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Ms. Anna from Chicago, IL is requesting educational kits & games through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Solving Puzzles in Kindergarten!

Help me give my students floor puzzles to help their visual spatial reasoning and problem solving skills!

  • $483 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

My Project

The goal of this project is to provide engaging puzzles to my kindergarten students. My students love working on puzzles, but unfortunately we don't have any in our classroom. We have to borrow puzzles from other teachers and it is the most requested activity in my room. The benefit of working on a puzzle is that it helps increases mental speed and improves visual-spatial reasoning, which are important skills in math.

These educational puzzles will help my students develop fine motor skills, spatial awareness and increase teamwork!

Through these puzzles, my students will learn how to work with other students to complete something. The teamwork skills they develop by working together to solve these puzzles will benefit them for the rest of their schooling and professional career.

Ms. Anna Ray Elementary School Grades PreK-2

Celebrate Black teachers and kids! This project supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of students are Black.

Equity Focus

At this school, more than 50% of students are Black, Latino, and/or Native American, and more than 50% come from low-income households. Learn how your donation to this school supports a more equitable education.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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Chicago, IL View local requests

More than half of 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 10donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Melissa & Doug Dinosaur Floor Puzzle Set - Set of 2 • Kaplan Early Learning Company $40.46 1 $40.46
Melissa And Doug Melissa & Doug Safari Floor Puzzle, 100 Pieces - Early Childhood-Elementary - Toddler • School Specialty $20.84 1 $20.84
Ravensburger Sea Turtle Floor Puzzle - 100 Piece • Kaplan Early Learning Company $20.66 1 $20.66
Melissa & Doug Sea Life Floor Puzzle - 48 Pieces • Kaplan Early Learning Company $20.66 1 $20.66
Melissa & Doug Solar System Floor Puzzle • Kaplan Early Learning Company $20.66 1 $20.66
Learning Journey International Numbers 1-20 Jumbo Floor Puzzle - 50 Pieces • Kaplan Early Learning Company $18.86 1 $18.86
Lakeshore Busy Bugs Floor Puzzle • Lakeshore Learning Materials $16.99 1 $16.99
Lakeshore Ocean Animals Floor Puzzle • Lakeshore Learning Materials $16.99 1 $16.99
Melissa & Doug - Solar System Floor Puzzle • Teachers' School Supply $16.99 1 $16.99
Lakeshore On the Farm Floor Puzzle • Lakeshore Learning Materials $16.99 1 $16.99
Lakeshore Construction Site Floor Puzzle • Lakeshore Learning Materials $16.99 1 $16.99
Lakeshore Safari Animals Floor Puzzle • Lakeshore Learning Materials $16.99 1 $16.99
Lakeshore Dinosaurs Floor Puzzle • Lakeshore Learning Materials $16.99 1 $16.99
Lakeshore Our Solar System Floor Puzzle • Lakeshore Learning Materials $16.99 1 $16.99
Lakeshore Transportation Floor Puzzle • Lakeshore Learning Materials $16.99 1 $16.99
Lakeshore All Four Seasons Floor Puzzles • Lakeshore Learning Materials $16.99 1 $16.99
Melissa & Doug - Floor Puzzle Dinosaurs • Teachers' School Supply $16.99 1 $16.99
Melissa & Doug - Floor Puzzle Underwater • Teachers' School Supply $16.99 1 $16.99
Puzzle Huddle: Space Explorer 42 Pieces • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $15.95 1 $15.95

Materials cost

$361.97

Vendor shipping charges

 $12.69

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$5.43

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$410.09

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$72.37

Total project goal

$482.46

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $482.46

9 Donors

-$482.46

Donations toward project cost

-$410.09

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$72.37

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