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Mrs. Orsborne from Poquoson VA is requesting supplies through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Cooking Up a Good Book

My students need a visual cookbook, ice cream maker and kitchen utensil set to learn the important life skill of preparing their own food while also learning to read.

  • $266 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

My Students

Help! Our home economics class was cut from the budget and we need to learn how to cook!

My students are kindergarten through second grade students attending a public school.

All of my students require special education services to be successful. Some are still learning to communicate while others may be just trying to figure out how to use their legs or eat with a fork. These students are hard working members of our future who need to learn basic life skills.

My Project

With these resources we will be able to use the life skill of cooking to practice the life skill of reading, sharing, communicating, and working together. The ice-cream maker enables all students to have a hand (or foot) in the process of making their own ice cream. The students can use the visual recipe book to follow a recipe without depending on someone else to read to them. This will not only foster the skill of cooking but also independence.

Due to recent budget cuts my students will no longer have a home economics program to participate in to learn one of the most basic life skills.

Your donation will give these students the opportunity to begin to learn how to cook while they are learning other academic skills.

Mrs. Orsborne
Grades PreK-2

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Visual Recipes: A Cookbook for Non-Readers • Nasco $21.95 1 $21.95
Play & Freeze Ice Cream Maker • Nasco $36.00 1 $36.00
Kitchen Utensil Starter Kit • Nasco $112.70 1 $112.70

Materials cost

$170.65

Vendor shipping charges

 $17.06

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$2.56

Fulfillment labor & materials

$35.00

Total project cost

$225.27

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$39.75

Total project goal

$265.02

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $265.02

8 Donors

-$252.67

Donations toward project cost

-$225.27

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$27.40

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$12.35

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

 $0.00

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