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Ms. Barrington-Akauola from Etiwanda CA is requesting flexible seating through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Classroom Kindergarten Carpet

Help me give my students the most flexible and fun learning environment possible! The carpet will help me to build a comfortable and fun space to go build classroom behavior and teach my kiddos how to be students!

  • $672 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

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My Students

My student are all eager learners that have been diagnosed with autism and need a little extra TLC to get through the days. Most of students struggle with transitions and can become overwhelmed easily during certain tasks. My hope is to show them that learning can be fun and that the classroom doesn’t have to be so overwhelming all the time. I also have students who are nonverbal and can become frustrated with regular paper and pencil work. I’d love to provide them with appropriate classroom activities and materials to assist them in accessing the curriculum. My students love to learn through kinesthetic and sensory based activities, so most of the time I’m making or prepping these activities myself. I would love to have access to materials that I would be able to just set out throughout the week, without needing to prep over and over again.

My Project

In my environment, my students need as much assistance as possible to learn how to be "students" and how to behave in class. Students usually learn this during Kindergarten, and a huge part of kindergarten is having your daily "Morning Meetings", "Story Time", and "Calendar Time". So much of Kindergarten is centered around your daily group meetings, including learning how to sit and attend to your teacher. When students master being able to sit and attend at carpet time, this opens the door to showing growth in not only behavior, but ultimately in their academic progress!

Ms. Barrington-Akauola
Grades PreK-2

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
LA952 A Place for Everyone Classroom Carpet for 30 Kids 9 x 12 • Lakeshore Learning Materials $489.00 1 $489.00

Materials cost

$489.00

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$44.74

3rd party payment processing fee

$7.34

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$571.08

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$100.78

Total project goal

$671.86

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$671.86

3 Donors

-$335.93

Donations toward project cost

-$285.54

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$50.39

match offer

-$335.93

Match offer toward project cost

-$285.54

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$50.39

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$0.00

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