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Ms. Brown from Farmington, ME is requesting reading nooks, desks & storage through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Organizing the Books Part 2

Help me give my students baskets to organize our books, so we can easily find them.

  • $209 goal

This project expired on October 25, 2019.

This project expired on October 25, 2019.

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Ms. Brown Cascade Brook School
Farmington, ME Grades 3-5

My Students

As a teacher in a high poverty school district, I work with students that are faced with challenges in and outside the classroom. Despite the challenges my students face, they persevere. My students are high energy, communicative, and enthusiastic learners. They have a lot of energy and are always looking for a fun way to learn. They love to get involved with the lesson in whatever way possible.

My students love to show off their work and teach their peers.

They are excited to teach each other, both in groups and in front of the class. My students are visual learners. They love to use different resources in the room to show learning strategies to their friends. The students are a great group of mathematicians, scientists, writers, ​and artists.

My Project

My classroom has a wonderful problem, we have too many books. The books are taking over the shelves, counters, and floor. We have stacks of books here, there, and everywhere. It’s a wonderful problem to have, but with so many books we have a hard time keeping them organized. My students and I have brainstormed many different ways to keep the books organized, but they always end up disorganized at the end of the day.

We recently received eight baskets, unfortunately, only a fourth of our books will fit in the baskets, we need ten more to help get more of the books organized.

A shelf currently holds 60 books, but a shelf with baskets can hold 68 books. Being able to add eight additional books to the shelf will help organize the books.

Baskets will allow us to group books that are by the same author and books in the same series in one spot. By placing some of the books in baskets it will also clear up some shelf space to put the rest of the books on the shelf.

Equity Focus

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

More than half of students from low‑income households

100 students impacted
Ms. Brown Cascade Brook 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.

Farmington, ME 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

100 students impacted

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
InterDesign Classico Kitchen Pantry Bath Organizer Wire Basket, Medium, Chrome (93222) • Quill.com $13.85 10 $138.50

Materials cost

$138.50

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $6.92

3rd party payment processing fee

$2.08

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$177.50

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$31.32

Total project goal

$208.82

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