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Ms. Thompson from Pontiac, MI is requesting educational kits & games through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Learn Through Play

Help me give my students the best education through play and become the best at whatever they choose to be.

  • $1,030 goal

This project expired on May 26, 2025.

This project expired on May 26, 2025.

My Project

I am requesting the following items because it generally need to help learning fun with the young children in my classroom. When learning is fun the children want to come, and is interested in what's going on in the classroom. I working with headstart children so I'm helping develop the brains of our future generation. We have very small amount puppets in our classroom at the time, but with your help we can have a variety of puppets. When we work with the few puppets that we do have the children love it, the often request the puppets. With the request of the puppets we would love to have the puppets stand to store them, and the other puppet stand to do actual puppet shows. I can already see the smile that would be put upon the child faces if we were to get the items that I'm requesting. My children are special because they come to school daily, excited and ready to learn.

Ms. Thompson Pontiac OLHSA Head Start Grades PreK-2

Celebrate Black teachers and kids! This project supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of students are Black.

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This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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Pontiac, MI 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

8 students impacted

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Melissa & Doug - Deluxe Puppet Theater • Teachers' School Supply $139.21 1 $139.21
Kaplan Early Learning Puppet Storage Tree - 49"H • Kaplan Early Learning Company $134.96 1 $134.96
Lakeshore Dress-Up Tree • Lakeshore Learning Materials $99.50 1 $99.50
Lakeshore Double-Sided Magnetic Tiles with Phonics - Reading Manipulatives for Beginning Readers, Science of Reading • Lakeshore Learning Materials $89.99 1 $89.99
Childcraft Manipulative Alphabet Learning Locks, Set of 52 • School Specialty $53.99 1 $53.99
PlanToys Sushi Play Food Set • Kaplan Early Learning Company $43.16 1 $43.16
Solobo Toys: EMOTIONS COIN DROP (calming corner resources; social emotional learning toy; sensory play) • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $40.00 1 $40.00
Ultrassist Mouth Hand Puppet with Tongue for Kids, Mouth Puppet for Speech Therapy, Include Toothbrush • Amazon Business $36.90 1 $36.90
The Puppet Company Nursery Rhymes Song Mitts • Kaplan Early Learning Company $35.96 1 $35.96
MerryMakers Pete the Cat and His Four Groovy Buttons Hand Puppet, 14.5-Inch • Amazon Business $15.38 2 $30.76
The Puppet Company Baby Monsters: Rainbow Monster (PUC004409) • Quill.com $27.74 1 $27.74
Melissa & Doug Condiments Set (6 pcs) - Play Food, Stainless Steel Caddy • Amazon Business $22.99 1 $22.99
Pressman Toys - Bean Bag Toss • Teachers' School Supply $14.21 1 $14.21
The Very Hungry Caterpillar Story Puppets Kit • Blick Art Materials $14.16 1 $14.16
Montessori Learning Toddler Felt Educational Toy Finger Number Learning Counting Math Felt Board Preschool Manipulatives Travel Game Addition Subtraction 3+ Year Old Gift Activity Kindergarten, Blue • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99

Materials cost

$791.52

Vendor shipping charges

$41.70

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$11.87

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$875.09

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$154.43

Total project goal

$1,029.52

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