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Ms. Bowden from Brownville, ME is requesting supplies through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Calling All Students To Learn

My students need 14 book titles and hokki stools that will help them to learn the emotion regulation skills they need to learn in class.

  • $526 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

My Students

When students start their school day it is important that they come to class ready to learn. Many students however have life events that get in the way. As educators we need to help provide them with resources to help them focus and deal with those life events so they can learn.

The students at my school are an amazing group of kids.

They are eager to learn, but often struggle with divorce at home, financial strains, or lack of emotion regulation skills that get in the way of them learning. The community is very rural and many resources are not available to these students. School is a place where they can come to learn, but they need to learn to control their emotions so they are present in class to learn.

My Project

I am asking for Hokki stools so kids will learn to sit still in class so they can focus on the lessons. I am also requesting tools like the conversation dice and the many different Julia Cook books that will be used to help students overcome those life obstacles that get in the way of their learning. We all want to see kids succeed and for students it is not as easy as saying "leave it at the door". Each day they walk into the school with lots of emotional baggage and we as educators need to help them learn to deal with this baggage so they can learn in class.

This project is so important because we all want our kids to come to school ready and eager to learn.

However, without the tools in this project many of our students are unable to focus in class on their education. Together we can make a difference and help teach these kids valuable emotional regulation skills they will have for the rest of their lives. Thank you for considering this valuable project that will impact many students over many years.

Ms. Bowden
Grades 3-5
    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

    This project will reach 120 students.

    21 donors have given to this project.

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Hokki Stool - 18" Green • Kaplan Early Learning Company $93.46 1 $93.46
Hokki Stool - 15" Green • Kaplan Early Learning Company $84.96 1 $84.96
Hokki Stool - 15" Yellow/Orange • Kaplan Early Learning Company $84.96 1 $84.96
I Just Don''t Like the Sound of No! • AKJ Books $17.96 1 $17.96
Sorry, I Forgot to Ask! • AKJ Books $17.96 1 $17.96
Conversation Cubes • Kaplan Early Learning Company $11.01 1 $11.01
Making Friends Is an Art! • AKJ Books $9.86 1 $9.86
I Just Want to Do It My Way!: My Story About Staying on Task and Asking for Help • AKJ Books $9.86 1 $9.86
Ricky Sticky Fingers • AKJ Books $8.96 1 $8.96
It''s Hard to Be a Verb! Activity and Idea Book • AKJ Books $8.96 1 $8.96
Don''t be Afraid to Drop! • AKJ Books $8.96 1 $8.96
The "D" Word • AKJ Books $8.96 1 $8.96
Personal Space Camp Activity and Idea Book • AKJ Books $8.96 1 $8.96
A Bad Case of Tattle Tongue • AKJ Books $8.96 1 $8.96
Grief is Like a Snowflake • AKJ Books $7.26 1 $7.26

Materials cost

$391.05

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $19.55

3rd party payment processing fee

$5.87

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$446.47

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$78.79

Total project goal

$525.26

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $525.26

13 Donors

-$508.05

Donations toward project cost

-$432.02

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$76.03

Matching donations from our partners

-$17.00

Match offers toward project cost

-$14.45

Match offers to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$2.55

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$0.21

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

 $0.00

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