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

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Tiny People Build Giant Things!

Help me give my students jumbo magna tiles to help develop building skills, cooperation, and vocabulary development.

  • $1,394 goal

This project expired on August 20, 2025.

This project expired on August 20, 2025.

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This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.

My Project

Kids love to create and build! Every day, my 4 and 5 year old students spend time in our building area. While we have a variety of building supplies and materials, the magna tiles are particularly popular and are used daily.

Please help us get jumbo magna tiles so they can elevate their creations to child-sized buildings.

This is my students' first school experience, so they are all learning how to cooperate in a group. Building together with friends helps kids develop engineering skills while they improve language development and practice social skills.

Ms. Trickett Chapman Elementary School Grades PreK-2

Equity Focus

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

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Gardena, CA 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

20 students impacted

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Lakeshore Jumbo Magnetic Building Tiles • Lakeshore Learning Materials $499.00 2 $998.00

Materials cost

$998.00

Vendor shipping charges

$49.90

Sales tax

$91.32

3rd party payment processing fee

$14.97

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$1,184.19

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$208.97

Total project goal

$1,393.16

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