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Mrs. Novak from East Elmhurst, NY is requesting art supplies through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Exercising With Energized Kids!

Help me give my students a fun active play center in the gym! We have a beautiful gym that is empty, with balls that don't bounce and nothing for the children to do. Please help us!

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My Students

What makes my students special is their diversity. We have students from all over the world, many of whom are brand new to our country. This is their first experience in America and we want to make it the best one possible! They teach us just as much as we teach them, if not more.

My Project

The NYCDOE has taken many actions toward fostering a world where people are increasingly more aware of their health, including and extending to physical, mental, social-emotional, and beyond. As a Pre-K specific school, we are responsible for the students' very first experience with schooling and education. As part of our mission as Pre-K educators, we begin to cultivate the ideas that begin students' educational lives. As such, we have academic and social-emotional curricula that we utilize during the day. However, being that we are fully equipped with those resources, I've decided to dedicate my specific project toward where my school lacks: the physical fitness and health of my students.

Without feeling physically well, it is impossible for students to be successful at learning and using their brains to think, analyze, describe, create, and all the other many attributes we require from our students on a daily basis.

Thus, it is imperative that our students begin to recognize the importance of maintaining a physically healthy body. One of the ways students can do this is to make the most of our "active play" time. In Pre-K, students are not merely sent to recess like they are in older grades; it is a specific, instructional time where teachers are given almost one full hour to invigorate students through exercise and active play.

Although we have a beautiful gym, we lack the necessary resources to make the students' active play experience the best one possible. What little resources we do have is broken, with no ways of fixing; there are balls without air and no pump; there is a small basketball hoop that is broken, there are balance "beams" that are flattened, etc. Please help our teachers to create the gym and physical fitness goals of our dreams! We would be forever grateful!

Mrs. Novak District 30 Pre-Kindergarten Center 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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East Elmhurst, 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

60 students impacted 10donors

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
LA244 Giant HeavyDuty Play Tunnel 22 Diameter x 9 Long • Lakeshore Learning Materials $99.99 2 $199.98
VE4 Beginners Basketball Portable Hoop • Lakeshore Learning Materials $149.00 1 $149.00
CS846 Hopscotch Carpet • Lakeshore Learning Materials $49.99 1 $49.99
BT128 SuperSafe Bat Ball • Lakeshore Learning Materials $14.99 2 $29.98
RA668 Medium HopAlong Ball 18 • Lakeshore Learning Materials $24.99 1 $24.99
UB8 Lakeshore Playground Ball 8 12 Diameter • Lakeshore Learning Materials $7.99 3 $23.97

Materials cost

$477.91

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$7.17

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$515.08

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$90.90

Total project goal

$605.98

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $605.98

9 Donors

-$597.15

Donations toward project cost

-$515.08

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$82.07

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$8.83

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 $0.00

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