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Mrs. Quirk from El Cajon, CA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Social-Emotional Tools for Primary Kids

Help me give my students the tools of literature and storytelling to manage emotions, struggles, and differences.

FULLY FUNDED! Mrs. Quirk's classroom raised $738

This project is fully funded

My Students

My Kindergarten and 1st grade students are diverse, multi-lingual, multi-cultural sponges of new knowledge. They are inquisitive and respectful. They are curious and kind.

They absolutely deserve a classroom they can be proud of and materials that are quality and reliable.

As the area is diverse, it is also a low socio-economic area where breakfast and lunch are provided daily for every student. The majority of my students are English Language Learners, meaning English is not their first language nor spoken at home.

My Project

Schools used to be places that provided the 3 Rs, but much has changed in the education realm over the last few decades. Classrooms have become places where students are fed, where they learn to make friends, and where they sometimes have to reconcile big emotions at times.

While children can be resilient, they don't always have the tools, the vocabulary, or the maturity yet to handle complex emotions.

I want to be able to expand on those teachable moments concerning social/emotional learning that are so important to a young student- while still looking like we are just having fun!

This project helps expand my classroom library to reflect not only social-emotional struggles or relatability but also to expand into a discussion of differences. Several of my students receive special needs services, so it's important that mutual respect and understanding pervade in my classroom, which also contributes to the SEL culture within our school family. It's very important that students SEE visual representations of differences in abilities and differences in feelings and experiences. This has been a challenging year. Students need the tools to face those challenges. In addition to the expansive library this project would allow, our feelings "mirrors" would be perfect in our burgeoning "calming corner". They will allow students to NAME the feelings they're feeling and experiment with calming and self-reflection techniques.

Mrs. Quirk Johnson Elementary School Grades PreK-2

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

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

El Cajon, CA 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

25 students impacted 8donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
LC960X SocialEmotional Storytelling Kits Complete Set • Lakeshore Learning Materials $115.00 1 $115.00
RA397 Kindness Compassion Paperback Library • Lakeshore Learning Materials $105.00 1 $105.00
GA328 Learning to Get Alongsupsup Book Set • Lakeshore Learning Materials $95.50 1 $95.50
RA131 Differing Abilities Paperback Library • Lakeshore Learning Materials $92.50 1 $92.50
RE437 Feelings Emotions Paperback Library • Lakeshore Learning Materials $91.50 1 $91.50
AA708 Moods Emotions Mirrors • Lakeshore Learning Materials $39.99 1 $39.99

Materials cost

$539.49

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $49.36

3rd party payment processing fee

$8.09

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$626.94

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$110.64

Total project goal

$737.58

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $737.58

2 Donors

-$364.38

Donations toward project cost

-$317.22

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$47.16

match offer

-$364.38

Match offer toward project cost

-$309.72

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$54.66

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$8.82

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