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Mr. Patterson from Tacoma, WA is requesting reading nooks, desks & storage through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Organization Is the Key to a Functional Classroom!

Help me give my students a way to organize their tools, books and supplies with Makerspace carts and chair pockets.

FULLY FUNDED! Mr. Patterson's classroom raised $1,139

This project is fully funded

My Project

Over the years I have spent more than I can count on trying to find way to keep the chaos contained in our elementary classroom. While I have focused on providing and applying for amazing art tools and LEGO, keeping them all organized so students can access them easily has been a major challenge.

Help our students organize their materials with desk pockets, while also helping us turn our mess of LEGO into a more organized system that allows for students to find the pieces needed to create with blocks!

Students will be creating a myriad of physical representations of stories, engineering design, and artistic representations through LEGO! This will be the center of our Makerspace area that I am developing for our whole school to access!

This will also make it more likely for other classrooms to use our rather large amount of LEGO to create fun and unique ways of seeing the world in story and math through the world of LEGO!

Mr. Patterson Jefferson Elementary School Grades 3-5

Equity Focus

This project directly supports students at a historically underfunded school. Learn more about our Equity Focus.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Tacoma, WA View local requests

More than half of students from low‑income households Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more

24 students impacted 11donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
hand2mind Classroom Makerspace Cart - Grades K-8 - Kids • School Specialty $211.12 3 $633.36
Panelee 60 Pcs Chair Storage Pocket Bulk for Classroom Include 30 Acrylic Dry Erase Name Tag with 30 Student Chair Organizer School Desk Chair Storage Bag First Day of School Gift(30 Set) • Amazon Business $159.99 1 $159.99

Materials cost

$793.35

Vendor shipping charges

 $63.34

Sales tax

 $69.42

3rd party payment processing fee

$11.90

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$968.01

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$170.83

Total project goal

$1,138.84

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $1,138.84

10 Donors

-$565.00

Donations toward project cost

-$487.75

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$77.25

match offer

-$565.01

Match offer toward project cost

-$480.26

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$84.75

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$8.82

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

 $0.00

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