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Ms. Thao from Rio Linda CA is requesting reading nooks, desks & storage through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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On The Road to Becoming Skillful Writers

Help me give my students experiences that will help them strengthen their fine motor skills to become skillful writers.

  • $1,257 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

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My Project

Preschool is such a crucial time in children's lives that focusing on the fundamental skills is crucial to their school experience. I believe exercising young scholars' fine motor is needed to develop the skills needed to become better and more confident writers in the future. With these materials, my students would be able to practice, manipulate, and strengthen their fine motor muscles to become skillful writers.

Providing my students with these opportunities through the use of materials and activities to exercise their pre-writing skills, I believe it will enhance their future school experience and also prepare them for Kindergarten.

Ms. Thao
Grades PreK-2

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Lakeshore First Steps® Manipulative Storage Center • Lakeshore Learning Materials $569.00 1 $569.00
Lakeshore Light Table Manipulative Center • Lakeshore Learning Materials $119.00 1 $119.00
Fine Motor Skill Building Set • Kaplan Early Learning Company $86.36 1 $86.36
Spinning Ball Domes - Set of 2 • Kaplan Early Learning Company $34.16 1 $34.16
Squigz Starter Set - 24 Pieces • Kaplan Early Learning Company $32.36 1 $32.36
Lakeshore Turn & Learn Magnetic Gears • Lakeshore Learning Materials $27.99 1 $27.99
Lakeshore Fine Motor Forest Friends • Lakeshore Learning Materials $26.39 1 $26.39
Spike the Fine Motor Hedgehog • Nasco $22.55 1 $22.55
Pop and Surprise • Kaplan Early Learning Company $17.96 1 $17.96

Materials cost

$935.77

Vendor shipping charges

 $2.26

Sales tax

 $85.62

3rd party payment processing fee

$14.04

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$1,067.69

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$188.42

Total project goal

$1,256.11

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $1,256.11

34 Donors

-$1,153.89

Donations toward project cost

-$1,001.13

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$152.76

Matching donations from our partners

-$78.34

Match offers toward project cost

-$66.59

Match offers to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$11.75

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$23.91

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