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Ms. Godefroid from Springfield, IL is requesting flexible seating through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Bouncy Bands to Focus Our Brains

Help me give my students bouncy bands to help them focus more and new whiteboards.

  • $531 goal

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My Project

I am fortunate to work with a great group of students who love learning. Students are respectful, engaged, and come ready to work each day. I try to provide them with as many resources and materials to help them be as successful as possible.

My students need bouncy bands on their chairs to help them move their bodies, while staying focused during class time.

Bouncy bands help students get their wiggles out, but still focus on the task at hand. I have a few bouncy bands in the classroom, and they are very popular with all students, and I would like to get bouncy bands for all my students. We also need a class set of new whiteboards. We use whiteboards numerous times throughout the day, allowing students to move about the classroom, working in various places and with new partners, and my old whiteboards are getting to the point where they are hard to write on and erase.

Ms. Godefroid Lindsay Elementary School Grades 3-5

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Springfield, IL View local requests

More than a third 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

28 students impacted 3donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Bouncy Bands for Elementary Chairs Black (BBABBCBK) • Staples $15.08 22 $331.76
Nasco Single-Sided Unlined Dry-Erase Board • Nasco $2.51 30 $75.30

Materials cost

$407.06

Vendor shipping charges

 $7.53

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$6.11

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$450.70

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$79.54

Total project goal

$530.24

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $530.24

2 Donors

-$265.12

Donations toward project cost

-$225.35

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$39.77

match offer

-$265.12

Match offer toward project cost

-$225.35

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$39.77

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 $0.00

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