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Mrs. Sobalvarro from Washington, DC is requesting reading nooks, desks & storage through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Brighten Our Day With a Light Table!

My students need a light table and Magna-Tiles to help maximize their learning through exploratory play, science and discovery, arts and crafts, and small group lessons.

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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 Students

My kindergarten students are some of the most loving, imaginative, and hard-working kids I have ever met. Their joy is contagious, and you cannot help but get excited to learn and play with them once you enter our classroom. True global citizens, my 38 students embrace those around them with compassion and empathy, eager to learn about the differences that make up our bilingual classroom. My students are curious, creative, and eager to learn about their world.

While our school strives to meet high social-emotional and academic standards, it faces many challenges unfortunately common in urban education.

Our Title I public school in Washington, D.C. serves a diverse group of students, with 54% receiving English Language Learner support, and 10% receiving Special Education support. 100% of our students receive free and reduced lunch. As a dual language school, our students have 50% of their education in Spanish, and the other 50% in English.

My Project

The transition from Pre-K to kindergarten is tough on students as they transition from a play-based curriculum to the full day of kindergarten academics. To ease this transition, I am working toward blending the two models in order to have a portion of our day where my students can engage in rigorous academic work through play. We are asking for the light table in order to create a space for purposeful play in order to support joyful and essential learning in kindergarten.

As all of my students are language learners, I believe providing them a space to engage with content through exploratory play and scientific discovery will benefit them academically in developmentally and linguistically appropriate ways.

For example, for students who are working on anything from letter recognition to spelling, they can demonstrate learning by using plastic letters on the light table. This not only engages many modalities of learning but also provides a safe and fun space for our five and six-year-olds to practice their learning.

The light table will also create a space for conversation and language development as students innovate and create with the Magna-Tiles, recycled materials, painting bins, color-mixing dishes etc. Navigating conflicts and figuring out how to share develops students’ conversation and language skills, which are most often developed during play and peer-to-peer interactions for kindergarten-aged students.

Lastly, the light table will assist students who struggle with fine motor skills, such as holding a pencil. Each week we plan to have a new fine motor activity on the light table during writing and choice time, to build muscles through play. Such ideas are “writing” in colored salt with paintbrushes, threading string through straws, cutting water beads in half, and using loose parts to trace lines, shapes, and letters.

Mrs. Sobalvarro Bruce - Monroe Elementary School Grades PreK-2

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Washington, DC View local requests 38 students impacted 14donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
LL526 - Space-Saver Color-Changing Light Table • Lakeshore Learning Materials $299.00 1 $299.00
DG547 - Magna-Tiles® - Master Set • Lakeshore Learning Materials $129.99 1 $129.99

Materials cost

$428.99

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $25.74

3rd party payment processing fee

$6.43

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$491.16

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$86.68

Total project goal

$577.84

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $577.84

12 Donors

-$510.31

Donations toward project cost

-$462.26

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$48.05

match offer

-$34.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$28.90

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$5.10

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$33.53

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

 $0.00

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