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Mrs. Severino from Brooklyn, NY is requesting art supplies through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Peaceful Classroom = Peaceful Children

Help me give my students a tranquil environment to come to school to. I have been learning about the Reggio approach and cannot wait to offer my students this way of approaching learning.

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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

My students are from Sunset, Brooklyn and are in a Pre K 4 All school. This program gives children from all cultures, areas, and various incomes an opportunity to learn and thrive within the district. My energetic preschoolers enter the classroom ready to learn, discover, and explore.

They gleefully read books, draw pictures, build structures, participate in science experiments and pretend play throughout the day.

They beam with joy as they proudly identify letters and discover sounds. Coming to school is very obvious an enormous part of their development. They love to learn!

My Project

One of the first things you see in a Reggio Emilia classroom is natural colors and wooden toys. In this project, I am requesting wooden toys, a natural grassy carpet for project learning and beautiful baskets for storage. These types of material would help us begin the process of implementing this Reggio curriculum.

Wooden manipulatives and clay experiences will require children to use their own imagination to play while expanding their minds.

Wooden toys do not have electronic parts or voice commands that will instruct them on what to do. In the Reggio Emilia curriculum, we want young children to have choices on what to do and give them opportunities to open their creative minds. Having these materials in the classroom would allow our students to use their reasoning skills and make a choice on which activities they see fit. Open-ended toys like these will stimulate imaginative play and require different types of intelligence like emotional, thinking, and social skills. They will also assist with motor skills and problem-solving such as when they are attempting to make a plan on how to build towers or bridges. Children also begin to exercise their fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination with toys instead of simply pressing buttons and watching. The texture of wooden toys and clay would provide a sensory experience to our little ones who need extra support and require a multi-sensory approach to learning. Having the right tools in a pre k classroom will provide so many benefits in the lives of little children and would be a great first step towards creating our Reggio classroom.

Mrs. Severino District 20 Pre-K Center Z074 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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Brooklyn, NY 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

14 students impacted 6donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Washable Wicker Baskets - Small Set of 10 • Kaplan Early Learning Company $125.96 1 $125.96
STEM Play Mat - Grass • Kaplan Early Learning Company $73.76 1 $73.76
PlayFoamtm Party Pack • Kaplan Early Learning Company $22.46 1 $22.46
Animal X-Rays • Kaplan Early Learning Company $20.66 1 $20.66
Agate Light Table Slices - Set of 12 • Kaplan Early Learning Company $17.96 1 $17.96
Square Plastic Woven Baskets - Set of 6 • Kaplan Early Learning Company $17.06 1 $17.06
Round Rattan Divided Tray • Kaplan Early Learning Company $12.56 1 $12.56

Materials cost

$290.42

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$4.36

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$324.78

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$57.31

Total project goal

$382.09

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $382.09

5 Donors

-$215.90

Donations toward project cost

-$188.01

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$27.89

match offer

-$160.91

Match offer toward project cost

-$136.77

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$24.14

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$5.29

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 $0.00

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