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Ms. Smirk from Brooklyn, NY is requesting educational kits & games through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Cooking Up Fun and Learning

Help me give my students Dramatic Play toys so that they can learn and play.

  • $668 goal

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

$374 - complete this project and be a hero

My Students

Our school is in the heart of Brooklyn, NY. It is a brand new school with a load of potential. The school includes students from pre-k to kindergarten, and it is a melting pot of children from all around the world. PS 938 is in a high poverty area, and about ninety-five percent of the students in the school receive free lunch. There are fifteen, 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. Although our families give us support, they can't always help out financially.

My Project

A child’s pretend play in classrooms is often considered fun and imaginative, but with limited educational value. The truth is, in the midst of creating a restaurant together, clomping around in grown-up shoes, or twirling around with friends in a fairytale land, children are learning to solve problems, coordinate, cooperate, and think flexibly. Imagine the skills required to turn the sandbox into a dinosaur bone excavation site!

While playing with the pretend food, plates and the toys my students will develop important complex social and higher order thinking skills.

Pretend play is much more than simple play activities; it requires advanced thinking strategies, communication, and social skills. Through pretend play, children learn to do things like negotiate, consider others’ perspectives, transfer knowledge from one situation to another, delay gratification, balance their own ideas with others, develop a plan and act on it, explore symbolism, express and listen to thoughts and ideas, assign tasks and roles, and synthesize different information and ideas.

Ms. Smirk PS 938 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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Brooklyn, 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

15 students impacted 5donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
RR900X Lets Go Shopping Food Baskets Complete Set • Lakeshore Learning Materials $115.00 1 $115.00
EE557 Lakeshore Hardwood Doll Highchair • Lakeshore Learning Materials $99.50 1 $99.50
HH919 Lakeshore Grocery Set • Lakeshore Learning Materials $49.99 1 $49.99
LM366 BestBuy Multicultural Play Food Assortment • Lakeshore Learning Materials $49.99 1 $49.99
LC429 Stand for Toddler Housecleaning Set • Lakeshore Learning Materials $49.99 1 $49.99
LC129 Toddler Housecleaning Set • Lakeshore Learning Materials $39.99 1 $39.99
LA427 BestBuy Kitchen Playset • Lakeshore Learning Materials $39.99 1 $39.99
DS305 Clothes for 14 Baby Dolls • Lakeshore Learning Materials $34.99 1 $34.99
PP723 RealWorking Cash Register • Lakeshore Learning Materials $29.99 1 $29.99
TW106 Pizza Party Playset • Lakeshore Learning Materials $19.99 1 $19.99

Materials cost

$529.42

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$7.94

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$567.36

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$100.12

Total project goal

$667.48

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $667.48

4 Donors

-$368.11

Donations toward project cost

-$339.46

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$28.65

match offer

-$268.11

Match offer toward project cost

-$227.89

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$40.22

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$31.25

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 $0.00

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