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Mrs. Melissa Smith from Spooner WI is requesting supplies through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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A Place of Our Own!

My students need one kidney shaped whiteboard table for collaboration and small group work!

  • $363 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

My Students

My students bring such joy to my life and I am thankful to be their teacher. We seriously have some of the best students in our small town elementary school. I know that every school and every teacher says that, but I know just how amazing our students are.

We are over 60% free or reduced price lunch, but together our community, parents, and staff work together to get everything we need.

I am so grateful to have wonderful people like you also partnering with us to help get our students everything they so deserve.

My Project

Our school has been able to put these whiteboard tables into most of our classrooms. These tables create a space for teachers and students to meet to collaborate, plan, or work in small groups on projects, assignments, and lessons.

Collaboration and teamwork are the greatest things our students can discover and learn.

Students are able to meet and work on vocabulary and spelling. Science projects, plans, and discovery come alive on the tabletop. Math assignments that are difficult get broken down together in small groups. The whiteboard top makes mistakes feel much less of a problem. I can also have our students working here on an awesome app called Osmos creation. Here they can allow their drawings to come alive in a story.

The budget can only handle purchasing so many of these tables. My classroom would need to wait a year before getting one of these and I already see the impact of them in other classrooms. We could wait a year and get a table with our budget then, but if it is impacting other students so greatly this year, why wait? Our students are so important and I want them to have everything that they need to do their very best right now.

Mrs. Melissa Smith
Grades 3-5

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Allied MarkerBoard Tables Kidney Shaped 48 x 72 • Nasco $249.48 1 $249.48

Materials cost

$249.48

Vendor shipping charges

 $24.95

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$3.74

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$308.17

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$54.38

Total project goal

$362.55

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $362.55

48 Donors

-$321.73

Donations toward project cost

-$280.97

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$40.76

Matching donations from our partners

-$32.00

Match offers toward project cost

-$27.20

Match offers to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$4.80

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$8.82

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

 $0.00

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