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Light Up Our Lives! Light Table to Explore Color and Shape

My students need a light table, and Magna Tiles to deepen their exploration of color, light, shadows and shapes.

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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 Students

Color here, color there, colors they are everywhere! Young learners begins to make distinctions in their world, by using colors and shape. Visual discrimination of shapes is a precursor to reading, and understanding colors, hues, and tints helps creativity and descriptive language.

Many of my students have had no school experience before they arrive in Kindergarten.

They speak languages other than English at home, and are primarily school dependent learners. Our school falls in the highest poverty category, however what our families may lack in finances, they make up for in rich cultural diversity.

My Project

Teaching science in Kindergarten is about inquiry, experimentation, and discovery. A light table will facilitate student exploration of colors, tints, hues, shadows, and shapes. Using the Magna Tiles, they will be architects and artist, while they watch the colors blend and change and the shape tiles combine to make new shapes. The combinations and possibilities are endless. The students will be able to work at their own pace, and explore the specific aspects of shapes and colors that peak their curiosity. Watching their friends build, blend and construct, will give them ideas to use on their own structures. They will learn how colors work together and how a few simple shapes are the basis of many more intricate shapes.

The light table and the Magna Tiles will be an amazing addition to our classroom, as they will provide deeper and more meaningful experiences for my students while they explore colors and shapes.

The students will be able to self direct their learning based on their own wonderings. Questioning, and curiosity are essential for students to broaden their thinking, learn how to solve problems, and express their creativity.

Mrs. D. East Somerville Community School Grades PreK-2

Equity Focus

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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Somerville, MA 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

24 students impacted 11donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Whitney Brothers Light Table • Amazon Business $276.25 1 $276.25
Magna-Tiles® Clear Colors 100 Piece Set • Amazon Business $120.00 1 $120.00

Materials cost

$396.25

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$5.94

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$432.19

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$76.27

Total project goal

$508.46

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$508.46

9 Donors

-$331.44

Donations toward project cost

-$296.19

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$35.25

match offer

-$160.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$136.00

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$24.00

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$17.02

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$0.00

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