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Ms. Y. from CA is requesting art supplies through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Poetry in Motion

Help me give my students stretch bands, erasers, rubber stamps, a spindle, roving wool, and a couple of Klutz/LEGO kits and inspirational books for arts integration.

  • $446 goal

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My Students

Hello, Hola, xin chào, Hallå, سلام, Kamusta, Olá, ہیلو, and welcome to this project for art and music materials that benefit energetic and enthusiastic students who represent many languages.

These loving children attend a high poverty, inland school in a state that is number one in prison spending and number 41 in education spending.

Though we have neither counselors nor teachers for music, art, P.E., the library, or computers, our deserving students benefit from an attentive, caring staff, and a "village" of generous supporters. We hope you will join us.

My Project

Inspired by the technology and music workshop by James Harding, music educator extraordinaire, I am requesting LEGO books and kits that students will use to integrate movie-making, music, and technology for STEAM practice. As they continue their weaving activities, these technologically literate millennials lack experience with low tech life and need the roving wool and spindle as hands-on realia. During their musical brain breaks from seatwork--when they use rubber stamps to inject levity and erasers to overcome mistakes--the stretchy bands will add fluidity, interest, humor, and get them to move like poetry in motion.

Thank you for reading this proposal for some "off book" materials, and if funded, please join them for an afternoon of chaotic, but satisfying poetry in motion.

Ms. Y.
Grades PreK-2

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Stretch Bands (Medium) • Fun and Function $16.99 8 $135.92
Stretch Bands (Large) • Fun and Function $17.99 2 $35.98
Klutz Lego Chain Reactions Science & Building Kit, Age 8 • Amazon Business $19.14 1 $19.14
Hero Arts LL809 Ink 'n' Stamp Woodblock Stamp, A Year of Holidays • Amazon Business $17.99 1 $17.99
Genius LEGO Inventions with Bricks You Already Have: 40+ New Robots, Vehicles, Contraptions, Gadgets, Games and Other Fun STEM Creations • Amazon Business $15.99 1 $15.99
Klutz Lego Make Your Own Movie Activity Kit • Amazon Business $15.19 1 $15.19
Quill Brand Pink Wedge Erasers, 12/Pk (27670) • Quill.com $5.03 3 $15.09
Klutz Lego Gadgets Science & Activity Kit, Ages 8+ • Amazon Business $14.99 1 $14.99
Awesome LEGO Creations with Bricks You Already Have: 50 New Robots, Dragons, Race Cars, Planes, Wild Animals and Other Exciting Projects to Build Imaginative Worlds • Amazon Business $13.74 1 $13.74
Happy Classy Drop Spindle Maple Top Whorl Spinning Clear Smooth Finish • Amazon Business $12.89 1 $12.89
Jupean 3.53oz Wool Roving Yarn, Fiber Roving Wool Top, Wool Felting Supplies, 100% Pure Wool, Chunky Yarn, Spinning Wool Roving for Needle Felting Wet Felting DIY Hand Spinning • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
Dixon Erasers, Pink, 144/Box (34500) • Quill.com $8.99 1 $8.99

Materials cost

$314.90

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $28.81

3rd party payment processing fee

$4.72

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$378.43

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$66.78

Total project goal

$445.21

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $445.21

1 Donor

-$189.00

Donations toward project cost

-$189.00

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$0.00

match offer

-$222.86

Match offer toward project cost

-$189.43

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$33.43

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$33.35

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

 $0.00

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