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Mr. Bucher's classroom raised $507

Pentathalon - 5th grade - Contest of 5!

My students need 16 entrance fees paid to the pentathlon games that is a much awaited trip for this age, plus lunch for them and their chaperons.

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Mr. Bucher Woodland Star Charter School
Glen Ellen, CA Grades 3-5

Pentathlon games!!! A very important milestone in the life of a Waldorf Student! My class is in 5th grade and we are a public Waldorf methods charter school. I teach 'main lesson' to the students, which includes math, language arts, history, geography, art, music, etc. Our 'games' teacher has been preparing them all year to 'compete' in these games, being judged mostly on values and virtues. Everyone walks away with a ribbon. In the fifth grade, most Waldorf School students learn that the Olympics were an expression of that golden age when the ideal of the human form, in physical beauty and inner grace, comes together to create something heroic within the individual and blesses all those who are fortunate to witness the event. As the stories brought by the class teacher take the children deeply into the imagination of this period in time, they begin to intellectually, physically and emotionally experience an entire culture. And to this end, the fifth grade Pentathlon emerges. The children are divided into the four city-states of Greece and dressed in white, with beautiful colored sashes to distinguish their allegiance to their particular city-state. A flame bearer leads the group onto the field where the athletes present themselves to the crowds gathered under white canopies. One by one, during the course of the games, the children will read an ode that they have written to a God or Goddess that they have chosen to guide them through the events asking for courage, for strength, for grace and agility, and for good thoughts to be in their hearts for whoever may win. They are "judged" using these virtues and they are put into groups according to their temperament. Featuring the long jump, running relays, Greek wrestling, discus and the javelin,(5 sports, thus pentathlon!) the students strive with great intention to give form to the hero within themselves. Please fund this very important field trip. Thank you!

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

More than a third of students from low‑income households

16 students impacted 3 donors
Mr. Bucher Woodland Star Charter School Grades 3-5

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Glen Ellen, CA View local requests

More than a third 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

16 students impacted 3donors

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Destination Partipants Total
Summerfield Waldorf School
(Entrance fee) 		16 students, 2 teachers, 4 parents $400.00

Trip cost

$400.00

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$6.00

Fulfillment labor & materials

$9.00

Total project cost

$415.00

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$91.10

Total project goal

$506.10

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $506.10

1 Donor

-$95.00

Donations toward project cost

-$77.90

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$17.10

match offer

-$411.10

Match offer toward project cost

-$337.10

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$74.00

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