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Mrs. Olivas from Los Angeles, CA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Socio-Emotional Development By Playing With Cuddlies

Help me give my students Feelings & Emotions Washable Dolls and soft Kuddle Dolls to promote self awareness and nurture caring and kindness towards others.

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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 Pre-K students are curious about everything that they see and hear and touch. Pre- K is a great time to mold the children’s minds and encourage them to use their creativity and imagination. I work diligently to provide sensorial experiences for my students to maximize their engagement and learning.

Designing and creating these experiences gets creative when resources are limited.

Play is conducive to a myriad of fundamental learning as character building (being kind and compassionate). This is a challenge when my students' lives are impacted with trauma and fear.

My Project

My pre-K students enjoy playing house and family. Toys that children play with have an impact on their overall development. Dolls in particular have an interesting influence on young learners. Without any prompting children are drawn to models of babies and immediately want to cuddle with the baby doll.

Regardless of gender, children are captivated by playing with dolls.

Furthermore, play is the method by which children learn about the world around them, and practice the skills they will need as they grow up. Playing with dolls actually provide an opportunity to learn important emotional skills. Taking care of dolls strengthens caring and nurturing skills, which are important building blocks of empathy.

Dolls such as the soft Kuddle babies and feelings& emotions dolls can play and imprtant role when a child needs to work through strong emotions as trauma. I want to provide my students with all types of dolls because I believe that making dolls available to young children is a soound strategy to help them acquire and expand the essential skills of caring, nurturing and understanding.

Mrs. Olivas Betty Plasencia Elementary School Grades PreK-2

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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

24 students impacted 3donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
FF704 - Feelings & Emotions Washable Dolls • Lakeshore Learning Materials $95.00 1 $95.00
Kuddle Dolls Set of 8 • Kaplan Early Learning Company $89.96 1 $89.96

Materials cost

$184.96

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $16.92

3rd party payment processing fee

$2.77

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$234.65

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$41.41

Total project goal

$276.06

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $276.06

2 Donors

-$132.93

Donations toward project cost

-$117.33

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$15.60

match offer

-$138.02

Match offer toward project cost

-$117.32

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$20.70

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$5.11

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 $0.00

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