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Ms. Weber from Colorado Springs, CO is requesting supplies through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Ms. Weber's classroom raised $970

Climbing our way to Second Grade! (and college!)

My students need certain materials including a rug, easel, and materials to best meet each student where he or she is at in order to reach our big goal of college!

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Ms. Weber Pikes Peak Elementary School
Colorado Springs, CO Grades PreK-2

My Students

The challenge facing our children today is present in statistics in any newspaper. More than that they are in the faces of the seventeen first graders who walk into my classroom with a look in their eyes craving the knowledge of our classroom. We work hard. We are nice. And we will get really smart.

My students are dreamers, believers, and optimists.

They have fathers deployed, mothers absent, and grandmas who love them to pieces. They love to read and love to move. And they thanked me the first day I assigned homework. They are trusting and lovable. And they are very very far behind in a system that has begun to fail them before they have two digits in their age. But they smile everyday and they preserve. And they want to climb mountains. And they will starting already in first grade.

My Project

Right now my students Love reading. Never mind the fact that on a baseline assessment they can read only two one letter word, they Love reading. Sharing this love is a great passion of mine. However, not having a classroom carpet is getting in the way of this. While it may not initially seem necessary, it eliminates the issues of our movable make shift carpet (show room samples) that often cause the 5 and 6 year olds to get distracted from the engaging story. A carpet and easel would help eliminate some of the issues that interfere with the flow of our classroom.

My students have eyes as big as the sun.

When they saw our Mountains that we are going to climb this year (reading 500 sight words and an on level book at 60 words per minute) they beamed and could not wait to start. However, a mountain is an accurate metaphor for the task we have ahead of us. The students are already behind in a school that they have attended for only a year. Each student believes in him or herself and the ability to work hard be nice get smart... and go to college.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

More than half of students from low‑income households

20 students impacted 35 donors
Ms. Weber Pikes Peak Elementary School Grades PreK-2

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Colorado Springs, CO View local requests

More than half of students from low‑income households Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more

20 students impacted 35donors

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
EarthWorks Rectangular Carpet 7 8 X 10 9 ----*Comments* • Teacher's School Supply Inc. $398.33 1 $398.33
DOUBLE SIDED EASEL WITH TUBS -- Best-Rite Easels/Dry Erase; Double Sided Easel with Tubs • Quill $239.99 1 $239.99
READY-TO-USE INDEPENDENT READING MANAGEMENT KIT, GRADE 1 -- Scholastic Independent Reading Management Kits; Grade 1 • Quill $11.51 1 $11.51
Edition K - 1 (Grades Kindergarten and 1) Pricing is valid for orders placed after March 2010. After August 15th of current school year, pricing will remain in effect but TIME For Kids reserves the right to prorate issue quantity and free gifts. Only valid for orders in quantities of 10 or more. Orders for less than 10 subscriptions will NOT be fulfilled. • Time for Kids $3.98 1 $3.98
TEACH THEM ALL TO READ 2ND EDITION -- Corwin Press Teach Them All to Read - 2nd Edition • Quill $34.19 1 $34.19

Materials cost

$688.00

Vendor shipping charges

 $46.68

Sales tax

 $44.03

3rd party payment processing fee

$10.32

Fulfillment labor & materials

$35.00

Total project cost

$824.03

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$145.42

Total project goal

$969.45

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $969.45

28 Donors

-$969.45

Donations toward project cost

-$824.03

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$145.42

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