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Ms. Thomas from Washington DC is requesting reading nooks, desks & storage through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Solution for Personal Space Jam

Help me give my students a carpet that will allow a comfortable space for all!

  • $515 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Celebrate Black Teachers and Students

This project is part of the Black History Month celebration because it supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of the students are Black.

My Students

My team and I serve young learners in a Title I public school located in the steadily developing Southwest quadron of the District of Columbia. Our prekindergarten inclusion class is a warm, rich community of enthusiastic, engaged learners from diverse families. They love coming to school, and sharing experiences with their teachers and friends. And I love that this young community of culturally, socially, economically, and academically diverse learners come together to engage and encourage each other.

Many of our young scholars are new to the formal school setting, and as preschoolers require lots of tactile, oral, and visual experiences.

Most of my students are from low income families who have set goals and standards for their children to obtain an high quality early childhood education that would lay the path for future accomplishments.

My Project

This carpet is just perfect for allowing our students space during whole group gatherings!

Our students need to be positioned close enough to engage with one another appropriately, but they also need to have enough distance between them to encourage respect for each other's personal space and to deter them from distracting one another while learning.

This carpet is perfect for defining positions so that groups of children are not too close to each other when they are gathered together, for spacing children in a way that will promote attention focusing, and for allowing the freedom of movement for designed peer interaction experiences.

Ms. Thomas
Grades PreK-2

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
GG357 - A Spot for Everyone Classroom Carpet for 20 Kids - 8' x 9' - Blue • Lakeshore Learning Materials $379.00 1 $379.00

Materials cost

$379.00

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $22.74

3rd party payment processing fee

$5.68

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$437.42

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$77.19

Total project goal

$514.61

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $514.61

4 Donors

-$274.44

Donations toward project cost

-$251.71

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$22.73

Matching donations from our partners

-$218.48

Match offers toward project cost

-$185.71

Match offers to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$32.77

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$21.69

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

 $0.00

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