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Ms. Booth from Dorchester MA is requesting a classroom visitor through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Building Birdhouses: Contributing to Literacy and the Community

Help me give my students six one-hour woodworking classes and the materials to build two birdhouse libraries for the school.

  • $1,672 goal

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This project is part of the Black History Month celebration because it supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of the students are Black.

My Students

My students are a small, diverse group of middle schoolers living in the city. They are a part of a substantially separate special education classroom for students with intellectual impairments. Over the course of this year they have shown immense growth in their work ethic, academic performances, maturity, and relationships. We have become a close-knit classroom that values respect, creativity, critical thinking, and asking questions.

Although they join the rest of their middle school peers for arts blocks and lunch, their separate setting can at times leave them feeling left out from their general education peers.

My Project

I would love for my students to be able to gain woodworking skills and experience by participating in 6 one hour classes with a skilled woodworker from a nearby arts school. During these classes, my students will have the opportunity to construct 2 birdhouse libraries that will be placed around the school for all students to enjoy. My creative, students already love making models, piggy banks and small houses from Popsicle sticks and glue guns.

This opportunity will give them a chance to take their natural interest in building and use it to create a functional piece of art that will hopefully promote creativity, literacy, and imagination throughout the school community.

Exposure to print and has a humongous positive impact on the development of vocabulary and reading fluency. Our school does not currently have space for a library, but having small birdhouse-libraries will give all students the opportunity to share and discover books in a fun way. My students, who are in a small substantially separate special education classroom, sometimes feel isolated from their general education peers. I hope that building these libraries will be something that helps them connect with schoolmates and feel like a valuable part of the larger community.

Ms. Booth
Grades 6-8

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Visitor Total
Eliot School of Applied and Fine Arts $1,370.00

Visitor cost

$1,370.00

Vendor shipping charges

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Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$20.55

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$1,420.55

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$250.69

Total project goal

$1,671.24

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $1,671.24

10 Donors

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-$0.00

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-$0.00

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