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Ms. Bamberger from Folsom, CA is requesting supplies through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Garden Art, Dig It!

My students need tiles, glaze, and brushes to create a Garden Art project for our new school garden.

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My Students

Students need to feel a personal connection to the healthy food options we will be growing in our new school garden. Our garden will be completed early winter. Students need to make a connection to the garden through art work done with their kindergarten buddies.

The third graders at our site are active, enthusiastic, and super awesome buddies to their kindergarten partners.

They also love art! They need to feel they are doing real work at school. Researching the benefits eating fruits and vegetables and designing a ceramic tile to display their favorite fruit or vegetable with their kindergarten buddy would be a wonderful opportunity for them. Our new school garden, within eyesight of our cafeteria, is a daily motivation for students to eat healthy and appreciate the connection to the Earth. Students will have the chance to grow vegetables in our garden in Spring, but will face any empty garden until then. They can feel a sense of pride in creating something that can be displayed on the garden wall in anticipation of growing our own vegetables. Students need to feel a sense of pride in promoting our organic garden.

My Project

Students need motivation to research the importance of eating healthy and making good choices. Student research will include a site-wide survey of fruit and vegetable favorites and percentage of diet that consists of healthy choices. Students will share this data with our garden donors and classes through our site webpage. Students will do individual research on the fruits and vegetables represented by the survey. They will create a tile themselves and one with their buddies. Using the tile art activity at the conclusion of their studies is motivating on two levels. It give them a purpose for their research and efforts to share what they learn with the school site, and their kindergarten buddies. It also helps them develop a sense of pride in promoting the garden and the future contents they will have a hand in growing. Students will learn about the importance of healthy eating and the benefit of promoting healthy garden fare to other students.

Students will see the daily fruits of their labor as they pass the garden on the way to lunch.

A daily reminder to eat healthy and enjoy the benefits of fruits and vegetables is necessary to increase the overall well-being of students and staff at our site. Displaying student tiles, especially as the garden is built and then lies dormant through much of the winter, give life and color to a space that will be the new heart of our school.

Ms. Bamberger Natoma Station Elementary School Grades 3-5

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Folsom, CA View local requests 90 students impacted 16donors

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
DB RED SABLE/TAKLON/SET6 4RED SBL/2TAKLN • Blick Art Materials $12.99 4 $51.96
BISQUE TILES/6X6 12PK • Blick Art Materials $16.99 8 $135.92
TEACHER CHOICE GLAZE/BLK TC-1 GAL • Blick Art Materials $46.75 1 $46.75
TEACHER CHOICE GLAZE/BLU TC-21 GAL • Blick Art Materials $46.75 1 $46.75
TEACHER CHOICE GLAZE/RED TC-58 GAL • Blick Art Materials $46.75 1 $46.75
TEACHER CHOICE GLAZE/WHT TC-11 GAL • Blick Art Materials $46.75 1 $46.75
TEACHER CHOICE GLAZE/YLW TC-60 GAL • Blick Art Materials $46.75 1 $46.75

Materials cost

$421.63

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $38.58

3rd party payment processing fee

$6.32

Fulfillment labor & materials

$35.00

Total project cost

$501.53

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$88.51

Total project goal

$590.04

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $590.04

10 Donors

-$304.15

Donations toward project cost

-$259.28

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$44.87

Matching donations from our partners

-$285.00

Match offers toward project cost

-$242.25

Match offers to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$42.75

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$0.89

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 $0.00

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