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Mrs. Melissa Smith from Spooner, WI is requesting reading nooks, desks & storage through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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School Is Student Centered and Fun!

My students need workspace to create a student centered classroom, additional 3D plastic, Markerboard table, and recess equipment to create a student centered playground.

FULLY FUNDED! Mrs. Melissa Smith's classroom raised $971

This project is fully funded

My Students

My students are amazing! They surprise me each and every day and keep me learning more for them. We seriously have some of the best students in our small- town elementary school.

My students are always ready to try something new, because of that, I want to be a better teacher every day.

I want to grow with them!

Our school is over sixty percent free or reduced price lunch, but together our community, parents and staff work to get us everything we need.

I am so grateful to have wonderful people like you also partnering with us to help get our students everything they so deserve.

My Project

My students love to design, create, and practice using the resources we currently have in our classroom, but...

An interactive classroom is one that meets the needs of each student.

Every time my students come to small group time they happily grab the dry erase markers and erasers and are so excited for this time. Since we have flexible seating, the one white board table we have is always first pick.

This white board table would unlock more individual white board spaces for my students to use during their independent work time in math, science, language arts, and our classroom creativity time. Individual workspace is so important for the growth and learning process of each student.

The magnetic boards will give my students work space during math, science, and literacy centers. They will be heavy duty so that they can be used for our 3Doodlers and hot glue guns, and magnetic so they can be used for our word work magnetic letters. Additionally we need more 3Doodler plastic! We've been using our 3D pens for so many awesome projects including word work and math fluency, so we need more plastic!

The flag football kits have been on my students' wish list since this fall. It will be great to be able to surprise them with this right now.

Lastly, we have LOTS of snow on the ground. We're going to need lots of fun shovels, scoops, and snow art materials to create some really sweet creations and allow our playground to be even more student centered.

School can be fun and students should enjoy coming each day because they deserve to have the best education!

Mrs. Melissa Smith Spooner 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.

Spooner, WI 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

21 students impacted 2donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
TABLE - CS APOLLO ACTIVITY ROUND 48 - MARKERBOARD TOP - BLACK LOCK EDGE/UPPER LEG - SPECIFY TABLE HEIGHT • School Specialty $251.27 1 $251.27
SE GP3-SS20BK Prospector's Choice Sand Scoop for Metal Detecting • Amazon Business $8.95 16 $143.20
3Doodler Start Refill Plastic Bundle (8-Pack) • Amazon Business $49.60 2 $99.20
Flexible Flyer Snow Block, colors may vary • Amazon Business $11.25 8 $90.00
Flag Football Belts Adult - Durable 14 Player Velcro Flag Football Set of Belts and Flags Includes 3 Flags Per Belt Plus a Bonus 6 Replacement Flags (62 Piece Kit) • Amazon Business $34.99 2 $69.98
Ideal Sno Toys Sno-Art Kit • Amazon Business $15.00 3 $45.00
17.5" x 12" Magnetic Board - Made in the USA - Great Magnetic Bulletin Board, Magnetic Poetry • Amazon Business $17.99 2 $35.98
Ideal Sno-Cylinder • Amazon Business $7.95 3 $23.85

Materials cost

$758.48

Vendor shipping charges

 $25.13

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$11.38

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$824.99

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$145.59

Total project goal

$970.58

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $970.58

1 Donor

-$420.00

Donations toward project cost

-$420.00

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$0.00

match offer

-$476.46

Match offer toward project cost

-$404.99

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$71.47

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$74.12

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

 $0.00

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