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Mrs. Schilling from Rancho Palos Verdes, CA is requesting supplies through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Preschoolers Need Good Fine Motor Skills

My students need linking letters, playdough, theraputty, and more to work on their fine motor skills to properly learn to print with a proper tripod grip. We need an equipment cart to get to the yard.

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My Students

My students have speech and language delays. Many of my preschoolers can not hold a pencil or crayon appropriately. By teaching them pencil grasp by using sand, playdough and markers, they will be able to go to kindergarten on time with proper pencil grasp and hopefully printing their own names.

I teach in an elementary school in a great neighborhood.

My students are Speech and Language Impaired and are bussed in from lower income neighborhoods. This is a Special Day Class. More than 60% of my class is on the free lunch program. My children are highly motivated to learn. They learn from example and through play. We work on all aspects of readiness skills with a speech/language emphasis. Many of my students have fine motor skill delays. We use multiple ways to teach motor skills for coloring, cutting and holding a pencil.

My Project

We need an equipment cart to get items we need, such as, cones, balls, and roller racers to the yard without constantly dropping them. The children love to help and can push the cart thus fostering independence. The other items are for fine motor skills. Some of the children have sensory issues to touch and using the sensory sand, tubs and playdough will help with these issues. The scissors, tweezers, and scoops help with cutting skills. The theraputty and sensory balls help some of my students to remain seated and listening while having something to do with their hands.

Independent working skills are paramount in all children's lives even preschool.

The equipment cart will get the playground toys to the yard without adult assistance. The children love to help! The fine motor skills will improve greatly with all these different types of activities to learn to manipulate items with tweezers while counting as well as learn to correctly hold a pencil and scissors. All of these activities will have them ready for kindergarten.

Mrs. Schilling Crestwood Steam Magnet School Grades PreK-2

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Rancho Palos Verdes, CA 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

15 students impacted 3donors

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Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
LA781 - Lakeshore Indoor-Outdoor Equipment Cart • Lakeshore Learning Materials $249.00 1 $249.00
PP530X - Feel & Find Sensory Tubs - Complete Set • Lakeshore Learning Materials $99.50 1 $99.50
TS823 - Theraputty™ - Medium • Lakeshore Learning Materials $24.99 3 $74.97
EE600X - Feed-The-Animals Fine Motor Games - Complete Set • Lakeshore Learning Materials $59.99 1 $59.99
DD106 - Write & Wipe Broad-Tip Markers - 4-Color Set • Lakeshore Learning Materials $4.99 10 $49.90
Fiskars Pre-School Spring Action Scissors, Color Received May Vary (93907097)(2Pack) • Amazon Business $11.99 4 $47.96
HH878 - Linking Letter Monkeys - Uppercase • Lakeshore Learning Materials $29.99 1 $29.99
HH765 - Linking Number Monkeys • Lakeshore Learning Materials $29.99 1 $29.99
HH879 - Linking Letter Monkeys - Lowercase • Lakeshore Learning Materials $29.99 1 $29.99
FR263 - Feel & Roll Bumpy Balls • Lakeshore Learning Materials $29.99 1 $29.99
HH759 - Fine Motor Scissor Scoops - Set of 4 • Lakeshore Learning Materials $9.99 3 $29.97
AX4 - Lakeshore Dough - Blue • Lakeshore Learning Materials $8.99 3 $26.97
PP273 - Sensory Tubs - Set of 3 • Lakeshore Learning Materials $24.99 1 $24.99
LL108 - Tweezer Tongs Color Sorting Kit • Lakeshore Learning Materials $24.99 1 $24.99
TW512 - Kid-Safe Tweezers - Set of 12 • Lakeshore Learning Materials $11.99 1 $11.99

Materials cost

$820.19

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $75.05

3rd party payment processing fee

$12.30

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$937.54

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$165.45

Total project goal

$1,102.99

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $1,102.99

2 Donors

-$1,102.99

Donations toward project cost

-$937.54

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$165.45

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