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Mrs. Houston from Sarahsville OH is requesting flexible seating through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Home Is Where the Heart Is

My students need a foam couch for comfortable seating so that their classroom is like home.

  • $309 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

My Students

My amazing students live in a rural area, and more than half survive below the poverty line. My classroom is an inclusion class. This means that I teach students with disabilities along with their typically developing peers.

I learn as much from my students as they learn from me.

Despite the challenges my students face from learning difficulties, poverty, and living in the heart of the opioid crisis, they continue to have good attitudes. They are eager to learn. I want to fill their space with the tools that help them to have the same opportunities as children in more prominent areas. My students deserve every advantage.

My Project

Each year, we have several students who are homeless. They often double up with another family, a grandparent, or reside in a shelter or motel. It is heartbreaking.

School is the closest thing to home that these children have.

It’s my goal to make it as warm, inviting, and comforting as possible. This nugget is ideal. It is a series of padded furniture that can be shaped into different configurations. It is as comfortable as a couch. The students all love these. They stretch out on them with a good book or sit with a friend to collaborate on a project. This nugget helps my classroom be their home. Please help me help my students.

Mrs. Houston
Grades 3-5

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Jetblack Nugget • Nugget $229.00 1 $229.00

Materials cost

$229.00

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$3.44

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$262.44

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$46.31

Total project goal

$308.75

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $308.75

2 Donors

-$263.94

Donations toward project cost

-$262.44

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$1.50

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$44.81

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 $0.00

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As a teacher-founded nonprofit, we're trusted by thousands of teachers and supporters across the country. This classroom request for funding was created by Mrs. Houston and reviewed by the DonorsChoose team.

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