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Mrs. Thomas from Carson City, NV is requesting reading nooks, desks & storage through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Wow, I Liked to Read in That Room!

Help me give my students a wonderful, exciting and comfy place to read. They need carpets, cushions and books.

FULLY FUNDED! Mrs. Thomas's classroom raised $658

This project is fully funded

My Students

Kindergarten is the place to be and the beginning of each and every student's educational careers. Kindergarten is the foundation for every student to be successful. In kindergarten we are learning to line up, write, color, spell, read, be a good student and so much more. There are so many new things we are learning each and every day. Kindergarten is not like it was twenty years ago, let alone five years ago. We are reading, writing sentences and meeting standards that were accomplished by first graders a few years ago.

I would like to instill the joy of learning and also be successful at social skills.

Every kindergartner should enjoy coming to school. By having a wonderful place for them to play, and explore it will hopefully instill that love of learning.

My Project

I would like to foster a joy of reading. If our classroom had a comfy rug to enjoy some wonderfully inspirational books, we could change the world. Young children need to have as many books available for them to touch, view and explore to gain the excitement of reading a book. Our society is changing and our young children are not getting exposed to real books that they have to turn pages. Children are reading but in digital form. I would like to get more books into children hands and instill that joy reading and looking at books.

Carpets, cushions and books, oh my!

Mrs. Thomas Bordewich Bray Elementary School Grades PreK-2

Equity Focus

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

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Carson City, NV View local requests

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

110 students impacted 7donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
LC841 - Natural Accents Leaves Classroom Carpet - 6' x 9' • Lakeshore Learning Materials $299.00 1 $299.00
LC511GR - Flex-Space Wobble Cushion - Green • Lakeshore Learning Materials $16.99 6 $101.94
AA302 - Leveled Books Classroom Library 1 - Book Bin Set - Level A (K) • Lakeshore Learning Materials $42.99 1 $42.99
AA303 - Leveled Books Classroom Library 1 - Book Bin Set - Level B (K) • Lakeshore Learning Materials $39.99 1 $39.99

Materials cost

$483.92

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$37.99

3rd party payment processing fee

$7.26

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$559.17

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$98.68

Total project goal

$657.85

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$657.85

4 Donors

-$553.29

Donations toward project cost

-$501.80

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$51.49

match offer

-$67.50

Match offer toward project cost

-$57.38

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$10.12

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$37.06

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$0.00

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