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Mrs. Bronkella from Columbus IN is requesting other through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Exercise Your Brain on an Exercise Ball!

My students need ten stability balls for the classroom to use as chairs.

  • $261 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

My Students

"Sitting still is overrated. It makes sense for the opera or for meditating, but in most classrooms and child care centers, it's given far more honor than it deserves. Children need to move." ~Tom Hunter, National Association for the Education of Young Children.

My classroom is part of a school that has many needs, both physically and emotionally.

We are a Title 1 school full of students with a desire to learn, but not enough support at home to transfer that learning outside of the classroom. We are trying to instill them with the skills to make that transfer on their own.

My Project

These students need to get the blood flowing in their brain, which helps brain function. They need to get their wiggles out each day so that their focus remains on learning. Stability balls build core strength which is lacking in a lot of children in this present day technological world. The stability balls will help to reach each of these goals that I have as an educator.

Included in my classroom is a child with ASD and a child with Down Syndrome.

While I know the stability balls will help these students stay focused to learn, I also know that the other students in my classroom need this same intervention to assure their learning and focus as well.

Mrs. Bronkella
Grades PreK-2

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Body Sport Fitness Ball, 45cm, Purple • Amazon $18.83 10 $188.30

Materials cost

$188.30

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$2.82

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$221.12

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$39.02

Total project goal

$260.14

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $260.14

1 Donor

-$221.12

Donations toward project cost

-$221.12

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$0.00

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$39.02

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 $0.00

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