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Brains Need Food

My students need 20 packages of various snack food such as granola bars and pretzels.

  • $344 goal

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Hello! We are a kindergarten, first, and second grade special education class of 12 students. The children range in age from 4-8 years old and disabilities from speech impairment to autistic. In our class we have 88% of the students receiving free lunch from lower socio-economic families. Our school is proudly a loving, warm, community public school that believes in teaching through experience, exposure, and enjoyment.

Being a child with disabilities makes learning challenging enough. Being a hungry child with disabilities makes learning nearly impossible! All students, all children, need to have full stomachs and nutrition to learn. Think about, if you will, our class with special needs...Our students with ADHD working so hard on focusing and concentrating on a lesson. A hungry child with ADHD cannot think or focus on anything other than their empty stomach. Our students with autism working on developing appropriate social skills, but when consumed with hunger, without fault, will react to that primal need. Children that are speech impaired and students with processing concerns become easily frustrated while learning. Need I say more about that frustrated child hungry?

It's very simple. We need food. We need a snack. Our lunch shift is at 10:45 am- how is that supposed to sustain a child until 3pm? It can't and it doesn't. As stated above, a hungry child doesn't learn a drop of their potential. We simply ask for food. As their teacher, I've been paying for snack these past few years with help from two parents but with rise in the price of food, I am humbled to ask for help. I selected healthy snack food from the choices available such as granola bars, pretzels, and crackers. We ask for food, for help in feeding the children, so that we can learn.

We need you to help. We need your support. Our class receives 88% free lunch due to the lower socio-economic status. We have 2 children that are currently living in homeless shelters. We have another 3 children that travel on a school bus for over an hour each way. One child even gets on his bus at 6:30 in the morning to arrive a little after 8am! Breakfast is far gone by then! Our lunch becomes a breakfast and the children are starving by 1pm with yet another 2 hours of learning. Please help us by donating healthy snacks.

Ms. Mizrachi
Grades PreK-2
    Half 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

    This project will reach 12 students.

    7 donors have given to this project.

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
SNYDERS OLDE TYME PRETZELS -- Snyder's Snack Foods; Olde Tyme Pretzels • Quill Corporation $18.89 2 $37.78
NATURE VALLEY PEANUT BUTTER GRANOLA BARS -- Nature Valley Bars; Crunchy, Peanut Butter, 28/Box • Quill Corporation $9.44 2 $18.88
CHEWY TRAIL MIX FRUIT & NUT BAR -- Nature Valley Granola Bars; Chewy Trail Mix • Quill Corporation $5.66 3 $16.98
KELLOGGS MIXED BERRY FRUITY SNACKS, 2.5OZ, 48/CS -- Kellogg's Mixed Berry Fruity Snacks • Quill Corporation $26.09 3 $78.27
NUTRI-GRAIN BLUEBERRY CEREAL BARS -- Kellogg's Nutri-Grain Blueberry Bars • Quill Corporation $4.76 2 $9.52
ANDERSON HONEY WHEAT BRAIDED PRETZELS, RE-USABLE JAR, 23 OZ -- Anderson Pretzels; Honey Wheat Braided Twists, 23-Oz. • Quill Corporation $14.62 2 $29.24
NATURE VALLEY OATS & HONEY GRANOLA BARS, 28/BOX -- Nature Valley Granola Bars; Crunch, Oats 'n Honey, 28/Box • Quill Corporation $9.44 3 $28.32
NATURE VALLEY SWEET & SALTY PEANUT BAR 16/BX -- Nature Valley Granola Bars; Sweet 'n Salty Nut, Peanut, 16/Box • Quill Corporation $5.66 3 $16.98

Materials cost

$235.97

Vendor shipping charges

 $23.60

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$5.90

Fulfillment labor & materials

$17.00

Total project cost

$282.00

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$61.90

Total project goal

$343.90

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $343.90

5 Donors

-$331.76

Donations toward project cost

-$282.00

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$49.76

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$12.14

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