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Ms. Ortiz from Los Angeles, CA is requesting educational kits & games through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Our Smart Cookies Need Your Sweet Help!

Help me give my students resources that will help them improve their fine motor and self-regulation skills.

  • $708 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

Our preschool special education classroom is a calm and safe space for my students to learn, play, and decompress. Our classroom caters to their physical, visual, and social emotional needs by being a clutter-less, soft color-toned, and mellow room where they can interact with their peers, teachers, and special education service providers.

The alphabet & number playdough mats and the squish & squeeze sensory beads will be a great addition to our Sensory Center where my kiddos enjoy feeling and creating things with their hands.

I would like to add a Discovery Center to the classroom so that my kids can explore textures, classify/measure/compare, and observe, so starting off with the Out of This World Fidget Board and My First Marble Run toys would be great. Our Library Area is very popular since they have a handful of board books to choose from, a bean bag, and a canopy. I would like to add the Weighted Washable Calming Book for a specific student who loves to look at books and who would surely enjoy the colors, texture, and weight of the book. The Giant Soft Blocks would be a fun addition to our Blocks Center which currently consists of only small soft table toy blocks. The kids love to experiment with how the blocks fit together, stability, and weight- adding bigger blocks would be so much more fun for them. The My Styling Kit and Doctor’s Office Kit would be added to our Dramatic Play area where my kiddos can use their imaginations and pretend-play with each other.

The Giant Classroom Timer would help with smoother transitions during small group rotations and the construction paper is for everyday use since we do a lot of crafts based on stories, science topics, and holidays.

Ms. Ortiz Ricardo Lizarraga Elementary School Grades PreK-2

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This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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Los Angeles, 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

10 students impacted 13donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Lakeshore Calming Colors® Giant Soft Blocks • Lakeshore Learning Materials $129.00 1 $129.00
Lakeshore Giant Classroom Timer • Lakeshore Learning Materials $49.99 1 $49.99
Lakeshore Out of This World Fidget Board • Lakeshore Learning Materials $39.99 1 $39.99
Lakeshore Weighted Washable Calming Book • Lakeshore Learning Materials $39.99 1 $39.99
My First Marble Run • Lakeshore Learning Materials $39.99 1 $39.99
Lakeshore Squish & Squeeze Sensory Beads • Lakeshore Learning Materials $19.99 2 $39.98
Lakeshore My First Styling Kit • Lakeshore Learning Materials $34.99 1 $34.99
Lakeshore Doctor’s Office • Lakeshore Learning Materials $32.99 1 $32.99
Lakeshore People Colors® Craft Paper • Lakeshore Learning Materials $8.99 2 $17.98
Lakeshore Learn the Alphabet! Dough Mats • Lakeshore Learning Materials $16.99 1 $16.99
Lakeshore Learn to Count! Dough Mats • Lakeshore Learning Materials $14.99 1 $14.99
Construction Paper - 9" x 12" Pack of 50 Sheets - Sky Blue • Lakeshore Learning Materials $1.49 5 $7.45
Construction Paper - 9" x 12" Pack of 50 Sheets - Holiday Green • Lakeshore Learning Materials $1.49 5 $7.45
Construction Paper - 9" x 12" Pack of 50 Sheets - White • Lakeshore Learning Materials $1.49 5 $7.45
Construction Paper - 9" x 12" Pack of 50 Sheets - Holiday Red • Lakeshore Learning Materials $1.49 5 $7.45
Construction Paper - 9" x 12" Pack of 50 Sheets - Bright Green • Lakeshore Learning Materials $1.49 5 $7.45

Materials cost

$494.13

Vendor shipping charges

 $24.71

Sales tax

 $45.21

3rd party payment processing fee

$7.41

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$601.46

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$106.14

Total project goal

$707.60

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $707.60

8 Donors

-$448.40

Donations toward project cost

-$381.14

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$67.26

Matching donations from our partners

-$259.20

Match offers toward project cost

-$220.32

Match offers to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$38.88

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