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Mrs. Martin from Crowley LA is requesting classroom basics through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Grab Your Clipboard and Let's Learn!

Help me give my students colorful clipboards to enable them to work in other locations and to give them a break from sitting at their desks!

  • $238 goal

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Hooray! This project is fully funded

My Students

Our school is in a low socioeconomic area, and it is a Title I school. Our district provides only a few essential school supplies, and it falls to the teacher to provide some basic classroom necessities.

Many students come from homes with little or no parental support, and they need us to meet needs that go beyond state standards.

It takes more than worksheets to help students get ready to move on to a higher grade. They need to have their confidence built up and be secure in their ability to demonstrate proficiency in a subject. They are ready to learn and are waiting to be set up for success!

My Project

This school year looks a lot different from years past. Not only do most of us wear masks and dry our hands out with copious amounts of hand sanitizer, we also have to view our students through the blurry sneeze guard barrier that is supposed to keep the virus contained should one of my students be carrying it. We also spend almost all of our learning time at our desks, which is an enormous difference for first grade, where we usually have small groups, work in pairs, come to the small group table to work with the teacher, or even sit with desks arranged in clusters.

Having clipboards will give my students the ability to take their seatwork, clip it, and sit on the floor, take their work outside, or work with a partner, all from a safe distance.

Will it be the same as the collaborative teams of yore? No. But it is a small way to teach my first graders how to work together to complete projects, however small. Collaboration is an important social skill that they need to be taught, as well as given opportunity to practice! We need more people who can work together to solve problems!

Mrs. Martin
Grades PreK-2

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
JAM Paper Plastic Clipboard, Letter Size, Assorted Colors (3409ASSRT) • Staples Advantage $38.94 4 $155.76

Materials cost

$155.76

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$13.63

3rd party payment processing fee

$2.34

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$201.73

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$35.60

Total project goal

$237.33

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$237.33

3 Donors

-$115.76

Donations toward project cost

-$103.35

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$12.41

match offer

-$115.74

Match offer toward project cost

-$98.38

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$17.36

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$5.83

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

$0.00

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