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Building Intelligence

My students need a set of large blocks to expand their building and their intelligence.

  • $745 goal

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Ms. Smirk has another project! Donate to Circle Time Chart Stand to help her classroom.

All donations currently doubled!
You can complete this project for $187.
2X

My Students

Did you know that when a child builds a princess castle or a fort they are learning?

Our school is in the heart of East Flatbush, Brooklyn, NY.

The school includes students from Pre-k to eighth grade, and it is a melting pot of descendants from the West Indies. The school is in a high poverty area and about 95% of the students in the school receive free lunch. There are eighteen energetic, three and four-year-old children in my class, but there are not a lot of funds to enrich these students' education because of the budget cuts.

My Project

Blocks help children learn Socially -- Blocks encourage children to make friends and cooperate. Large block play may be a young child's first experience playing in a group. Physically -- When children reach for, pick up, stack, or fit blocks together, they build strength in their fingers and hands, and increase eye-hand coordination. Blocks help kindergarten and primary grade children develop skills in design, representation, balance and stability. Intellectually -- Blocks help children learn across many academic subjects. Young children develop their vocabularies as they learn to describe sizes, shapes, and positions. Preschoolers and kindergartners develop math skills by grouping, addition subtracting and eventually multiplying with blocks. Older children make early experiments with gravity, balance, and geometry. Creatively -- Blocks offer children the chance to make their own designs, and the satisfaction of creating structures that did not exist before.

Building with blocks provides some of the most valuable learning experiences available for young children.

Block play stimulates learning in all domains of development, intellectual, physical, and social-emotional and language. The current research shows that block play is fundamental for later cognitive success for learning math and numbers.

Ms. Smirk PS 181 Brooklyn Grades PreK-2

Celebrate Black teachers and kids! This project supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of students are Black.

Equity Focus

At this school, more than 50% of students are Black, Latino, and/or Native American, and more than 50% come from low-income households. Learn how your donation to this school supports a more equitable education.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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Brooklyn, NY View local requests

More than three‑quarters 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

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
KIT BLOCKS HALF SCHOOL HOLLOW 40 • School Specialty $540.54 1 $540.54

Materials cost

$540.54

Vendor shipping charges

 $54.05

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$8.11

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$632.70

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$111.65

Total project goal

$744.35

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $744.35

2 Donors

-$320.10

Donations toward project cost

-$316.35

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$3.75

match offer

-$372.18

Match offer toward project cost

-$316.35

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$55.83

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$52.08

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 $0.00

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