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Ms. Toothaker from Manchester ME is requesting supplies through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Way To Grow!

My students need hands-on materials, such as a height chart and measurement tools, to experience the math concept of measurement and nutrition and exercise materials to gain knowledge about healthy habits as they grow.

  • $331 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

My Students

"I'm bigger! " "See I'm growing!" Four year old children are proud to announce they are no longer little! Help my preschool class take that excitement and begin to develop more concepts of growth through healthy eating and fitness and math concepts of number sense and measurements.

My class of four year old children are eager to grow and to learn!

Through play and discovery they make connections to their world. This first school experience is exciting for them! We approach learning through the whole child : social - cognitive - physical and emotional.

My Project

I am requesting a height chart for my classroom wall for my students to measure how tall they are in the fall. I am also requesting nutrition and exercise materials to use through the year to help them gain understanding of healthy eating, exercise, and caring for their heart. In addition I am requesting other measurement tools and some books for my students to gain math skills using numbers as a measurement and increase literacy skills with new comparative vocabulary (taller/shorter/bigger...) In the spring they will again measure how tall they are and see how they have grown!

"I used to be this high, now I'm this high!" "I grew!" Their physical growth is easy for them to see.

What I will also see is their growth socially, emotionally, and cognitively in math and literacy. By supporting this Way To Grow! project you can be part of my students' growth!

Ms. Toothaker
Grades PreK-2

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Learning Resources - Magnetic Healthy Foods 34 Pcs W/ Placemat • Teachers' School Supply $32.99 1 $32.99
Tree Growth Chart • Kaplan Early Learning Company $31.41 1 $31.41
Back to Back Learning Kit - Measuring • Kaplan Early Learning Company $25.46 1 $25.46
Back to Back Learning Kit - You Are What You Eat • Kaplan Early Learning Company $25.46 1 $25.46
Number Bean Bags (Set of 10) • Kaplan Early Learning Company $12.71 2 $25.42
Body Poetry: Yoga Cards • Kaplan Early Learning Company $21.21 1 $21.21
Nasco “Inside-View” Complete Set of Fruit and Vegetable Posters • Nasco $15.95 1 $15.95
Fruit & Vegetable Five Senses Oversized Flash Cards • Nasco $14.95 1 $14.95
Stethoscope • Teachers' School Supply $12.99 1 $12.99
How Tall Am I? • Kaplan Early Learning Company $11.86 1 $11.86
We Eat Food That's Fresh! • Kaplan Early Learning Company $10.19 1 $10.19

Materials cost

$227.89

Vendor shipping charges

$8.15

Sales tax

$11.39

3rd party payment processing fee

$3.42

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$280.85

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$49.56

Total project goal

$330.41

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$330.41

5 Donors

-$321.59

Donations toward project cost

-$280.85

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$40.74

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$8.82

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$0.00

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