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Ms. McNeil from DC is requesting other through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Digging, Planting and Growing

My students need seeds, pots and a planting kit.

  • $618 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Celebrate Black Teachers and Students

This project is part of the Black History Month celebration because it supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of the students are Black.

My Students

How many times have you been able to go into your backyard, dig up a cucumber (or carrot or potato) and eat it?

The children in early elementary education are inquiring minds and they want to know!

We are 3, 4 and 5 year olds preparing for kindergarten in the Nation's Capitol. Neighbors to the First Lady and going hard for the "Let's Move" campaign, we need to learn that we can plant our own vegetables and get digging!

My Project

Students connect classroom learning to real world experiences when the whole world becomes a classroom. Children will be able to plant cucumbers, pick them out in a supermarket produce section and make salads in the classroom. We will need seeds, soil, pots and a plant kit. Youngsters will be able to describe where vegetables come from and how they get to our dinner tables.

Hands on minds on learning is what will help take explicit instruction to academic excellence.

Children are engaged in an environment where they are thriving. A living classroom will help children connect school with real life. Digging and planting and eating will allow children to say--look what I can do!

Ms. McNeil
Grades PreK-2

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Flower Pot - 3 1/2In Pack/100 • Sargent-Welch $24.26 2 $48.52
Kit - What Seed Is It • Sargent-Welch $46.58 2 $93.16
Plant Tray - 13X15X3-1/2" • Sargent-Welch $11.48 5 $57.40
Planter Set - Complete • Sargent-Welch $256.50 1 $256.50

Materials cost

$455.58

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $27.33

3rd party payment processing fee

$6.83

Fulfillment labor & materials

$35.00

Total project cost

$524.74

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$92.60

Total project goal

$617.34

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $617.34

7 Donors

-$288.00

Donations toward project cost

-$248.55

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$39.45

match offer

-$324.93

Match offer toward project cost

-$276.19

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$48.74

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$4.41

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 $0.00

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