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Mrs. Tomao from Brooklyn, NY is requesting supplies through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Sore Bottoms on a Cold Floor!

My students need 24 comfy cushions and seating for our library area where we gather to meet each day.

FULLY FUNDED! Mrs. Tomao's classroom raised $433

This project is fully funded

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Celebrate Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.

My Students

"The floor is too cold!" "My b..., ahem, bottom hurts!" Imagine my students' devastation when our gorgeous canary-colored Victorian couch and welcoming rug were destroyed due to an oh-too-common bedbug infestation and our reading area became a cold, linoleum stress test.

I am currently in a school with a 97% free lunch population.

I have opened up extra help sessions to all of my students Monday through Thursdays before school. The students in my class come from a background of diverse needs including special education, English as a second language, and temporary housing. Yet one-third of my class have achieved 100% attendance this year because they so highly value the importance of their education. These are students who come to school because it is a place of support and stability. But in this community we see typical symptoms of urban blight as a bedbug infestation took over our school and cost us so much of the furniture that made our classrooms such inspiring places to be.

My Project

My students love how cozy and welcoming I've made our classroom library and reading center and have relished their time listening to me reenact scenes from stories like Amazing Grace, Chrysanthemum, and Captain Underpants (for those days when we all need to let our hair down). They used to sit on our bright carpet and snuggle together when it was their turn on our couch and chime in during our favorite parts of the book. During center time, children took turns "playing school" and doing their character impressions as they read aloud to each other. But now that our room has been stripped of such amenities, the children fuss around during reading and spend more time rubbing their backsides than they do listening to the stories that once captivated their imaginations. These vinyl, vermin-resistant mats and cushions will enable them to be more comfortable and sit back and lose themselves in books like Where the Wild Things Are, without raising their own wild rumpus.

With your donation of reading cushions and foam chairs, you can help ensure that my students do not lose their love of reading and continue to focus on the softness of my voice as I read, rather than the hardness of the floor beneath their, well, you know ...

Mrs. Tomao PS 274 Kosciusko Grades PreK-2

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This project directly supports students at a historically underfunded school. Learn more about our Equity Focus.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Brooklyn, NY View local requests

Nearly all 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

25 students impacted 3donors

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Story Hour Cushion 1x15x12 Green • Lab Safety Supply, Inc. dba Highsmith Inc $3.07 6 $18.42
Story Hour Cushion 1x15x12 Royal Blue • Lab Safety Supply, Inc. dba Highsmith Inc $3.07 6 $18.42
Story Hour Cushion 1x15x12 Red • Lab Safety Supply, Inc. dba Highsmith Inc $3.07 6 $18.42
Story Hour Cushion 1x15x12 Purple • Lab Safety Supply, Inc. dba Highsmith Inc $3.07 6 $18.42
Whistle Chair Red • Lab Safety Supply, Inc. dba Highsmith Inc $66.78 1 $66.78
Whistle Chair Purple • Lab Safety Supply, Inc. dba Highsmith Inc $66.78 1 $66.78
Whistle Chair Green • Lab Safety Supply, Inc. dba Highsmith Inc $66.78 1 $66.78
Whistle Chair Royal Blue • Lab Safety Supply, Inc. dba Highsmith Inc $66.78 1 $66.78

Materials cost

$340.80

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$5.11

Fulfillment labor & materials

$9.00

Total project cost

$354.91

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$77.91

Total project goal

$432.82

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $432.82

2 Donors

-$122.00

Donations toward project cost

-$100.04

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$21.96

match offer

-$310.82

Match offer toward project cost

-$254.87

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$55.95

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 $0.00

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