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Ms. Olejniczak from Racine WI is requesting sports & exercise equipment through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Real Connections!

My students need and love to learn through play: promoting concept development by making connections to the real world.

  • $751 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

My Students

Our children are unique, special, and eager to learn but come from backgrounds that are less fortunate to get safe and quality education if it wasn't for me, us and our program. Our children and their families live below the poverty level. The are presented with challenges everyday. Many of our children have severe needs that can't be met at home alone. We have children with developmental delays, speech delays, and some with disabilities or disorders beyond their control. Our neighborhood supports many of the children in our classroom. Our school wants to close the achievement gap. I want to help every child I teach in one way or another.

My Project

Children will learn the connections to the real world and how these concepts relate to their actual lives. The Pump & Play station will make learning meaningful by helping children share ideas and personal experiences that are a part of their everyday lives. Children will be able to expand their thinking and talk about them: what does it look like, what does it feel like and so on. This Play station helps children focus on their understanding and learning. Children will begin to link concepts and activities to one another, children will be able to share how they are unique.

Ms. Olejniczak
Grades PreK-2

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
LC737 - Pump & Play Mud Kitchen • Lakeshore Learning Materials $599.00 1 $599.00

Materials cost

$599.00

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$8.98

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$637.98

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$112.58

Total project goal

$750.56

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$750.56

1 Donor

-$750.56

Donations toward project cost

-$637.98

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$112.58

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$0.00

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