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Ms. Palley from Baltimore, MD is requesting supplies through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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A Clean And Comfy Carpet To Stimulate Young Minds.

My students need a new classroom rug - the place where my Kindergartners spend more than half of their school day!

  • $596 goal

This project expired on December 6, 2010.

This project expired on December 6, 2010.

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Ms. Palley Westport Academy Elementary - Middle School 225
Baltimore, MD Grades PreK-2

My Students

Calendar time, morning meeting, read-alouds, Science experiments... for the Kindergarten students in my classroom, the class carpet is where a lot of learning happens! Please help us have a safe, comfortable, and CLEAN learning space!

For my 25 Kindergarten students this year, and the dozens to come in the following years, an engaging and clean classroom rug is essential.

We spend more than half of our day on the carpet, and the more colorful, academically oriented, and spacious it is, the more beneficial it can be! These young minds soak in everything they see, hear, and experience. My students come from a low-income community where the environmental stimuli is less than appropriate. It is crucial that my classroom provide the furniture, decorations, and atmosphere that advances student development and progress, rather than hinders it.

My Project

As a teacher in a poverty stricken school and community, it is so important that my classroom be a warm, welcoming, comfortable, and fulfilling learning space. So much of the furniture and equipment in my classroom is old and beaten. Yet, my students, who deserve so much and get so little, never complain or ask for more. Nevertheless, the classroom carpet, which is the focal point of so much of our learning, playing, and community time, is clearly the most abused and ancient thing in the room. I know that a more academically-oriented, clean, and spacious classroom rug would help my classroom become more of the environment it should be for my hard-working, ever learning little ones.

I think about morning meeting - a part of our daily schedule in Kindergarten.

As we sit in a circle on the classroom rug, the meeting is supposed to enforce social skills like listening, sharing, and being kind. However, when the smell of mold or the tattered edges of the carpet become a distraction, I wonder how I can ever teach these skills to my Kindergartners. Help me make my classroom, and my students' lives, more comfortable, engaging, and academic.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Nearly all students from low‑income households

25 students impacted
Ms. Palley Westport Academy Elementary - Middle School 225 Grades PreK-2

Celebrate Black teachers and kids! This project supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of students are Black.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Baltimore, MD 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

25 students impacted

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
TT669 - Alphabet Activity Carpet - 9' x 12' • Lakeshore Learning $449.00 1 $449.00

Materials cost

$449.00

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $26.94

3rd party payment processing fee

$6.74

Fulfillment labor & materials

$35.00

Total project cost

$517.68

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$77.35

Total project goal

$595.03

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