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Ms. Finn from Middleburg FL is requesting lab equipment through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

We Cannot Make a Tree, but We Really Need Three

Help me give my students three live trees for our outdoor learning environment.

  • $208 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

My Students

Despite a community with over 50% low-income families, our kids are ready, willing, and able to face any challenge and love to demonstrate their learning through their work every day.

With our new Montessori program, my classroom and outdoor learning environment will inspire students to explore, create, discover, and develop a life-long love of learning.

By focusing on the whole child with the adult serving as a guide to their learning, my kids are able to dive deeply into those areas that they want to study. Then by following their lead, I can integrate their lessons with materials they're excited about and use those subjects as the basis of everything from reading, to writing, to math, and science. Each child has a learning path all their own. And they love it! (And so do I.)

My Project

As a Montessori classroom, we're blessed by having a space outside our classroom to use as an outdoor learning environment. Additionally, our curriculum allows us to integrate environmental studies into all aspects of our learning including science, social studies, reading and language arts, and even math.

Unfortunately, our outdoor space is surrounded by concrete and brick walls, so we need living trees to help us incorporate nature into our environment as we learn about and care for the plants and animals which are also a part of our world.

Trees are so important to our planet and my students will learn to appreciate their benefits and importance as we read and do research into all aspects of arboreal and environmental science.

In our classroom we will have Earth Day and Arbor Day EVERY DAY!

Ms. Finn
Grades PreK-2

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Emerald Green Arborvitae - Live Plant - 3 Gallon pot • Amazon Business $47.99 3 $143.97

Materials cost

$143.97

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$2.16

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$176.13

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$31.08

Total project goal

$207.21

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$207.21

2 Donors

-$104.00

Donations toward project cost

-$88.40

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$15.60

match offer

-$103.21

Match offer toward project cost

-$87.73

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$15.48

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$0.00

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