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Ms. Schaeffer from Watsonville CA is requesting other through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

A Tale of Art Room with No Closet

My students need three wall mounted cabinets for a clean an organized classroom.

  • $1,615 goal

This project expired on October 10, 2015.

This project expired on October 10, 2015.

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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

Let me paint a picture for you of an art room with no closet. There are bookshelves in corners with baskets filled with buttons, pipe cleaners, Popsicle sticks, and magazines. There are cubbies made of milk crates, everything is open for everyone to see, and everything looks cluttered.

The hard working preschool (three years old) to Third Grade students of our high preforming Washington DC elementary school want space to move and for less visual distractions in a over flowing art room.

They want easy access to art materials in an organized classroom.

My Project

It has taken me four years to accumulate all the necessary and wanted art materials for students, but now that I have these materials there is no where to put them. The classroom was built without a closet, so I have found other ways to compensate for the lack of storage. Although I have found solutions I would like something that looks nicer and is less distracting to students.

These cabinets would help the aesthetics of the art room and improve student focus through less visual distractions.

An art room inherently has a lot of materials and proper storage for these materials is not currently in the schools budget.

Ms. Schaeffer
Grades PreK-2

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Tot Mate 1317A Locking Wall Storage 36 Inch Height • Todays Classroom $312.08 3 $936.24

Materials cost

$936.24

Vendor shipping charges

$335.66

Sales tax

$56.17

3rd party payment processing fee

$14.04

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$1,372.11

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$242.14

Total project goal

$1,614.25

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