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Ms. Backman from Storm Lake, IA is requesting supplies through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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A Place for Everyone

My students need 1 carpet to help each of them have a place to sit and to learn to respect the personal space of others.

  • $646 goal

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Celebrating Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

Celebrate Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.

My Students

I teach 20 awesome students in Storm Lake, Iowa. We are surrounded by fields growing soybeans and corn. We love our community and how supportive it is.

My kindergarten students love to learn, play, laugh, and have fun.

My students attend a rather large school for the region. We have 8 classes of kindergarten. Many of my students come from families who struggle to make ends meet. I also have many students who don't speak English at home. The diversity in my classroom makes it a wonderful place to learn about other cultures and to appreciate the differences each of us have.

My Project

I just moved from California to Iowa. I found my classroom to be stocked with all sorts of wonderful teaching supplies. My classroom even has a rug! The problem is that this rug has tiny squares that my students are unable to fit in. Even though I assigned them a place to sit, they can never remember where to sit because they sit on a square and a half.

My students need a new carpet with 30 large squares to help them each have a place of their own.

This carpet will help them to respect the personal space of others. It will also help with behavior management since the students will have a clearly defined space that they will sit in. This will lead to less arguing between students who are sitting too close together.

This wonderful carpet contains squares of the beautiful colors that the kindergartners need to learn. I can use this carpet to teach them lessons about colors, graphing, and sorting.

Ms. Backman Storm Lake Elementary School Grades PreK-2

Equity Focus

At this school, more than 50% of students are Black, Latino, and/or Native American, and more than 50% come from low-income households. Learn how your donation to this school supports a more equitable education.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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Storm Lake, IA 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

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
LA952 - Classroom Carpet for 30 • Lakeshore Learning Materials $479.00 1 $479.00

Materials cost

$479.00

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $32.81

3rd party payment processing fee

$7.18

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$548.99

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$96.88

Total project goal

$645.87

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $645.87

6 Donors

-$582.74

Donations toward project cost

-$548.99

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$33.75

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$63.13

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 $0.00

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