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Mrs. Kerr from Selbyville, DE is requesting reading nooks, desks & storage through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Help?! Our Gym Teacher is Stuck in the Closet!

Help me give my students more room in our gym/ auditorium by purchasing storage sheds.

FULLY FUNDED! Mrs. Kerr's classroom raised $1,347

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My Project

We absolutely love our little school that is big on learning! However, it does have its challenges. Our school is quite old and in serving 325 students, most of whom come from low-income families, we pack a lot in to a little space. We encourage our students to find their passions! We provide a wide variety of low or no cost opportunities for our students. They are able to participate in vocal music and/ or band, join the robotics team, sing and dance in the Talent Show, or get exercise and confidence on our Girls on the Run and Let Me Run teams. These groups all meet during the course of the school day and practice and perform within our auditorium/ multi-purpose room/ gym space. This means that our PE teacher, Mr. Hahn, has been tasked with working around this crazy schedule to plan safe, fun, and physically engaging lessons for students in grades K through 5.

Sharing a space for gym has proven challenging- with our poor gym teacher hiding equipment in every nook and cranny!

Some equipment had to be moved from the storage closet to behind curtains on the stage or under the stage (its scary in there!) so that he can even have an office. Having equipment squirreled away in multiple areas makes it difficult to actively engage students across the grade levels.

Our goal is to purchase two outdoor storage sheds for Mr. Hahn to organize and store PE equipment. You want to do parachutes with kindergarten but basketball with third grade later? No problem!! With access to a courtyard just outside the gym, Mr. Hahn will be able to easily access the storage sheds, gather the needed equipment for each class period, and more fully engage our students during their gym class.

Mrs. Kerr Phillip Showell Elementary School Grades 3-5 Selbyville, DE View local requests 325 students impacted 18donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Rubbermaid Vertical Resin Outdoor Storage Shed With Floor (4 x 2.5 Ft) Weather Resistant Brown Organization for Home/Backyard/Garden Tools/Porch/Patio Cushions/Pool Chemicals/Toys • Amazon Business $549.00 2 $1,098.00

Materials cost

$1,098.00

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$16.47

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$1,144.47

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$201.97

Total project goal

$1,346.44

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$1,346.44

10 Donors

-$1,293.49

Donations toward project cost

-$1,144.47

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$149.02

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$52.95

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$0.00

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