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Ms. Mapes from New York, NY is requesting reading nooks, desks & storage through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Cultivating a Comfortable, Colorful Learning Environment

Help me give my students a space where we can build community and grow as learners! This includes a carpet, book bags, and other items.

  • $415 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 21 wonderful, brilliant, empathetic second graders at a Title I school on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. They are energetic, funny, and curious, and they're gearing up for a big year of learning!

My students deserve a colorful, comfortable space where they can cultivate a learning community with their classmates.

This project is one of many efforts that our classroom is making to ensure we have quality materials that will ensure our environment is one in which kids love to learn.

My Project

Second graders deserve to have a space where they can learn, have fun, and ask big questions. A classroom rug is a centerpiece of each room. It's the place where students gather for read-alouds, restorative circles, class meetings, and more. For the first time this year, our class will be an ICT room, an integrated co-taught room. That means we need to have two learning areas, and having this classroom rug will ensure we have that. We also need classroom book baggies that will last! Each year we use disposable plastic bags. We go through them too quickly, and they diminish the magic of reading. Finally, we need some quality bins. Each year our class has inherited a hodgepodge of bins that don't match, and color coordinated organization helps learners know exactly where their materials are.

Kids enjoy working in a setting that has been created with their needs in mind.

Having a classroom rug, book baggies that last, and bins for our varied learning areas will help us have the best year ever!

Ms. Mapes PS 142 Amalia Castro 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.

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Nearly all 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

21 students impacted 10donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Flagship Carpets Nylon, Sitting Spots, 6'x8'4 Multi-Colored Rug (FE306-32A) • Staples Advantage $197.29 1 $197.29
Ashley Productions Hanging Confetti Pattern Storage/Book Bag, 11" x 16", Pack of 25 (ASH10585BN) • Staples Advantage $59.99 1 $59.99
Thinkspace Plastic Weave Bins, Black, 5/Pack (37530) • Staples Advantage $9.99 6 $59.94

Materials cost

$317.22

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$4.76

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$351.98

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$62.11

Total project goal

$414.09

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $414.09

3 Donors

-$407.04

Donations toward project cost

-$351.98

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$55.06

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$7.05

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 $0.00

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