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Mr. Nakano from Irvine, CA is requesting supplies through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Time to Stack Up!

My students need Speed Stack StackMats to work on their growth mindset and be active with sport stacking.

FULLY FUNDED! Mr. Nakano's classroom raised $975

This project is fully funded

My Students

How many of you remember having to sit at your seat and work all day long at school when all you really wanted to do was stand up and stretch your legs? Kids go from running around outside and playing to sitting at a desk for up to six hours a day when they enter school.

In a public school setting, my students are a welcome mix of abilities, backgrounds, and family support at home.

With a 90% minority population and 40% speaking a second language at home, some of my students are still adapting their dialect to public speaking. They are eager students, always ready to present, and are willing to break out with given time. Flexible grouping allows them to communicate through different learning styles and personalities. With a positive affect, my students are engaged and enjoy working with one another.

My Project

Each year, sport stacking is introduced during inclement weather. During those times, they students compete with each other with different formations, but the most important goal for them is to compete with themselves and improve their skills. However, without an accurate timer, there has never been presented the opportunity to record their skill times and try to improve in the growth mindset style.

Sport stacking gives my students to be active and moving when conditions are poor outside.

Not only does it improve their hand-eye coordination, but many students who aren't the "jocks" often succeed as well. They continually request access to "accurate timing" procedures to record their skills. We watch many videos of sport stacking and the kids obsessively desire the same timers used in those events. This project would afford them the opportunity to not have to compete with one another, but rather improve upon their own goals.

By having enough timers for every two students, one student could be practicing their skills while the other one times and records their own score, focusing on their own skills. I hope this is the right "time" to be able to grant them this access.

Mr. Nakano Canyon View Elementary School Grades 6-8 Irvine, CA View local requests 36 students impacted 2donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Sport Stacking - Speed Stacks StackMat Pro • Amazon Business $37.99 19 $721.81

Materials cost

$721.81

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $66.05

3rd party payment processing fee

$10.83

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$828.69

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$146.24

Total project goal

$974.93

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $974.93

1 Donor

-$81.60

Donations toward project cost

-$81.60

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$0.00

match offer

-$878.93

Match offer toward project cost

-$747.09

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$131.84

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$14.40

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

 $0.00

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