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Ms. Hughes from Jefferson City MO is requesting educational kits & games through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Learning as We Play

Help me give my students table toys including waffle builders, fairyland playset, star builders, and puzzles for individualized and cooperative play.

  • $355 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

My Students

My diverse pre-kindergarten students are curious, creative, adventurous, boisturious, and motivated to learn! They are eager to immerse in new learning experiences and opportunities to explore the world around them. They use our dramatic play areas and materials, sensory and art materials, and learning toys to expand their world of knowledge.

I strive to create an engaging, creative, safe, and fun classroom that promotes learning as well as cognitive, social, and emotional development.

My Project

This year has caused changes in my classroom. Some materials were stored away that were difficult to clean daily. Few high interest items cause difficulties as well. The addition of bright, durable, easily cleaned materials including the star builders and waffle builders, will allow my young students to take them to the table and engage in play either individually or with a friend. The fairyland playset will be of particular interest to my girls. The simple puzzles will allow my students who struggle to complete a more difficult puzzle to feel a sense of accomplishment and build their skills to enable them to try something more complex. Alphabet theme book library and art supplies of colorful, multi-shaped macaroni and dot art painters will promote learning and encourage creativity.

These materials will encourage critical thinking and math and science skills such as counting, color recognition, patterning, engineering a structure and learning about gravity and balance.

Excited conversation will occur allowing vocabulary and speech to grow!

Ms. Hughes
Grades PreK-2

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
TT125 Star Builders • Lakeshore Learning Materials $49.99 1 $49.99
TT451 Fairy Land Playset • Lakeshore Learning Materials $49.99 1 $49.99
TT184 Waffle Builders • Lakeshore Learning Materials $49.99 1 $49.99
RE992 Alphabet Theme Book Library • Lakeshore Learning Materials $40.50 1 $40.50
LC438 Macaroni 2Pound Bag • Lakeshore Learning Materials $16.99 1 $16.99
EV214 Brilliant Dot Art Painters Set of 6 • Lakeshore Learning Materials $15.99 1 $15.99
PP195 Farm Animals Puzzle • Lakeshore Learning Materials $10.99 1 $10.99
PP211 Pets Puzzle • Lakeshore Learning Materials $10.99 1 $10.99
PP197 Sea Life Puzzle • Lakeshore Learning Materials $10.99 1 $10.99
PP196 Bugs Puzzle • Lakeshore Learning Materials $10.99 1 $10.99

Materials cost

$267.41

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$4.01

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$301.42

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$53.19

Total project goal

$354.61

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$354.61

1 Donor

-$354.61

Donations toward project cost

-$301.42

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$53.19

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$0.00

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