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Ms. Lily from Lehi, UT is requesting materials related to food, clothing & hygiene through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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The Chick Initiative

Help me give my students the opportunity to watch chicks hatch and grow as they learn to care for them and their environment with their incubator, brooder and essential tools.

FULLY FUNDED! Ms. Lily's classroom raised $510

This project is fully funded

My Students

My students are excited, curious, helpful, and caring! I have two half-day kindergarten classes in a blended learning Montessori school. Each class has their unique attributes, but the ones listed before and common attributes they share.

Maria Montessori once said, “To assist a child we must provide him with an environment which will enable him to develop freely.”

We focus on a calm learning environment so they can feel peace and find ways to help others. Every Friday we create a hands-on learning experience for the students. They can use their 5 senses and even form questions or observations about what they are doing. They love being curious and exploring more from their learning tools.

One thing I especially love about my students (there’s a lot), is that they are always willing to help one another and the teachers! They want to be leaders and encourage their friends to challenge themselves. They want to help their friends when they feel sad or confused! The students have so much empathy already and it melts my heart knowing that I can count on each one of them to uplift their fellow classmates.

My Project

The items requested will help us nurture the beginning stages of a chick's life cycle. From the time they are an egg, we keep them safe in an automatic incubator that gives them warmth and turns them at specific times each day. This incubator will also keep track of the amount of days left in the incubator so we know when to switch them to our brooder.

After 21 days of incubation, the chick’s are ready to hatch and students can watch as these new friends hatch out of their eggs and wait to be switched over to our brooder cage.

In this cage the humidity and warmth are controlled so the chick’s can stay healthy and warm. We have included pine bedding so their legs can develop properly! Another important aspect of this wish list is the chick feed that helps them stay healthy and strong. It helps them develop properly. We even have shallow water and food dishes included so the chick’s can stay safe as they get their proper nutrients. This brooder cage also allows the students to easily clean, hold and watch the chick’s!

With these chickens, we will learn about their life cycle, use addition and subtraction to figure out how many more days until they hatch, we will encourage them to write and draw observations, and even read stories about how to properly care for living things which aligns with our practical life units and the core units of math, language arts, and science.

Ms. Lily Ignite Entrepreneurship Academy Grades PreK-2 Lehi, UT View local requests 41 students impacted 11donors

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Brinsea Products Mini II Advance Automatic 7 Egg Incubator, One Size, Yellow& Black, USAB16C • Amazon Business $153.60 1 $153.60
JAEDO Chicken coop Brooder Box Brooder Heater Plate Brooder Panels Chicken House cage Comes ,Warms up to 15 Chicks with Bulb Set (19" x 12" x 12") • Amazon Business $114.00 1 $114.00
Manna Pro Chick Starter and Grower | Chick Crumbles | Non-GMO | With Antioxidants and Probiotics | No Artificial Flavors or Medications | 10 LB • Amazon Business $22.84 3 $68.52
YU YAO Fresh Pine Flakes-Pine Shavings for Chicken Bedding Poultry Supplies Chicken Coop Bedding- Poultry Supplies Chicken Bedding Nest Liners Chickens -Keep The Chicks Warm -Fresh Deodorant -2.9lb • Amazon Business $16.00 3 $48.00
POPETPOP 2Pcs Reptile Feeder Terraium Bowl - Reptile Shallow Dish Plastic for Food and Water Feeding Dish for Snake Lizard Gecko Bearded Dragon Turtle • Amazon Business $13.12 1 $13.12

Materials cost

$397.24

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$5.96

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$433.20

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$76.45

Total project goal

$509.65

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $509.65

8 Donors

-$471.71

Donations toward project cost

-$411.95

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$59.76

match offer

-$25.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$21.25

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$3.75

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$12.94

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

 $0.00

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