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Ms. Calzada Castillo from Pacoima, CA is requesting educational kits & games through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Let's PLAY-tend

Help me give my students the opportunity to build on their social emotional skills by making connections with pretend play.

  • $489 goal

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Celebrating Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

Celebrate Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

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

Dramatic Play (also known as "pretend" or "imaginative" play) is very important to our young learners especially those that have developmental delays in areas such as speech/ language, cognitive, and social skills. Help us "set the stage" for our dramatic play area to be centered in “housekeeping”. We want this new area to be colorful and inviting, where our students can immediately take on a role and begin pretending. We want children to pretend to and play with dolls and house materials and take on various roles playing games like "restaurant". While pretending to cook for and serving each other using dolls, our students will be making use of newly learned language to interact with peers, practicing social exchanges when cooperating with peers, while improving cognitive skills by sequencing their actions.

This new dramatic play area will engage the children in both life and learning.

It will increase their understanding of the world they live in, while they are working on important developmental skills that will help them improve their quality of life now, and into adulthood.

Ms. Calzada Castillo Hillary Broadous Elementary School 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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Pacoima, CA View local requests

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

40 students impacted 7donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
DD545 - Play-All-Around Dollhouse Furniture • Lakeshore Learning Materials $169.00 1 $169.00
DD965X - Lakeshore Pose Play Families - Complete Set • Lakeshore Learning Materials $109.00 1 $109.00
FA415X - Kid-Safe Appliances - Complete Set • Lakeshore Learning Materials $69.99 1 $69.99

Materials cost

$347.99

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $31.84

3rd party payment processing fee

$5.22

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$415.05

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$73.24

Total project goal

$488.29

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $488.29

6 Donors

-$322.61

Donations toward project cost

-$277.97

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$44.64

match offer

-$161.30

Match offer toward project cost

-$137.10

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$24.20

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$4.41

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 $0.00

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