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Ms. S. Donnarumma from Long Is. City, NY is requesting educational kits & games through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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BUILDING Our STEM Skills While Working Cooperatively With Blocks!

My students need materials for our Block Center. I am looking for materials that will engage them and challenge them.

  • $489 goal

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Celebrating Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

Celebrate Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

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

I have a classroom of adorable 4-year-olds eager and curious about the world around them. The children are involved in many activities throughout the day.

For example, the children engage with their peers in choice time center activities that involve many opportunities for hands-on learning, growing, and socializing.

I would like the opportunity to engage my students more, as they learn through play every day.

Please help me make this dream a reality by donating to my project. Thank you!

My Project

Block play is very important, especially in the early childhood classroom. Block play helps promote problem solving in children and also builds imagination. Blocks offer many ways for young dual language learners to explore and express themselves. Important concepts and skills are practiced and strengthened through block play, including length, measurement, comparison, number, estimation, symmetry, and balance. Block play also allows children to explore Science skills such as testing hypotheses and builds scientific reasoning. Block play can boost a child's self esteem. They can discover that they have ideas and that they can bring their ideas to life by creating, transforming, demolishing, and recreating something unique. Blocks help children learn to take turns and share materials, develop new friendships, become self-reliant, increase attention span, cooperate with others, and develop self-esteem.Finally, block play requires fine and gross motor skills. Blocks enhance children’s problem-solving abilities, mathematics skills, and language and literacy abilities. I am asking for donations so my students can have "Design and Build Engineering Centers," "Block Play People With Different Abilities, Block Play STEM activities, etc. Your donations will help bring life to this center and will give my students the opportunity to grow in all of the above mentioned ways.

Ms. S. Donnarumma PS 199 Maurice Fitzgerald Grades PreK-2

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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Long Is. City, NY 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

18 students impacted 1donor

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
PP750X - Design & Build Engineering Centers • Lakeshore Learning Materials $125.00 1 $125.00
PP799 - Block Play STEM Early Learning Kit • Lakeshore Learning Materials $79.50 1 $79.50
HH640 - Arch Blocks • Lakeshore Learning Materials $49.99 1 $49.99
RE888 - Window Blocks • Lakeshore Learning Materials $49.99 1 $49.99
LC1457 - Soft & Quiet Building Blocks • Lakeshore Learning Materials $29.99 1 $29.99
RR759 - Lakeshore Block Play People with Differing Abilities • Lakeshore Learning Materials $24.99 1 $24.99
EE265 - Block Play Tree Set • Lakeshore Learning Materials $19.99 1 $19.99

Materials cost

$379.45

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$5.69

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$415.14

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$73.26

Total project goal

$488.40

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $488.40

1 Donor

-$488.40

Donations toward project cost

-$415.14

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$73.26

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