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Mrs. Mercado from New York, NY is requesting art supplies through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Kindergarten Class Creativity and Critical Thinking Through Art

Help me give my students a classroom with supplies they need for their daily instruction such as sensory paint, slime and beads, writing claws, and alphabet and phonics activities.

  • $807 goal

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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 Project

Please help my students receive the necessary supplies to build their fine motor skills and to strive for their phonemic awareness. The sensory dough is used daily for their fine motor skills. My students have different disabilities. Many have various sensory disabilities and things on the cart such as sensory foam, paint will help students get used to the texture they need. It is essential that they have sufficient supplies such ad play dough, laminating paper for frequent small group phonics and math to help their daily phonemic awareness, structure for every day, and visuals to help them get into a routine for class. The products that I have selected will help my students by giving them additional tools for their writing, and for their visual lessons from ELA. Students can benefit from the use of their dry-erase boards to help their writing.

Mrs. Mercado Bilingual Bicultural School 182 Grades PreK-2

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This project directly supports students at a historically underfunded school. Learn more about our Equity Focus.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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Nearly all 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

23 students impacted 4donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
FF336 - File Holder Teachers Tote • Lakeshore Learning Materials $39.99 2 $79.98
DS430X - Mad Mattr<sup>&reg;</sup> Sensory Dough - Set of 6 Colors • Lakeshore Learning Materials $76.99 1 $76.99
PP670 - Foam Sensory Paint - Set of 5 • Lakeshore Learning Materials $29.99 2 $59.98
XC343 - Classroom Laminating Pouches - Set of 100 - 9" x 11 1/2" • Lakeshore Learning Materials $29.99 2 $59.98
DE190 - Reusable Write Wipe Pocket - Set of 10 • Lakeshore Learning Materials $22.99 2 $45.98
GR212 - Writing Claws - Set of 12 • Lakeshore Learning Materials $19.99 2 $39.98
LA299 - Learn the Alphabet Dough Mats • Lakeshore Learning Materials $16.99 2 $33.98
AA527 - Launch Learn Beginning Sounds Game • Lakeshore Learning Materials $32.99 1 $32.99
LC718 - Magnetic Write Wipe Sentence Strips • Lakeshore Learning Materials $29.99 1 $29.99
PP246 - Match Sort Phonics Quickies - K-Gr 1 • Lakeshore Learning Materials $29.99 1 $29.99
LC1340X - Nylon-Bristle Paintbrushes - Set of 10 • Lakeshore Learning Materials $12.99 2 $25.98
GR117 - Pencil Grips - Pack of 12 • Lakeshore Learning Materials $22.99 1 $22.99
PP511 - Sensory Slime • Lakeshore Learning Materials $21.99 1 $21.99
TA5316 - Fingerpaint Paper • Lakeshore Learning Materials $10.99 2 $21.98
VR154 - Squish Squeeze Sensory Beads • Lakeshore Learning Materials $19.99 1 $19.99
LC1561 - Sentence Strips Storage Box • Lakeshore Learning Materials $14.99 1 $14.99
LM392 - Splash CVC Words Game • Lakeshore Learning Materials $11.99 1 $11.99
NF9765 - Rainbow Sentence Strips • Lakeshore Learning Materials $7.99 1 $7.99
NF9765 - Rainbow Sentence Strips • Lakeshore Learning Materials $7.99 1 $7.99

Materials cost

$645.73

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$9.69

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$685.42

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$120.96

Total project goal

$806.38

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$806.38

4 Donors

-$806.38

Donations toward project cost

-$685.42

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$120.96

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$0.00

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