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Ms. Groeniger from Laguna Niguel CA is requesting art supplies through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Bringing The Monarch Butterflies Back To Our School!

Help me give my students acrylic paints, display boards, signs and gardening gloves to help get our ARC projects started! Each item will help my students create a project that will make everyone proud!

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My Project

Thank you for taking the time to help my students! This semester they have been learning about Monarch Butterflies and how their population is dwindling. We decided that we could help at our school by making our own Monarch Butterfly habitat in a garden box. The students have been so passionate about planting milkweed and other pollinators in our community and we decided we wanted to extend that by bringing it to our school garden! The seeds will be used to plant in our garden and the students will be able to help weed out invasive plants by wearing their new gardening gloves. After they plant the seeds, they will make signs using acrylic paint to dedicate the garden box to the Monarch Butterflies. We will be using extra signs to post on the hillside with facts related to the Monarchs for everyone to read.

Once they have completed their work outside, we plan on using the display boards to tape pictures of their efforts, writing they have done, and ways others can help outside of school.

They will be using the microphones to create their own commercial to get the word out online. My students are special because they have been working so hard inside of the classroom and on the weekends (planting in the community) to help bring these special species of butterflies back and to see their hard work come to fruition with these supplies at school, would make them so happy!

Thank you for your support!!

Ms. Groeniger

Ms. Groeniger
Never Before Funded Grades 3-5

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
29 5M Medium Posca Markers with Reversible Tips, Set of Acrylic Paint Pens for Art Supplies, Fabric Paint, Fabric/Art Markers • Amazon Business $61.69 2 $123.38
Sax Heavy Body Acrylic Paint, 1 Pint Bottles, Assorted Colors, Set of 12 • School Specialty $73.49 1 $73.49
RiteCo 22101 Tri-Fold Display Boards, 48" x 36", White (Pack of 24) • Amazon Business $67.92 1 $67.92
Crayola Broad Line Markers Classpack (256 Ct), Bulk School Supplies For Teachers, Kids Markers For School, Classroom Supplies • Amazon Business $64.98 1 $64.98
12 Pairs Kids Garden Gloves Children Gardening Gloves Rubber Coated Yard Work Gloves for Toddlers Boys Girls (Medium (Age 6-8)) • Amazon Business $25.99 2 $51.98
WENWELL 10 Large Blank Yard Signs with Stakes 18 x 24",Corrugated Plastic Lawn Sign kit for Estate Garage Sale,Party,Birthday,Wedding,Campaign,Parking,Make you own Outdoor Sign • Amazon Business $49.99 1 $49.99
Waydress 24 Pieces Halloween Monarch Butterfly Decorations 3 Size Artificial Monarch Butterflies Wall Decor 3D Butterfly Wing Wall Art with Wire for Fall Wedding Home Bedroom Wall Decorations(Orange) • Amazon Business $8.99 3 $26.97
Zooblu Wireless Lavalier Lapel Microphone for iPhone iPad,Mini Recording Phone Mic for Live Stream,for Video Recording,Interview,TikTok,Facebook Live,YouTube,Auto-sync 2-in-1 • Amazon Business $20.09 1 $20.09
EAMAY Standard Pocket Charts, Clear 10 Pocket Chart for Teacher Lessons in a Classroom or Home Use – Fits Standard 3” Sentence Strips and Word Cards, Black • Amazon Business $13.99 1 $13.99
Sow Right Seeds - Milkweed Seed Collection - Varieties Included: Butterfly, Common, Rose and Showy Milkweed, Attracts Monarch and Other Butterflies to Your Garden - Non-GMO Heirloom Packet to Grow • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
Gardeners Basics, Perennial Flower Seeds for Planting Outdoors (5 Variety Pack) Lupine, Columbine, Echinacea Purple Coneflower, Black Eyed Susan, Shasta Daisy for Pollinators Wildflower Seed • Amazon Business $9.89 1 $9.89
Gardeners Basics, Milkweed Seeds for Monarch Butterflies (4 Variety Pack) Common, Showy, Butterfly and Rose Varieties Attracts Butterflies, Bees and Pollinators Heirloom Flower Seeds Wildflower Seed • Amazon Business $9.89 1 $9.89

Materials cost

$522.56

Vendor shipping charges

$7.35

Sales tax

$47.81

3rd party payment processing fee

$7.84

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$615.56

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$108.63

Total project goal

$724.19

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$724.19

1 Donor

-$10.00

Donations toward project cost

-$10.00

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$0.00

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$1.76

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

$712.42

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