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Ms. Berry from San Francisco CA is requesting educational kits & games through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Play Is the Work of Childhood!

My students need engaging choice time activities to support learning across subjects. With magnetic tiles they are engineers! With giant bugs, they are scientists! With puppets, they are playwrights!

  • $341 goal

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My Students

We are a small class with many high-needs students, many of whom have faced more trauma in their six or seven years than anyone should experience in a lifetime. 100% of my students receive free lunch.

They are resilient, curious, eager learners who come to school every day and do their best with the tools they have.

They are loving and empathetic, always quick to offer a hug or check in when they sense a classmate is having a hard day.

My Project

My students' favorite part of the day is choice time, even with our ragtag collection of toys and games left behind by previous teachers and cobbled together from family and friends. Many are damaged or missing pieces, but they never complain. These creative souls deserve a wider assortment of engaging, high-quality activities.

During choice time my first-graders are building social-emotional skills, engineering towers, thinking mathematically, exploring science, and- perhaps most importantly- using those giant imaginations.

Play is the ultimate cross-curricular experience. Students can interact with numbers through games like Uno and Chutes and Ladders. They can create stories and imaginary worlds with puppets and plastic figures, using rich language and dialogue that shows up in their writing.

But my favorite part of playtime is watching them take the tools we are learning in our social-emotional curriculum and put them into practice. They use skills like taking turns, handling disappointment with grace, and problem-solving independently. With all of the stress and responsibility they face outside of the classroom, they also need the time to just be kids.

Ms. Berry
Grades PreK-2

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
RR580X - Big Mouth Animal Puppets - Complete Set • Lakeshore Learning Materials $55.00 1 $55.00
BT224 - Giant Bug Collection • Lakeshore Learning Materials $49.99 1 $49.99
PicassoTiles 100 Piece Set 100pcs Magnet Building Tiles Clear Magnetic 3D Building Blocks Construction Playboards, Creativity beyond Imagination, Inspirational, Recreational, Educational Conventional • Amazon Business $49.98 1 $49.98
FF491 - Alphabet Collage Beads • Lakeshore Learning Materials $14.99 1 $14.99
Chutes and Ladders Game (Amazon Exclusive) • Amazon Business $14.95 1 $14.95
Mattel Games UNO Card Game Tin • Amazon Business $13.94 1 $13.94
Dreamtop 100m Rainbow Color Elastic Cord Beading Thread Stretch String Craft Cord, 1mm • Amazon Business $10.99 1 $10.99
Wonder Forge Marvel Matching Game, Blue • Amazon Business $10.92 1 $10.92
Hasbro Connect 4 Game • Amazon Business $8.77 1 $8.77
YE1621 - Collage Beads • Lakeshore Learning Materials $4.99 1 $4.99

Materials cost

$234.52

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $21.46

3rd party payment processing fee

$3.52

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$289.50

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$51.09

Total project goal

$340.59

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $340.59

4 Donors

-$290.59

Donations toward project cost

-$247.00

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$43.59

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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 $0.00

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