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Ms. Alvarez from Philadelphia, PA is requesting educational kits & games through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Friends with Fine Motor Skills

My students need learning tools that are hands-on defining their fine-motor skills; focusing on their eye-hand coordination and pincer grasp. This will increase their chances of manipulating writing tools with more focus and control.

  • $322 goal

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Ms. Alvarez has another project! Donate to Kids Hard at Work to help her classroom.

All donations currently doubled!
You can complete this project for $418.
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My Students

All of my students are between the ages of 3 to 5, and the majority of them speak another language other than English at home, and all are in a Head Start program or Pre-K Counts.

Preschool is supposed to be the time of your life.

This is a time to play all day, sleep all night, and nap in between. Learning involves toys, toys, and more toys, with books and friends mixed in there.

With funds being tight; teaching has been very difficult when there lacks teaching materials in the classroom. Our students, our future leaders, should not have to suffer the loss of lack of “toys” or learning material. What fun is that?

My Project

We have a Manipulatives Center in our classroom that my students use daily. In this center, they depend on finding tools and games that will build their understanding of their world.

These manipulatives like Magna-Tiles and Magna-Cars &Trucks will support my students in developing stronger fine motor skills, which is a precursor to writing skills, which connects to literacy skills.

These are fun and engaging ways to encourage my students to manipulate magnetic shapes and transportation vehicles or letters in sand and building flower structures to strengthen their hand muscles in a fun way! These will also support their language by describing what they’re building, how they’re building it and why. They will learn to share and take turns with them.

Ms. Alvarez Pequenos Pasos De Aspira Grades PreK-2

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Philadelphia, PA View local requests

More than a third 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
Materials Cost Quantity Total
DG547 - Magna-Tiles® - Master Set • Lakeshore Learning Materials $129.99 1 $129.99
RA503 - Magna-Cars & Trucks • Lakeshore Learning Materials $59.99 1 $59.99
BT212 - Build-A-Bouquet • Lakeshore Learning Materials $29.99 1 $29.99
LC742 - Find the Letter Activity Center • Lakeshore Learning Materials $19.99 1 $19.99

Materials cost

$239.96

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$3.60

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$273.56

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$48.28

Total project goal

$321.84

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $321.84

3 Donors

-$160.75

Donations toward project cost

-$136.77

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$23.98

match offer

-$160.93

Match offer toward project cost

-$136.79

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$24.14

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$0.16

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 $0.00

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