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Ms. Wells from Pine Bluff AR is requesting reading nooks, desks & storage through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Community-Building on the Floor

Help me give my students a carpet to sit on during our morning meeting time!

  • $654 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

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Celebrate Black Teachers and Students

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

This will be my first year as a second grade teacher, and I haven't met my kiddos yet, but if they're anything like my 3rd graders last year, they're funny, kind, and creative. They will give the best hugs and have smiles that could melt any heart. They will probably love slime, so I will probably have to encourage a lot of hand-washing.

My students will love to move.

They'll need brain breaks and hands-on activities. They'll love recess and hate the sound of a whistle.

My students will love to talk. Mostly they'll talk about themselves, whether it connects to the previous comment or not. They will love to laugh at the funny story one kid tells about his weekend that may or may not be completely made up.

My students will love a lot of things, but my goal is to help them love to learn.

My Project

Last year, my students loved grabbing a clipboard and sitting on the floor, but this year I'm in an uncarpeted room, so I want to offer my students the same opportunity to sit on the floor to complete work, to dance to a GoNoodle, or to participate in the classroom conversations and morning meetings we will have.

It's hard to have an effective, community-building meeting with the kids when they are spread around the room behind desks.

Classroom conversations (whether positive or corrective) just shouldn't happen in the same location that students complete their classwork.

In fact, students shouldn't be restricted to staying in one place all day long! We adults often don't like sitting in one seat all day, so why should seven and eight-year-olds be expected to do it? I've always believed that flexible seating works, and having this carpet would just offer my kids one more flexible seating option.

Ms. Wells
Grades PreK-2

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
PP309 - Calming Colors® A Place for Everyone Carpet for 30 Kids - 9' x 12' • Lakeshore Learning Materials $479.00 1 $479.00

Materials cost

$479.00

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$39.52

3rd party payment processing fee

$7.18

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$555.70

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$98.06

Total project goal

$653.76

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$653.76

1 Donor

-$65.37

Donations toward project cost

-$55.57

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$9.80

match offer

-$588.39

Match offer toward project cost

-$500.13

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$88.26

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$0.00

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