make Way for Summer Play!

Help me give my students an opportunity to explore a variety of outdoor manipulatives to support making choices as well as opportunities for sharing, turn taking and communicating with peers.

FULLY FUNDED! Ms. Calzada Castillo's classroom raised $519

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

Friendships are one of the best things about school, and one of the strongest reinforcements of school attendance. As a preschool special education teacher, it is of utter importance to help encourage friendships through contrived and natural social interactions.

My Pre-K (PAL) students look forward to outside play time.

We are fortunate enough to have a considerable amount of space where the children are able to ride bikes, play with a sensory table and apparatus structure, and make baskets playing basketball. There isn't much in terms of a variety of manipulative equipment, but the students have found their own special ways of making the most of what is available to them.

I have noticed that some of my least-social students have enjoyed playing the same games and the same outside areas (stations) and not interacting with their peers. Having a variety of manipulative equipment that requires my students to interact and have a mutual goal with another peer, is a step closer to social interaction, and a step closer to forging a friendship. Having students with multiple disabilities and various social skills is a challenge; this would greatly help foster the skills we are trying to encourage in school.

My Project

Fortunately I am able to work in a District where some supplies are given to our PALs program but unfortunately not all supplies last or are given to us for outdoor use. The manipulative "toys" that my students have shown enthusiasm in playing do not belong to my classroom or Preschool for All Learners (PAL) program. They are brought for my students to play with during Adapted Physical Education (APE) time or borrowed from others classes. Some of these items are old and tattered and have lost their function. I am requesting various materials to be used during outside play such as manipulatives for the water table, a set of bowling pins, playdough for outside table tops activities, a set of Keep it Safe Traffic signs so students can learn to follow directions as well as be exposed to print when outside and other various manipulatives. My students will learn how to share, take turns, and -- most importantly -- make friends with these new toys.

This project is important to not only myself, as a special education teacher, but for my students and their parents.

Some of the reasons why students are in our program is their lack of social and communication skills, among other disabilities. Parents are encouraged when they hear their children talk about their "friends at school" or "what they did at school." As an educator, I want to encourage the development of these social and communication skills, and I am more than confident that providing these toys made for sharing will help this cause.

Ms. Calzada Castillo Hillary Broadous Elementary School Grades PreK-2

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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
JJ374 - Keep It Safe! Traffic Signs • Lakeshore Learning Materials $79.99 1 $79.99
AX30 - Lakeshore Dough Assortment Set 2 • Lakeshore Learning Materials $57.99 1 $57.99
AX20 - Lakeshore Dough Assortment Set 1 • Lakeshore Learning Materials $57.99 1 $57.99
GG735 - Let’s Get Moving! Activity Mats • Lakeshore Learning Materials $49.99 1 $49.99
EE290 - Design & Build Water Blocks • Lakeshore Learning Materials $29.99 1 $29.99
VR240 - Foam Ring Toss Game • Lakeshore Learning Materials $24.99 1 $24.99
VR241 - Just My Size Golf Set • Lakeshore Learning Materials $19.99 1 $19.99
RTL129 - Mini Bowling Set • Lakeshore Learning Materials $19.99 1 $19.99
CW527 - Swing & Catch Cups - Set of 6 • Lakeshore Learning Materials $15.99 1 $15.99
BT128 - Super-Safe Bat & Ball • Lakeshore Learning Materials $13.99 1 $13.99

Materials cost

$370.90

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $33.94

3rd party payment processing fee

$5.56

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$440.40

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$77.72

Total project goal

$518.12

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $518.12

6 Donors

-$295.00

Donations toward project cost

-$250.75

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$44.25

Matching donations from our partners

-$223.12

Match offers toward project cost

-$189.65

Match offers to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$33.47

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