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Mrs. Baugher from Little Rock AR is requesting sports & exercise equipment through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Is It Getting Hot In Here?

My students need a kiln to create a ceramics class: having the invaluable experience of working with clay increases sensory development, motor skills, self-esteem, self-expression, problem solving skills, discipline and pride.

  • $2,410 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

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

My students are eager, motivated and excited to learn. I teach at a Title I school in Arkansas where 100 percent of our students receive free breakfast and lunch. Many of our students receive food even on the weekends.

Despite so many hardships, my students are living our school vision: Believe, Achieve, Succeed.

As part of our community, we believe all students can achieve and succeed on a daily basis.

We are a small, yet thriving community school located in the inner-city, filled with children who are committed to growing in the foundations of the Arts.

My Project

Clay is a unique medium in that when a child is given a hunk of clay they immediately begin to mold and shape the clay because the medium is so responsive to touch.

Esteem comes, when maybe for the first time, a child becomes aware that they are in charge and have influence over the medium as it is quick to respond to their fingers.

Clay, unlike a sheet of paper, is very forgiving of mistakes. Often mistakes are how we learn, and critical for self improvement - yet our children are so fearful of making mistakes.

Clay once manipulated gives the students the confidence for expression and use of their imagination by allowing a child to learn to repair mistakes and therefore not be afraid to make them. Children learn that mistakes aren’t going to stop their progress of creating, learning, believing or succeeding through play.

Mrs. Baugher
Grades 3-5

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
30105-1400-Skutt KS Series Kiln - 818-1PH, Cone 8, 208V, 1PH, 26.7A, 17-1/2" x 18" • Blick Art Materials $1,570.00 1 $1,570.00
surcharge • Blick Art Materials $115.00 1 $115.00

Materials cost

$1,685.00

Vendor shipping charges

 $168.50

Sales tax

 $139.01

3rd party payment processing fee

$25.28

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$2,047.79

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$361.37

Total project goal

$2,409.16

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $2,409.16

4 Donors

-$2,255.16

Donations toward project cost

-$2,005.29

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$249.87

match offer

-$50.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$42.50

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$7.50

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$104.00

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

 $0.00

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