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Ms. Provence from Ozone Park, NY is requesting supplies through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Travel Buddy Goes Down Under

My project needs 6 Single-Use Flash Cameras, a plush travel buddy, 3 marble notebook journals and a Classroom Scrapbook Kit.

FULLY FUNDED! Ms. Provence's classroom raised $136

This project is fully funded

Growing up every child wants to travel the world and experience new things. Unfortunately this does not always happen, so why not bring a piece of the world into their classroom? For the 2007-2008 school year my class from New York City will be taking part in a Travel Buddy program with a class in Australia. A Travel Buddy is a stuffed animal that leaves his home classroom to visit a classroom in another country. While in his new classroom the Travel Buddy spends time with the students and learns about his/her host country. In order for my students to feel an attachment to this Travel Buddy he/she will be spending time with each student individually. Every night a different student will take our Travel Buddy home and record in a journal what the Travel Buddy and he/she did for the evening. They will also be given a disposable camera to take a photo of them and the Travel Buddy to be added to a scrapbook/photo album. I was lucky enough to have this same program funded through DonorsChoose for the past two years and would love for my students to take part in the same program again this year. The students, through this program, learned so much about the history, daily life and school day in Australia. They loved learning about what Fluffy, our travel buddy, was doing in Australia. He visited Clermont Australia and learned about the great flood that destroyed the original town of Clermont in the early 1900s. The photos from Australia were amazing and the package Fluffy brought home with him was full of goodies. We especially loved the "Kangaroo Poo" candy and my students loved the photo of the Kangaroos eating the grass in the school playground. The Travel Buddy program will give both my students and the students in Australia an opportunity to learn Social Studies and Geography through an interactive project. The students will also practice their writing skills through the class journal. My students will be taking photographs of their time with the Travel Buddy, which will be placed in a scrapbook for the students, parents, and school community to view for years to come. For this project the supplies that are needed are of course a Travel Buddy, a stuffed animal no more than eight inches high and light weight, at least three journals, six disposable cameras and a large scrapbook/photo album for the photos to be placed in at the conclusion of the project. I am looking forward to the smiles on my students' faces when our Travel Buddy returns from Australia with so many stories to tell us about what he/she saw, learned and experienced on his/her trip to Australia. Bringing Australia into my classroom will be a great Social Studies and Geography lesson for students, some who have never even left the tri-state area.

Ms. Provence PS 63 Old South Grades 3-5

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More than three‑quarters 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

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Office Depot(R) Brand Single-Use Flash Camera Twin Pack • Office Depot Inc. $10.99 3 $32.97
Mead Journal Composition Book, 9 3/4quot x 7 1/2quot, Black Marble • Office Depot Inc. $3.79 3 $11.37
Classroom Scrapbook Kit • Kaplan Early Learning Company $30.06 1 $30.06
Plush • Highsmith Inc. $8.76 1 $8.76

Materials cost

$83.16

Vendor shipping charges

 $8.32

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$2.08

Fulfillment labor & materials

$17.00

Total project cost

$111.00

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$24.37

Total project goal

$135.37

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $135.37

1 Donor

-$130.59

Donations toward project cost

-$111.00

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$19.59

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$4.78

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 $0.00

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