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Ms. Fernandez from Los Angeles, CA is requesting educational kits & games through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Helping Small Hands Do Big Things

Help me give my students the essential materials needed to develop their fine motor skills.

  • $779 goal

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Celebrating Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

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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

My classroom is a Preschool Collaborative Classroom, also known as PCC. This classroom is very unique because it allows students with various learning disabilities to interact and model typically developing peers. Throughout the day, students with special needs are exposed to have age appropriate interactions, lots of language, in a general education curriculum. A perfect setting for students with special needs to thrive.

My students teach me something new everyday.

They teach me to be patient, to have compassion, and to never give up. They are my real life heroes. Because my students come from a low income area our resources are very limited. It is my goal to provide them with the best age appropriate, hands on materials to help them achieve their maximum potential. Because of remote learning, our students have limited access to essential resources that help them develop skills for kindergarten readiness.

For the majority of my students this is their very first school experience. We want to provide students and families with valuable resources to build the foundation for their child's life long learning experience.

My Project

For this project I chose two wonderful resources to help develop my students' fine motor skills. The first resource is the Creative Animal Geo Wooden Pattern Blocks Puzzles, follow by the Learning Resources Take 10! Color Bug Catchers kit. These two resources will provide the much needed support for their small developing hands.

Fine motor skills help children perform important tasks such as feeding, grasping for toys, buttoning and zipping clothes, writing, drawing and much more.

Integrating those two resources into our remote learning will help them integrate essential kindergarten skills that will reinforce spatial awareness, color and shape recognition, hand eye coordination, sorting, counting and problem solving.

With your donation my students will be able to explore the much needed hands on resources that otherwise would not be experienced through remote learning.

Ms. Fernandez 97th Street Early Education 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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Los Angeles, CA 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
Learning Resources Take 10! Color Bug Catchers, Fine Motor Skills, For 2-4 Players, Ages 3+ • Amazon Business $14.33 20 $286.60
Creative Animal Geo Blocks Wooden Pattern Blocks Puzzles with 20 Designs for Preschool or Kindergarten Kids • Amazon Business $11.98 20 $239.60

Materials cost

$526.20

Vendor shipping charges

 $49.80

Sales tax

 $48.15

3rd party payment processing fee

$7.89

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$662.04

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$116.83

Total project goal

$778.87

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $778.87

7 Donors

-$535.53

Donations toward project cost

-$476.95

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$58.58

match offer

-$217.77

Match offer toward project cost

-$185.10

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$32.67

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$25.59

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 $0.00

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