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Ms. Spusta from Daly City, CA is requesting a class trip through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Ms. Spusta's classroom raised $668

What is Slow Food? A Visit To Harley Farms.

My students need a class trip to Harley Goat farms, an organic dairy. We need the cost of the bus and guided tour.

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Ms. Spusta J.F. Kennedy Elementary School
Daly City, CA Grades 3-5

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.

I work with third graders in a title one public school. We are a high need community, I teach children ranging from gifted to special needs. Many of my students are non-native English speakers.

Where does our food come from? A simple question that my students have no idea how to answer. Plastic wrapped meat, frozen vegetables, and canned peaches make it difficult to explain the origins of food. The slow food movement has sought to explain that we benefit from knowing how and where food comes from. Help me SHOW students in a real way, the process by which goat cheese is made. California has slashed our field trip funds, and my students will not be able to experience new things without donors like you.

By visiting a self sustaining, organic dairy farm, my students will visit a place completely out of their daily experience. Most have never been to a farm, milked a goat, smelled manure or tasted fresh goat cheese. They will never forget such a amazing trip. They will cuddle goats, feed them, learn about gray water, and it will change them forever. I was able to take my class before, and I was shocked how it affected my students. They wrote, talked, and referenced the trip for the rest of the year! I can attest that this is a life changing trip.

This trip helps my students to connect the dots in their own lives. They start to wonder, where does this come from? Was it made in a large factory? Was it grown on a tree, or in the ground? What animal or plant are they consuming? In an age of cheap fast food, only you can help my students slow down and smell the manure.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

More than half of students from low‑income households

23 students impacted 12 donors
Ms. Spusta J.F. Kennedy Elementary School Grades 3-5

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Daly City, CA 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

23 students impacted 12donors

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Destination Partipants Total
Harley Farms Goat Dairy
(Harley Farms Goat Dairy guided tour.) 		23 students, 1 parents and 1 teacher $530.00

Trip cost

$530.00

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$7.95

Fulfillment labor & materials

$9.00

Total project cost

$546.95

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$120.06

Total project goal

$667.01

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $667.01

7 Donors

-$667.01

Donations toward project cost

-$546.95

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$120.06

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