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Mrs. Sharpe from Cherry Hill NJ is requesting reading nooks, desks & storage through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Buddy Reading!

Help me give my students this bench as a special buddy reading place.

  • $393 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

My Students

I love teaching first grade because it is such an important year for students. I often refer to First grade as “Boot Camp” in a child’s school career. It is a time of transitions, adjustments and hopefully tremendous growth as each student acquires new skills.

My students are working on their incredible and exciting academic journey to extend their skills as a reader, author, mathematician, scientist, and so much more.

They are "bright-eyed and bushy tailed", ready to take on their schooling journey. With so many curricular demands it is sometimes hard for them to settle and focus. We take lots of brain breaks with movement activities that help. My kiddos try hard and are doing well.

My Project

Beginning readers apply reading strategies when reading alone and also when reading with a partner. This storage bench will work well for storing individual reading binders and provide a space for partners to read together as they coach each other towards success with reading accuracy, comprehension and fluency.

Today's students thrive on choice of options.

When a young mind is eager and engaged, doing what they want and need to do, learning happens! Read to Someone is a daily routine in our classroom. This new seating option is sure to entice my kiddos to spend time reading thus getting better at reading, and enjoying it with a friend.

Mrs. Sharpe
Grades PreK-2

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
RR400 - Flex-Space Classroom Storage Bench • Lakeshore Learning Materials $299.00 1 $299.00

Materials cost

$299.00

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$4.48

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$333.48

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$58.85

Total project goal

$392.33

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$392.33

6 Donors

-$268.80

Donations toward project cost

-$231.48

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$37.32

match offer

-$120.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$102.00

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$18.00

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$3.53

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$0.00

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